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Can you further elaborate on that one? Because that's exactly what I would like to do.

Millennia old beliefs are the source of many current traditions held by society (specially drugs and sex related). I would love for someone to prove me wrong or at least state otherwise.

If the author didn't install Silverlight and watched the video he wanted, that is pure ideology borderline religion and I can't feel any sympathy for him.

Sorry but I'm not a militant ideologist. I'm all about pragmatism and net value. If I have to install a non-intrusive plugin in order to watch a video, so be it.

I was kinda allergic to all the tablet hype that is surrounding the tech scene lately, but this really makes me consider one. I want one, actually.

We can't have two-sided conversations in HN anymore. Either you bash Buzz/Google or get the hell out of this thread.

Oh right, "we don't like his comment, let's get rid of it." Jesus, people, behave.

He's making his case based on his knowledge of the situation and he's doing so in an educated manner.

Me, personally, I'm in his same situation. I can't understand how people got automatically added to that Buzz thing. The link appeared in my Gmail account and I never clicked it, NEVER. I just turned it off when I learned how.

I do think he was wrong on most of the others, though.

You are still better positioned than 80% of the world, which includes Latin America, Africa, West Asia, Middle East and some other countries. You just can't have everything. sigh

This time they're both starting from zero, so it'll be very interesting to see who gains more market fighting on equal ground. (Perhaps the first time we see them in this situation?)

Honestly, you and I both reached the same conclusion: Apple's tablet will be better thanks to Apple's great execution. I just don't understand why the article gets son many up-votes. We should expect those results from Apple based on what they've done with their other products.

That said, I don't think his analysis is that great in this particular article, that's why I quoted the word analysis in my original post. Like I said, this feels like pure speculation backed by intuition on the author's part. His analysis doesn't use any sort of sales numbers or statistics to show where the market is heading and why Apply would take certain decisions.

The only ones in denial were competitors. Users and bloggers loved it since day one, and by day one I mean the day Apple announced it, not the day Apple released it.

I read the whole thing and it's nothing more than pure speculation and "analisys." What I took from it is that The Apple Tablet will be a full working device like the many tablets we've seen since the beginning of the decade.

Is the author someone famous in the Valley or something?

Also, the developer division: Generics, LINQ, F#. They all came from Microsoft Research.

The US spending 40-50% of the world's defense budget doesn't say much other than the fact that a lot of people are getting very rich in America. Don't get me wrong, they are still far ahead from everyone else, but I don't think that's a valid metric unless you adjust for purchasing power.