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Uncomfortable facts you are not willing to acknowledge:

April 13, 2011 (1 week before PlayBook was launched)

Anandtech:

The bottom line is that today the PlayBook can't store contacts, it can't organize your day and you can't use it to check emails using anything other than your web browser. RIM's explanation? Most users who buy tablets don't buy it for push email, most are on WiFi, and if you're not getting push email then a web client is probably ok. I don't agree with this assessment, and clearly RIM doesn't completely agree with it either, so we'll eventually get all of these things for the PlayBook later this summer alongside the release of the WiMAX PlayBook.

BGR:

There is no native mail app, contacts app, or calendar app. Looking to the near future, I’m told that these are absolutely coming in the future through a free software update. I’ve also been told PlayBooks that launch in the coming months with 4G compatibility (WiMAX, LTE, and HSPA+), will most certainly have these apps built in. Until then, the Wi-Fi PlayBook isn’t that useful to me without native apps that are extremely necessary in this day and age of mobile computing.

Wired:

Another glaring flaw is the PlayBook’s complete lack of native e-mail, contacts and calendar apps. Want those apps? Log on to your Gmail account with the browser. BlackBerry smartphone owners can access e-mail on the PlayBook after installing RIM’s Bridge app, which connects the phone to the tablet by Bluetooth, but we weren’t able to test this feature. If you don’t have a BlackBerry phone, you’re out of luck until summer, when RIM says a future software update will bring native clients to the PlayBook.

You: "The PlayBook was never supposed to have native email."

Your delusions or lies do not mesh with real facts.

"Despite Microsoft attempting to buy scare stories with free phones, malware on Android is rare and generally easily removed." - by ozmanjusri (601766) on Monday April 02, @03:24AM (#39546627)

So is Windows malwares (even rootkits): What was your point? To show that my point, that the MOST USED OS on any given computing platform will be attacked & abused?? Thank you then I suppose for helping me make my point!

* Trying to make it out like some "M$ CON$PIRACY" though, on YOUR PART in "buying stories"? Please... lol! It's a FACT & widely known that ANDROID, a linux variant (because it surely doesn't use Windows or MacOS X @ its core) is being torn up... why?? See my original posts on 'the most used OS on any given computing platform will become the preferred target of malware makers'... period.

APK

P.S.=> Here's some "food 4 thought" on that very account since you like posting links? I can too, by the truckload (from reputable sources including the security community):

3,325% increase in malware targetting ANDROID:

http://blog.webroot.com/2012/02/17/report-3325-increase-in-malware-targeting-the-android-os/

Security firms: Android malware set to skyrocket â The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/15/android_malware_skyrockets/

Android Malware May Have Infected 5 Million Users - Slashdot

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/28/0431251/android-malware-may-have-infected-5-million-users

More than $1 million stolen from Android users in 2011, mobile threats to increase in 2012

http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/14/more-than-1-million-stolen-from-android-users-in-2011-mobile-threats-to-increase-in-2012/

Android bug lets attackers install malware without warning â The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/20/google_android_vulnerability_patching/

(Would you like MORE? I have, oh, roughly another 100++)...

... apk

A purportedly large number of employees were highly aware of how bad things were. One employee even published a rather scathing open letter to the company about a year ago: http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/30/open-letter-to-blackberry-bosses-senior-rim-exec-tells-all-as-company-crumbles-around-him/

Foxconn employs 800,000 people, it's the tenth largest company (by head count) in the world. Are you *really* suggesting that Apple goods account for a majority of those people's jobs ?

Why do you Apple astroturfers insist on putting words in my mouth? I said Apple is by far the biggest beneficiary of Foxconn's oppressive practices and that is verifiably true. Moral of this story is: do not every make the mistake of accepting the claims of an indignant Apple cultist at face value.

Now crawl back into your miserable astroturfing hole please, and do not refer to me as "sir" if you do not mean it.

Most profitable company
Record iPad sales.
Record iPhone sales.

Apple takes 52% of all smartphone profits
Apple takes 66% of all smartphone profits
Apple takes 75% of all smartphone profits

How long before they are at 100%?

LG Posts net loss
Motorola Mobility net loss
Sony Ericsson net loss

What do you think will happen to android market share when every company stops making them because they went out of business?

you would really like the samsung galaxy III supporting full 1080p on a 4.8" screen

http://www.bgr.com/2012/02/27/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-full-specs-1-5ghz-quad-core-1080p-display-ceramic-case/

Thenk you.

