A few hours ago I began writing a post that began with “Macworld ‘08 so far has sucked.” I am upset that new MacBook Pro’s weren’t released (that’s what I was really hoping for), yes, I am upset there is no 3G iPhone, and yes, I am upset there isn’t an update to make Leopard more stable. Let me just say this: I didn’t get what I wanted. I am angry that Apple didn’t release more.
(Image from Apple)
Apple released some amazing products. The Apple TV is more attractive to me now, though I still wouldn’t buy one, because I’d like to see a built in DVR and DVD/Blu-ray player, but it’s getting there. I’m still drooling over the iPhone – no 3G, but hey, the AT&T CEO said it would be out in ‘08, I can trust them, right? And the MacBook Air…well…I can’t say I would buy one, I have no use for it, it’s overpriced and looks very fragile, but still, it’s another super sexy device from Apple. And the Time Capsule, yes. That’s a product I would buy, but I already have a new Airport Extreme, so…
(Thank you Gizmodo)
That being said, the keynote was still lacking in my opinion. Steve Jobs was making a lot of mistakes, in numbers, one time he even called Leopard, Tiger. I think he’s getting older, and we’re going to see a new CEO soon. I’m ruling out Phil Schiller, because he’s the “Steve Ballmer” of Apple (I mean, come on). And, Apple screwed the iPod Touch users like he screwed the iPhone users. 20 bucks for 5 applications that should have been there in the first place? The MacBook Air seems a little…useless (to me, at least). If I were to buy a computer that size, I’d buy it for travel. But the computer doesn’t even have an optical drive! I’d love to think that CD’s are dead, but unfortunately with such a small hard drive, an optical drive might be more-than-necessary.
Overall, personally, I’m disappointed. I wanted something and I didn’t get it. But Apple still released some good products. Three stars.
Kabren Levinson is fist-year student at Bard College. Throughout high school, Kabren has worked in various technological, political, and artistic positions. He has worked as an intern at the MIT Media Lab Computing Culture Group and during his senior year of high school, he developed an Academic Technology program at the Cambridge School of Weston. He has been podcasting for over three years and has been blogging for two. Kabren is a philosopher, technologist, and artist.
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Hey Kabren,
I followed the Keynote from a french IRC channel… And as you we all are somewhat disappointed by the announces.
Macbook Air… okay…. who will buy this sheet of paper sized computer. the lack of CD-DVD means youcan’t go to visit someone and get some presentation CD(I means for professionals). Thin is ok, but I’m sure you need a strong case to prtect it…
Apple TV is still no device for me as it’s not a full CD, TV, DVd manager. You only can manage you itunes library (needing your imac to be up and running).
The Time capsule is… still useless. It’s supposed to help you bay automatically backing up your data, but professionnaly said : having a backup at the same place than your computer is stuipid. I hoped for a remote backup feature of Time machine (on a .mac or a remote host), but no
Time Machine and Time Capsule are for the home user not for offices.
I whised the iPhone and the ipod Touch to be open, so anybody could create a standalone app…. no….
Well… I’ll keep my brand new black macbook and still love it :p
Olivier,
I believe Time Machine can back up remotely, it’d be slow, but I’m pretty sure you can.
Yeah.
Kabren, well, as far as I can see, Time Machine can on select a external drive plugged into a USB port. You can’t select an .Mac or FTP server… yet
Check your leopard.
I hope thy update the soft soon.
Remote backup is fully supported! Out of the box, Time Machine on a Mac OS X Client computer can backup to any Mac OS X Server with the AFP service Running. With a simple terminal command you can also allow Time Machine on the Client to backup to any AFP, SMB, or FTP server. Time Machine knows the difference between a server and an external drive, and when your backing up to a server, it automatically mounts, authenticates, and un-mounts the remote volume. When backing up to a server, Time Machine knows that its a server and saves its files to a read/write compressed AFS+ Sparse disk image instead of the usual folder/file heirachy. Time Machine was designed for server use as well as local use from the ground up.