> Apple will wait for the BlackBerry Playbook, which has close to the specs Gruber mentions Apple will need to support the "iPad retina display", and see how it affects (1) the price and (2) the battery life of the Playbook.

(1) is a trivial lookup in a spreadsheet somewhere in Apple (2) is likely the same; if not it's about half a day's work to do the calculations.

Do you really believe figuring out (1) and (2) is so complex they have wait for somebody else to do it first?