Keynote Breakdown
Jan. 15th, 2008 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bryant1. Time Capsule is neat technology; if I hadn't bought external hard drives for our Macs for Time Machine already, I'd want it. It'd be nice to back up the laptops as well. But alas, I have already invested. Still, very cool, very well done. Will it serve as a print server and can you plug more hard drives into it?
2. New iPhone stuff is as per expectation. I like it. It's not mindblowing but it's cool.
3. Apple movie rental is hot. A little expensive on a per-movie basis; unless Blockbuster has gone up in cost, this is pricier. Are the operating expenses higher or lower than storefronts? I'm not sure. Still: hot, and it's in HD. The new Apple TV is a good match at a superb price -- note that it's significantly cheaper than a Blu Ray DVD player.
Amazon Unbox needs to announce HD format very soon.
4. MacBook Air is neat, but I don't need one. If I was still traveling a lot, I would, but I no longer wrestle a laptop every couple of months so the three pounds isn't significant to me. I may buy one the next time I upgrade my laptop. It's not the subcompact handheld notebook I was hoping for, more like the Eee PC, but that's OK. Maybe next year.
2. New iPhone stuff is as per expectation. I like it. It's not mindblowing but it's cool.
3. Apple movie rental is hot. A little expensive on a per-movie basis; unless Blockbuster has gone up in cost, this is pricier. Are the operating expenses higher or lower than storefronts? I'm not sure. Still: hot, and it's in HD. The new Apple TV is a good match at a superb price -- note that it's significantly cheaper than a Blu Ray DVD player.
Amazon Unbox needs to announce HD format very soon.
4. MacBook Air is neat, but I don't need one. If I was still traveling a lot, I would, but I no longer wrestle a laptop every couple of months so the three pounds isn't significant to me. I may buy one the next time I upgrade my laptop. It's not the subcompact handheld notebook I was hoping for, more like the Eee PC, but that's OK. Maybe next year.
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Date: 2008-01-15 10:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-16 02:04 am (UTC)It seems pretty clear that the labels see Amazon as their only hope of getting Apple out of the online music gatekeeper role, and think that giving Amazon the non-DRM deal is the only way to make them strong enough to have a chance to do so. I think they're right about (a) and the jury's still out on whether (b) will do enough.