@tomsomething: The iPad 2 may go in a similar direction to Android and get rid of hardware buttons entirely. In fact, I'd be quite happy if they did. This would be a necessary prerequisite.

@MaximKat: Well, the screen hardware does support eleven points...

@FriedPeeps will kill for a CR-48: Of course I'm right. I'm always right. How dare you doubt that I'm right?

@Walternate: Software is, in my opinion, a weak spot of the iPhone. There's not a clear competitor in the looks department, sure (until Honeycomb releases), but functionally I've found it to be a little lacking. It seems like Apple's focused so much time into the UI that the iPhone performs wonderfully for users…

When the iPhone came on to AT&T's network, it was essentially the one and only data-hungry cell phone on the market. Thus, it ate an unsuspecting AT&T for lunch. That's not the cell phone world of today, however. While Apple's been hanging out on AT&T, all the other carriers have been releasing piles of Android…

I assume that at least part of the reasoning behind keeping Flash around is that Flash is an established web technology, and is still in use in a variety of high-traffic sites. HTML5 H.264 video, on the other hand, is not as well-established, and with this move Google is doing a good job of making sure that new web…

@Almightywhacko: If users run off Chrome because of this, they will not be running to Firefox. Keep in mind that Firefox has its own beef with h.264, and does not support it either. I, for one, look forward eagerly to to a web dominated by WebM video, given its open nature and higher quality when compared to Ogg.

A better solution is to have a tmpfs mounted on /tmp, as memory for it is dynamically allocated, unlike in ramdisks. This'll also make any program using /tmp for caching and the like perform noticeably better. There's an example of what to add in /etc/fstab (in linux) on this thread.

@Ian Logsdon: This is certainly true for drivers, but in userspace application developers just need to be sure to compile apps in the ARM architecture. As a proof of concept, android community members have a full Ubuntu distro running on top of the Android kernel - no recompiling or anything, just installing the ARM…

@broadwayblue: Wifi model is rumored to launch in April, with no price announced as of yet. I'd bet about $500.

@Ian Logsdon: I don't think there is much porting involved, besides potentially recompiling. As I said, community members have already demonstrated lightweight window managers running on Android, and the only thing really preventing larger desktop programs from running on Android is resource use. Even with dual-core,…

@LeftClicker: Even if I have a piece of software in the app store, I'm still going to want to have a website for it, though I wouldn't be needing to host the actual file. Website hosting costs may be lower, but they'll still be present.

@Roddy: Once upon a time, we relied entirely on natural materials. We ended up getting our populations regularly wiped out by things such as the Bubonic Plague, and even without such things our life expectancy hovered around 50. Modern medicine is one of the great inventions of humanity, and I invite anyone who…

@Ian Logsdon: My strong suspicion is that it is on the phone, otherwise the netbook would run fine without the phone docked at all (which from what I gather is not the case). Android is already running on Linux, which Firefox is supported on, so once they pull over the requisite UI stuff they'd be all set to run a…

@Bobz: I'll be getting one for myself first, thanks. Though dual-monitor setups can almost make me forget about the need for it. Almost.

@OMGWTF_BBQ: I doubt that the graphics processor would be anything more than on par with your average Intel GMA. So, it may be possible to play it... on 640x480, with no physics enabled, and with lowest possible graphics settings. Also, the device is running ARM, so Crysis would need to be ported first.

@Ian Logsdon: When this device is ineitably rooted, we would by definition be able to install whatever new apps we want. Sure, it would only be available to more advanced users, but there's no hardware limit on just firefox besides space constraints.

@Qwxptlz: We really, truly hope that it's a joke. We're not holding much hope.

@madisomi loves lasercats: Haha, so true. This is certainly a contender for my most wanted product of 2011 (also in consideration: uncharted 3)

PCs and laptops running ARM has the potential to become a real mess, but Microsoft has the technology already in place to avoid this problem. The .NET framework uses a Virtual Machine to run code (not unlike Java in concept), so if Microsoft really pushed .NET going into Windows 8 release it could avoid…