The very fact that Adobe makes a "Flash Lite" version should be evidence enough that Flash is bloated and resource-hungry.

One thing that hasn't been touched on here -- pun intended -- is how Flash would work on a touch interface like the iPhone. Flash is designed for mouse interaction and doesn't have a touch interface. There's no hover or roll-over on a touch device, and Flash is certainly not multi-touch aware.
Sure, it's easy to assume that Adobe has such a version in the works, but the main argument people fall back on when they insist that Flash be ported to iPhone is the vast base of Flash apps already available... which aren't going to work on a touch interface anyway.

That's how I use mine - as a satellite to the Mini in my living room. I ripped my DVDs and I have an EyeTV as a DVR that compresses my recordings for the Apple TV. My Apple TV resides in the bedroom and gives me instant access to everything in the living room -- except, of course, anything with a resolution higher than 720p24. That's the major drawback and I wish Apple would enable the Apple TV to play more than the narrow range of formats it does.
It is not really suitable as a standalone device, but as an add-on it's great.

I didn't have to click anything, even once. My AppleTV updated itself while I was at work, and was ready to go when I got home. No effort required.

I'm with David - the Newton may have been a "failure" in the market, but the reality is that there WAS no market for such a thing. Newton was many years ahead of its time, a sci-fi device in a world that was still using fax machines. I mean, it had email built in for criminy's sake - how many people had email in 1992, much less on a mobile device?
As for the harping about the handwriting recognition, it had the same problem as the iPhone: people didn't trust it. Just as the iPhone works well when you just type and don't think about it, the Newton worked well when you just wrote and didn't worry about your every stroke or curve. People tend to change the way they write thinking they'll help the process when in fact the recognizer worked with REAL handwriting. And it worked almost completely perfectly for me...
I love my iPhone, but I love it as a descendant of the Newton, which whet my appetite for a new class of devices (which, incidentally, many many other companies are STILL not caught up to).

What bugged me about it was that it didn't air in November.

Yup, that's the War of the Worlds crash set. I think it's kind of silly to claim that this is the "first pic" of the Desperate Housewives crash. These are simply pics of that crash set taken from the tram tour.
Take a closer look at the photo: I'd hope that when they actually film on the set they'll spread the debris around a bit more - it would be a magical crash indeed if the plane wreckage fell only on the front yard and somehow avoided the street pavement...

Hmm.
One of the most acclaimed shows out there recently...
one that won Emmys despite being off the air...
you're writing about it's producer and his future projects in a similar genre...
and you've never watched it 'cos you can't spare the time?

Ever think that perhaps writing for a television blog is not really what you're completely qualified for?

It's not that AT&T didn't have MMS until now, every other phone had it. It's just that they didn't have it for iPhone.
Here's my theory: Apple is well-known for removing "antiquated" features from their products, like the floppy disk and such. They probably figured that in 2005 MMS was past its prime. After all, you can email from the phone and send actual attachments.
But the iPhone became a mass-market consumer item, unlike their computers. Every low-end phone user, once upgraded to an iPhone, asked why the expensive new gadget couldn't do "picture messages" like their old, free Nokia. Thus, Apple had to add it in.
And by then, AT&T already had millions of phones out there with an MMS block on the account - and an overburdened network.
We all know the rest of the story...

When you mail a photo directly using the Photos app, it has always - since day 1 - resized them down.
But with the advent of Copy & Paste, there's now a workaround. Just copy a photo (or several) in Photos, then go to Mail and paste it in a new email. Voila, full size photos.

In other news, Dana Delany is still counted as a celebrity?