with its announcements today on "ipad mini",
as well as its other advances, apple has now
placed all of its chess competitors _in_check_.

and now that the form-factor gap between
the iphone and the ipad has been plugged,
apple can look to the horizon to go bigger.

because once apple creates the "ipad giant""
-- with a form-factor of 9*12, meaning that
we can finally map our 8.5*11 paper-world
onto it in a full-size, non-compromised way,
for "all-in" on our paper-to-digital switch --
then it will be _check-mate_ and game-over.

-bowerbird

p.s.  which doesn't mean that it'll all stop...
the next step is for apple to put a _handle_
on the imac, so you carry it like a briefcase.