iPad 3 out!

[d000hg]

You don't need to see it to know its reliable, you can tell by the fact the google is always their waiting for you with uptodate search results in milliseconds

That doesn't mean the software is reliable... for all you know your request is sent to 4 servers and the first one to give a good response is what you see, while one of the others could crash.

That's still reliability, but massive-scale parallel server apps are not the same as an application which has to run for weeks or months without re-starting... Google could re-boot each server every few hours if they had memory leaks!

[Spacecadet]

Well that's a bit like saying Windows never crashes, providing you don't load any apps or drivers on it.

Thats not what I said at all

Android itself runs fine. Some applications occasionally give a "Force Close" message but the OS is still working fine and doesn't need rebooting (or the battery taking out) due to the entire system freezing up.

[Sysman]

I've got an Asus Transformer Prime. I don't buy into the whole i-Everything schtick. I'd much rather stay with the Android open source model than prop up "The Man".

That would be the open source model that's tied up with Google?

Android Market morphs into Google Play Store in effort to spur more sales of digital content

The cynic in me wonders if it's a frying pan / fire scenario.

[Spacecadet]

Here's what the original Android prototype looked like. Then the iPhone appeared...

Looks like Google were trying to emulate RIM where as Apple copied the keyboardless design of some of the HTC windows devices

[Spacecadet]

The cynic in me wonders if it's a frying pan / fire scenario.

The cynic in me says they're all big global mega-companies

[d000hg]

So overnight every flash based website changes to HTML5. Should have been in from the start, whether Flash is good or not is not the question, building a device that can access all of the web or crippling it from the start is.

All the MAJOR sites have worked on iOS for years. YouTube is the only one that matters anyway really... most of the Flash on the web is ads. Anyone with a Flash-based app quickly made an iOS app version... the only ones who seem to see lack of Flash on iOS as a problem are the people who don't use it.

[russell]

Yes, and van Gogh's Starry Night is only about ten bob's worth of paint and canvas

So you are comparing you're iPhone with a master piece of art? It's a fecking mobile phone you fool, I bet you have an apple tshirt on and are reading Steve Jobs biography on your'e iPad sipping a latte?

[Sysman]

It's got Backside Illumination. This can only be a good thing

http://regmedia.co.uk/2012/03/07/camera.jpg

It has an inbuilt BS filter? Does it automatically flash when it detects someone talking out of their arse?

Just wondering, like...

[Spacecadet]

It has an inbuilt BS filter? Does it automatically flash when it detects someone talking out of their arse?

Just wondering, like...

That would explain why the battery has 70% more capacity but battery life is the same

[d000hg]

So you are comparing you're iPhone with a master piece of art? It's a fecking mobile phone you fool, I bet you have an apple tshirt on and are reading Steve Jobs biography on your'e iPad sipping a latte?

Of course things can be functional and art at the same time.