"Microsoft launches no holds barred anti-Google campaign"
http://www.bgr.com/2012/02/21/microsoft-launches-no-holds-barred-anti-google-campaign-video/

Let us just take 21 million customers (as indicated in the article) for calculation puposes. They are making around $500 bucks on each of the phone according to http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/06/apple-maintains-big-margins-on-iphone-4s-according-to-ubm-analysis//BGR. Now they have to pay what $300 Million. WOW nice go

Lt. Col. Glen Roberts, clarified the report, stating the commend "is looking for a tablet device, not necessarily an iPad"

Seeing that there is custom DoD Android edition and clearances, where iOS has not . http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/28/pentagon-approves-android-device-for-department-of-defense-apple-still-awaits-clearance/ . There is even a DoD SDK.

But one thing about the Air Force there are different commands and they all make different decisions . ASFOC will make one decision, AMC another and the ANG another, and they never cooperate, costing tax payers millions.

Woah, say what you will about the Palm Pre or Panasonic Plasma TV, but the Motorola Xoom is the 4th most popular non-iPad tablet with 1.55 impressions per 100 iPad impressions. If Motorola (I almost typed Notorola, lol) had a better ad campaign, they could probably hit Galaxy numbers (1.6). hell maybe even Playbook numbers (1.8).

I am surprised no camera company sued all the cell phone companies for including a camera in their products. Or did they? I haven't looked, admittedly.

One did.

Google is hard, yo.

http://www.bgr.com/2012/01/06/iphone-4s-remains-best-seller-at-top-three-carriers-in-december/

Although the Galaxy S II did outsell the iPhone on T-mobile... because they don't sell the iPhone.

Hmmm... With some restrictions, the US Department of Defense has approved use of Android and not IOS: http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/28/pentagon-approves-android-device-for-department-of-defense-apple-still-awaits-clearance/

Anyone that's not a deluded zealot's free to look @ the links I posted, & decide for themselves in these posts of mine as to whether these are "good things" going on with ANDROID (a Linux variant on smartphones) or not:

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2586024&cid=38463414

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2586024&cid=38488282

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2586024&cid=38495050

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2586024&cid=38495800

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2586024&cid=38507222

http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2586024&cid=38519768

APK

P.S.=> For "good measure"? Here's 12 more, sending the total up to 84 now:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/0118231/android-malware-using-blog-as-cc-server

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/06/trend_discovers_more_android_malware/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/14/android_anti_virus/

http://www.securityweek.com/new-android-trojan-masquerades-google-library-taps-device-administration-api

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/30/google_android_security_bug/

http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/02/1637249/researchers-find-big-leaks-in-pre-installed-android-apps

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/12/android_market_malware/

http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/14/more-than-1-million-stolen-from-android-users-in-2011-mobile-threats-to-increase-in-2012/

http://blogs.cio.com/mobile-security/16704/android-app-permissions-may-spark-false-sense-security

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/0058235/gaining-a-remote-shell-on-android

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/22/android_trojan_maytyr/

http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/fake-antivirus-scams-targeting-android-users-122911

I believe the Samsung Galaxy S II is a "high-end" Android phone? It has sold many millions globally.

I believe the iPhone will remain a top selling high-end phone, but there's room for more. I agree that the article is written by an unrealistic "fanboy" of some sort. Wishful thinking.

I like all my various WP7, Androids and iPhones. I just switch handsets when I feel like there's something new to test.

How many would ya like? I literally have 100's of posts catalogued on ANDROID security issues of ALL KINDS (hence, my point) year, after year, since I don't KNOW when (start of ANDROID really in 2005):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/22/android_trojan_maytyr/

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/0058235/gaining-a-remote-shell-on-android

http://blogs.cio.com/mobile-security/16704/android-app-permissions-may-spark-false-sense-security

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/2039237/sprint-orders-all-oems-to-strip-carrier-iq-from-their-phones

http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/14/more-than-1-million-stolen-from-android-users-in-2011-mobile-threats-to-increase-in-2012/

http://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2011/dec/12/fbi-carrier-iq-files-used-law-enforcement-purposes/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/12/android_market_malware/

http://blogs.computerworld.com/19391/mobile_security_at_takedowncon_hackers_handing_out_a_healthy_dose_of_paranoia

(Hey - I'll post even more current examples, as many as /.'s homegrown board engine will let me pack into another single post (I'll have room for more too, Too TOO MANY TIMES, lol!)).

