There will long be a core set of enterprise users who need Excel. Its still hands-down the best tool for number crunching and a host of ERP systems provide plugins to feed data directly into it. But to assume that a lack of Excel and Word is crippling the iPad is to ignore whats been going on in the enterprise market for the last two years and to misunderstand why the iPads been a success.

Which, admittedly, kind of fits a pattern for Asay.

It takes a village to build a dumb iPhone rumor. A village made entirely of village idiots.

Take it away, ironically-named :