[jaems33]

Disagree.

The HN discussion on the Nexus had many users coming out of the woodwork discussing how they wanted to buy one, touting the virtues of the size. In SV, I also know of other techies who regularly use a laptop but rarely use their iPad (or choose not to buy one). The iPad is slightly too big to carry comfortably in bed or on a couch to read while the iPhone is too small. And since I already have a 13' Macbook (soon to be Air), there isn't much that a 10' iPad has over it with regards to portability and function.

I wouldn't want a bigger iPhone (even though I know it's going to happen) because it already seems bigger than I'd like for a pocket phone.

[CamperBob2]

I don't think the "too big for use in bed" argument carries much water, but I will say that one reason why I might buy a smaller iPad would be for use in a semi-permanent car installation. The iPad is too big for that job, but a 7" tablet would be in line with some of the larger screens in existing high-end autosound systems.

Right now I use an iPhone for navigation and music in the car, which is why I want a (much) bigger one. But I'll admit that it's possible that what I really want is a smaller iPad, not a bigger phone.

Of course, I'm just making a choice between two different kludges in order to work around the sad, obvious truth: that no Apple-like company is apparently going to save the autosound industry -- a confederacy of dunces if there ever was one -- from its own incompetence.