10 Things I gleaned from MacWorld Expo
Jan 12, 02:54 PM by Rich Webster
There’s been much hooha about MacWorld Expo these last few days. I’ve been going to this thing sinch the ‘80s. I was there on Tuesday, I have little to add, but here it is:
*The iPhone is great. Issues/problems be damned, it really does great things with the whole smartphone idea.
**It needs to be opened for developers **It needs to be available through other providers than Cingular/AT&T **It needs a bigger storage capacity **But, once again, Apple has leapfrogged the whole marketplace. Ta Da!
*Apple TV is nice. Not an urgent “got to have” but nice.
*MacWorld Expo needs to be split into “iPod Expo” AND “MacWorld Expo”. Those pod accessories clutter the place up.
*Developers need to embrace the Expo again. There just aren’t enough vendors to justify attending the whole show. One day was (barely) enough. I would’ve liked two days so I could sit through some more demos.
*The weather was beautiful while I was there.
*People got in line for the keynote at 1am. That’s crazy. We decided we should hire homeless to hold places in line. They’re on the street anyway. We’d auction the positions off. You arrive at 8am, hand over the cash, all fresh and rested.
*All the games are first-person shooters. The motion makes me nauseous. Can’t we have some nice CivII/StarCraft kind of games again?
*Coolest thing outside the Expo: Hannspree a store on Union Square with LCD TVs and monitors, dressed up, nicely. Good prices! I wish they had an affiliate program.
*Coolest thing inside the Expo, not from Apple: Photoshop CS3 .
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