So, it's the same thing Apple already make, only bigger and more expensive. That sounds like the sort of innovation more typical in the car industry (and look how well it worked out for GM and Ford) than in the IT industry, where making things smaller and cheaper is the usual path of innovation. If the Ipad had already existed when the Ipod Touch came out, everyone would have said "Oooh, look how cleverly they've miniaturised it" and never bought an Ipad again.

I suspect that much of the money Apple make out of releasing the Ipad will be on low-end Macbook sales, as it pretty much constitutes a final smackdown for any remaining hopes of a smaller or cheaper Mac portable.

Peter