<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Nate, you said it JUST right and I could not have said it better. BTW folks, it's a consumer phone/PDA/iPod model, not a business model phone/PDA/iPod. And based on Nate's comments below, 80% of the consumers will want one eventually. It fits just right for my wife and myself in the phone/PDA/iPod, enough capacity to do all three without overburdening our needs.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Kevin<DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 3, 2007, at 2:18 AM, Nate Duehr wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I think I'd summarize it this way. <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Most companies decide that the design and operation of the thing they're going to sell should be "pretty good" and the device should be loaded 100% with features.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Apple seems to think that the design and operation of the thing is 100% of the consumer's experience, and the feature set can fall to 80% or lower instead.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>They also seem to charge "enough" for their products to properly support them long-term, versus bowing to pricing pressure to sell at the absolute lowest price.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>