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Macworld Expo - final day...
Authored by: CaptDeuce on Jan 12, '07 10:57:42AM

iDisapointed, uDisapointed, many of usDisapointed. A few points:

Steve all too briefly mentioned the Mac -- 4:25 through 4:39 of the QuickTime net-cast, to be exact. He said:

So. 2007 is gonna be a great year for the Mac. ... Over the course of the next several months we're gonna roll out some awesome stuff for the Mac.
This begs the question, what kind of hoopla will surround new Mac products?

iPhone coverage went from 26:22 through 1:44:34 -- that's 80 minutes. What was most important was the last two minutes (hard to pin down exactly due to a clicker malfunction). Steve and other Apple executives obviously believe that selling 10 million iPhones in the first year is extremely important.

Stepping back -- three or four years back -- what we have now is Steve's declared Digital Lifestyle brought to maturity. I'd like to go back and review that presentation but, hey.

Apple now has three hardware products used to store, convey, and manage our digital content in the Mac, iPod, and now iPhone that tap into huge markets. Again, recall the last few miniutes of the iPhone coverage. (I was mildly surprised at the relative small size of the game console market)

Tying them all together is iTunes. The only functionality iTunes lacks is the photo management capabilities of it's bigger sibling, iPhoto.

So where does that leave the Mac? Is it being left out? One thing for certain, the Mac is the only piece of hardware that is truly capable of creating content. Where would Apple be without the ability to give its customer the power to create?

I don't have an answer but I can't imagine Apple without that ability. And given the ubiquity of personal computers in modern homes and offices, there will always be a place for the Mac there, no matter what form it may take in the future; say, a 19" iPhone. MacSlab? iTray? :-)

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