No-one could see the point of the iPod, no-one would buy it because of DRM etc. Total sales - over 150,000,000.
Apple brought the iPhone to market 2 years too late etc etc etc = total sales since late 2007 - over 18,000,000, and apparently reaching a tipping point in sales.
Clearly Apple has no idea of product design or marketing...
The iPod and iPhone redefined their markets. The word from Apple (and I mean inside) is that they expect the same thing to happen with the iPad. Product will be developed to exploit the iPad, not the other way around. It won't compete directly with the book Kindle, but with a glossy magazine/website version of, and still do the book thing pretty well. It is for reading, surfing, a bit of gaming and whatever developers can make for it to do well.
Why do people have to slag off the successful and popular, just to prove that they are somehow above the common herd?