SAN FRANCISCO — After seeing Apple’s new hardware announcements today, one word comes to mind – UGLY. The emperor has no clothes, there, I’ve said it. Take a look at the iPod Shuffle, it looks like a combination of one of those cheapo digital cameras combined with a digital thermometer. Yuck. No Apple design flair […]
It’s quick-spin time, so get ready: this is the Macworld we’ve been waiting for. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking: the Macworld you (and I) are waiting for is the one with faster Mac towers and G5 PowerBooks. But for years, we’ve watched as Apple has been content to be a niche player, milking the […]
GarageBand 2 gets one of the biggest upgrades in iLife `05 (second only to iMovie). No audio interface hardware as rumored, but here’s the scoop: Good news: More features inherited from Logic — live viewing and editing of notation, automatic pitch correction and groove correction, built-in guitar tuner, instant save to loop library and (drum […]
The new Mac mini. It just had to be more than a cheap headless desktop computer, but it is far less. It?s a laptop without a screen or keyboard or battery. It?s an external drive with a computer squeezed in. Cheap PCs are mostly towers, generic boxes that can be added to, but are largely […]
Just past the link are my blow-by-blow notes from the today’s keynote address by Steve Jobs at Macworld Expo San Francisco. Please pardon obvious mistakes and typos….