Macworld ‘08 Yawn…
So like most Mac faithful I await Macworld eagerly each year. After the Jesus Phone announcement last year, I didn’t know what to expect this year. The rumor sites said it’d be a thin notebook and it was. Hooray?! I mean, the MacBook Air is clearly an engineering marvel and I appreciate that, but why? Why do we need a laptop so thin we can put it in an envelope for dramatic effect? I know I don’t. Businessmen who are always on planes? Is that the audience? The only thing that piques my interest is the 5 hour battery life. Please Apple, make a tablet. Or at least a Macbook Air that’s a convertible. I want to use it to design the ultimate remote for my home entertainment system.
The iTunes rentals/AppleTV were also expected. That’s actually slightly more interesting to me. But I’m still waiting for the LG/Netflix streaming stuff that was announced at CES. Somehow I’m not a fan of paying $5 for only 24 hours of access. It’s highly unlikely that I wouldn’t finish watching a movie in 24 hours. But the psychology of that much restrictiveness is what bugs me. Maybe I’m just too American.
Sadly, the only product that I really wanted that was unexpected was the Time Capsule. Too bad I bought and Airport Extreme less than a year ago. Oh well, I’ll just pick up on of those drives from G-Technology. Maybe their prices will drop with increased volume after being bought out.
Seems like Wall Street wasn’t too pleased with Macworld either. AAPL was down $15 in during market and after hours trading combined. Maybe it was the less than spectacular product announcements or more likely the “only” 4 million iPhones sold thus far. Thankfully, I got rid of that stock last month. Unfortunately I’ve done just as poorly where I reinvested those proceeds…damn economy.