"The determination to channel through ATT/VZ was a marketing decision not an engineering decision."

Even in its current iteration, Siri is a beta product at best

"My Samsung 4G laptop"

"Asus, Toshiba, Samsung, Sony (et. al.) all offer embedded 4G- without restriction to carrier."

"The TF prime has a higher resolution than the iPad2. (1280x800 vs 1024x768)"

"Apple could offer the iPad without specifying a carrier- that is what it has to do with Apple."

"And Tegra3 runs it at similar framerates with a higher resolution and more effects than the iPad2."

"When you look at ACTUAL games that are available for both the iPad2 and Tegra3 devices, you get very similar framerates, but the Tegra3 version runs with additional effects at a slightly higher resolution."

"But when the apps and tasks come out are are in use that take advantage of it then look out."

Right, and so again I ask: what does the price of Verizon's data package have to do with Apple? Apple can't make Verizon sell data at any price they want. The fact that it gets access to Verizon's and AT&T's network without a 2 year contract is remarkable in and of itself.

What does that have to do with Apple?

"The bad thing? Horrible multitasking."

"1. It will be interesting to see how the NEW iPad CPU stacks up against the Transformer, if the iPad is even near its equal that would be pretty huge for the iPad."

You know that the A5 has already smoked the Tegra 3 in graphics performance, right? Source:

"The S4 uses an ARM Cortex-A15 design that can push many more commands through per clock cycle to bring it's Dual core up to the level of performance of the Tegra3."

Yeah, every aspect except for design and performance.

Again, more benchmarks:

Of course, but find me a CPU test which is truly software independent.

"Javascript performance is CPU bound numskull."

"First, the link is to a comparison of the iPad 2, not the iPad 3"