("Grizzled" may not describe Paramore or Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but both acts have been around long enough to know that SXSW provides a useful launching pad for new projects).
In view of the sharp contrast of views on the matter between article authors and me, I retain that my observation might be useful to launch a debate among the Journal readers.
But if it was intended to stir up some useful pre-launch publicity it doesn't seem to have worked.
Like their British forebears, they preferred them wild and woolly, deprived of basic rights and services though they occasionally found them useful for launching insurgencies, first against the Soviet army and then the Mujahideen who succeeded it, inside Afghanistan.
That makes it more useful than launching those individual deal-finding apps on their own.
Another useful integration launching today is support for loyalty cards in Wallet, something that hints at Wallet's more ambitious plans to replace users' actual billfolds, but also at its failure to become a standardized way to pay at point-of-sale, thanks to its reliance on NFC.
"So far it's most useful for launching samples I've programmed into my live set or for playing a software synth on my printed keys.
