Hey, skepticism is good, i'm all for that, a bit of critical analysis never did any harm.
At the moment, we are working towards v1, with limited hardware support, and limited library code, so it's not exactly compelling. I think people who 'get it' at the moment are excited about the possibilities it implies, not the current state of the language and library code. Now if we roll on another year, and there's a growing library of community supplied algorithms, and support in the major OSes (including an open source implementation) then i'm guessing it'd suddenly become of more interest?
Cesare
BTW, on the apple rant stuff, i'm no fanboy, but i've been buying their overpriced machines since 1995 They have made some great calls as well as some daft ones over the years. It's easy to fixate on the bits that annoy you rather than seeing the bigger picture. Has anyone else managed to make computing cool to the wider population?