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#2FYI, the link to RFS 8 is broken.
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#3Typo in the last line: "and inch" should be "an inch"
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#4FYI, the link to RFS 8 is broken.
I know; I'm making that page now.
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#5Typo in the last line: "and inch" should be "an inch"
fixed; thanks
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#6The real thing that makes these "tablets" interesting is the number of features they have packed into them. The "ease of use" that people are talking about when referencing Apple's products is just a part of Apple's marketing for their devices. Android (and Maemo and MeeGo and etc) devices are much more capable and much more hackable. Why the praise for such a bland device such as the i-OSes when there's an awesome OS and device market sitting right next to it?
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#7Another possible recipe for a startup (not saying this would be easy) is to find an important way that Apple is handicapping their devices and overcome it on Apple's own platform in a way that Apple will allow. If you can do that, users will love it and buy your product.
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#9Developers have used the accelerometer in ways Apple could never have imagined.
That sentence is one instance of this sentence:
Developers have used in ways could never have imagined.
What better argument for open standards, APIs, and community cooperation?
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#10Just tweeted pg this but thought I'd say it here too. This is exactly what iRobot did when they saw the Roomba platform being taken apart and used for projects. They gave hackers the tools to use their platform and now sell quite a few Roomba based development kits instead of just plain old robot vacuums.