@MazdaMania: Your correlation between Apple and BMW is not valid.

I think this will also affect airlines, for the worse. They'll find one more thing to cut, and soon, few back of seats will come with the little monitors for in-flight movies.

I suppose it may be applicable to humans, but do we really want to turn people into THIS guy?

@bojangles103: It's been about a decade since I've been out of college.

Cue: slow motion walking with 'Stuck in the Middle with You' by Steeler's Wheels playing in the background.

@MikeSWelch: Uh, the shoppers who visit Best Buy (and Wal-Mart and Target) represent 90-95%, if not greater, of U.S. consumers.

Laptops won't go away, and yes, there are still mass users. Like others have pointed out: students, for one.

I'm of two minds on this:

@Name of Numbers: No, mine was purchased carrier-free on Amazon, with no carrier branding or alterations, so there's kind of no excuse for the sub-par firmware, other than Nokia not doing proper testing on it and pushing it out as an afterthought.

@Ron-Mexic0: Seriously, if anything is going to kill Android, it's the carriers.

@Jonathan Strange: No, it's all vague, buzz-wordy marketing speak.

Not that I'm this huge MS or WP7 fan or anything (WP7 will have an uphill battle regardless of carrier), but I wish wireless carriers didn't have the power that they do in this country.

No Verizon? I KIN believe it.

@MarcusMaximus: The weak point is, what if you listen to stuff that Google doesn't license?

I have a feeling that this won't amount to anything. I give it one year before Google pulls the plug due to 'low user adoption'.

@floobie: I could answer that, as I've had my time with Symbian.

@neverbeenback: Unless Elop puts an end to that though, they're still pushing it.

@Fractal the Meek: Actually I use a Nokia E72 as I'm on a grand-fathered (read: out of contract) plan with AT&T.

@Doktor Sleepless Hates Everything!: I actually don't mind iTunes.

It looks great, but for now I'll stick to my aging and worn Zune 80. It's not an all singing all dancing wonder like the Touch but it *does* trump it in memory capacity.