I appologize for the delay of me posting my mugshot. My son Phillip was visiting so I have been busy with him. I will try posting one this weekend. Also I will contact MacMinni to see what happened to his postings too.
I'm sure you all have seen the MacWorld speech by Jobs. I would have to say, the iLife suite of programs is pretty amazing. How it is so well integrated between applications and everything seems to work as intuitively as possible. I like the new Blog support features. I don't know if you can use these features with our Blog since it seems to be for only one publisher. The use of GarageBand for creating and posting your own Podcasts is cool too.
I don't know how much universal appeal iLife will have in general but I think the younger crowd will like it. One of the top three most visited web sites on the internet is MySpace.com which is just a blog site which connects people up as friends to each other sites. Even AOL has some new game or statistical tool which scores how connected you are to others on the internet by scoring 3 degrees of seperation of buddy lists. MySpace.com is popular even though the aestetics of the web pages is poor unless you are an HTML guru. I think this is the market Apple is shooting for.
I hope the new iLife features don't require .MAC to use. I don't see why Apple spends so much of its resources on developing software which only works with .MAC which you have to pay extra for. I think it would be better if they included a free 2 years of .MAC when you buy a new Mac. This will get people to buy more macs. They only have 1 million .MAC users even after all the years it has been up and running.
Back to MacWorld, Paul did you pick up on the Jobs speech about iPhoto. Where you can store 250,000 photos and it still scrolls really quickly. Jobs commented, "It scrolls like butter". I believe it scrolls like a Mazda MX6! Same thing.
The new powerbook is now 5X faster than December's G4 models. I must say WOW. These new intel dual core chips are amazing. This must be the main reason for the processor switch. I love the magnetic power cord which will unplug if yanked. And the iMac is not too shabby. I think with the option to run both the MacOS and Window on the same machine many more people will buy these machines. And then with the two OS's back to back they will be able to see the benefits of the Mac. The new commercial that says "the Intel chip was stuck in a drab PC doing drab calculations, it is now being freed and put into a Mac. Imagine the possibilities." is just golden. And it is a real commercial that will air on TV. Sweet.
** Correction: It is MySpace.com not MyPlace.com **
2 comments:
Paul, I thought you might like the "Jobs as God" reference in the picture. Especially after our last MacNight in person meeting where Alex said you say Jobs can do no wrong. And you worship the ground he walks on. In my view, that is what makes it fun. Exagerate the benefits of Apple products and no one can do it as well as you. You are the Master of Apple BS. I bow to you.
I wholeheartedly accept your praise, and I must agree with your assessment. Bear in mind, however, that BS is in the eye of the beholder. Indeed, few can argue with the astounding success of the iPod over the 3 or 4 years of its existence. What did the naysayers spout at the birth of the iPod? And where are those naysayers now? Listening to an iPod, that's what!!!
It's all about one word: quality!! And I think all of us can agree on that!!
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