I think that you are underestimating the ongoing cost of complexity in a product line. Apple only works to support a limited amount of hardware. This simplifie

I think that you are underestimating the ongoing cost of complexity in a product line. Apple only works to support a limited amount of hardware. This simplifies: - OS development - Hardware development - Hardware design - Software support, hardware support - Marketing - Sales Adding an extra product to the product line complicates all of the above, on top of whatever it costs you in engineering to build it. It's certainly possible that Apple's just wrong, that they are better off making a killer cheapo Mini Macbook than sinking their resources into a tablet, or whatever it is they are concerned with. Every company has limited resources, though, and no company is served well by throwing those resources around indiscriminately.