Can anyone that has played this provide comment or impressions on the controls?

I saw a video of someone playing marios brothers and on an NES emulator and it appeared that you had to 'tap' the controls to toggle a 'press / release' meaning you'd tap right and mario would run right until you tapped it again.. Seemed totally unintuitive to me and (I can only imagine) almost unplayable..

Anyone with actual experience have something to share?

Is there any reason that anyone can think that Google Maps doesn't use the standard "unpinch" gesture to zoom in? (like on photos -- you press the point you want to zoom with two fingers and then expand your fingers in the amount you wish to zoom).

The only reason I could think of is that the google map data is to low rez to accurately represent the zoom -- but I'd rather have it go blurry for a moment before refreshing and keep the same gesture to zoom in rather than have this one lone app that has a different UI..

Anyone else have ideas? Agree? Disagree..?

Andy -- I totally agree.. is this news? It's totally unclear what this is claiming.. can anyone fill me in..?

What I want to know (and I think this is what Andy was getting at) is can I buy an iphone, drop in my EXISTING AT&T latest generation SIM card, turn on my iphone, authenticate it over Itunes, and have it just work?

I.E. have my existing number..

I don't mind signing up for a service contract -- but I do like the simplicity of buying, dropping in my own sim, activating in itunes, and it just working..

Anyone have insight?

So maybe someone with more IT knowledge can share -- does this 'standard' way of supporting exchange as an 'IMAP wrapper' (or is it WebDAV) provide security and authentication that corporate sys admins are going to be comfortable with?

It's great that Macs (and the iphone apparently) support Exchange servers out of the box -- but is the support secure and robust? Or using an approach that some IT dept's might take issue with when sending emails with attached financial documents, sensitive press releases, etc..

You just don't get it.. Comparing it to a phone is a bit 'apples and oranges'. Yes you would expect it to do the core set of things a phone can do -- but it also does much more. Does a phone allow you to watch movies, listen to music, browse the internet? Maybe -- but not easily. Another important thing to keep in mind is that the system is *MUCH* more expandable than your normal phone.. and many features can be added and/or dramatically upgraded over the next year..

And as for EDGE data speeds? I don't know where you are getting 2 minutes for the Yahoo! Homepage but you're going to see MUCH *MUCH* snappier load times than that come tomorrow..

Todd -- I think the reason they say 'based on your carrier' is not because the iphone is coming to other carriers (it almost is certainly not given the amount of press around the exclusive deal with aT&T) but simply because the amount of time it can take to switch your number varies by carrier... i.e. some are quicker and more proficient at doing it and others less so..

No.. you didn't say it was the first.. but the website does on it's home page -- "What is Mahalo? Mahalo is the world's first human-powered search engine."

So I don't mean to be a hater but I am getting *less* interested in this game as time goes on. It looks like a aural and visual treat.. and the design of everything is gorgeous... and the concept seems great in theory but the execution just seems off. Utopian underwater city gone bad.. Sounds cool.. Once-citizens morphed into shadows of former selves to survive.. I'll but it.. But I can umm.. freeze them with superpowers? And shoot out deadly bees from my hands?? Starting to lose me. And while all the characters look interesting it seems kinda 'not next gen' to have DOZENS and DOZENS of entirely similar (if not the same) NPC's of only a handful of classes. It works for a military themed game.. or I can buy 4-5 types of aliens.. but a underworld city populated by nurses, little girls, and mad-scientists? I guess it's more interesting than an underwater kingdom populated by butchers, bakers and candlestick makers.. But I'd prefer to see a game design that is able to lift itself such pretense..

Does anyone know if Leopard is planned (known?) to provide support for multiple processors? Will these 8 processor machines SCREAM with Leopard? Will my Dual Core Duo Macbook get noticeably faster when I upgrade to Leopard?