> 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.