"Before you freak out: the baby passed a drug test..."

@Duncan Stevenson: I agree completely. I'd like to see Camera+ in the app store as it was. But, the rules were well-defined beforehand and the rejection wasn't exactly a surprise.

@I see the light. It burns!: "Sorry, but I don't think anything will kill that."

@BRUTANG: If it makes you feel any better, you'll probably regret buying the iPad instead of waiting for the second-gen one long before regretting waiting for the Adam.

I still use the iPad in situations where I'd use a netbook. I can throw it in my briefcase and not have to worry about the extra weight or there being no battery.

Seeing as how Android is a derivative of Linux, this is pretty unsurprising.

@unibrow4o9: I'm not sure if there are more free apps on the Android market, but I couldn't find data. But since Apple has well over double the number of apps in its app store vs the Android market, it seems like a stretch to claim that.

@A Ferret: Right, which explains why Ford went out of business in 1978.

@A Ferret: "A technologically challenged person won't notice, or care, because they want their phone to work and that is all. "

@unibrow4o9: Potential customers don't matter; actual customers do. Nor does it matter that Android is easier to develop for, or that it's easier to get into the Android market, and so on. iOS users simply buy more apps:

@A Ferret: Well, sure, but if we're talking about magnitude of cock-ups, why wouldn't people remember Google's inadvertent collection of wifi data? If I'm shopping for a mobile phone, not knowing what data is being collected is more troubling to me by orders of magnitude than an antenna issue.

@SeraphX2: No, I was already on AT&T and set up a separate Verizon account.

I'm not sure what the point is here. Why would Apple care if Android handsets outsell iPhones? The iPhone has a huge margin on it. And despite the apparent disadvantage in installed base, it's more lucrative to write applications for iOS than Android (if a developer were to choose only one).

@A Ferret: People who won't forget the antenna problems in the future are the same people who would find something to hold against Apple even if the antenna issue never happened.

@Pikachoa: Well, sure, unless they want to go to the store or log into PSN.

@Kayno: I think it could go either way. I'd consider myself solidly in the "casual" camp but I generally prefer the Xbox over the PS3. Paying for Xbox Live is the major drawback, but most casual players I know avoid online play like the plague.

This pretty much describes the reason I "default" to the Xbox version with cross-platform games.

I've had Hulu Plus for a few weeks, and it's not really worth it.

Google went about the product launch all wrong - they built up a huge amount of hype for the service by selling it at something it wasn't (namely, the next iteration of email). When it launched, it was actually a fairly good collaboration tool, but that's not what people were expecting.

@emag: Sure. But back in the day, the internet was effectively limited to universities and Usenet was the only way to have a threaded discussion.