The demos look good, although I think the 12.99 price is going to rule it out, because at least initially its too much to pay in order to use one app. For such

The demos look good, although I think the 12.99 price is going to rule it out, because at least initially its too much to pay in order to use one app. For such a critical component, youd really want something open source [and free as in beer also]... after all it needs to keep pace rapidly, be rock solid, trusted by all developers, etc. [EDIT : correction.. Big5Lite is free, not sure what non Lite has. Big5 project is opensource it seems - http://code.google.com/p/big5/ http://code.google.com/p/big5/] App developers who use it can compete while adding to this common component - it plays the role of the browser. It just happens to be a browser which gives you access to nice hardware features such as geo location, media library, contacts etc [policed by os]. Here lies the solution for some percentage of apps, between 90.0 and 99.95.