This product will likely use the iPhone OS - and share all of the functionality of other devices on that platform. This includes communications, multi-media, and applications.

The differentiation will be:
1. Larger screen
2. Support for books/magazines via iTunes in color
3. Always on high speed internet from Verizon
4. HDTV - over the air
5. Replacement/companion to AppleTV. Watch on the device, or use video output to a larger screen. Sync with your media library, or stream over your local network.
6. Video conferencing over iChat or Skype with a front facing camera. This would include voice calls over the internet.

For this to work, the software will have to wow the market, more so than the hardware.

Well said Mike!

Time Warner was just downgraded because it's music model, and that of the movie studios is very outdated. It's 1984 all over again.

localhost will only work on the HOST machine. You need to have a public IP address setup on your Mac to access it via your iPhone to use this over EDGE. If you are on WiFi, on the same network as your Mac, then a private IP will work.

Also, don't create entry points on your Mac unless you really, really, know what you are doing.

The poor lady at 405-550-3542 seems really annoyed that I was in turn - disappointed that she wasn't John Appleseed. Don't call her!

I am a practacing Muslim and find no offense by the cube design of the store. I do find offense with post 6 (and by reference post 9).

Wow, sounds like a great deal. This solution will do a lot to bridge the last mile gap. Isn't it interesting, that as broadcasters move to integrate the web in - this model take what the broadcasters have been doing for half a century and applying it to web access.

What goes around comes around.

Standalone calendars like iCal are stuck in the 90's. Google is taking this a step in the right direction, and for many small businesses this is a good way to get shared calendering for employees up.

There is still more to do (adding sync svcs, Exchange support for iCal or gCal support for WebDav, etc.) but this I agree with the author - iCal is a useless relic of the past.

And, of course Gmail handles POP mail.

This is a bigger deal than Boot Camp, because it allows for running Outlook/Project/Visio and still have your OS X environment available. It looks like this makes use of Intel's Virtualization for fast peformance. I'm not sure if Q does that...

iCal needs to natively support Exchange Server calendering. Also, it would be nice to link up Apple Address Book to Exchange as well. GroupCal is a crap program - need native Apple support built into the OS.

Using a Mac in an enterprise requires a lot of flexibility and still hurts switching adoption rates.

Correction... the Casio I referenced has only a 3" screen.