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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 5592572" data-attributes="member: 8835">Well, no offense to your mom, but I wouldn't pay $4-5 to rent a digitally delivered movie at the same price you could have rented physical media on better terms.Let alone, if your mom can afford 1st class, she can afford her own doo-hickey.  Or if you were a better offspring, you'd buy her one so she doesn't have to touch the germ ridden slab they're going to hand her.I'm not impressed by any of the things the airlines do to wallet rape you in the guise of convenience.I don't think tablets are devices people should be or will be sharing, especially as everyone* will have one.*everyone who matters, that isFor Rdm, I suspect that could be considered good news that Android has won a sale to the airlines.However I am in the biased camp that it is stupid to bother deploying these gadgets in airplanes. And i will probably be proven wrong and the airline industry will be saved by the revenues generated by these things.  I simply look at the practical fact that in the last flight I took, everybody in view of me had a device to watch videos, listen to music or fiddle with.  The demand for such devices is there, but the fact is the number of people who DON'T have their own doohickey is shrinking, such that the airlines spending energy on in-flight entertainment is going to increasingly wasteful.Even today, a friend came into town, he who had mocked such smart phones and "all I need is something to make phone calls with" and he's sporting an Android and shooting videos and sending them back and forth, facebooking, etc.  It's like he can't live without the thing now.It's kind of like computers were.  in the 1980's your parents had no clue about computers, let alone your grandparents.  30 years later, probably 25-50% of all grandparents are online.  Because in the 80's computers were just showing up at the office when they were fixing to retire.  The folks who weren't retiring spent 30 years with them, and now they KNOW about computers.While the have nots won't go away, they don't tend to have money and thus aren't a target demographic.</blockquote>

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