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What is the chance of just the iPod side of this device being released?

I don't see parents or students (myself included) going out to buy the iPhone, just to listen to music and watch videos.
 
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Adding a USB drive to your airport extreme will make Time Machine very easy to deploy. I like that idea a lot.

Does anyone know if the USB slot on the Apple TV does has the same functionality?

I guess we'll be on high media-event-alert for the next month or two awaiting Leopard/iLife/iWork news. I'm disappointed not to be ordering at least iLife and iWork tonight but I am excited to think they may be enhanced by Leopard.
YEAH I SAW THAT. Really nice. I'm definetly getting one. Thats the perfect solution for me. When coupled with my B&W for streaming photos and music it really makes my laptop a lot more flexible in terms of storage.
 
I hope you are right. My rant is slight premature since Apple could easily announce a Tablet in a month with this technology and I would be delighted. It just stymied me a bit how the Keynote was dedicated.


On another not its nice to see the New Airport Extreme being $180. That way in line with products form other manufacturers which makes me want to buy one. Since I was looking into a n, and have always wanted the Aiport since its easy to configure, yet the price was a huge turn off. Might be interested, wonder whats the price in Canada and for students.

Fair enough. And I would agree, now that Apple has perfected this technology, it would be silly to not extend it to a larger touchscreen portable Mac. I just wouldn't have expected Apple to not only unveil the iPhone today, but then also unveil a Mac tablet using the same technology.

Heck, I think it goes without saying that the next iPod will have the same kind of multitouch touchscreen interface, but I also wouldn't have expected them to unveil a new iPod as well, as any other new products would have been lost in the shuffle.
 
What is the chance of just the iPod side of this device being released?

I don't see parents or students (myself included) going out to buy the iPhone, just to listen to music and watch videos.

I think it's almost guaranteed that the next revision of the iPod will use this same technology (kind of like how the big iPod got the advanced scrollwheel introduced on the iPod mini) to offer a true widescreen hard drive-based video iPod and run this same new embedded OS X.
 
Nice pricing on Airport. $180 for US. $160 with edu. $180 CAD with edu. That in line with the exchange rate. Finally, no more rapage in the exchange.

LOL they still have the Airport Extreme up. $300 CAD with edu. LOL. Thanks for becoming more realistic Apple.
 
CNBC Steve Jobs Interview

CNBC announced that they will have an interview with Steve Jobs on the "Closing Bell" program which begins at 3pm Eastern time (20mins from now).
 
Oh shut up, please do us all a favour.

I've been reading this forums and you've done nothing but whine since the phone was announced. Really we don't care about your opinion the 6th time its voiced.

OK lets be fair here. For most people the iPhone is a non-event since many will not switch carriers simply for a phone. However iLife and Leopard are a more viable, real world, and cheaper option. So for those who were looking to see what Apple has up their sleve in regards to iLife and Leopard this WAS a disappointment. When was the last time that Steve didn't demo an OS at MW?

And I think you are the one who should shut up because there is NO reason why anyone can't express disappointment. Only zealots get worked up to the point that they have to shout down people who a bit saddened by what Apple did or did not show.
 
It would have been revolutionary if everyone could use it. But only Cingular customers will be able to use the phone. The truly revolutionary product will be the one that everyone can use. Until then, this is a competitor to the Blackberry -- a very small market indeed.

I agree. Not everyone can use it and you also gotta have the big bucks. I wouldn't have minded so much to pay for the $499 knowing im making a good commitment with an awesome ass phone but I cant because im with another provider. Oh well.... :(
 
Apple tv has no market here until they actually make some video content available on iTunes, really. I do like the concept, personally however, I have no use for it right now. I think the market here will take a year or so to latch on, if not longer. Remember, broadcasters here have boycotted iTunes and set up their own services. (Channel 4, ITV and the BBC have versions launched or planned for some point this year.) What use is Apple TV without the content?

The phone is certainly impressive, I think it would be absurd to state otherwise. It will defiantly be priced out of my range when it hits the UK, particularly if they do partner with a network here. I choose my network, my phone doesn't do it for me by default. To be honest, my current phone, isn't even a smart phone, but does everything the iPhone claims to be revolutionary (Sony Ericsson), bar the WiFi and touch-screen so I've got to be objective and look past the glossy interface.

