All you have to do is to watch Nintendo's and Sony's hand-held gaming profits. What you see is that those profits are FALLING in the face of competition from the iOS game platform. The iOS game platform includes the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

Ask your kids what they want. They will want an iPhone or iPod Touch. And once they get them, they will be far less likely to also carry with them a Nintendo or Sony.

Given the need for a cell phone, kids who can play games on their cells phones are also far less likely to carry a Nintendo or Sony.

AND, talk about the adults who also play games. Nintendos and Sonys are children's toys. Adults play on their iPod Touches and iPhones.

The market for iOS devices is much much larger than the market for Nintendos and Sony handhelds.

The present and future is also owned by downloadable software on handheld devices. On this alone, the iOS platform completely rules.

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Ho hum.... Another round of iPad killers. Ho hum....

Let's see now:

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This is a nonsense, unfocused article about what Apple should do.

If Apple was going to do what the article proposes, then it is FAR SIMPLER for Apple to simply BUY SONY.

Think about it: Apple can buy controlling interest in Sony for only $19 Billion dollars - out of its $40 Billion in cash.

With this one purchase, Apple gets key assets in multiple markets:
1. Televisions. Sony already makes world-class HDTVs. Sony has its own LCD foundaries.
2. Audio. Sony makes audio equipment.
3. Video. Sony makes video equipment.
4. Photographic Equipment. Sony makes world-class cameras. Sony makes its own video chips - used in Nikon, Canon, and other photo equipment companies.
5. Electronic CPUs and Chips. Sony has its own chip foundaries.
6. Movies. Sony owns one of the big movie houses - Columbia Pictures.
7. Music. Sony owns Columbia Music - one of the big music houses.
8. Personal Computers. Sony makes PCs - laptops, etc.
9. Console Games. Sony makes the Playstation and Playstation Portable.

With a Sony purchase, Apple has the digital media rights to go into its own iPad, iPods, and iPhones. They would have more leverage to gain access to other movie studio's media and music media. Heck, Apple would be in those industries itself.

It would be EASY for Apple to then add its Mac OS X to the entire Sony line.

Apple can then also PRUNE SONY to remove useless lines - similar to the simplification Steve Jobs did to Apple's Mac line.

Apple can simplify the Television, Audio, Video, Camera equipment lineup so that Sony would be profitable again, for example, as an APPLE SUBSIDIARY.

Apple, for example, could remove the entire PC line and replace it with Macs. Much of the portable audio line can be removed and replaced by the iPod. The TV lineup can be simplified to LCD TVs.

It would be a huge opportunity to remake Sony into a profitable subsidiary of Apple. Apple would then also become the number one consumer electronics company in Japan, then the rest of Asia - including China. It would be a huge market grab - all within the reach of Apple.