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* PLEASE /. "CONTROLLERS": FIX THE FORUMS ENGINE: It only let me pack in 8 posts per post for examples that were requested of me... that's beat! What is this 8 links per post I just hit?? A hard-imposed limit by you, or just limits in your code??? String data parse problem??? Get rid of it.

(It leaves room for improvement of a post of mine here, as it would others, ones I could do right away, instead of having to multiply post data as evidences... & added backing)

Yes - where as you know? Hey - I always, deliver, perfectly, & accurately (pats self on back!!!), blowing the doors off of your best technically, in your trolls! Most are cowards & post AC - something they can never take credit for IF they somehow managed to "completely get the better of me" (impossible), technically in computing: Never has happened since I started posting here in late 2004, & never will! LOL...

* So that all "said & aside", by request no less? LMAO - "What's 4 Lunch @ APK's today?

Yes, kids - that's right, you guessed it: A truly, "SMOKED TROLL" named 'burning-toast' (lmao - rather aptly named, wouldn't you say? LOL!)

APK

P.S.=> "Next" (to whatever Pro-*NIX troll wants a shot @ the title of most technically excellent @ /., reigning champion APK on all levels)... lmao!

... apkb

Really? I know Microsoft Bashing is a sport here on /. and all, but it just blows my mind that we let MS do as they will but Google needs to be checked out. Hm.

Google has like 64% (google market share), with competitors Bing and Yahoo (now powered by Bing), and some others.

Microsoft has a 91% market share ( windows market share) with competitors Linux (FOSS) and Mac OSX (only available on Apple hardware, Apple openly sues you for building hackintoshes).

And yet GOOGLE is the one who needs investigating? Really?

Oh wait, I forgot, Microsoft is all buddy-buddy with congressmen.

Here you go: http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/13/apple-and-google-dominate-smartphone-space-while-other-vendors-scramble/.

WP7 went from 1% to 2% of sales. Android is at 53%, iOS at 29%. This is sales, not market share.

Also, desktops are not going away.

Pretty much because the difference between the bad ones and the good ones is all in the display assembly - it makes up the bulk of the cost. A decent screen and touch interface etc is going to set you back - and then it becomes "an expensive tablet".

Hang on. My problem with your analysis is that you're combining two things that are entirely separate... The INPUT and the OUTPUT.

I realize that (eg. AMOLED) displays are expensive. No problem, though... I'm perfectly willing to settle for a lower-res LCD display based on older tech. The Samsung Transform Ultra I mentioned is a perfect example, with a nasty LCD screen-door effect (compared to my Droid) but which I quickly learned to tolerate...

But high-res screen or no, what drives me insane is flaky touch-screen INPUT (not output), and I find it hard to believe that going from a horrible, glitchy capacitive touch screen, to a RELIABLE capacitive touch screen, costs a significant fraction of a phone or tablet's sale price. In many cases, as I said, I'd be willing to bet it might only require a software change.

Furthermore, I'm not sure your statement is actually accurate. All sources I could find point to an iPhone 4's Retina display at about $30:

http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2010/tc20100627_763714.htm

http://www.bgr.com/2011/10/06/apple-maintains-big-margins-on-iphone-4s-according-to-ubm-analysis/

http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/29/apples-iphone-accounted-for-66-of-q2-smartphone-profit-among-top-vendors/

Kinda curious why you cited an article from July 29th?
Couldn't find anything more relevant to cite?

-@|

1. Build the entire computer. Microsoft licensed their product and achieved a place at the heart of the emergent ecosystem. Apple lost.

If you mean by "lost" making money hand over fist... Hint: The company with the largest market share in computers is trying to get out of the computer business....not Apple. Businesses "win" based on profitability not market share.

2. Build the entire phone. Android licensed their product and is achieving a place at the heart of the emergent ecosystem. Apple is losing.

Again, if you mean by "losing", capturing 66% of all mobile phobe profit worldwide. Then yes Apple is "losing".

http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/29/apples-iphone-accounted-for-66-of-q2-smartphone-profit-among-top-vendors/

And before you come up with the usual Slashdot retort of why am I bragging about "overpaying" for an iPhone, I paid the same $200 for a $700 phone that an Android user paid for a $500 phone and my monthly bill is the same. Why should I care that the carrier had to pay a larger subsidy to Apple?

