[junklight]

I think you are spot on. Although the whole saga of windows variations on tablets, which is astonishingly ongoing, never really helped.

What really surprises me is that the likes of Palm never got their act together in this space. Apple have shown it was ripe for the taking. Palm had years of experience and a great user base (I was a Palm user for years).

But this is all grist to the mill of the ideas versus execution debate. It's not the idea (although good ones help) but the execution that's key