Grr. Edit fail. "...what we perceive as the speed..."

Re-read my post. 20GB is enough for the apps, not the associated data. With a 20GB SSD *and* a 320GB HDD, you have a decent fast space for apps to run from - which is a very large contributor to what we perceive as the perception of the speed of a device - plus enough storage space for data. That strikes me as a…

"Consumers don't want tablets, they want iPads."

20GB is probably enough for most users' (non-gaming) OS and apps, isn't it? With a HDD for media, it sounds like not a bad way to get space + speed.

You would think. But it's been like that for years now.

This has been there - and visible on Google Earth - for years. The weird thing is, he seems to have got bored halfway, and never bothered to fill all the channels with water.

I had a 1st gen MacBook. It overheated like hell, and the hard drive broke and the DVD broke, but damn, it was a good machine. It's still on the road - I sold it to a friend for cheaps a couple of years back and got a 1st gen 13" AluBook. And it's cranky, but it works.

Authentication: also totally hackable. [www.pcpro.co.uk]

Except it means a less good experience for their consumers. You can provide a better experience - for now, at least - with a real app than with a web app, and the FT is choosing not to do that, betting that their content is strong enough - and it is very strong - that customers won't go elsewhere.

I agree with all of that. Apple could and should make the App Store better and easier to use. However, it's hard to argue that the customer exposure Apple provides - even though it could be better - isn't worth a 30% cut.

Yes, that's human nature. It's also corporate nature to pay workers as little as a company feels it can get away with.

I don't understand why the FT would do this. Apple's model allows devs to distribute a free app, then use their subscription details to login - meaning Apple gets nothing (as I understand it). This works well for the Murdoch papers - what's the advantage for the FT of circumventing it?

Insane? I think most devs would agree that Apple's smooth distribution experience means they (the devs) wind up with more money than they otherwise would. So stop whining.

Apple isn't Apple without Steve. I suspect the converse applies, too.

So they look more or less like an early Asus netbook; let's assume they're running Linux, with some effort to lock it down. Let's further guess that the processor is early Atom-ish (which may be generous).

More than that, here's to Jim. That, ladies, is a keeper.

Bullshit. Fine, dead products die. But these are successful products we're talking about. And until now, 18 months has never been regarded as an acceptable time frame for obsolescence. Sure, your two-year-old gizmo wasn't the latest and greatest, but it still worked. Shouldn't we expect even that any more?

18 months support? Not brilliant, is it?

Crap, how do you post #tips on Newgiz?