But it isn't pathetic if the product is from someone else, like Google or Samsung or Microsoft? THAT is pathetic.

Come on, you can be much more of a dick than that, right. No? Nan you really do suck at everything, can't even be a decent asshole..

Why is it that every argument someone makes to support a non-Apple product have to turn into a diatribe about how Apple sucks? This is nothing more that thinly veiled anti-Apple bias. Apple is not everything its cracked up to be? What does that even mean? All it means is YOU don't like them. They are regressing?…

So I suppose you don't own a smartphone or a tablet? You find no use for them whatsoever?

How about something besides Windows with another "skin" wrapped around it?

I see no difference between "professionally made programs" and tablet apps that are equally well-made. And FWIW there is a dearth of shitty programs written for Windows as well as the plentiful one-trick pony apps on either of the other tablet OSes... so that's a wash right there. And until MS (in the RT space so far)…

Blech. I saw the name of the product and instantly knew it would be shit. Yep. Its shit.

I'm impressed by the engineering, I'm impressed by the device quality (of which my final opinion is reserved until I actually get to use it), I'm even impressed by the price.

I agree, I was pretty impressed with him at the press conference.

It would be a perfect world if everyone who contributed meaningfully to it was also an awesome person. But much of the time that's just not the case. And, no I wasn't referring to you specifically, but to the general tone of the comments. The attitude that all that Yeager has done (and many others like him) is so much…

(Most of) the comments in this thread reinforce my conclusion that the world is full of a whole hell of a lot of spineless assholes. Jeez.

To be fair, the argument is a legacy issue from way back before PCs had decent color management and printer support. Those days are long gone.

Did any of you anti-Apple trolls even read the Reuters article? Jeezuz!

You don't even know what you're talking about, moron. Just keep on spewing your irrational hatred.

Off by default.

They're just doing what they always do, try to get into the game waaaaay late and desperately try to be hip while hocking some of the most unhip products on the market. Its really quite embarrassing.

If there is no pilot then its is NOT a kamikaze device. Its a freaking guided bomb, period.

The irony of this article is that it is written by one of the biggest flame baiters that this "fanboy war" has ever seen. It is itself fanboy bait.

None of those reasons are "legitimate" They are purely subjective opinion and emotionally based. Argument FAIL.

You can read anything into anything...