Mac Event Comments

I watched the Mac Event and there weren't too many Earth shattering surprises. Of course Apple is pushing ahead development of the next release of OSX, code name Lion. Incorporating many of the features learned from iPhone/iPad world. I think one of the coolest features is the new App store for OSX. This should help to push Mac apps into the limelight. And I like how the App store on the iPhone created a good competitive market to make Apps be reasonably priced. Hope this continues on the Mac App store. The iLife updates look cool especially the Garageband updates and iMovie updates. The iMovie movie trailer setup is amazing. The Mac software evolves at an amazing rate. I only wish they would open up some their iLife tools to allow for other developers to make new themes and trailer templates. Something along the lines of an Themes App store would be great. I am sure Apple is concerned about having a bunch of poorly made themes overwhelming the good ones. But with an App store type format, the best will rise to the top. Apple cannot think of everyone's choice of templates, please let other creative people have a shot at it too. The Apple templates can be more like examples. The MacBook air models with flash memory drives is the wave of the future as Jobs stated. And the prices are aggressively low for cutting edge hardware. I especially like Jobs' comment about touchscreen interfaces don't work because after a while you feel like your arm is going to fall off. The magic mouse is a good touch interface but it does have problems of getting your gesture wrong a lot. This was shown when the iMovie demo for iLife wasn't responding to the touch gestures by the presenter. All and all, a good step forward. I am sure the Umpa Loompas at Apple are hard at work making even more cool products!