so apple started the whole “macworld” thing today up in san francisco, and good ‘ol steve jobs unveiled two “stupendously-fantastically-spectacularly-amazingly-incredible” products (please, please realize that i’m being sarcastic) the apple-tv and the iphone.
apple-tv, uhm, er, what the hell are we going to do with you? i’m sorry, i just don’t get it, it doesn’t make much sense… its not quite a tivo, not a contender for windows media center since its not a full computer, its kind of like the abomination that is the windows media center extender class of devices, which for the most part, failed at market.
and iphone, wow! honestly an amazing take on integrating an ipod and a smartphone, and i think it will be the beginning of a new line of products for apple, and i can’t wait for version 2! however the touch interface leaves a lot to be desired, because you have to be looking that the screen whenever you want to do something (no drive-by-feel controls) and lest not forget that they are partnering exclusively with cingular (now a part of at&t) who are notorious for spying on their customers which would seem to radically contradict apple’s previous stance that privacy, security, and choice were both fundamental and foundational to their consumer experience.
way to go apple…
and to top off the day, we get a new wireless router (which slipped through most of the tech news sites until just now thanks to all the iphone frenzy) that is really just apple playing catch-up to the rest of the industry who’ve all had draft-n wireless networking products on the market for 6 months.
ugh, and of course stevey-boy declines to offer any new details about the forthcoming mac osx 10.5 (leopard) operating system upgrade do later this spring, or the partnering ilife 07 and iwork 07 software packages (which i was personally hoping would be on-sale today, allowing me to finally completely rid myself of microsoft office)
again, truly remarkable day apple… i hope you’ve got something stupendously-fantastically-spectacularly-amazingly-incredible” up your sleeves for later this spring, otherwise you won’t be seeing anymore of my money until 2008.
