When you think about how the industry is gearing up for something that's about to get the legs cut out from under it, it makes you think...

How many man-years of dedicated labor were earnestly put into the careful development of something that someone else (who also spent earnest laboratory decades) is about to make totally irrelevant. It is as if we could be back in the 1890s and some proud breeder were to announce a new strain of horse, decades in the making, they were going to soon offer for sale, and that they were confident that this lovingly and discreetly developed horse would take the horse-drawn buggy to another, totally unimagined level...