I'll bet the price is astronomical.

... or the new Intelligent Design.

I got the same model a couple of years ago, specifically for VOIP. I'm not impressed about having to purchase new hardware. Switching to IPv6 is like 'upgrading' from HTML4 to XHTML. A lot of effort for very little apparent benefit.

They have worked as hard as possible to create devices that work in ways that they genuinely believe are better than the competition. Is the 'tithe' you refer to the initial product price (entirely competitive), peripherals (comparable), or the ongoing costs of app store purchases? Do you think Apple's product pricing is unfairly high? Should all App Store purchases be gratis?

In effect, we have gladly relinquished the tyranny of micro-management, and have been rewarded with the time we would spend doing so.

I thought that developers were free to install whatever they want on their iOS devices. It's only when you want to sell your app to the world that you must submit it to the App Store. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Flash's core premise has always been 'low bandwidth, high CPU'. It was invented as FutureSplash back in the 28.8 modem days so this was a great asset until the generation of mobile phones with high-end browsers. I imagine that Flash on a mobile device will be awesome as soon as battery-life increases to compensate, but by then we will have all moved on.

For Apple it worked because part of their marketing problem was an affiliated retail channel that was actively damaging their brand with poor service and limited supply.

You are absolutely wrong.

One and a half Gamecubes, at most.

Dude, I went to http://www.tempura.org/ and it didn't have anything to do with Microsoft.

"Flaunt"? Will it come with a perspex case, so when you turn it over ... BAM, you get an eyeful of A8 CPU?

I guess if you've got it...

Dude, you sound like you'd love a DS right now.

Am I the only one who read that as "given the panties involved"?

And you don't want to know what an Australian fanny is.

I don't know why people keep bagging Ewoks. When I was a kid, I didn't think the were out of place. Now, my kids love them - I'm pretty sure they view them they same way I did (as 'fact', and not as a merchandising opportunity).

I absolutely love 80s-era Cray-level CGI - TRON, Last Starfighter etc. Like you say, it takes me back.

Perhaps it's because the graphics are nowhere near the uncanny valley? And because of that, they can be viewed as art, instead of ultra-realism?

A man can be killed. But an idea ....