The price issue, I think, is key. No one has mentioned, as far as I know, that since the device is designed to be always-connected, it could be bundled with a mobile contract (albeit a data-only plan), just like an iPhone, and thus heavily subsidized by the carrier. While most of us know that a two year contract is a really expensive way to get $300 knocked of the price of a phone, it does allow for really amazing devices to have really amazing looking prices, like $200 for the iPhone or $180 for the Nexus One. I suspect the tablet could see a similar subsidized price (and similar lock-in to a single carrier that made a deal with Apple, hoping for a knock out hit like the iPhone has been for AT&#38;T; they'll be disappointed, but the deal probably could have been made).