[snipenekkid]

for government as well as business to adopt these devices wireless options are a must have. Then they all need to develop,, or by a ready to go framework for whole new backend management, distribution & connectivity model. I could see small scale adoption to see what these devices bring to the table but imagine it is a good decade away before there is anything close to being the norm in business and government. All it represents for now is a way to carry around a whole file cabinet of data, OK, then what?

Connectivity is one of the things the Kindle has right. I could see Amazon selling a bunch of whatever-business-grade Kindles to a corporation looking to adopt. But it would also include their software back-end to manage the devices. That's where the money is for Amazon, not in selling devices to consumers. Just ask IBM about that model. Actually it is the consumer who has long been the beta test group for the corporate sales divisions of the major players in the tech market. Consumer level devices get the bells and whistles and the business grade devices get what actually works. That is what I see the big players who have long term goals doing right now. New versions have been trivial updates to simply gauge on a large scale how a specific configuration works, or where they fail to meet needs.

What we consumers can hope for is a new player to decide to offer that same level of device quality in terms of UI and build quality. Otherwise we will always be the beta test group for the real money players.