All I can attest to is that there have been machines available to develop and test with for a while now...as far as me alluding to some sort of development work behind the scenes that I am privy to, that is not the case. All I am attesting to is the buzz about this thing from the corporate world. Like I said, it's been a while since I've seen/heard so much general hype (not tech-geek/gizmodo/pick your geek site here hype) about technological possibilities based on a piece of hardware.

As far as the private distribution network and my knowledge of it...no. There is none to my knowledge. Wannabe said it right though. When IBM/Salesforce/Accenture/Fortune 500 player/whoever comes in the front door and says 'we want 10,000 units with our app pre-installed...no iStore nonsense' ...it will happen. Period.