narrowed the niche even further, because now tablets have to find a space between notebooks and iPhones True, on the other hand there is an e-book reader niche

narrowed the niche even further, because now tablets have to find a space between notebooks and iPhones True, on the other hand there is an e-book reader niche that wasn't around a decade ago, which is ripe for the picking with the right kind of platform. I'm expecting, and kind of dreading, Apple proving me wrong and persuading me to part with $600. Tell me about it! In many ways I am "in the market" for a device that shall we say represents the idealised sum of all the iTablet rumours, but the price will be an issue - not so much in terms of cold hard cash, but at $600 it exceeds my comfort level for the cost of a device that I routinely carry around.