You're just trolling right?
cheap plastic, consumer-grade crap hardware
Apple are the only mainstream company that *doesn't* make cheap plastic crap
Would not fancy finding that something I needed had suddenly been forcibly uninstalled prior to a flight!
Where do you get the idea that Apple remove apps after installation. Complete nonsense.
And Apple has a documented history of doing this, EVEN with legitimate apps, for completely arbitrary reasons.
Utter fantasy. Please provide one single example of where this has happened.
Having maps and plates, moving or otherwise, on a nice tablet-size form factor would be great but like many others I am standing by for a rugged or semi-ruggedized solution that does not come with Apple-inflated pricing and runs Windows/Linux or a custom embedded OS.
Enjoy your wait, and enjoy the stability that comes from running an arbitrary OS on an arbitrary piece of hardware where no proper integration testing has been done.
Finally, given that the iPad is currently unique in the marketplace, how can you claim the pricing is inflated? If there were a bunch of 10" tablet devices with 8 hour battery life and the Apple one was more expensive, then you could claim this. But there aren't, so it isn't!