Firstly, my condolences to the family.

Regardless of the silly chart, there's still no way I could ever do my work on a tablet, and nor would I want to. So, for my part at least, there will always be a market for notebooks. If Apple wants to stop making notebooks and focus on just the iPad (doubtful), fine. I'll just stop buying Apple products. There's…

I can't deny that it's a pretty cool concept, but I'm not sure why the article seems to credit the iPad in this process. Clearly the iPad could have been replaced with pretty much any other portable display device capable of playing back an animation. Unless of course the animation is in Flash... then you could do it…

I'm not a fan of the iPad, but I gotta admit... that's a really nice accessory for a really blah device.

If only the ad went one step further and the guy's iPad shut down from overheating too. Then not only could he not read e-books, but he couldn't surf porn or play Angry Birds either! Then the evil cackle would have been truly appropriate.

Wow. Some people are just never happy unless they have something to complain about, I guess.

@Trez: The PS2 was not even close to cheap when it first surfaced. The Wii isn't either, actually. For it to be any fun, you need multiple Wiimotes and nunchucks, all which cost $$$. And the games are still $50-60 when they first hit the shelves, same as any other system. But everything about the Wii is cheap in a…

@thenewperson: It's not an attenuation problem at all. They make it out to be one by showing how, with any other phone, gripping your hand to cover as much of the phone as possible may cause the signal to drop. With the iPhone 4, however, all you need to do is put one finger in the spot where the 2 antennas meet on…

"We now know that the iPhone 4 antenna attenuation issue is even smaller than we originally thought."

"If your App looks like it was cobbled together in a few days, or you're trying to get your first practice app into the store the impress your friends, please brace yourself for rejection. We have lots of serious developers who don't want their quality Apps to be surrounded by amateur hour."

Really? Rolling Stone? People still care about Rolling Stone?

@Nick: Thank you for proving my point. Everyone knows what the iPhone is capable of too, yet in reviews it is constantly mentioned how certain apps can increase the usability/productivity/fun of the device. Hell, some even mention jailbreaking. But in this review all that's mentioned is the phone as-is. No mention…

@Nick: No. You're saying that he can only review the phone as-is. I'm saying that every iPhone review mentions how much cooler the device gets when you download apps and make it do the stuff that you want it to do. Many of them even mention "must-have" apps. So why not mention that you can do the same thing on…

@blyan: I'm talking about apps here. Not rooting. You're telling me that someone buying an Android phone needs to be told that they can install apps? I think you're underestimating the bulk of Android users. A simple internet search of "best android apps" will give you several articles telling you how to easily…

@Epell: CityID bugged me once when the trial ran out. I haven't heard from it since.

@Nick: I'd like to see an iPhone review that doesn't mention apps. Or a bumper.

I'm curious. In your Droid X review, Matt, you casually ignored the fact that Android makes it extremely easy to replace the parts of the phone you don't like. In the Droid X's case, you could simply replace the crappy Motoblur launcher (which was the catalyst for your pretty much scathing review of the phone) with…

@ian.g.case: I didn't buy an iPad at all, and won't because it's worthless to me. It does everything my phone can do, but it can't be a phone so I'd still need that. It does half the stuff my laptop can do, but I'd still need my laptop. So basically, it's a 3rd device that I can carry around to do some stuff. I…

@RockyRan: I couldn't agree more. I really do hope they delay it, if that's what it takes to get it right.

After seeing/playing the Alpha personally, I would have been surprised if this didn't happen. I'll be amazed if the game is actually ready on Sept 22.