Oh, all right, I get it.
Actually, on second thoughts, I don't.
Comparisons with the iPod don't really make sense to me as the iPod was the first music player Apple had ever released, whereas I don't see how anyone can sat that the Air is a wholly new type of product. It's a laptop. Apple have made those for years. I have two.
Perhaps the point to be made is that the iPod did something which was not new but did it better. But I don't think that the iPod would have been the success it was without iTunes being launched on Windows. Feel free to disagree.
The Ferrari - SUV argument doesn't fit either, unless you are looking at the value of marque. I don't think there would be much sport in betting on the outcome of a road race between a Ferrari and an SUV. Of course, people buy Ferrari's for the marque ("My other car is a Ferrari"), but I'm not sure that Apple's marque value is quite as high as Ferrari's (which is kept high by the fact that they don't produce vehicles which mere mortals can afford).
The consensus seems to be that the Air is pretty. Okay. Is that what Apple has become? The company that produces pretty stuff? I thought they made stuff better than other people. Like the iPod.
I'm sure that execs will buy them and install XP or Vista on them so that they can use Outlook. I've seen from the posts here that others will buy them so that they can surf the web and type letters on them because it's so thin, and we all know that thin is pretty. (?)
Me, I'll keep using my 5 year old iBook G3 for those things. If it could do them five years ago...
I guess I'm not the sort of person Apple wants as a customer.
Btw, I read some references to wireless USB. To me, wireless operation defeats one of the selling points of USB - bus power. I like not having to replace batteries. Am I alone?