Looks more like my Psion 7 to me.

Ads running out of steam. Time to wield the big chopper.

It looks almost exactly like my ten-year old Psion 7, which is still a wondrous machine (colour touchscreen, SSD, real leather finish) just lacking full internet integration.

America has never had a war on its own territory within living memory. It has almost no internet censorship. And it is rich enough to be able to afford costly infrastructures. So within America cloud-based computing looks attractive.

But elsewhere there are wars still going on and essential facilities are destroyed; internet censorship is total and countries simply cannot afford even basic necessities.

I would really worry about putting so much power in the hands of one company- and about the possibility that it could be targeted for attack.

Who would want to lose all their mail, documents, photographs etc. and have a useless computer as a result of some malfunction or deliberate sabotage?

This is the way to go if you want to be totally vulnerable.

Think 911.

It's not cloud computing but cloud cuckoo-land.

@Bao Hoang That sounds exactly like me.

I too thought it was a bit fussy at first but now I can get around it at hight speed and find exactly what I want. Some people don't like the serif typeface although received wisdom is that serif faces are easier to read. But the comments really do need some work. When I am notified by mail that a reply has been received and I click on the link, it wants me to sign in- but I have never signed out. And I don't understand why the names of people who have replied are different in the e-mail and in the comments section.

@peterjohndean1

The readers' identities maybe need a bit more work. I seem to appear twice under slightly different names and I really don't believe that someone called Steve Ballmer has replied to my post.

Like it.

Apple's attitude to the app store is ambivalent. On the one hand they let it rip with a zillion apps that any decent quality control would have weeded out from the start. Then they rather arbitrarily exclude others- maybe for legal or "conflict of interest" reasons. My guess is that they underestimated at the start just how successful it would be and simply got their knickers in a twist. Personally I don't much care for games but there are least six essential apps on my iPhone and probably the same number which I need to have from time to time. For me, it's the easy access to the store and the way the apps are presented that keeps me loyal.