RIM has sold 165 million BlackBerry smartphones to date and currently has 70 million subscribers. A Canadian success story that I, as a Canadian, am very proud of.

And the Kindle Fire presold, sight unseen, over 250,000 units in the first five days of presales - on its way to an estimated 2.5 million units its first month.

That's quite impressive! Let's hope we can root the damn thing ...

The iPad is nice gear. But this race isn't over yet.

I think the problem is that tablets are both pricey and a bit pointless. If you want a tablet, unless you happen to work in a rather obscure area where they're actually useful, chances are you're either rich, bored or both -- i.e. the Apple crowd. The transformer's a damn nice tablet, but it's nice on the internals rather than the externals. It doesn't turn heads the way an iPad2 does as a tablet, or a Galaxy S II does as a phone.

I don't think Android has had it's "wow" tablet yet (although price-wise, Amazon's definitely giving it a shot ...)

No, it's really 400,000 a month and the goal is for over 2 million units this year. The Transformer 2 will be out for Christmas with 5 cores for only $500 and promises to move really well. And the Kindle Fire presold, sight unseen, over 250,000 units in the first five days of presales - on its way to an estimated 2.5 million units its first month.

The iPad is nice gear. But this race isn't over yet.

You are not being honest with yourself. Apple has well and truly moved out of the fanbois base and now sells to the masses. Non-tech people totally love it.

Not only are they selling to the masses (if you don't think selling tens to hundreds of millions of devices is mass market you're seriously deluded), but they are turning them into loyal customers. The iPhone has by far the highest customer retention rate around ("UBS: iPhone’s 89% retention rate crushes competition; next closest is HTC at 39%") and they continue to lead in PC customer satisfaction figures ("Apple scored 87 points, ahead of HP with a result of 78, Dell with 77, Acer also with 77 and Compaq with 75. [...] Apple holds the highest score on record for the eighth consecutive year.") They're obviously doing something right.

"Microsoft and Amazon signed a licensing agreement in February last year that covers technology used in the Kindle and various other products. That agreement does not cover Amazon’s new Android-powered Kindle Fire tablet, BGR has learned, which means Amazon could be coughing up hefty licensing fees to Microsoft in the near future" link

Do you have any source for that? From what I can tell Samsung made 16.5 trillion won = 14.0745 Billion US Dollars Apple posted profits of 3.38, 3.07, 3.25, and 4.3 billion during 2010 = 13.977 Billion US Dollars. Those numbers are very similar and I do believe a chunk of Samsung's profits came from selling LCDs to Apple (so a bad relationship could easily hurt Samsung's profits while likely not costing apple that much more)

Sources: http://www.bgr.com/2011/01/28/samsung-reports-q4-earnings-revenue-and-income-grow-profit-slides/
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/10/18Apple-Reports-Fourth-Quarter-Results.html
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/20Apple-Reports-Third-Quarter-Results.html
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/04/20Apple-Reports-Second-Quarter-Results.html
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/01/25Apple-Reports-First-Quarter-Results.html

Haven't you noticed? Microsoft is now officially a patent troll, making far more profits trolling Android than their own Windows mobile O/S.

Didn't we already discuss this?

http://www.bgr.com/2009/03/05/breakdown-of-blackberry-app-world-pricing-structure/

To get into their ap store cost $200. Without that you are DOA.

http://www.bgr.com/2009/03/05/breakdown-of-blackberry-app-world-pricing-structure/

There's a link discussing the $200 fee to have your app listed in their ap store circa 2009.

I get my "facts" from developing apps in 2009. How about you?

It's already turning out that with most carriers, I can't use a smartphone on their network without being automatically charged for a data plan. ATT uses IMEI lookups to charge you:
http://www.bgr.com/2009/08/21/att-to-require-smartphone-data-plans-starting-september-6th/

This should be illegal! Just because I want to jot down notes on my phone doesn't mean I should be forced to pay $30 every month to ATT! This is just one of the effects of few large monopolies. Another well known example: texting plan rates were hiked up in lockstep by the monopolies. Yet another effect of a market with few, large monopolies: high rates for customers.

On a yearly basis, American cell phone users are spending about $635.85 on cell phone service. [...]By contrast people in the Netherlands and Finland pay the lowest amount for cell phone service, only $131.44 per year. And cell phone users in Sweden only pay $137.94 per year. Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10307726-94.html

Why on earth would we want to allow even fewer and even larger monopolies?

