that's the problem though - there IS no innovation in the tech world. There's companies like apple that build world-changing products, and other OEMs who make me-too poor-quality products, and make a couple pennies off each sale.

Can,t say I'm surprised. If I were outside the US,, I'd be wary about things that the bill of rights would protect me from stateside. Think twice ,I guess.

Its pretty cler to me that this isn't an issue on apple's end. They're really good out posting guidelines for submitting binaries. Maybe app creators should be better about following instructions?

Bill is right, the traditional pc is changing... But is it too late for ms to figure it out, or has apple already sucked out all the oxygen? It sucks to be late to the party...

So many falsities. "knows when you turn on a light and what model your tv is.". False. Today's smart meters just measure aggregate energy use as a function of time. "knows when you're home or not." likely true. The same as if you looked at sommmmebody's house to see if the lights were on. "notify law enforcement when you grow pot." they can already do that, because your monthly consumption goes up 5x. Don't need time-resolved data for that. I short, chillax and take off your tin foil hat.

I,m shocked that you're so naive. The only reason google bothers with android is so it can have ubiquitous presence in smartphones. It does this by partering with manufacturers and carriers to shovel as much crap through the sales channels. Manufacturers and carriers are goog's PARTNERS, not enemies. Goog will do everhing to keep the carriers happy. You, the customer, are an afterthought. The same is not true for me because I have an iPhone.

ipads and iPhones ARE hardware, dummy.

... i thought all the apps on android were free or 99 cents and supported by ads? surely there can't be that much lock in.

i dont' know man, I think the iPad would have been a better choice. it has 3G and you can get whatever apps or music at the iTunes store.

Ouch. I would have gotten an iPad 2 instead. How big is the screen?

Mod down as lame and incorrect. Parent is suggesting that apple "take it to the next level" by abandoning the most successful business plan on earth and becoming the next HP. Success, for sure!

Except that video is a compressed approximation of hd, and there's no such thing as an actual pixel. It's not like a photograph. Source: knowledge, ,try some.

It does contain space, a half inch strip to be exact. But the hd stream mis constrained by the horizontal width, and there's no way to get better than he resolution for a video. Hence, it's just barely hd. Or, to put it in the terms I used above, an iPad can display an hd stream on two thirds of the screen, while the anus needs 90% of the screen real estate. Hope thT clers it up for you.

fail comment - The whole lesson in the iPhone / iPad revolution is that specs are dead. doesn't matter the ram, the cpu, the graphics. all that matters is performance, interface, and apps.

umm... no. The Asus has 226dpi and the iPad 256dpi. iPad density is 13% greater, on any axis. the math is because the aspect ratio of the anus is different than the iPad. 16:10 vs 4:3. for your 28% / 7% statement to hold, you would need non-square pixels :)