"It’s certainly possible, I agree." - seems pretty reasonable assessment to me. Also - iPod was a music player. It's competitors were...Music Players. If App

"It’s certainly possible, I agree." - seems pretty reasonable assessment to me. Also - iPod was a music player. It's competitors were...Music Players. If Apple had only released the Touch, they would have been wiped out by competitors on the music player front - but they stepped up and released the Nano/Shuffle. It is interesting that Apple doesn't seem to have any interest in releasing any lower end tablets (akin to the Nano/Shuffle) to compete in the TV/WebConsumption market. Their decision not to enter that market has left themselves pretty vulnerable to disruption from below. The real measure will be if people are actually those tablets in the market that Apple is competing in. We won't know for a couple years - my guess is that Apple is going to regret leaving that opening up for competitors - Tablets can migrate upwards a lot more effectively than underpowered netbooks could impact the Laptop market...