This is going to be interesting, because I think it will settle the debate of whether iPads, and tablets in general, are actually viable productivity products, or just media platforms/ toys. Personally, I can't see someone writing a lot of text or editing a spreadsheet on a touch interface. I can see them using iOS…

I know its been said all over this post already, but if 5 inches is too small for a mobile device then all phones are useless. At the right price point, there is UNQUESTIONABLY a market for this kind of device.

If there was a 5-inch "iPad mini" you could bet that Gizmodo would be raving about it. (I know, the iPod). But seriously, if Lenovo could deliver a fully featured 5" android App at a good price point, like just south of $150, there could be a niche for that sort of thing:

If people really want to rid the internet of Flash, they should really spend less time ranting about Flash and more time writing replacements for existing Flash media and services in HTML 5. No one is going to abandon a platform that the services they consume rely upon unless they can get those same services through…

Yeah, that's what I originally assumed when I read this article: and ad hoc network. There is a very good reason that people would never go for this, however, and its that this would be a network where your personal information was passed along to total strangers. Even if you didn't design the technology to make that…

You right. it doesn't. I never said anything about Apple needing to make money off their apps, I said their business model required them to go through the App store, which free apps still do. Apple gets to vote or veto them, Apple maintains control of their walled garden. HTML5 browser apps are simply too limited to…

Making a claim that Flash on mobile died because of Apple's refusal to allow and accept it is a totally defensible position, perhaps even more defensible than Mike Chambers is able to acknowledge. If you ask Apple, they will tell you Flash is a bad technology, and they blocked it to protect their customers and provide…

That all works assuming the iPad really is a little more than TWICE the machine the Kindle Fire is; otherwise Apple might be stretching to find demonstrable advantages over and concrete and tangible opponent instead of having an easy time of explaining why they are better than a host of other nebulous tablets.

This is where I jump in and point out that with Adobe's Flex Framework and Flex Builder you can build apps that run on EVERYTHING: They can be desktop Apps for Mac or PC, platform agnostic browser applications, Android Apps, iOS Apps, Blackberry Apps, all leveraging the same Flex/AS3 code base, Flex Builder is built…

If they could get it to flick open and closed like a switchblade they might have a good product

totally, or "More expensive phones better"

Those aren't actually recursive definitions. Recursive definitions are when the letter actually stands for the same word that it composes: like in PHP which stands for Php Hypertext Preprocessor.

Eclipse, software that you use to create Java applications, is written in Java, and it's really well built: better built than Xcode in my opinion.

Maybe I am wrong about this, but I believe Jailbreaking your iOS device does void the warranty still. I know you can un-jailbreak it and take it back, unless something happens and it completely fails while jailbroken, then you might be screwed.

Free (better than) $100 cost;

Unless they invent a new way of writing software that does NOT involve writing and editing large plain text files, the iPad is never going to be a useful device for writing software. To write software, you need a keyboard, and if you are going to use a keyboard, you might as well put a decent sized screen in front of…

Thank you Captain obvious. Statistically speaking, even if I bought every possible permutation of lotto numbers, there is no way to know that some other person or persons would not also buy the winning numbers and split the pot with me, meaning there is no amount of money that is "guaranteed" to turn a profit in a…

$81.6 billion? Spend it ALL on lotto tickets! you can't lose!

Ok, I hereby admit that I wrote that comment as flamebait, because I love to torment Apple Fanbois. Mea Culpa. But seriously, Apple's business doesn't come from people who actually want to get work done on their machines, their business comes from people who want shiny boxes to buy media on. Apple didn't make any…

I guess Apple is finally realizing that no one actually does any work on their machines anyway. They are taking one more step towards becoming the Apple Toy Company.