Normally, I'd agree. However, the biggest problem isn't that people are truly blind to whatever Apple puts out - that's a huge thing to overlook, but let's look over that for a moment - it's mainly because of the work put into roping in so much media under their iTunes Music Store and iPhoto apps. Grandma's can now share photos, get new music and/or videos and all they have to do is use iTunes Music Store and/or a Mac.

Apple knows how to sell a service. Too bad that the interoperability and ease of use is overlooked by a lot of other companies - DoubleTwist adds that for the Android platform and it works damn well.

Not everybody is into command line methods to get their stuff onto their machine. That and drag and drop are usually seen as "work" and not as a "it just works" solution. And the Reality Distortion Field™ is enough to make folks think that's the best, if not easiest solution out there.

I disagree. But at the same time, I can see merit in wanting to be... well, plug and play... sync and dash... easy as hell to do, walk out of the door with a George Jetson one-button push to do it all.

Apple has put in the work to sell those services and have your desktop talk nicely to your device. Too bad that Nokia cannot say the same thing. As a gadget hound, we'll find a way to get our stuff on the machine. But the non-savvy folks are the ones that give Apple credit.

If you commute, look at who uses what during your commute. If you're in Europe - nevermind. I'm sure it's a Nokia product. But is it a Nokia MeeGo tablet?

Perhaps not. Until that happens, people will look at the Apple iPad as a possible - and pretty much a horrible - tablet choice. And by "happens" I mean that Nokia needs to get the desktop, the app store (or whatever the pending MS vs. Apple trademark battle makes me regard that) the music, the video, and flashing (seriously, support the damn 64-bit systems) together on day one and things should be on the up and up.

iTunes as a software sucks. As a service, it collects a lot of stuff for folks in one simple suite of apps. Outside of the Zune software (which I like better), Nokia has nothing to compete with that. And they should.