the post made me think of Asimov's old foundation series books.

I bent over.
I myself dumped $800 on tmo's IPAQ phone thinking someone (the radio hacks were far beyond my ability) would get linux up and running like we all had running on our other IPAQs. That was so many hopeless years ago(when openmoko was your only choice to roll your own code on an american carrier). Oh well - I had my IPAQ and Zaurus and whatever cell phone the carrier I worked for then gave me. Then I left that industry - just as TMo mailed me the G1. Enter CyanogenMod. I still have the G1, and use it to replace my Sprint EVDO card (the G1 has always been easy to tether). Dropping $600 for the Nexus might have hurt - if not for perspective on prices I have payed for other high price toys.
The only thing I am concerned about at this point - is whether I have sent some paypal love to CyanogenMod lately. I have to get on that.