The only time the Nexus 7 shifts into landscape mode is when the content you're consuming calls for it, such as watching a movie or playing a widescreen game.
Here's the silliness that will be occupying the blogosphere for the next two weeks: According to AppleInsider, Apple is planning an event to celebrate its 30th anniversary around the beginning of April, and they may trot out new widescreen Intel iBooks or the long rumored and lusted-after widescreen video-Pod...
For a century, despite the additions of surround-sound audio systems and widescreen formats, the technology was more or less -- pardon the term -- static: a strip of celluloid, a series of sprockets and light.