What about a plain ereader with the wifi turned off. I waste 1/2 hour on take-off and landing twiddling my thumbs because I can't read my ereader.

They are too crayon box for my taste. It would have been better to have color themes that the user could have chosen: gray scale, warm hues, cool hues, neon, etc. Then all the default Apple apps could have had a cohesive color palette. A don't consider bright crayon colors to be a cohesive palette.

Same reaction, quick access to settings is there at last, but the eye candy is a bit sour. My daughter said the icon style was childish, but then she's a bored 14 y/o so what does she know...

I love everything but those yucky icons.

I saw that mock up and I thought "No way they are doing that, those things are horrid."

Agreed. Reminds me too much of TouchWiz

Agreed.

I like the UI... but those icons... yuck.

This has to be the most stupid, most selfish post ever written in the history of Gizmodo, and that includes my own very supid ones.

O im sorry, how many times were you elected president? How many baseball teams did you own? Sure he might not have been the most eloquent speaker and you may not have agreed with his policies but you dont attain that make success in life without being at least slightly above average intelligence. If it was so easy for…

Yea, it's the conservatives, even with a Liberal Pres and Congress...get real.

Don't feed the troll. He can't present logical point, and just resorts to name calling.

I'm definitely not a big fan of Ayn Rand, although I have read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. You cannot deny that the size and scope of the Federal Government has increased since FDR. His administration had numerous laws ruled unconstitutional because the Government assumed or gave itself powers for which it…

An argument could be made that the massive expansive of Executive powers in modern America began with FDR's administration. He used executive order and laws to enact laws to try and get the United States out of the Great Depression and to support the war effort. These laws greatly expanded the scope of the Executive…