If my movie-Bible memory serves, it only took God two tablets to write his 10 commandments and mail them off via Charlton Heston. The e-reader market could use God as its editor. Exactly how many e-ink and tablet-like devices will it take to save the media industry, anyway?

Lo and behold, it turns out that I am becoming my own best focus group. According to Compete's latest survey of smart phone use in the retail setting, I am pretty much the ideal consumer. Compete polled almost 2,000 smart phone owners about a dozen types of retail-related interactions with their phones. Not only have I participated in ten of the 12, but I have done so in the past month as part of my holiday shopping -- so I'm ready with my analysis.