I don't use emacs. While I do understand the power of the terminal, I like a GUI just as much as the next guy.

I've never found the sync broken, and the only problem I have with mcalendar now is that it downloads ALL of my Google Calendars (which is annoying so I'm waiting on the update) >.<. But Erminig does the job quite nicely without any issues so far.

And I don't disagree that a unjailbroken iPod touch / iPhone doesn't offer alot of functionality. It does in fact, I've seen alot of the useful apps (and trash apps). And we even agree on some of the pros and cons of each device. But what I'm saying is, for me I could never find it useful compared to my internet tablet for what I do with it. To do what I do on the internet tablet on an iPhone or iPod touch would require jailbreaking.

Not to mention there are plenty of useful apps that can be accessed by jailbreaking that Apple would never let on their store. And as much as I love playing around with devices, it does get irritating whenever a firmware update comes around *cough* Nintendo *cough*. Even with Nokia's updates that occasionally break my dual boot. That's annoying.