Right, it does build for it now. But Apple excluded Adobe's Flash builder specifically for quite some time and built in a "no 3rd party toolkits" clause just t

Right, it does build for it now. But Apple excluded Adobe's Flash builder specifically for quite some time and built in a "no 3rd party toolkits" clause just to exclude it. Of course, they then realized that this would also kill off many of the popular games on iOS, so they were forced to relent. They still block flash and all alternative browsers (settling instead for just pretty 'chrome' over Mobile Safari and calling them 'browsers' in their store), so there's still that issue. The ebook issue is well-known now and is the reason that many ebooks are more expensive than their paper equivalents despite having near-zero transportation costs, no warehousing costs, no storefront costs, no production costs after the first one, no ability to resell so no used market, etc. Some details, including Steve Jobs' quote showing he knew exactly what was happening, are here: http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891584-264/apple_and_big_publishers_conspired.html.csp http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891584-264/apple_and_b... Android tablets based on Honeycomb are quite good now and I have a couple friends that are using them, one of whom ditched his top-model iPad for it after ditching his iPhone for a Samsung Galaxy 2. Personally, I'd wait on Ice Cream Sandwich - aka Android 4, due out next month - as that'll be the point that both the tablet and phone versions of Android are in sync and open source (Android 3.x isn't yet open source like Android 2.x is).