Re: Keynote
- From: Ben Shimmin <bas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 06 Jan 2009 20:25:10 GMT
Ian McCall <ian@xxxxxxxxxx>:
On 2009-01-06 19:01:29 +0000, jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Jim) said:
Ben Shimmin <bas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think this has to be the least exciting keynote ever...
Certainly there was nothing that had me reaching for my wallet.
Can it truly be that it falls to -me- to be the positive one? Me? OK
then, stepping into a role I'm unaccustomed to...
Well, it's everyone's turn once in a while.
Disclaimer: am basing this on having read the Engadget feed so anything
I say depends on how accurate that is.
iLife:
iPhoto's geotagging looks handy
I'm promised that iMovie 09 is actually useful again - iMovie was the
app that convinced me to switch back to the Mac after a ten year
absence, seeing it rendered so utterly useless in iMovie 08 was
extremely disappointing
GarageBand's lessons look interesting
iWork:
Nothing there to thrill me. Feed doesn't mention ODF and online
collaboration useless to me, and especially subscription-based online
collaboration. However, Engadget say they weren't terribly interested
in this bit of the keynote so they may well have missed things out I
need to read about.
Updates to iLife and iWork were utterly predictable (that's not to say
that they are a bad thing, of course) and hardly exciting. It looks
like iMovie may now be back to where it was a couple of years ago, which
you can hardly describe as progress. I never use iPhoto, but I imagine
the new stuff may be of interest to some people.
Hardware:
Laptop very nice - am not in the market but doesn't stop me appreciating
it. (but yes, where's the Mini update?)
Yes, I'm sure it's very nice, even if I don't believe the battery life
claim.
and finally a really big one for me:
iTMS going DRM free
This is a big win for both principle and practice. I've had the
principled debate on here before so won't rehash it. Practically they
needed it - ITMS had become my third-if-at-all choice behind 7Digital
and Amazon. DRM'd stuff I just stopped buying full stop. So practically
for them, they regain me as a customer.
And yes, the victory over DRM on the iTMS is a great thing (even though
most people don't have a clue what DRM is). It's also very nice of
Apple to let me pay again for my music that I've already bought once so
that I now actually own it this time.
May not be as immediately grabbing as some other keynotes, but on a
practical level I think it's been one of the more useful ones for me.
On a practical level, where were the updates to the iMac and to the
Mac Mini (which seemed almost certain), or to the Mac Pro, for that
matter? Where was Snow Leopard mentioned, or iPhone OS 3.0? Or, going
into the realms of fantasy, the sub-notebook or the tablet?
The keynote just wasn't very interesting to me -- incremental
updates to two suites of software, the completion of the upgrades to
the MacBook line, and some iTunes stuff. Dull.
b.
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