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That article is from 18 March, 2011. Things have changed a LOT since then in the competition between Android and iPhone devices.

The thing is, there are constantly new Android devices and updates. Apple doesn't release that often and doesn't see a lot of innovation. If I buy the best Android phone now, in a few short months there will be a better one. Not so with the iPhone or iPad. I guarantee that those ratings are not the same today as they were a year and 3 months ago. Android devices now outsell iPhones:

http://www.dailytech.com/Android+Outsells+iPhone+5to2+Has+Nearly+50+Percent+of+the+Market/article22326.htm

And have a greater market share:

http://www.androidauthority.com/idc-android-market-share-apple-statistics-89271/

Things have changed.

1993 Apple early tablet

2006 Samsung digital photo frame

2010 Apple iPad

2006 Samsung digital photo frame viewed from other angles.

1993 Apple early tablet

2006 Samsung digital photo frame

2010 Apple iPad

How about LTE or 3G?

"the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700) is coming by the end of June in both a WiFi only and an LTE version, which will be picked up by AT&T."
via http://www.androidauthority.com/asus-google-tablet-confirmed-at-t-padfone-pad-infinity-tf700-93742/

Also: http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=3640&c=asus_transformer_pad_infinity_3g_tf700tg_64gb

I wonder why a dock is needed at all.

for power mainly, its easier to plonk it onto a dock than it is to play "where's the cable hiding this time". The Samsung Galaxy 3 comes with a dock charger now, and a wireless display dongle (ie you attach the dongle to your TV and it mirrors your phone display)

While I don't think these are sufficient to replace a PC, it shows we're slowly moving in the right direction.

The proof is in the pudding: despite their process advantage, Intel hasn't made any inroad in phones/tablets yet.

Also, people don't routinely solve linear equations. FP math is not really used by the vast majority of users, as are many of the more advanced things Atom can do, so the Atom's more advanced capabilities re probably rather irrelevant. On the other hand, ARM does the things people actually use more efficiently: from http://www.androidauthority.com/why-intel-atom-medfield-is-still-far-from-being-competitive-with-arm-chips-59065/: "A dual core 1.5 Ghz Krait chip has a 0.75W TDP under maximum load, while Atom has 2.6w TDP in “idle mode” alone (when your phone does nothing), and 3.6W when playing a 720p video. So that’s around 4, maybe 5 times less efficient than the best ARM chip right now."

When did Apple invent the time machine?

http://www.androidauthority.com/android-powered-oem-car-stereo-68660/

They exist. They just need refinement and to be made available from the manufacturers.

You have invented the PadFone!
http://www.androidauthority.com/asus-padfone-release-date-specs-stylus-headset-57617/

Actually, people are abandoning Android in droves

Uh, really? Q4 2001 sales figures show more than twice as many Android phones being sold in Q4 of 2010 than 2011. If people are abandoning the platform in droves, a lot more are flocking there to replace them.

It's certainly not the radius of the corners, the 1-inch black border with chrome backing that peeks over just enough to frame it

You mean like this?

the grid of icons

The early desktops had those 30+ years ago, and actually the iOS home screen "copied" from the Android one as it developed over time (background images, more customisable icon layout etc). I use quotes because actually Android didn't invent those things either, it just happened to do them first on a mobile device. First out of iOS and Android, Windows CE and Symbian predate both again.

thievery of artwork

Those icons look a lot like the standard ones used in operating systems and apps for decades.

the touchscreen gestures that originated with iOS

Actually quite a few originated with graphics tablet / pen input device manufacturers, or with touchpad manufacturers. Drag to scroll, swipe and so forth.

Anyway, all Android devices do those things, as well as Windows Phone 7. Strangely Apple isn't suing Google or Microsoft over them.

Apple's claims are pretty weak. Design in computing and consumer devices in general has always been a massive feedback loop, and undeniably Apple has copied others when it suits them.

Mainly because they are not very distinguishing, and are in fact things that many other similar products had before Apple came along. Take a look at a Samsung digital photo frame from a few years before the iPad and you will notice that it looks exactly the same. Clean, uncluttered, black, thin, no face buttons, silver edging with a thin border, screen in the centre, light weight, hidden ports and devices, logo centred...

People laugh at Apple's design claims because they are laughable.

It's obvious to anyone with common sense viewing Samsung's designs that Samsung is deliberately aping Apple's designs.

oh yes because this design of Samsung's from 2006, before the ipad, looks nothing like this, you'd have to be an idiot to think those look the same wouldn't you :P

Have you seen the Samsung tablet designs before the first iPad come out and the designs after the iPad came out

Do you find it odd that Samsung's photo frame design circa 2006, is almost identical to their Tablet design that followed it? Right down to the Samsung logo on the front and the lack of any visible buttons on the front? That's just Samsung's product design.

You're absolutely right. It's not like samsung designed this:
http://www.androidauthority.com/behold-samsungs-ipad-made-in-2006-21278/
In 2006 or anything

Here is the "community design" we are talking about:
http://esearch.oami.europa.eu/copla/design/data/000181607-0001
Essencially:
http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/6268/00018160700011source.jpg

Here is Motorola Xoom, tell me it doesn't "infridge":
http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/2168/xoomtabletinterfacescre.jpg

Here is Asus Transformer Prime (it's notable, because first Asus Transformer is mentioned in the shocking Dusseldorf judgjement as an example of "not infridging") tell me it doesn't infrindge:
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5830/asustransformerprimetf2.jpg

Heck, here is Samsung Photo Frame, tell me it doesn't "infringe":
http://1.androidauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/samsung-ipad-photo-frame.jpg

Looks like you've got Samsung's lawyers beat, then: Even Samsungâ(TM)s Lawyers Can't Tell the Difference Between Its Tablet and an iPad

You act like that's Samsung's problem.

I wonder if they (or Apple's lawyers) could tell this apart from the front of the Galaxy Tab... because if not, Apple has a serious problem, because that's a Samsung Digital Photo Frame from 2006, predating the iPad by 4 years.

Now, the back looks nothing like a Galaxy Tab, but that's not likely to be the part the court was showing when asking the question.

Here's a tip: If you rip off someone's design, don't sue the person you ripped off for ripping off said design in a different product.

If the wireless patents are essential then they should be covered by the FRAND terms of the 3G standardisation process. In contrast, Apple's patents are "design patents" - a special type of patent that covers the form and appearance of items. These are two very different types of patents, covered by different contractual terms, and so they will get treated differently by the courts. In terms of the design patent, the Samsung photo frame predates the iPad design patent and has a strikingly similar form, though obviously it is not a tablet.

If you read a lot, then having hardware keys to scroll (I love being able to use space to page down on BB) is great though

It's not like there aren't Android phones with hardware keyboards (on those with arrows, Fn+up/down normally works as page up / page down - the OS itself is aware of the existence of those keys for list scrolling etc).

I don't believe the Galaxy 10.1 has a memory slot (at least, I have not found any spec sheet online that mentions it). Major FAIL if true.

This one mentions it: http://www.androidauthority.com/ipad-2-vs-motorola-xoom-vs-samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-10341/

They back-tracked and said that full flash ten will only work on phones that have an ARM v7 Cortex processer, so only newer phones get it (Droid, N1)
http://www.androidauthority.com/index.php/2010/02/26/adobe-flash-10-will-not-support-first-generation-android-devices/

Here you go