The player's software ships on a disc -- not a full-sized one, mind you, but the kind of miniature disc that simply won't play nice with my laptop's slot-loading optical drive.

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The 64GB of storage certainly softens some of my gripes about the lack of a microSD slot.

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At one point I started spending my evening writing instead until I could get to a place where my material was strong enough to be granted a regular time slot.

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And then magic struck-the online slot machine displayed three identical icons, each saying PAY MY BILLS. A window popped up announcing Wang as the grand-prize winner.

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However, I will register my formal protest with the market, in terms of a token position, if Apple hits the number-two slot.

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