Forgive the cynicism, but isn’t it true that all these ‘devices’ follow a predictable journey? It goes something like this…

 1) Appear to be conceived as the vision of the world’s social, cultural and business future

2) Get a design and a price tag

3) Launch in a blaze of publicity, despite severely restricted product availability everywhere

4) Everyone (seemingly everyone) goes out and buys one

5) Everyone then brings theirs into work and shows everyone else

6) Oh joy…

Whatever shiny junk gets launched at these shows will likely end up under the noses (and possibly in various broken pieces under the fists) of IT departments, along with users unapologetically wondering why it isn’t as easy/safe as they hoped to integrate it into the company’s IT systems. 

How about this for an idea… a system that automates the integration and management of mobile devices… worth flying to Las Vegas for?  We’d bloody walk there!