Apple set the bar for consumer tablets but so far has really missed the boat when it comes to providing corporate-type applications and services, leaving a solid opening for the RIM tablet and giving those using Android and Windows 7 the opportunity to build devices that will appeal to the business market as well as consumers.
But this kind of protectionist thinking is myopic and flawed: the innovation and opening of new markets the TPP is designed to spur would lead to exactly the type of jobs that labor craves, namely high-paying manufacturing and technology related jobs.