Macworld II
I miss the good old days when no one actually guessed what was going to happen at the keynote right. Or when Time Canada "accidentally" leaked the iMac G4. Those were the good days. Nowadays, you usually have a pretty good idea of what Apple'll unveil ahead of time whenever they have a keynote.
I think that's why I didn't enjoy this keynote as much as the others. There have been subnotebook rumors for god knows how long now, it was only a matter of time before they actually announced it. Some may argue the same thing happened for the iPhone, but the iPhone was probably way better than anyone expected it to be.
I've rarely been impressed by hardware releases, and for some reason the MacBook Air disappoints more than the others. There's nothing really special about it other than it's really thin and only has 3 ports and a power connector. It's still only a laptop running Leopard, like the original MacBook and the MacBook Pro, but with slightly lower specs, and a new case.
Then Apple brought out the movie rentals, which were expected by pretty much everyone. Same for the Apple TV update.
1.1.3 was expected to appear at Macworld, and it did, bringing with it the hideous iPhone dock. The "pay $20 for MobileMail" update for the iPod touch isn't bad for iTouch users who don't know about jailbreaking, but anyone who's somewhat of a geek can mess with their iPod for less than a half-hour and have MobileMail running fine. Why bother upgrading when you can have the same features and more? :/
Am I forgetting Time Capsule? Not really, because it's AirPort Disk. That's all it is. It's AirPort Disk with a built-in hard drive. Except it actually works out of the box with Time Machine, and AirPort Disk doesn't for some odd reason. (Not that that matters, you could just use a better backup tool for that.)
The products themselves are great. I'm just disappointed about the lack of surprises. The biggest surprise I had today was the "there's actual Wi-Fi on the 1 line" thing I mentioned in the other post. (That and Twitter not surviving the Macworld keynote, haha.)
