Not that they're more intuitive to use, have a higher quality app ecosystem, and "just work" for most people.

Can we use distributed computing to crowdsource the computation of more/better primes? Can OpenSSL look to this pool for its primes?

We wouldn't need to do this. One computer would suffice to generate primes at a pace making cracking computation infeasible. Though, even if we switch primes every few seconds, if somebody wanted to put a few hundred million dollars into cracking a few seconds of messages, they could do it.

Where else would they blog?

Since Facebook bought them, how about Facebook?

Facebook has a really bad 'blogging' interface. Everytime I see an fb engineering post/blog it is jarring and seems out of place.

Facebook.

Sending SMSs from Address Book was a phenomenal feature. A shame that they yanked it years ago. Good to see its return.

I remember that that I could do far more with my Sony Ericsson W800 (and Salling Clicker) than I could with my first iPhone. Dialing numbers from the address book, sending and receiving SMSs while the phone was in my bag/pocket, turning the screen saver on and pausing music if I left the area - and reverting on return. Apart from the UI polish, this was the least impressive part of keynote (at least for me) as those were things I had to give up on.

Salling Clicker was the biggest thing I missed in the switch from so-called "dumb phones" to smartphones.

I think you misread my comment. Apart from the UI polish, I wasn't impressed --> I was impressed with the UI polish but less so the rest.

I'm aware that implementing this well is a difficult problem and I have utmost respect for those who figure out how to make it feel seamless.

I think 8:30am is a bit late to send the news. I think a lot of people who work "traditional" hours are already up, out the door, and have made a dent in their day. I like to read the news before I get started.

How many people still work traditional hours? How many of those people would be interested in an email news service? Seems entirely reasonable to me that the intersection might be small, and that the people who want to read the news at 6 AM would not be interested in doing so by email.

I usually wake around 6:00 and check my mail. For me the best is a short summary of stories on email, say the first 4-5 lines of each item, and clickable. If a web page was customizable, that would be fine too, but as the OP says, if you are already in email it is easiest to stay in email.

I have no data, but I bet you're an exception. People read emails when they get to work (yes, even personal emails); by sending them at 8:30, they get the email to reach people when they're already at their desk or at least at the top of the queue (since emails clients sort from newer to older).

If they sent it sooner, by the time people sat down and opened their inboxes, the email would already have been "submerged" under a bunch of others sent afterwards.

I actually did tons of A/B testing and 8:30am works way better than 6am (in terms of open rates). Honestly I've no idea why, but I have a few theories.

6AM? Barely anyone is awake.

I used that to compare because a lot of others email out at that time: Digg, WSJ, Quartz, etc.

I just subscribed, and 8:30am would be great, but I did not see an option to set my timezone.

I decided to build a career in academia after working as a technician for a college that afforded me the freedom to experiment with approaches to my work. Now I am an IT manager at a small state University. My boss allows me the latitude to approach projects with creative perspectives. This fall I also plan to begin teaching, and I am continuing my work towards a Master's degree. Lastly, I find the structure of academia to be such that my off time is clearly defined (at least in comparison to working for a company in private industry), and I am able to also pursue entrepreneurial ventures.

After reading so much Valley hype day after day, that was a breath of fresh air.

I wonder how many of those innovations at the time AT&T was involved in bringing to market.

Also interesting to see the analog nature of things prevalent in the ads-- how the images flicker into place on the screens.

No one in the launch group was able to see what others were charging until today. Now I'm booked.

Not whining, just giving a perspective.

Agreed. Imagine if you could have other providers snap into this? It's a shame that they're hacking their way around Apple's walled garden, but a self hosted proxy server is a nifty way to add functionality to email.