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Why Apple's iTouch Tablet Will Become Its Flagship Product

I'm hoping for something a bit different: an iWallet . Here's three ingredients for the next game changing Apple CE gizmo:

* Pocketability: Yes, just like a wallet. What else do we all carry around with us everywhere? Purse? Briefcase? Forget it. As they say with cameras, the best computer is the one we have with us.

* App Store access: What with a billion apps out there, maybe 100K "consumer" apps available over the next couple years, this is the great driver for Apple growth over the next five years. What Adobe did for the first Macs, a legion of third party developers will do for Apple in the future.

* Killer feature set: When the day arrives that we don't need a wallet 'cuz the iPod has all our dox on it, the front jeans pocket will become the new back jeans pocket.

Why Apple's iTouch Tablet Will Become Its Flagship Product

Minor comments:

* Any new Apple device for the burgeoning consumer electronics market will include access to the App Store, which even now is locking millions of users into Apple products. Even Google is scared.

* The communications piece is right on. Apple will resurrect its iChat technology to take on Skype. Or maybe it just purchases Skype. Hmm. That's been done.