This is good for the mobile market. Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola will have to work harder, and make their phones better. Apple is good at innovating, and other companies are good at following and emulating, so I look forward to using versions of this or similar technology several years from now at a much reduced price when I'm in the market for such a device.
 
thats all folks?!

not one peep about leopard? not one peep about new iwork, ilife? maybe i missed something on macrumorslive... if not, i am pretty disappointed! the iphone only works with cingular. bad, very bad. i am not about to switch just because of the iphone. price with 2 year contract is 499 and 599? way too high. i was really looking forward to this keynote, but have been left wanting much more...
 
OK lets be fair here. For most people the iPhone is a non-event since many will not switch carriers simply for a phone. However iLife and Leopard are a more viable, real world, and cheaper option. So for those who were looking to see what Apple has up their sleve in regards to iLife and Leopard this WAS a disappointment. When was the last time that Steve didn't demo an OS at MW?

And I think you are the one who should shut up because there is NO reason why anyone can't express disappointment. Only zealots get worked up to the point that they have to shout down people who a bit saddened by what Apple did or did not show.

100% agree with you. I hate Verizon, but I'm not going to break my contract to switch carriers. iTV looks awesome, but I have no use for it. I want Leopard and I want iLife '07. Neither even got a mention.
 
What a phenomenal disappointment!

Wasn't this supposed to be Macworld?

No mention of .Mac, iLife, or iWork upgrades?

No mention of Macs (!).

Just one announcement of an iPod phone (didn't they do that already? Hello ROKR).

Anyhoop, here's hoping they turn things around for Macworld 2008.
 
100% agree with you. I hate Verizon, but I'm not going to break my contract to switch carriers. iTV looks awesome, but I have no use for it. I want Leopard and I want iLife '07. Neither even got a mention.

But Apple clearly doesn't have anything they can unveil about Leopard and iLife 07 yet, and they still wouldn't be available to buy until the Spring anyway.

I'm not sure what the big deal here is. The iPhone got all the attention and time because it is a completely new product from Apple. Leopard will get its attention probably at a special event/unveiling closer to when it is ready to come out.

-Zadillo
 
Wasn't this supposed to be Macworld?

No mention of .Mac, iLife, or iWork upgrades?

No mention of Macs (!).

Just one announcement of an iPod phone (didn't they do that already? Hello ROKR).

Anyhoop, here's hoping they turn things around for Macworld 2008.

Maybe you missed it, but the iPhone runs OS X. It's actually in fact a whole new class of Mac.

And seriously, you don't think there's a difference between the ROKR and
the iPhone?
 
MR's text updates were faster however Engadget's pictures actually loaded for me. MR's died around a quarter of the way in. Then came back. Then died again. :(

I was checking both sites as well at the same time. Agree that MR's text updates were definitely faster.

P/S: And I just want to say thank you. :)
 
MacRumors ROCKS!!!!

You guys had the best coverage by far!!!

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Thank you, on behalf of the "staff" here. I'm glad our live coverage worked, our photo feed worked, the forums stayed up and running, and our servers held up. It wasn't luck; it took a lot of planning and effort by arn, Knox, Mudbug, longofest, jsw, and everyone else who helped. (You know who you are.)

About Engadget: We had different types of coverage. Our feed was fast and furious, about the soonest you could get the news on the Internet, and designed to serve a huge number of site visitors with the lowest possible bandwidth. Engadget provided more of a transcript of what was said, and some larger photos, on a very large web page. Their coverage was delayed a few minutes and site visitors had to wait for a large page to load. It's good that both types of coverage are available, since the choice is a personal preference.
 
MR's text updates were faster however Engadget's pictures actually loaded for me. MR's died around a quarter of the way in. Then came back. Then died again. :(

The photos kept working for me but I'm using Firefox version 2. At least, the updates continued to work.
 
No Mini updates? Boo!!

Although I'm very impressed with the Apple TV, and even more impressed with tue iPhone (Although thats not for me, too expencive) I really wanted to see updates to the Mac Mini as I intend to buy one as soon as they get Core 2 Duo and 802.11n, along with an Apple TV and Airport Extreme BS.
 
I predict 2007 will be the last year the event will be called MacWorld. It will be called AppleWorld or something else next year...

Even though the Mac universe is expanding?

What makes a Mac a Mac? I would argue that fact that it runs the Mac OS.

Last year, the only thing Apple sold that was a Mac were the actual physical Mac computers (MacBooks, MacBook Pros, Mac minis, Mac Pros, and XServes).

This year, we now have, in addition to that, the iPhone, a new type of Mac that still runs OS X.

Next year I would expect to see the iPod also running this new "Mac OS X", in place of the old iPod-specific OS, since I expect the new line of iPods to use this same tech.

So, the "mac world" will be expanding more and more. Why are people acting like the Mac is getting short shrift?
 
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