This makes me so so happy.
Not so much the cheapness of the Navigon app - but the shafting TomTom will get and so so richly deserve.
I paid for TomTom on my WM phone. I mean I went to their website and paid them full list price.
I paid for the extortionate version updates, I paid for the traffic and camera service THAT NEVER F'IN WORKS.
I bought new maps - and then immediately got the email to update to the latest version (I assume for maps that actually matched where I went in the US, rather than the ones that confused me when I was there).
I've had phones stolen and sold - and been through the grief of trying to convince tomtom to allow me to use the software I've bought on my new phone.
I know this paints me as a great big sucker - and I know I am. But for one. ONCE. I now get to sit back and watch them burn.

Couple of annoyances - firstly, the oft-mentioned pricing. I could justify the extra $50 for the included memory - that's fine. RRP for the downloadable games - not going to grab me.
I mean I can see why they do it, and I can why they keep the prices up. Same as for my 360 - quite a few old games on there I quite fancy, but damned if I'm going to buy it at full price when I can get it cheaper in a shop (and cheaper still if I go second hand).
The "Trade-in" seems by far the way to get people to do this. I've got a cupboard full of games I'd quite happily put on my 360 HD (well in fact they're there already, I just need the DVD to make them run). OK there's the small cost of somebody checking the disk and adding the game to my online account, but I'd maybe pay a (very) small amount for this. From the console maker/publisher point of view though, it gets one more copy out of the 2nd hand market. Rather than one copy being played and then re-sold endlessly, preventing future sales, those disks are mopped up. Just removing a proportion of games from the 2nd hand market would restrict supply, up prices, and maybe nudge people towards buying new.

Couple of points:
This really isn't that big a deal. Basically allows you to balance getting off your arse to but a DVD into the drive against not being able to sell your game on afterwards.
Secondly you can upgrade your 360 drive on the cheap - just google for "hddhackr".
Very simple, you buy a WD 120G (check the type though), I got mine for ~£20 on ebay. Boot to DOS and flash the firmware on it. You can then just swap it out for the drive you currently have in your HDD caddy (I'm sure anybody even reading this far has a Torx set).
My only words of advice are not to bother with the numerous utils to move stuff between the drives - I wasted an awful lot of time on this and seemingly where 'issues' can occur. Maybe you'd have better luck and l33t skills, but I just picked up a 2nd hand memory card and used the official dashboard to move all saves to the card, then onto the new HD.
Then just a matter of re-ripping your DVDs to the new HD, and using the download history to re-download anything you'd downloaded before (and care to keep). Had to leave it downloading overnight, but got myself upgraded to 120Gig for < £30 and have a free 10Gig drive (I'm open to offers :) and a memory card.
Nicest thing is that there's really nothing to f'up.

I've had enough of all of them to be honest.
GH1&2 on PS3. Then GH4 on 360, then rock band (with all the instruments)..
Wouldn't say I'm 'bored' of it all - but not playing the games as much as I was. Probably going to stick with Rock Band, as it nicely lets you integrate all your music, I've bought way more stuff than I ever did on GH - oh and I F*'in hated all that duelling crap GH felt they needed to add. I just want to play the music (although to be fair the 'tour the world RB' thing pisses me off nearly as much).

There's a whole set of the clocks:

http://www.voco.uk.com/

Can we PLEASE stop having every console and accessory released in the colours of the rainbow?
Choose a nice colour and just make your new console in it. If you fancy a colour change - make me a new console to buy first.
*grumps*

I sortof agree with him. When I first saw an iphone I was blown away.
The screen was GORGEOUS, the multitouch and probably most of all the snappiness of the UI.
But I didn't buy one. I wanted 3G, I wanted proper GPS, I wanted outlook sych, not enough memory to replace my 60Gb 5G ipod blah blah - there was just too much missing. It looked like a fine start, but after my lust subsided, I decided to wait.
Then the 3G model came out.. but by then I'd got an HTC Polaris... and I'd bought an ipod touch. Fortunately the first one got stolen, so I now have one with volume buttons (although now my pet hate is the fact my iHome clock radio won't charge it due to Apple farting about with the pinouts)

So - why did I never actually get around to buying an iphone.. I think it's the general way it's been pitched. It is lovely, but assumes you're starting from scratch with it and it will be the centre of your new world. My office calendar is outlook - sorry, that's just a fact that will not change. MS Mobile 6.1 is clunky and ugly - but you connect it to your laptop (wire, BT, Wifi - and it WILL WORK). I don't like MS Mobile - but it is functional. I can Copy and Paste. I can make a Wifi hotspot, I can plug it into any PC (and it won't instantly try to rehome/delete everything). I can get apps that random people have made - FFS I could flash it to 6.1 from the original Mobile version that came on it.

