I agree and a lot of people keep forgetting that the technology industry is changing all the time.

You can not stay top of the tree all the time as well and a lot of the time when you are top of the tree you hit a zone that you get comfy in. Look at Microsoft. in the 00s they started to drop the ball in a big way and this is when Apple and Google started to gain market share outside of the pc.

Microsoft thought that everything was pc and laptop and pen tablets but they got it wrong and went the wrong way.

Now they have gone back to the drawing board and for me anyway have now got the right ideas in place.

Windows 8 RT on a tablet if sold right should sell very well for home users as its designed to have a one stop shop with the Windows 8 store but adding office printers usb and media access which both Android and IOS lack.

The you have the pro version for business will be everything you need form a full x86/64 OS so all you old programs/games ect will work but adding the App sore for home use as well makes it the all round pc but working on any format that works for you.(Tablet, Desktop, Ultra book ect).

I do think Microsoft will be the big player again over the next 10 years and Google will become 2nd and Apple will drop to 3rd but when this happens it could all change again.

The circle of life is the best example, rather circle of technology.

Sorry, but Steve Jobs wasn't nearly as innovative as people seem to think he was. Everything Apple came out with had already been done by other companies, just not executed as well. If you want to call "getting the execution correct", innovative, then go ahead. I'm pretty sure that philosophy was around before him, though.

Sadly I know you're right.

People saw the iPad as a bigger iPod touch, now we have iPad minis that are like iPod touches? I think apple is running out of ideas and designs.

roughly 208 pounds (my keyboard doesn't have the pound symbol)

How much does the iPad 2 or 3rd gen Ipad go for over there?

Selling for 269 quid over here, so its the 208+VAT. Still not that £199 or $299 sweet spot. They'd probably sell like hotcakes with a price that attractive.

I don't know, just seems weird that they didn't go for that..