"but even you must agree that the future looks a hell of a lot brighter now than in the past."
You mean it is now brighter than when EDIG was going to control everything in the world that was digital? I mean at one point you thought EDIG was going to be in every MP3 player, cell phone, video game, set top box, PDA, digital camera, and automobile on the planet. Now they are stuck hoping APS sells another 500 players to some 3rd rate airline somewhere in the world so they will only loss slightly less money this quarter.
In what way, shape, or fashion do you figure it is now "brighter". Being a one trick pony totally beholden to APS to throw them a bone is a brighter future than controlling every digital device in the world?
Or were you just saying that because you had to??