I could use a new laptop!

I'd love one!

I want one!

A pair of lounge pants and a T-shirt are just grand.

Limited multi-tasking is the killer app for me - using Backgrounder, you can keep any app (App Store or otherwise) running while switching to another, allowing me to, for instance, keep Opie & Anthony playing in the the Sirius-XM app while I surf the web in Safari. It's not perfect - you have to watch how much memory you have left, because if you run low, the OS will automatically close apps open in the background to recover memory; and not all apps work correctly in the background because the way it's implemented is meant to fool the app into thinking it's still running in the foreground - but the pros far outweigh the cons for me.

Customization is another big boon for jailbreaking - not just skinning with WinterBoard, but other features like enabling the battery % counter on non-3GS devices, showing the date and free RAM next to the time in the status bar, showing more apps per SpringBoard page, etc. I don't want to be limited to what Apple says I should use, so I jailbreak to customize my device to MY needs, not Steve Jobs' needs.

Second-class? You do realize geohot was the first to unlock an iPhone at all, and was a member of the Dev Team for awhile until he went solo?

The biggest thing I hate about the iPhone hacking scene is all of the goddamned infighting. Fortunately, it's calmed down to the point where pretty much all parties involved are willing to coexist relatively peacefully, building off of each other's work. greenpois0n, the latest Dev Team unlock, was based on an exploit found by geohot (although the Dev Team found it independently as well). Though there may be some bad blood between the groups, at least we aren't back in the days of the iPhone Dev vs. iPhone Elite teams and the other absurd wackiness that went on in the early days of this scene...

Christ, scenesters can be ridiculous - makes me thank God that the webOS community dodged that bullet by siding with a fully open standard-bearer, instead of devolving to cyber turf war like the iPhone and PSP scenes have went through during their histories...

@ Freaking Ijit: On the contrary, the Centro saved the company. It wasn't a profitable venture by any means, but it sold like gangbusters and reassured the stockholders and investors that the Palm brand could still be successful as a going concern. If the Centro had not succeeded sales-wise, I highly doubt Elevation would have continued pouring money into the development of webOS - they likely would have cut their losses and sold the company off to someone else and bailed.

However, that was in the Palm OS days, and the Centro's biggest problem wasn't that it was unprofitable for Palm, but that it fed a platform that would garner little to no post-sale revenue for Palm. With webOS and the App Catalog, Palm can sell a device near or at-cost and hope to garner additional revenue through app sales. While it's obviously far from making a killing, it will be enough to sustain Palm, and moreover it will help build a solid platform for future, higher-margin devices to launch with greater success.

My guess at the price - somewhere between $49 - 79 on two-year after rebates. By undercutting the iPhone 3G, Palm and Sprint will be offering the cheapest true smartphone in America and aiming directly at the tween, teen, and college-age demographics that A) influence the rest of their family's spending habits, and B) are more easily converted into lifelong customers of a brand. While such a low price likely won't be too terribly profitable in the short-term, it will provide the webOS platform with a massive increase in install base, encouraging more developers to come onboard and offer compelling applications, leading to a greater chance of long-term success for the platform.

While Palm is still having financial issues, I sincerely hope they take a risk here and price this device extremely competitively, because at this point they need to knock this one out of the park to really solidify their future existence. I love my Pre, but against a $99 iPhone 3G and a $199 3GS, it just isn't competitive on a mass-market scale. Take a chance Palm, and I think you'll be richly rewarded.

It's obvious why they aren't calling this the InstinctQ - Sprint has finally realized that the public image of the Instinct is that it's a flaming bag of dogshit (which it is), so they are trying to step aside from that with the Android phone. Better to start fresh with a new brand name than try to trade on the heavily-tarnished Instinct brand.

So the Obama app is fine, but this isn't?

I don't care about your politics (I'm personally a Libertarian, wrote in Ron Paul in '08, and am against the health care reform), this is just disgusting and just another example of Apple's complete and utter ineptitude at developing consistent approval policies for the App Store.