ATO refund ...

Very noice Couple of new pads, a Kookaburra and an indislodgeable middle stump wouldn't go amiss either

And a large glob of talent

Well said and something the Android fans don''t seem to get 'when the moan about lack of this and that.

I'm a big fan of functionality over OS religion. I'll use anything if it gets the job done.

I bought a $150 firesale HP Touchpad a few months ago (and am using it right now) webOS was OK but immature and I'm very grateful the Cyanogenmod team ported Android to it. ICS will be even better.

Choice is good, I'm too long in the tooth to be an all or nothing OS fanboy.

I bought the iPad because of the apps, I have a shedload of iPod Touch apps that just work on the iPad and I'm accumulating a collection of quality stuff that is just silly value for money.

Yeh, it's a lot of money for a tablet but it 'just works'.

(edit) iTunes is, however, a pig to deal with.

And that's the main reason i'm edging towards the tablet

Go fully Apple and iTunes is a breeze.

Why should I not use my Touchpad running webOS/CM7/ICS?

It will browse Flash websites which is more than the iPad will do ...

Horses for courses, etc.

As an aside did you hear the news...future flash development for mobile devices is dropped...could have announced it before steve died

I do get miffed that there isn't that cross over between the 2 platforms, it's almost like us Mac people are being punished for not liking a regular PC and it's associated software!

Yup, it's all going HTML5 apparently, time marches on ...

As another aside I did my first bit of real techie work for over a year yesterday, I installed Apache on my XP box. I didn't even need the manual so I've still retained some geekery

Well, it's not as bad as a few years ago, there is some convergence.

I don't get all that tribal stuff, it either does the job for you or it doesn't.

My Touchpad will be a fine Android box to play with, choice is good

If you're talking about the lack of flash on the iPad that's more a specific Apple mobile device thing rather than a PC vs Mac thing. Obviously flash is on the Mac desktop.

People have surmised Steve refused to allow Adobe Flash on his mobile devices because lot of games are flash based - would detract from app store sales.

Steve said it was because Flash is a very heavyweight add-on that crashed/slows down mobile devices. He didn't want it affecting his mobile devices. From the announcement the other day that Adobe are abandoning flash on mobile devices it seems he may have been right or at least contributed to its demise.

He could not control it so he did not want it. He was right about flash being buggy and insecure.

I look forward to never having to update flash again.

Can she wait? Word on the street is that iPad3 will be available Autumn (Oz Autumn that is) 2012.

Working in IT I've always gone for the most fully specced device that was flexible and open and let me do what I want. I would have chosen a fully specced Android device every time.

After leaving many a fully specced/flexible/open device in the draw cause I couldn't be arsed getting it to do what I want I have changed my mind. I now buy on the eco-system/device integration and out of the box ease of use and have switched to apple devices. I understand for the more diligent hacker this may not be the case.

Now every time I leave my iMac and go back to my PC in the other room I am really surprised how crap it feels. It's at the point where I'm going to add Windows 7 as a boot option or virtual machine on the iMac so I don't have to use the PC. (I'm a MS Windows software developer)

And for the first time I am getting actual real use out of the integration between desktop/mobile/stereo/photo/web etc rather than just perceived possibilities.

This is just in my situation though and others may have different requirements.