512MB is a lot more than 1000x 64KB.

I think all companies have their innovative products alongside the products that just sorta get phoned in. Sure, there's a couple lazy product managers within Microsoft that are willing to ship the same boring crap over and over again. Then there's the people working on Surface that are doing serious R&D into multitouch interfaces. Even the Zune/ZuneHD are pretty innovative products that really had a lot of thought put into the interface.

I get the BMW reference, but is the "all-black carbon fibre reinforced case" a ThinkPad reference? If so, I will agree heartily, though it's only a matter of time before Lenovo completely ruins these things.

It's about time somebody whipped it back into shape.

Seriously. There's a reason google's hiring up all the ex-Bell Labs types.

Sadly, though, changing your name to AT&T won't really bring back Ma Bell unless you're willing to dump the hojillions of dollars into R&D that they used to.

-c