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.