I'm with you, I never used webOS until I bought a touchpad and its sad to see such a great OS go to waste. So much potential if only the right company bought it.

or worse manbearbig!

not sure, but I'm assuming not, because it wasn't apple's r&d exactly. Now the supplier can sell that screen to anyone.

Apple spends a lot of money on its suppliers to develop technology for them. The first iphone's screen was unmatched for the first 2 years because of Apple's huge investment in its supplier to do the R&D on that screen.

I agree, that screen is awesome. I really wish the next nexus would be 4 inches instead of 4.6. 4.6 just seems too big, even if it has a 0.1mm bezel.

a simpler analogy would be trying to get more water out of a pipe by punching more holes into it instead of installing a bigger pipe.

I misunderstood you, I agree webOS does need some major apps to compete. Why point the fanboy finger at me when we can be civil?

I didn't use webOS until I got my 100$ touchpad, and I can say its sad to see such a promising OS out of the mainstream. Hopefully if its bought or spunoff it will be great. It shouldn't too too hard to get the android market working on webOS since its linux too (right?) hopefully then more people will latch on.

I agree with your B), but A) becomes trivial when your app store has over 100,000 apps. As long as the major app devs are on your platform it doesn't matter "whose is bigger".

I agree with everyone else here, it doesn't matter the ram if it runs seamlessly. I have an android phone but its pretty impressive that the iphone can run so smoothly with less ram then its android equivalents.

True, but you would have to download all the apps. I just don't want to see android fragment because of amazon.

I guess my point wasn't clear. What I'm trying to say is the feature set difference between cars and tablets between the higher end (porsche) and lower end (civic) are not as evident as with tablets.

cars have over 1 million parts each of which go through rigorous validation testing for safety and environmental standards (both industry and governmental). For example every part is tested to work at -40C - 125C.

I really wonder if google will offer amazon a partnership if the kindle fire becomes so popular. Maybe have all android devices with the amazon ecosystem (but still maintain 2 separate app stores, or merge them someway). That maybe a partnership that can compete toe to toe with apple.

+1

He's not old, he watched curb your enthusiasm a few weeks back.

+1 for the laugh!

perfect timing. +1

don't have to be a dick to give information.

simon is wrong, its the number of monkeys that attack people during rush hour.