Macworld 2007
9 January 2007, lunch time
In a few hours Apple will announce all sorts of crazy-shit at Macworld. There seems to be even more hype around this Macworld than any other I can recall. People are hoping for an iPhone (I don’t see it happening), a new Finder for OS X (this I do see happening), a crazy MacPro (also likely), and a host of other new gadgets from Apple. Apple usually doesn’t announce new iPods till later in the year, so I don’t expect to hear anything about video iPods today. As usual, I will probably post my thoughts on the expo later today.
Some Macworld links of note:
- People are going to be posting Macworld updates on Twitter. This may be a real test of the Twitter service, as most Mac news sites grind to a halt during the expo.
- You can play Macworld Bingo with your friends.
- Read John Gruber’s Macworld predictions.
- And as always, Macrumors will probably have the best live coverage of the event.
- Photos tagged with ‘Macworld’ over on Flickr.
Update: Macworld is happening right now.
Update: Jobs puts to rest stories about iTunes sales slowing. Apple is now the 5th largest music reseller, beating out Amazon. Apple sells 5 million songs a day. (That sounds unbelievable.) As I have said before, buying DRM’d music for a buck sucks, but clearly most people don’t seem to care. Television and Movie sales are also doing well on iTunes.
Update: The Apple TV has been announced. This was the produce billed as the iTV earlier.
Update: Holy shit there is an Apple Phone! I want one so badly. You have no idea. Engadget has a preliminary page up with information on the phone.
Update: Apple has changed their name from Apple Computers, Inc, to simply Apple, Inc — I guess this is to indicate that they make more than personal computers now.
Update: Engadget’s coverage of the event is really good. Now that the expo is over, the page loads much faster.
Update: MetaFilter discusses the iPhone.
My god that phone is possibly the single most amazing consumer device I have ever seen. I am glad that it won’t ship for at least six months. I don’t have that kind of money. And I won’t then, either, but this way I can postpone the disappointment.
by Ben on January 9 2007, 2:26 pm #
I know. $500+ with a contract. I wonder how long it’ll take to get released up here. I want one really badly. It’d probably smoke the craptastic phone I use now.
by ramanan on January 9 2007, 2:29 pm #
I find it odd that Steve didn’t mention the camera feature at all, but maybe that’s because they haven’t committed to what they’ll use in a phone half a year from now? I had to go to the product page to see that there was a camera in it.
I am really surprised that no other products were announced or anything. I mean, this device is absolutely amazing, but nothing else to announce?
by Ben on January 9 2007, 2:33 pm #
The iPhone is incredible. Using that phone though would be like screaming “MUG ME!”
I am also disappointed with only 2 releases. It would have been nice to hear some things about Leopard or possible CPU updates. Intel has a quad-core chip released does it not?
by krishna on January 10 2007, 12:00 am #