That's funny. I use my iPad as a daily browser and I never encounter any Flash videos on any of the sites I visit. Youtube videos play flawlessly with or without advertisement's.

Youtube has been Flash since Day 1.

3D mapping is extremely useful. I don't see how this is a gimmick.

You sound upset.

The Kindle Fire is an Android tablet in much the same way that a Macbook Pro is a UNIX box.

Apple emphasizes the word SOLD as "in consumer hands" in pretty much every earnings call or any other time they announce numbers like those.

What's a Carolla?

I doubt anyone at Gizmodo's mad. Sounds like you might be though. This "rumor" is not far from a stretch.

Except for this is not a religion. You are not being indoctrinated from birth. And Apple does not promise you salvation.

You're a sad man.

Apple competitors can't outprice the iPad or Macbook Air. The iPhone 4S is competitively priced with other smart phones.

Gizmodo described it as a remote replacement. No one else did. Is this now the word of the Gospel?

You're confusing active and "turned on".

With iOS mirroring there really is no need for an App Store.

Apple hardly ever releases anything that is half assed. Otherwise we would have seen a Apple TV- TV long ago.

A TV makes complete sense. They can literally take over your living room.

I ride around with no front plate on my CLS63 AMG. Even though front plates are mandated in my state Police hardly take notice.

I'd like to come here more. It's just that I never remember to. I always end up at AutoSpies when the stuff here is of much higher quality - and actually civilized.

the patent covers pulling across predefined paths

Just because the idea was out there prior...it doesn't make Apple's patent invalid. This will mean absolutely zero in court.