Worse yet, the complete insult most of us pay to the people we idolise by making their well-crafted work nothing more than a ring-tone; some alert that a boring friend wants to tell us the blow-by-blow details of their recent exploit shopping for underwear (or some such scintillating adventure).  OK, I’m a Luddite; my phone actually rings, like an old-fashioned one.

Allow me to return to my point.  And diverge again. 

We seem to have two competing Fields of Dreams.  On the one hand, we have the artists and other creative people striving to produce their best work.  Only to see it end up on portable devices – limited dynamic range audio and hideously de-sized video, with dreadful frame rates as well; such an insult.

On the other hand, there is the other Field.  This is one to which they ARE coming.  Build it smaller, more personal and everyone wants one.  No matter what the outcome might be.

The Geeks really have built Grifts.  Beware indeed.