I dunno, I wouldn't mind using a stylus on a tablet. Fingers are preferable on a small screen like a phone, but on a tablet I'd love to be able to have more precise control to do stuff like draw pictures and take handwritten notes. I'm going to be very interested in Windows 8 tablets.

Good try, but app developers set the prices for their apps, not Apple (or Google, for that matter). There are a ton of permanently and temporarily free apps on iOS; I use the excellent free app "App Shopper" to find them everyday. If your toddler apps aren't free on iTunes, blame the developer(s). Also, your "free"…

Nothing lasts forever, but I don't see Apple falling anytime soon. There are enough consumers looking for idiot proof products that will keep Apple in business for a long long time.

I think the SD card is nice in theory (and I put a ton of videos, music, podcasts on the card that I used with my cheap gTablet). However, the card kept getting corrupted for some reason, so I gave up on it. I've had friends that have had similar issues with external cards on their Android devices, so I prefer…

Good points.

That's cool. I'm not big into the cloud thing yet, so I prefer my storage local. And I have a lot of games on my phone, some of them are nearly 1GB in size due to the video and graphics. So the Fire probably wouldn't work for me.

You can't compare black friday pricing to normal retail price though.

The iPhone also has stupid carriers to deal with. If it wasn't for that (and consumers could have bought the iPhone for any carrier they wanted from day 1), they may very well be #1 in mobile OS market share.

Congrats!

Yeah, you're right. Which is why I have laptops instead of a tablet. I had a crappy gTablet that I gave away since I never used it. I kind of drooled at the form factor of the Transformer tablet with its fancy detachable keyboard docking station. I'd like a laptop like that.

Cool. I like that the Nook has an SD card slot and more RAM though. 8GB just isn't enough for me, considering all the music/podcasts, movies, games, and other files that I normally use. If I was an Amazon Prime subscriber the Fire would definitely be more compelling to me.

I would choose a Fire over the TP too. Actually, I would consider the Nook Tablet, especially if I can get the Kindle app on it. I'm not a Prime member so that other stuff doesn't matter to me.

Hell, $500 for a tablet is too expensive for my tastes. For that price, I can get a decent laptop. The Fire is priced right IMO, though.

I need a time machine to go back to 1996 and read your comments so I can buy Apple stock. :p

Yeah, I guess cheap is relative. It is cheap if you compare it to Android tablets that cost just as much (or more), but I wouldn't call any $500 device that's limited in functionality "cheap".

The angry birds franchise refuses to die much to my chagrin. I hope it happens in my lifetime though.

That's sweet, and Amazon works perfectly for someone like you. Unfortunately for Amazon, the majority of tablet shoppers aren't like you.

If you've compared Android apps to iOS apps, the Android versions are usually not anywhere as smooth and polished as the iOS versions. And this is not entirely the fault of the app developers: [androidandme.com]

Because I don't want to keep my desktop running when it doesn't need to? Most terminal apps suck anyway, I always seem to have issue controlling the cursor, and I fucking hate lag when typing stuff.

I said "decent". Yes, there are tablets that run Windows 7, but they are expensive and build quality is crappy. Thanks but no thanks.