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Thin clients may be nifty for schools or corporations where you don't want the users tampering with stuff, but it's a niche product. It will never take off in the mainstream. Can anyone name a person keen on the idea that doesn't work for a software company? Software as a service is a dream for Microsoft because it would solve all their problems persuading people to upgrade older versions of Office and Windows, but it won't work because it doesn't make any sense for the customers.

Phone/camera, camera/mp3 player, phone/camera/mp3 player, etc. I read an interview with a former Psion/Symbian exec that called it the 'spork' problem (the fork/spoon combination that ends up being a crappy fork and a crappy spoon). I used my Sony Ericsson Z1010 as a mp3 player for a while before I got my iPod. Besides having a really poor interface I think the real deal breaker when it comes to combining mp3 players and phones is battery life. I don't want to worry about draining my phone battery when I listen to music, especially if I'm on a trip and need to phone someone when I arrive.

So what you're basically saying is that because Macs will run on Intel processors, consumers won't be able to tell the difference between a Dell running XP and an Macintosh running OS X? I disagree. The only thing that changed last night was the logotype on the chips. If anything, it will make life easier since Apple doesn't have to worry about performance anymore.