It is very cheap! Just not as a primary display for a student :P

Unless they penetrate quickly companies with this strategy are usually forced by share holders to give up.

That's tough. I really hope those content deals are lucrative. This sort of non-profitability is not very attractive to share holders.

I can't believe this thing actually works. Too pricey for me but a really cool piece of tech and something i can imagine being popular for small apartments and gamers in the future.

Your sarcastic scenario-based comments are repetitive and annoying.

The idea is bad, but Apple really gets a overly bad rap on it. They aren't open to people just throwing crappy, malicious apps in the store whenever they please? Keep it closed thank you.

Their bottom line is an exact result of having that sort of control from end to end. Remained closed allows them to remain in control. Google has hundreds of phones with hundreds of versions of Android all skattered about. This app works this phone but not this one. You get this update but not the next. Verizon puts…

Need is subjective. I have a "need" to buy into a platform I am comfortable with. Who are you to judge the functionality for each person?

Regardless of the price, functionality, design or whatever else it is always sad to see a company with enough resources to choose against innovation.

Since they formed low-margin content deals to provide every stitch of digital music available.

The recording industry forced the app to be pulled.

You rarely see people bitch about the cost of Mercedes however.

400$ plastic laptops cannot be compared to Apple laptops. The design, craftsmanship and materials don't even come close.

I would like to believe that. Google has been driving the planet for years to make it's maps service as good as it can be. You don't just get that over night.

This is one area that needs little improving. Google Maps is an indispensable tool and without it on my iPhone I would have to think twice about staying with the platform as well.

Mine seems to be completely fine, much better battery life compared to the 4.

I think dirt has done a better job of exposing glass then glare ever has.

Never ceases to amaze me how blatantly obvious humor can go over someone's head.

The two most sickening examples I can think of are MGMT and Frank Ocean, two of my favorite artists. Frank Ocean was signed by Def Jam and then promptly ignored. Knowing his own talent he created a mix tape without them knowing and created a name for himself. He is now touring and making what I assume to be a whack…

Microsoft needed a company not making hardware that is plastic. This accomplishes that. Windows Phone is really suit to a larger screen and it's too bad they only opted for a 3.7" (and yes I wasn't impressed the 4S has a 3.5" even though I have one). I don't know why everything takes so long with Windows Phone. 8…