I guess the iPhone just appears very shallow. Pretty Pretty on the surface, with F-all to back it up when you want to actually get something done. I've no idea why people get so excited about the appstore - most of the stuff is crap - although I probably contribute to the problem by occasionally buying stuff (EA - I HATE you for that **** version of tetris.. oh and SimCity.. oh and..)

Anyhoo. Just to finish my burbling on a positive note, safari is LOVELY on my ipod. Fortunately my 'proper' phone will connect to 3G and the ipod hops on via the wifi - no need for an iphone at all.

Quite looking forward to the Palm - whole convergence thing is appealing to me. But then the 'locked down' ecosystem is just Apple all over again.

Maybe netbooks are the future - or rather the ever shrinking PC will hit the sweet spot before the increasingly powerful phone.

Went through similar problems trying to get a 'media player' for my TV - in the end I just realized I could build a proper PC for the same money (micro-ATX with TOS/HDMI/7.1/ATI HD all in a 1U case) - and it just works.

Then don't pay for it.
Well more to the point, you don't have to pay for it.
I've got an old Pro.

Would like HDMI, but not going to buy a new console for it - and they all come with it now.
20G drive isn't big enough - but 60G would be fine (An awful lot of Rockband songs, dozen live games, caching the few games I'm playing at the moment - ~40Gb would do me fine).

But as I said - I'm stuck with a pro, so decided to bite the bullet and buy the 120Gb drive. Walked into every shop in town with my £85 (ouch) clutched in my hand - and none had it in stock.

Stomped off home and... hey google says seemingly you can do the upgrade yourself.
So - £25 I got the 'right sort' of drive off ebay.
Flashed the firmware on it.
Shoved it in my 360 and IT WORKED... like it really just 'worked'

Had a look into copying the files across myself - gave up in the end. Buggy/flakey software and then seemingly some don't like being unofficially moved (basically the ones you can't copy 'officially', but have to move).

In the end just picked up a 256M card second hand for about £7 I think. Moved all save games from old drive onto this, swapped HDs and moved them onto new drive. All the other stuff you can just re-download (and Live handily lists everything you've bought/downloaded in your profile).

Sooo £32 I now have a 120G drive in my 360, a handy 360 memory card and a spare 20G drive (I have NO idea what I'll do with it) - anyway, much cheaper than the official upgrade path and works absolutely faultlessly and was ~ 1/3 of the price (+ the freebie memory card)

I've had a Harmony 895 (stick remote, with RF relay thingie for stuff in AV cupboard) for a few years now and it is wonderful. Have TV, amps, AV switches, consoles, PVRs blah blah and my harmony just WORKS.
It's not perfect though and quite annoyingly the new versions don't seem to address the shortcomings - well apart from looking a bit prettier (895 is no looker).
First off it has to have RF (I now have stuff tucked neatly out of sight), secondly it has to be a stick remote - why on earth do I want a tablet I have to stare at to use? Yes it looks impressive, and I can see how it might be useful in a conference room - but on my sofa? Nope.
Secondly Logitech seem to be missing the 'good' bit of what they do. The RF stuff is shamefully overlooked now on anything other than the top end - why not make an IP enabled version. Imagine the 'harmony' box is tucked away in your AV cabinet with little IR relays pointing to all your kit and your remote - well there isn't one. There's a whole load of thin clients you can install on your phone, your ipod touch, your netbook, your PC etc etc. Seems rather stupid to pay extra for a fancy tablet remote - when you've already got many pieces of hardware in your house that are much more capable.
If they really wanted to push the boat out, do a deal with those SlingBox people - just suck the video feed out of your TV and let it be streamed. You could then control your entire AV system remotely and stream about your house with ease. Watch it when you're away.
Dunno - just seems with ability to stream video from a number of vendors, Harmony's ability to control everything from one little GUI (currently tied to a remote), something far more interesting could be done than 'Yet another f'in remote'
Just to finish on a bright note, Harmony have utterly wonderful tech support. I had a slight problem, called up and guy was fantastic. Instantly followed my gabbling, told me exactly how to fix it, then called back a bit later to check it had worked out OK.

I really cannot understand what all the whining about the price.
If you take earphones seriously, then the price is an absolute snip (assuming you believe the hype).
If you think the price is outrageous, just have a look for other similar earphones. I've just paid ~$150ish for Ultimate Ears Super-Fi 5's, which I thought were the cheapest dual-driver earphones. If these sound as good/better, I'll be very pissed off.
Not even as if there's a reason that decent earphones should cost that much. Reason they do is that not enough people care.
If Apple can convince enough people to care, then no reason they can't knock out something as good at a fraction of the price.