Fake Steve Twittering Real Steve
This is not to be missed: Fake Steve Jobs attended today’s MacWorld keynote and live-Twittered it. It’s vulgar and hilarious.
I think that Dave was one of the twelve people who bought an Apple TV before they made it work right and lowered the price; it’ll be interesting to see what his upgrade experience is like.
Not excited about the MacBook Air, even if it is impossibly thin, etc. I don’t need a smaller screen and a smaller hard drive, I need a bigger hard drive, 3G wireless everywhere for a fixed rate of $20 a month, and more battery life. And more memory. And a pony.
Paying $20 apiece to equip our two iPod Touch devices with software that should have been there in the first place will make me feel like a choad, but I’ll probably do it at some point, maybe.
A movie rental that expires after 24 hours is still a stupid idea, particularly for people whose kids constantly screw up their plans. Extending the intentional bit-rot factor, even slightly (like to 27 hours) would be a big help. But even then, this feels like the flip side of the Blockbuster coin that consumers have been rejecting in droves in favor of the Netflix model. Instead of dinging you with endless late fees they simply disappear the movie you paid for. Dumb model.
A wireless terabyte network attached storage device for $500 is kind of interesting.
Still, nothing to make me leap out of my chair and run to the Apple store this year. (A 3G iPhone, maybe with more storage, might have done that this time around, and I will probably want to replace my mid-2006 MacBook Pro before the end of 2008, but there’s no rush on that.)
We have to wait two weeks, but I eagerly anticipate Apple TV Take 2 and I will write it up. I have got a ton of utility out of Take 1, but I never thought the product was going to be very successful in its current form. I mean I ripped a bunch of movies for my son and that was the main way I used it, well photos too and HD podcasts, but the “direct download” move was only a matter of time and an obvious coming change.
The big negative with movie rentals is still the 24 hour rule. Just brain dead, but again it’s not Apple’s limitation, the studios are clinging to this and I can’t even manage an argument for it. I just lost the ability to view Pirates 3 in HD from Xbox Live because of the 24 hour rule, I mean maybe I did myself a favor for not watching it all the way through, but just a stupid limitation.
I’m trying to figure out how they were able to put a computer in a phone last year, but haven’t figured out how to put a phone in a computer yet.