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but don't forget friend we have Apple claiming rights to a square and so far the courts have sided with them

No they are not claiming that. It's part of it but what Apple are saying is that: Samsung copied the look of the device in several ways, they copied the look of the packaging, they copied the look of the icons and software, they even copied the power brick, etc. Now each of these claims by itself would be ridiculous but add them all together and you get a rip-off product. This article does a good job of breaking down all the claims Apple is making.

Probably talking about this one. I don't own an Asus tablet, but that sure looks like the kind of app/device combination that was being looked for.

Matias Duarte said basically the same thing: "On Honeycomb we cheated, we cut the corner of all that smaller device support. That’s the sole reason we haven’t open sourced it."

Lion's 16% installed base is NOT bad after only 4 months.

And that's assuming it isn't actually 26%.

Lion's 16% installed base is NOT bad after only 4 months. The Apple fora have always been full of complaints. All the rest is just opinions and conjecture on your part, how about some figures ?

Customers were used to using drivers for scanners and etc, Apple took that away (effectively taking away the supported hardware) in Snow Leopard by breaking tons of them -- and never going back to fix them.

That's a third party problem, they need to support their own devices.

Customers were used to being able to run the PPC apps they had spent many dollars on... Apple took that away in Lion.

After they licensed very expensive software (Rosetta) to give you years to ween yourself of off PPC. I find it hard to imagine another OS vendor expending that much effort to do a seamless transition, even Bill Gates was impressed they pulled the intel switch off as seamlessly as Apple did. Ungrateful much ?

Customers have been used to apps (oh, I dunno, like Photoshop?) that were part of a system of apps that worked with their data, and Apple's taking that away within the bounds of the app store... and you think it's unlikely that this policy will spread outside the store?

Yes, they're not going to piss off a sizeable part of their customer base by making it impossible to run Photoshop or other Pro apps.

Buddy, Apple does what it wants -- they are *famous* for doing "teh stupidz" -- folders that don't nest under IOS, "wifi sync" that doesn't work under Leopard, a 4-year old native OS, while it does under XP, a ten year old non-native OS, they break the living hell out of IOS apps with just about every "upgrade", forcing developers to put up Yet Another Version of their app to correct for the incompatibilities...

Nested folders are a bad idea. People don't get nested hierarchies, spend some time watching non-geeks use computers and you'll see.
Leopard is down to 22% market share, XP only just dipped below 50% this summer. There's a vast amount of XP machines out there, so unfortunately Apple should expend the effort to support them.
iOS is a platform that's developing at an enormous pace because mobile is so competitive and fast evolving. Change or get left behind is the name of the game, accumulating backwards compatibility cruft à la Windows would be deadly. That said I have not heard many complaints about breakages.

When your reasoning depends upon Apple doing things because customers have expectations, your reasoning is no better than a random guess. Apple makes roadmaps, has "visions", and then aims at them. Up until Leopard and IOS4, they were doing pretty well at hitting the target, though of course everyone wanted more. 10.6 and later, IOS5... these are huge bags of fail from several perspectives, most especially from the one you're using to make your assertion: Apple doesn't aim at keeping customers expectations static.

You obviously don't like iOS5 and Lion. There are a lot of us who would beg to differ.

They are working to get the app fixed and are going to have the new one ready soon.

It's not really what any self-respecting developer would call an app though. It's a sloppy and lazy thing which is just a wrapper around the mobile web interface. To quote The Verge:

The app is basically just the Gmail web app with a wrapper around it and offline functionality, though it does have some nice tweaks like a left-side drawer that slides out to show labels and an easy way to attach photos from your camera roll. Of course, the bugs handily outnumber the features - you can't save an attachment from the app itself, it's often unresponsive, and the app doesn't yet index your device's address book.

In short, just continue using the native iOS version as this isn't a remotely worthy alternative.

Just because you're willing to tolerate the deficiencies of the iPad in terms of productive content creation doesn't mean everyone is.

Just because you are too ignorant to know what the limitations even are, does not mean everyone else is...

Not to mention my MAIN POINT was simply asking what Courier was doing that would have made the situation any different whatsoever.

Try writing an application on the iPad

Ok.

As I said, ignorant.

This is my next..., soon to be The Verge. From most of the old staff of Engadget who left en masse in April.