Corrrectamundo. I want to see what happens with further development.

I got a Mac in 84. I thought it was better than a PC, albeit at twice the price ($3000, in today's dollars, circa $5000.) 128 kb RAM, 544 kb diskette, no hard drive. In 5 years, it was obsolete. If anybody wants to buy Di2, go for it. It's a lot like a first-gen Mac, to me. I think there is a good chance it will be obsolete by 2014 (or maybe even 2012-13), because a) Shimano can, and I bet will vastly improve upon it, and b) other companies will look at electronic, and say, How can this nice idea be majorly improved? And areas for improvement are obvious.

I could be wrong. I'm not worrying about it, because mechanical shifting has a certain primitive-visceral loveliness, like driving a manual mechanical car transmission, and I like it. Frankly, I still like sometimes riding an old bike with friction shifters, where you have to dial in the chain/gear meshing using ear-brain-hand coordination. I like old manual pre-syncrhromesh trannies where I have to double-clutch and gas-pedal modulate to downshift into first gear without having to come to a stop.