>I'm not convinced you can segregate the market into business and consumer uses that are assigned different needs. People choose a comfortable device and want to use it, period.

Of course the business markets and consumer markets have different needs.
Watch a group of high school girls giggling over tweets and watch a travelling tech checking schematics for the appliance in question and then reconsider that notion.

So.. let's say that GE has 10K techs out there servicing appliances.
Do you really think that they'll let each tech pick the device that's most comfortable?

Take a look at the desktops that are in use at most profit-making companies.
Most have emasculated the features that the users would have on their personal machines.
None of my clients allow users free access to the web from desktops and email is locked down tight to business use. Several encrypt email.
That's a long way from giggling teens, John.