Dear Friends,

It has been a busy week for me. I drove to New York City to attend the NY International Gift Fair with our Chill Pill Audio team for Monday and Tuesday, back for meetings on Wednesday, VBSR board meetings and legislative reception on Thursday and then some fun today at the Boston Celtics.

The more I think about the iPad, the more I feel that it is just the start of yet another digital revolution that will truly change how we read, receive information and media. I was meeting with my banker on Wednesday and he asked what I thought of the iPad.

I mentioned how I think that newspapers and magazines have gone downhill lately. I was looking at my Newsweek subscription that I have had forever and was just imagining that if I had access to a current magazine with full rich media and links on an iPad, how much better the experience and the information would be.

That same feeling goes for books (which I already read on my iPhone with the Kindle application) and for textbooks, too. Cash-strapped schools can use iPads instead of instantly out-of-date and expensive textbooks. Apple has embraced and created a new digital market that when we look back a few years from now, will be amazed that it started out as the iPad introduced last week.

MacWorld is next week, however, Apple will not be exhibiting or promoting the event. While I am heading west next week, it is to Cupertino for meetings with Apple and to give a presentation on Small Dog Electronics. I saw the dramatic decline of the Boston MacWorld show when Apple stopped coming and while I certainly wish everyone involved with MacWorld the best of success, I do not see the San Francisco MacWorld being a shadow of itself any longer.