Steve Jobs keynote at MacWorld was as entertaining as ever (although I have to admit I was at the pub for the majority of it) the main announcement seems to have been the Macbook Air which is all very cool but costs an absolute fortune. I will be able to hold back and survive with my meaty Macbook Pro 17″. In other announcements I have been able to “upgrade” from my jailbroken iPod Touch to the newly released and officially supported iPod Touch with mail, maps stocks etc. It costs £12 but in terms of being officially supported I would say it’s a move well worth making. The upgrade even kept all of my old settings for mail which is pretty cool.
The rest of the announcements seem to be pretty minor. As Volker says the Apple TV changes are good for Americans but don’t affect us Europeans and the iPhone updates make no difference to me as I am tied into a contract with a Nokia phone for quite some time yet.
All in all an interesting set of announcements but nothing earth shattering. But then we weren’t expecting much more.
Ooh Matt, I haven’t seen the iPod Touch with the new bells and whistles. You’re bringing it, right?
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We’ll see how it works out.
Matt
Thanks for the summary, Matt. I was hoping for an 80 gig iPhone announcement. That’s when I’ll go for it.
I think 80gb is a *long* way off bearing in mind that the SSD for the Air is only 64gb and costs $999. It’s going to be a couple of years before the price comes down sufficiently.
The received wisdom at the moment is that there will be a 16gb iPhone with 3G announced some time around the summer. That will be the point when it starts to become interesting to me.
Matt
Being the earlier adoptor that I usually am it has been hard for me to hold off on an iPhone. Financially that has been good – as I am still in contract with Orange. Hopefully the rumored 3g model is not too far off.