In a recent Reuters post, Sony said they are setting out to reform the TV segment, well, they meant THEIR TV segment, but the point is that the whole TV segment IS changing.
The upper echelon of the point-and-shoot segment will be led by cameras that can connect to the web from anywhere, while doubling as full-fledged communication and manipulation devices -- smartphones that enable everything but telephone calls.
It is easy to quibble with the foregoing segments but the real point is that there is a market segment for larger screens and Apple is completely missing this market segment.
Brown was careful topoint out that the structured finance piece of MBIA will be completely separate from the municipal bond segment and will not be a burden on the latter.
Now, the cause of those rumblings is quite clear: a touchscreen model that bundles mobile successes with full camera functionality -- it wasn't a smartphone to replace your point-and-shoot, but a powerful hybrid compact that capitalizes on each segment's strengths in an attempt to return cameras to relevancy, and perhaps even bring them into the spotlight.