@MazdaMania: Yes, lots of people said it would fail.

@jabber: The 1950s was 'way in the past?'

@ectocooler: Enrico Fermi?

@Balmut: They have scientific degrees and work in the sciences, so they're scientists. Scientists can run scams just like anyone else.

@eebrenner: No, you created the fallacy by saying you personally haven't seen people using them. That is a hasty generalization fallacy because it assumes you have seen enough people to know how well it sells internationally.

@eebrenner: What you personally have seen is not relevant. Sales figures are... and for someone who is worried about providing false information, you seem to have no problem committing a hasty generalization fallacy.

@eebrenner: And yet it hasn't stopped them selling like crazy.

Eat enough chocolate and no one will want to sleep with you, so it's also a preventative.

@eebrenner: Well maybe it irks you as a software engineer, but consumers don't care why, and that's really all that matters in the end.

@Hearthatvoiceagain says Get well soon Steve.: Actually, that's the Executive, the successor to the 1.

Shouldn't something like a powered jacket, which sees a lot of movement due to being worn, have inductive charging as well?

@Totenglocke42: My dad has an iPad because he has terrible arthritis in his fingers and the onscreen keyboard means he doesn't have to press anything... but I guess he has more money than he knows what to do with, right?

@eebrenner: Does it matter why it's faster? It's faster.

@Hearthatvoiceagain says Get well soon Steve.: I walk 20 miles through the snow every day carrying two of these, one in each pinky finger.

I just love people who constantly claim that Apple products will fail and then ignore their predictions later. I can't count the number of comments I saw here on Giz announcing the iPad would fail because "it's just a big iPod Touch."

@Elratauru: It's already released in Japan, which is why there have been reviews of it saying it isn't very good.

@EnochLight: I like how you left out the important parts of the Wikipedia article to make your point. Namely-

@Clutchman83: You just clip their wings.

@Alasdair Wilkins: You owe it to yourself to look up thorium reactors. It is fission, not fusion, but it can't melt down, thorium is much more plentiful than uranium, and it eats waste from more dangerous fission reactors. It's also more than just theoretical as at least two different plants are already under…

@Clutchman83: It would be cool if pigs could fly too.