MacWorld. Meh.
So at Macworld today, the big announcements were..
- Improvements (including movie rentals) to Apple TV, which still requires you to own a high definition television. Was I asleep when it became standard to to own a high definition tv? Because it seems like an absurd luxury to require of a consumer product.
- Updates to the iPhone and iTouch.
I sorta don’t care. There’s nothing here I feel like I’m missing out on or must have. I now Apple has set a ridiculously high standard for itself of wowing the world every January. But I also think its supporters are pretty forgiving. Solid tuneups to existing products are just fine. But none of these plays into the second half of what Apple does well: seeming at least to serve its customer’s best interests in addition to making pretty things.
I’m with Forbes here. Steve Jobs has failed to wow me.
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Agreed. I can’t see how the Macbook Air will appeal to anyone but those with gobs of money to spend. It’s way too expensive to use as a secondary machine, and way to underpowered (especially for the price!) to use as a primary machine… This will change in a couple years when solid state drives become cheaper. But yeah, I’m not impressed.
Agreed. I can’t see how the Macbook Air will appeal to anyone but those with gobs of money to spend. It’s way too expensive to use as a secondary machine, and way to underpowered (especially for the price!) to use as a primary machine… This will change in a couple years when solid state drives become cheaper. But yeah, I’m not impressed.
Maybe it’s just my love of extra space but I’m pretty impressed with the MacBook Air. Not that I’ll be buying a new computer in the next five years or anything…
Maybe it’s just my love of extra space but I’m pretty impressed with the MacBook Air. Not that I’ll be buying a new computer in the next five years or anything…
And I read somewhere that the MacBook Air has no removeable batter and no ethernet port? WTF? Have the designers of this thing ever tried to use their laptop at say, an airport with crappy wireless service and no outlets?
And I read somewhere that the MacBook Air has no removeable batter and no ethernet port? WTF? Have the designers of this thing ever tried to use their laptop at say, an airport with crappy wireless service and no outlets?