I highly doubt the Touch will steal any significant NIT sales. It is a media device. A clever one, a technologically advanced one, but a music (oh and video) player nonetheless. We are talking almost totally separate markets, I don't care how many similarities there are-- the differences are too profound. I cannot emphasize that enough. The differences are the critical aspects of each device, the ones that drive them into separate markets and distinct uses.

The N800 death knell prognostications are exaggerated, misguided, and reactionary. They are based on more speculation than fact, and the facts involved are propped with little or no regard for critical context.

The Touch will undoubtedly sell more devices. But it targets a different demographic for the most part, and will pull at most perhaps 3% of those who might have gone for an N800. I'll stake my career on that. Just wait and see. The current iPod Touch bandwagon jumping is, begging everyone's pardon, not much different than the buzz around the N800 at launch. Remember that?

Milhouse, you missed my point. I was referring to electronics devices at large. That also includes computers, of which despite the trumpeting of Apple fans, Apple holds a very tiny slice. Oh, and it includes phones too-- especially multimedia ones.

EDIT: okay, maybe you didn't miss the point but just wanted to keep the argument going.