I had a dream last night about the iPod (I know, I know) and how it morphed into a tablet Mac.

As I've previously mentioned here, the iPhone could be a clever decoy planted by Apple to misdirect attention from the real Macworld show stoppers - whatever they may be.

Steve Jobs has told us that iTV is coming, so that's a given, but what about the iPod? Cupertino has been famously silent about their little media player and the timing's right for an upgrade. There's no shortage of patent applications indicating that Apple is developing a full-screen iPod with a touch screen interface. Which got me to thinking...

Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.