#MWSF 2007 Score Card
Ouch. I was way off:
- The Leopard: OS X 10.5. Nope. Narry a big cat in sight. Oh sure, we’ve got CoreAnimation on an iPhone but what about my existing hardware? Burn. No points.
- iSoftware. Nope again. No Keynote, no Pages. No iLife ‘07. See above re: Leopard? No points.
- Refreshed Mac minis. Again: nope. No Macs. No points.
- And New Cinema Displays with integrated iSight. No. No. No. No points.
- The iTV. *ahem* Apple TV. Well, we knew that was coming. One weak, pathetic point. And no bonus points because I hosed it on the flash memory and “slaving” aspects.
- As for “One more thing…” Well, seems like the whole presentation was exactly that. Jobs himself said he’d been holding in the iPhone for 2.5 years.
Lesson learned? Don’t bet on my horse if we’re at the track together.
That said, you have to admit that this iPhone dealie is at least the 3-5 years ahead of anything else on the market right now. Stacking its price tag up against the smartphones it’s targeting and it’s actually not that bad of a deal. What will be really interesting though is to see where else this “Multi-Touch” technology starts to make its way into. Perhaps a tablet Mac isn’t so far fetched after all?
Lastly: 802.11n in the new AirPort Extreme. Hot. Now the rest of my hardware needs to catch up.
[...] I didn’t exactly “get it” with the iPhone but this week’s release of the iPod touch has me convinced: when the much-rumored, ever-coveted “tablet Mac” comes, it’s going to be an iPod. It’s going to be a big iPod (form-factor-wise, x- and y- but not z-axis-wise) with some extra, even fancy features — but it’s going to be an iPod in heart and soul. It just sort of hit me on the walk home today. [...]
September 6th, 2007 at 7:12 pm