What if he's got no experience using Android and sensibly decided to make no comment on it?

This insistence on balance is getting tedious. Humans like something better than others, often with prejudice. When I see someone claiming about bias or a lack of balance I just read it as the have a different opinion and want to whine about it.

> This insistence on balance is getting tedious.

Balance? No, here I would insist on honesty. Had this guy been honest, he would have mentioned Android and maybe Ubuntu, at least to tell us he has not much experience with them. But as GP said: elephant in the room.

Can you imagine a guy talking in general terms about high-end cars, emphasizing proudly his "reputation for being fair and impartial", talked at lengths about Mercedes and Audi, and about Audi and Mercedes, and never even mentioning BMW?

Anyway, the Giant Mammoth in the room just shows how Microsoft fears Android much more than Apple, and rightly so.

Not really. The OP was talking from personal experience. Besides, it's his blog. He is not a journalist, and the integrity that you are insisting upon is just a fallacy, as are the trite car analogies.

  > Had this guy been honest, he would have mentioned Android
  > and maybe Ubuntu, at least to tell us he has not much
  > experience with them

So being honest means listing all the things you never touched and maybe don't even know they exist (Ubuntu mobile OS)?

Honest it was just because a rooted TouchSmart is a crappy Android tablet. You can decide that means my employer affects my blogging so that I ignore that "elephant" or you can read my detailed post on how to root your own TouchSmart. ;) http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HowToUpgradeAnHPTouchPadToAndr...

Good to have you here. You said you are fair, let's see: do you think Android has some significant room in tablet space?

Sure it does. And if I had (or was loaned) a Transformer or some other Android (other than my frankstein's HP TouchPad) I would have included it.

That's a loaded question if ever there was one!

Well, the GP writes a blog about future and tablets, has a self-declared "reputation for being fair and impartial"; why would he not reply to a common question as Android's room in tablet market?

The GP has already answered your question but I can't help asking what does this prove? If the GP said "no I honestly don't see a place for Android" would that make him less honest or bias? He may be wrong or right but I'm not sure how you could judge bias by the answer.

The way you phrased it seemed to be almost a dare. It came across as "I dare you to criticise Android."

I am not blaming the lack of the review, but an explanation why he did not include any android devices would have been more fair.

I just found not mentioning android even a single time a little bit strange.

He doesn't really mention "the Ultrabook of Ultrabooks," the Mac Air, either. I think that's just because he doesn't have much experience of it.

If/when Apple decides to add a touch screen to their laptops, they will be extremely close to the perfect machine, IMHO.

Agreed.

He does mention the Touchpad very briefly.

Where? I can only see one instance of "touchpad" and it's referring to the laptop mouse replacement thingy, not the HP tablet - which ran WebOS, not Android, anyway.

He mentions "slightly larger tablets like the dead (and rooted) HP TouchSmart."; unless 20"[0] is his definition of a 'slightly larger tablet' and Windows can be rooted (in the Android sense) now, I think it's safe to assume he mis-typed TouchPad.

[0] http://www.shopping.hp.com/en_US/home-office/-/products/Desk...

Damn. I'll fix that. Yes I have a Androided TouchPad but I didn't think I was fair to consider it a proper Android device so I didn't add it in.