But that's Samsung's business model and . It works pretty well for the company. Not as well as Apple's works, but pretty well. Well-ish.

As an aside, if you want to make yourself progressively stupider, read the comment section of the CNet piece where you will be told, amongst other things, that you need to "stop it with your apple coolaid iSheep" (that's verbatim).

Seriously, the Macalope got about ten comments in before he realized he had forgotten how to add fractions. After 15 comments in, he found himself wondering whether gravity was the result of competing furies. And 20 comments in, flandangle the monkey bits with Zanzibar mayonnaise.

Just one question to those who think that Apple needs carriers to push its phones, and who predict imminent doom for Apple because carriers are going to start pushing Samsung and Nokia phones: If that's true, how come iPads sell so well while Samsung's mom won't even buy its Android tablets?