@vinod1978: Remember that the original iPhone didn't have apps, just the browser. The data usage was completely unexpected, along with the device popularity. No one imagined that it would sell as well as it did, nor that it would start the high data usage trend (5,000% increase is a lot).

@ThreeOneFive: Didn't your dad ever ask you if two wrongs make a right? THIS is what he meant.

@Howard Blair: I imagine they're good enough for you, but I can't even think of what they would be. Surprisingly, for however much I always pooh-poohed Apple's reliability and ease of use, I do admire how well build my iPod classic is (and was), the fit and finish of my iPhone, and how comfortable my iPad is to use…

@rtpiercy: Permits and availability of the tech mostly. The money is there, and the will to spend it. I've met some of the people that are high enough up in AT&T to make changes to corporate policy and spending. These guys are some of the smartest people I've ever met. If you don't think they know what the issue…

@vinod1978: It takes longer than 18 months to get a permit in SanFran to install a new tower (if it'll go in at all, thanks to the city council's and such). You're saying that 5000% data growth and a product that sold better than even the wildest speculation was laid out in a Q4 call in 2006, and AT&T failed to…

@walkejos: It's amazing that anyone that's intimately acquainted with network technologies is amazed as to how well AT&T has managed to hold up these past few years with their astronomical data growth. AT&T does spend a huge chunk of money on network upgrades, and is mostly held back by logistics (material…

Keep in mind that AT&T's HSPA+ is a backhaul thing, that's only limited (currently) to product availability and permits. It's being rolled out AGGRESSIVELY to combat Verizon's LTE. If they can get full HSPA+ deployment on top of 3G, and get a significant chunk of GSM spectrum swapped to UMTS, they'll be in a better…

@Chilli: The amount of wasted electricity can be pretty low, if you're using LEDs. I imagine the whole setup uses less power than a incandescent lamp that you'd have on your bedside.

@Howard Blair: Competition IS amazing. I won't give up my first iPad for the Xoom, not to mention the iPad 2.

@collectiveego: As long as XDA or Cyanogen can get to it, that's all that really matters.

Amazon usually subsidizes phones a bit heavier, so expect the price at retail locations to be $50 or so more.

I need to disable the little link-slide for a specific . Not so good with JS; can anyone throw me a bone?

@timgray: Aw, yeah. Hopefully someone will upload the code for that :D.

@fiji.siv: Best idea. This way I can point to it from work as well as home, and updates I make are reflected both ways.

@Whitson Gordon: The big difference is that the iPad is out. The iPad 2 is in development, and will likely be out sometime this late winter or early spring. iOS is merging with OSX, and it's easy to see how something like Dashboard could be implemented on the iPad with fantastic results.

@geolemon: You significantly underestimate the draw of the iPhone. As a person that sells them 50+ hours a week, I can say with complete certainty that Verizon Android sales are about to take a hard hit.

@Michael Reynaga: NFC works both ways. It could be set up to do so, certainly.

I wonder if they'll start to enforce the "reasonable usage" soft cap of 5gb. I know they don't do it currently, but if the network gets hammered under a few million iPhones...

@jtheletter: Because Verizon doesn't have the same number of smartphones provisioned, and a huge chunk of the ones they do are still Blackberry's. AT&T carry's more than half of the total wireless data traffic in the US. Not saying that Verizon can't handle the flood of users, but past performance is no indication…

@cha0tic: Dur, you're right. Got them flipped. Does RAID 1 offer an increase in read speeds as well?