Marco Arment in addition to being the developer of the excellent “read web pages later” instapaper app and web service is a first rate analyst who has written a number of insightful articles about the tech industry. His latest, “There Really isn’t much of a Tablet Market”, establishes a very solid context for viewing would be tablet competitors to the iPad. In short its not the device – it is the ecosystem and mostly the software integration that makes the market.
