I am starting to see iPads used as cash registers in a number of places near me. A sandwich shop, a general store, and a coffee shop (they had an Android tablet at first, then switched over to an iPad).

From the presentation: "They're priced at $14.99 or less."

That’s too bad. I played with the Kinect voice recognition over xmas vacation and it’s not bad. It makes up for lack of natural language recognition by displaying all the commands you can speak, but it still needs more commands. Especially in the third party apps like Netflix, where you can’t speak the name of the…

This was obviously the plan all along, which is why I was never that interested in signing up. Sorry, but I’m not paying more than I pay for Netflix for streaming music.

Sorry, but with Netflix offering unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows for $8 a month (to computer, phones, TVs, etc), I’m unwilling to pay the same or more for streaming music. I think $5 is a good price point, but that would have to include unlimited streaming to any device, including my phone.

Oh, whoops.

If that’s the case, you may as well wait another few months for the iPad 3.

We’re talking about Photo Stream right? Because I’m quite confident that it’s WiFi only. It says so under the Photo Stream setting on the phone, and on Apple’s Photo Stream web page ( [www.apple.com] ) "iCloud automatically pushes a copy of that photo over any available Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection to the Photos app…

I wonder if this is the iPhone 4S, or iOS 5. I know my data usage has gone up with my 4S, but I'l like to hear from people who updated their older iPhones to iOS 5. As I said in a reply below, I have a hunch that this has something to do with the automatic app/song/book downloading feature.

iCloud probably has something a lot to do with it, but the photo syncing only happens over WiFi. Anecdotally I would say that the automatic app downloads (when you d/l an app on another device) has increased my data usage quite a bit. It's not quite automatic though, you have to open the app store and enter your…

Speaking as someone who hasn't used an HTC phone, I can't comment on the software, but the difference that stands out to me is physical design of their handsets. If you look at Samsung, Motorola, and HTC's 2011 phones compared to what they were offering in 2008 I think you'll see that HTC has been sticking to the same…

If I’m going to plug something into my TV with a wire it’s going to be a set top box, not a phone or tablet. I use those to surf the web while I’m watching TV, and I don’t need a cord running across the living room.

They may not be the exact same tech, but I plug Mini Display cables into the thunderbolt port on my laptop all the time and it works like a charm.

First off, that’s not what the Engadget article says. Second, that’s not exactly a positive when a majority of your users are still ‘upgrading’ to a 1 year old update.

Ask Ziggy seems to do a lot of the fun/silly stuff that Siri does (and more?), but is it able to do the more useful things, such as setting reminders, timers, alarms, and appointments? After a couple of months with the iPhone, that’s about 90% of what I use Siri for. The other 10% is Google searches and texts when my…

That’s a pretty weird dream. Did you have pizza before bed?

Your question is answered in the text of the article. Read it again.

It could be to save on Apple's lincensing fees for using the proprietary dock connector.

Please stop spamming the comments with your whiney trolling.

Yeah. Gizmodo has become a really sad and bitter place over the past year or more. Lots of poorly written opinion pieces about whatever they think sucks this week. I don't know what happened over there, but it seems like everyone is depressed and angry.