{"id":152,"date":"2006-01-10T22:18:24","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T03:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/index.php\/2006\/01\/10\/yes-apple-rules-but-ho-hum\/"},"modified":"2006-01-10T22:18:24","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T03:18:24","slug":"yes-apple-rules-but-ho-hum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2006\/01\/10\/yes-apple-rules-but-ho-hum\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, Apple rules — but… ho hum"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t want to add to my reputation as a wet blanket, and I would like to state for the record that I like Apple a lot — really. Their products<\/a> are great, and I know that they dominate the digital music<\/a> business and are raking in piles of cash, not to mention having really cool laptops and some great software<\/a>. But I must admit that Steve Jobs’ big keynote speech<\/a> at Macworld seemed a little, well… lacklustre. <\/p>\n

I know that’s probably because I’m not a daily Apple user, and it’s also because I probably got a little too excited by reports from ThinkSecret.com and others that the company was going to announce a Mini-style DVR<\/a> or an entertainment hub, or even a giant HDTV with a computer in it<\/a>, and they didn’t. When you get all warmed up for faster-than-light drive, anything else seems like a letdown. Even the Tao of Mac wasn’t that impressed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the same time though, Apple didn’t really announce anything that knocked my socks off, and Russell Beattie seems to feel the same<\/a> (although he’s a known turncoat who renounced Apple and went back to Microsoft). Yes, the new MacBook sounds pretty good — but not radically, insanely great. And the new iWeb software sounds good too, and so does the oPod remote, and the other stuff<\/a>. But there was nothing really stand-up-and-shout-out-loud great. I guess selling a gazillion iPods and almost a billion songs is good enough.<\/p>\n

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I don’t want to add to my reputation as a wet blanket, and I would like to state for the record that I like Apple a lot — really. Their products are great, and I know that they dominate the digital music business and are raking in piles of cash, not to mention having really … <\/p>\n

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