It's already turning out that with most carriers, I can't use a smartphone on their network without being automatically charged for a data plan. ATT uses IMEI lookups to charge you:
http://www.bgr.com/2009/08/21/att-to-require-smartphone-data-plans-starting-september-6th/

This should be illegal! Just because I want to jot down notes on my phone doesn't mean I should be forced to pay $30 every month to ATT! This is just one of the effects of few large monopolies. Another well known example: texting plan rates were hiked up in lockstep by the monopolies. Yet another effect of a market with few, large monopolies: high rates for customers.

On a yearly basis, American cell phone users are spending about $635.85 on cell phone service. [...]By contrast people in the Netherlands and Finland pay the lowest amount for cell phone service, only $131.44 per year. And cell phone users in Sweden only pay $137.94 per year. Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-10307726-94.html

Why on earth would we want to allow even fewer and even larger monopolies?

Let me add a little bit to what's going on here. Florian has spun this as a "this is bad for google". Yes, that retarded florian mueller. From http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-07/htc-sues-apple-alleging-infringement-of-four-u-s-patents.html . Of course they have to use patents in a lawsuit. How else will they defend themselves? Google isn't suing anyone with these patents, but they are handing them out to folks like HTC to defend themselves (and thus android). They aren't going after folks. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if the agreement from google to lend these patents to HTC is something like exactly that.

Meanwhile, guess what? Look at the groklaw debunk carefully.

. It increases the likelihood that Apple will lose or at least wish it never started this stupid patent war. Don't you recall what Eric Schmidt said recently, that Google would make sure HTC didn't lose? You thought he was just talking? If Apple wanted to rumble with Google, it would have done it already. That's the last thing they want, and with good reason. If it happens, it won't be because they desired it. The thing about patent litigation is you usually go after folks who can't do much to you back. Google can do plenty. They had a remarkable record in patent litigation before they bought the patents from IBM and bought Motorola. Now they are more fully armed, they can do a great deal more.Trying to spin this as a threat to Google is absolutely upside down

This falls in line with the Nook Color 2 color e-ink rumors: http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/02/barnes-noble-nook-color-2-to-launch-this-month/

It's hypocritical media buzz really excited about the upcoming color Kindle which is sounding very much an exact clone of the NookColor. Many are calling it "Amazon's tablet" while backhandedly refusing to acknowledge B&N's original effort beyond calling it an "e-reader".

So fascinating they released a statement on it...last month.

http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/28/sprint-announces-deal-to-adopt-4g-lte/

Boy Genius Report and/or Engadget.

Yeah, and Apple makes more profit on smartphones than everyone else in the market combined. That's TOTALLY running scared.

Also, this is about tablets. I won't bother linking numbers here because it's 99% Apple, everyone else fighting for scraps.

This isn't running scared, this is Apple saying "We won't stand by while you try to use our work." I know that's not the Slashdot wisdom, but frankly Slashdot wisdom ain't exactly wise outside of certain limited facets of technology.

Interesting.. but I had just read this after seeing this article and had to wonder.

Have you been asleep?

From time to time, of course, but you must still be dreaming. Android has way less than half of the smart phone market share. Thus the "for sufficiently small values of 'dominate'" remark.
And since Verizon started selling the iPhone Android's US share is actually falling. And more potentially bad news for Android phones: 40% of European Smart Phone buyers plan to buy an iPhone vs. 19% who plan to purchase an Android phone.

Disclaimer: I own neither an iPhone nor an Android phone.

Don't worry, you won't have to. In spite of the selective scope the author chose, iOS vastly outnumbers Android.

In your head? Using special math? Different definition of 'vastly outnumbers'?

Sigh, crap like that is insanely funny.

Especially considering from Jan to this month, Android doubled the growth seen by iOS.
http://www.bgr.com/2011/06/04/android-ios-see-continued-growth-in-u-s-at-cost-of-rim/

You DO realize this is why fanboys get picked on?

-AI

I was aware that Lodsys was also suing Android developers, but what does Microsoft have to do about this right now?

This actually might be an interesting differentiation strategy -- if Apple can show that it will go to bat for its developers, then Google is obliged to do at least as much, or else Android begins to look unsafe. It's sortof sick (or interesting) to think that a legal team and patent indemnification has now become a part of a computing platform as important as the APIs, the brand and the marketing.

"So until smart phones get their act together I think there will be scope for the likes of the Vita & 3DS."

