He's a little bit late to the punch here - if we're on the eve of another iPad announcement, which we probably are, every area of performance will probably see

He's a little bit late to the punch here - if we're on the eve of another iPad announcement, which we probably are, every area of performance will probably see significant improvement (Apple typically adopts the best ARM chips available, which is probably a dual core chip now). He makes a very interesting point, though. The current generation of media tablets are exceptionally slow devices that could easily be in use for four or five years. I think users may expect the lifecycle of these devices to be closer to a TV or PC (say, 3 - 7 years) than a phone. As HTML advances to be capable of everything that Flash is now capable of, developers might be held back to target devices that are roughly equivalent to a 10 year old PC.