Google doesn't owe a developer a "spot" in their platform any more than FOX owes Glenn Beck a show.

I just can't believe that Ticketmaster won't apply some sort of "using a groupon convenience fee" that will erase any savings you might have had, and somehow make you end up paying more.

The 4.5" screen has me conflicted. My Galaxy S 4" screen seems a little too small when I'm using it, and a little too big when I'm trying to put it in a pants pocket. 4.5" is approaching "belt clip" territory.

I have (essentially) the phone version of this (Galaxy S 4G), and still use an ipod exclusively. It's my only experience on the Android front, and it handles music beautifully. But there's no way the battery would perform as well.

(with apologies to Chris Rock)

Wouldn't the simplest solution simply be to mandate a "one-click stock android" app to be on every skinned phone & three years of updates to stock within a certain time period?

@JakeWharton: I've never had "blocking" issues with the other services.

I'm testing the cloud player by listening to a pirate/leak of the new TV on the Radio. I'm 100% sure that's illegal.

*sigh* I fully expect a number of iPhone aficionados will be here shortly to explain why "this doesn't matter."

+1 Time Warner, for finding another way to deliver what I *don't* want.

There's a massive chasm between "what the average person values a movie at" and "what Hollywood thinks a movie is worth".

Burning question: are their devices that are less than a year old going to get this update? RIM burned up a lot of goodwill with me, when I purchased a six-month old Curve, only to find out it wouldn't get OS6.

I would unhesitatingly pay $20 for the "full" BBM for Android.

The biggest benefit to users is likely perception: I don't want a google checkout account. I don't want to be forced to use it to just to purchase a 99cent app.

@Kodros: Touche'.

@Frostedflakes13: I can't resell a burned physical copy. And as you've said, the "digital booklets are basically useless". It's why I insist on a manufactured, "legitimate" copy.

@shufflemoomin: I didn't suggest that the law was invalid, but that being "legal" is realistically, of no benefit to me.

@shufflemoomin: When you take into account the fact that illegal downloading is prosecuted less frequently & successfully than jaywalking, the "legality" benefit is the labels' and vendors', not mine.

The biggest hurdle to either store, for me, is that I perceive the value of a download to be zero dollars. There isn't anything a digitally-distributed album can offer me that I can't get from mediafire or torrents.

I could really use this for all of the "just in case" stuff I carry, but stuffing $80 into my bag would probably be more useful.