The 3DS will do fine but the Vita will flop, as has all recent portable game systems released by Sony. Their market now plays games on smartphones while the market for the 3DS are usually too young for expensive smartphones and people will buy it for the innovative 3D.

Smartphone gaming is the future. Apparently you guys have a bit of a problem with touchscreens but hundreds of millions of iOS devices have been sold, the public has spoken. Call of Duty: Zombies was one of the most popular iOS games of 2010 and it features those two onscreen joysticks you hate so much.

It comes down to this: new game came out, you can either buy $200 portable system and pay $40 for the game or download it to your iOS device for $10. Guess what most people will do?

Nailed that one. Sure looks like iOS is 'winning' to me. Just over half as many iOS devices as there are Android devices, But people must be sick of this fragmentation and wouldn't ever think of buying an Android device, right? It's a good thing that iOS doesn't have any malware on it, best of all no applications sending off all sorts of non-anonymous data to who knows where, without telling you that this would happen. Before you reply, note that I'm aware Android does this, but if you'll take a gander, you'll find your precious iOS sending uniquely identifiable info about 3x as often as Android, and it doesn't warn you.

Google also could have required a single sentence disclosure describing its rampant covert tracking of individual users' locations to be signed by purchasers.

Actually, Google has two sentences.

http://gizmodo.com/#!5737002/the-problem-with-android-updates-part-seventeen-or-why-samsung-galaxy-phones-are-stuck-in-the-past
http://androidcommunity.com/samsung-fascinate-users-report-froyo-update-problems-and-solutions-20110422/
http://www.bgr.com/2011/02/24/sprint-pulls-epic-4g-android-2-2-froyo-update-data-connectivity-sd-card-issues-reported/
http://www.digitalhome.ca/2010/12/samsung-users-complain-android-2-2-update-is-bricking-phones/

By the way, since Slashdot seems to deem update problems with specific phone models newsworthy, where are the Slashdot posts on these Android update problems, and how come that isn't a 'saga'?

Small as far as market share goes. iTunes, as of Dec 2010, had 66% of the total digital music market share. Amazon has 13%. If Amazon wants to cut into Apple's digital music sales they have to do something drastic. Source: http://www.bgr.com/2010/12/17/itunes-now-holds-66-of-digital-music-market/ Kindle is something like 75-80% of the market share. Amazon OWNS that market. It's their's and they have no reason to rock the boat. Even the iPad and iBooks isn't enough to scare them into taking action yet. http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-has-76-of-e-book-market-survey-reports/ It's frustrating to watch Amazon push hard against the RIAA, and blindly accept anything the book industry shoves at them.

That quote is actually misattributed. It was the person writing to Steve Jobs who wrote that, not Jobs.

Here's what the site in question says: "UPDATE: The last line in the email exchange was actually not said by Mr. Jobs; rather it was by “Tom.” We corrected it as soon as we were made aware."

Jobs closed his half of the email exchange with "You may be working from bad data. Not your fault. Stay tuned. We are working on it."

BTW, I'm not in any way condoning Apple's de facto classification of home screen web apps as second class iOS citizens.

First of all: the home screen web apps are not a bit slower than they were before the update, nor are the App Store apps one bit faster - the only thing that makes home screen web apps "second class iOS citizens" is that they are now much faster in Safari. Boo-hooh-hooh. I bet other second class citizens wished they had such a hard time.

As for that the misattribution - that was an quite understandable error, considering how much the guy vented, and how cool Jobs was all the time. Wouldn't be surprised if that was also an misattribution, and that are actually the words of his wife dragging him away to relax a little.

That quote is actually misattributed. It was the person writing to Steve Jobs who wrote that, not Jobs.

Here's what the site in question says: "UPDATE: The last line in the email exchange was actually not said by Mr. Jobs; rather it was by “Tom.” We corrected it as soon as we were made aware."

Jobs closed his half of the email exchange with "You may be working from bad data. Not your fault. Stay tuned. We are working on it."

BTW, I'm not in any way condoning Apple's de facto classification of home screen web apps as second class iOS citizens.

Not what the rumor mill is saying: http://www.bgr.com/2011/03/01/ipad-3-is-the-tablet-worth-getting-excited-about-not-the-ipad-2-apple-staffer-claims/ Neither would surprise me, as they released the iphone 4 on verizon only to presumably release the iphone 5 in a couple more months.