I find it significant. The form factor is so obvious that it's strange that Nokia's never tried it. N-Gage may have been an embarrassment, but that shouldn't traumatize them so much they'll sit back and let others take the market. I think Nokia is being too careful, especially considering their comments about the "overcrowded" tablet market.

I can't fault the others. Microsoft needs to solve other problems first, and Apple is concentrating on one device. Nokia keeps talking about how one size doesn't fit all, but Android is taking all the risks.

Nokia's problems with fragmentation were caused by fragmented internals, not exteriors. Let's hope they're not overcorrecting, and we might just get N9 with keyboard, N9 without keyboard, and N9 with gamepad. One can always dream...