And in that lies the problem....

You're right of course, but it always seemed to be limited to certain departments within agencies. That seems to have shifted. I heard more about branding this year than I did about development.

No worries.

Sam, "likely owing to a retina display that's more glorious than Athena's cleavage" is possibly one of the best single lines I've ever read from you. Thanks for the mental image!

Book a room for next year now. Stay downtown. We stayed about 15 miles away because we didn't book until a couple months before. Sounded fine in theory as there is a shuttle service, but that proved to be a nightmare - found myself on a number of mornings waiting for upwards of an hour just to get into town. Even…

Leaving Austin in a couple hours after 5 nights/6 days. Few observations from the field:

I think that the iPad HD will take over the current tier of pricing from the iPad 2, and the iPad 2 will stick around in 16GB/WiFi-only guise at a $349 price point. Gives Apple a low-cost tablet, as well as offering an updated one for the shelves - much like they've done with iPhones recently.

I think that the wifi only version will be available in stores tomorrow, with the LTE version shipping a few weeks later.

"the device will ultimately be marketed towards first-time parents"

As someone who has recently gone legal, I had to smile. Love the pot revolution - about time!

Given that the 4S shoots in 1080p, it comes as no great surprise. Apple doesn't like loose ends like that (I know, I know, it wouldn't be hard to point out dozens of Apple "loose ends"), and having that sort of cohesion amongst it's iDevices seems clean.

Well...unless the new iPad is shipping on March 7, which wouldn't be a great surprise (likely wifi only, with 4G a "few weeks out"). Then at least Apple can advertise that it has the worlds first 1080p tablet and not get dinged for it.

You mean like how my boss is now all suddenly taken with this new fangled cloud things, and thinks we should invest money into looking into new "cloud computers" and "cloud servers"? ;-)

Here they come!

I imagine the higher pain threshold was developed from centuries of torture for being witches.

I take it the inventor has never skied in the PNW. Bluebird days are the things of myths and legends around here...

One would think that after years of various video piracy, users have gotten pretty adept at the different codecs and how to transcribe between each. Automating the process isn't exactly a great challenge either - set up a watch folder and rip your files into something new before you even turn on the TV to watch them.

I'm running the latest iOS beta and turning off 3G is still an option.

"Now that 3G has fully matured..."

Like so?