It doesn't appear to be particularly well-integrated. It's not elegant. Ideally, you'd have one single device instead of two devices bundled together.

Microsoft has entered as a full-fledged competitor. The (Windows Live) search product looks to be more advanced by a generation, and we're going to have a leapfrog competition as the two firms try to out do each other.

Tablets are a very lucrative sector,

Whenever you confuse the consumer, they defer purchases.

Because the litigation has become so much of what they are, the lawsuits tend to eclipse anything else they try to do. And if it goes bad for them with IBM, I doubt anything they do with software will be able to save them.

I can't think of any company in the consumer space that will get hurt as a result of the delay.