I wonder how much the Pocket Edge, and needing to satisfy a whole lot of new users at the same time, has to do with this. We know they were hit with a lot of customer service and tech support requests a couple of months ago. Maybe they're playing some catch-up and focusing on maintenance rather than development? Although not at CES, I've actually been seeing some positive buzz around the pocket edge and some reviews that seemed a lot more favourable than the original edge's were.

I'm asking myself what kind of announcements I would have taken as good news. If I had heard about new hardware, I probably would have been disappointed that my machine was probably going to be left behind. More important to me would be some of the greatly-needed-but-maybe-not-sexy-news features we've long been asking for like rotating the e-ink screen, handwriting recognition etc. If that's in fact the direction that development has taken, would that stuff be considered news/buzz-worthy?

It would be interesting to hear what Entourage is up to, what the current top priorities and activities are and what they predict for the following year. We are firmly in the age of the tablet, and it won't take much to get left behind on that end. I'd love to see more done with the e-ink screen as a real differentiator. (And selfishly, of course, I'd like that in the form of software, not hardware, upgrades. Please and thank you.)