MacWorld 2004, Epilogue


Abstract: MacWorld 2004 was one of the best in years. Most of what I saw was evolutionary, not revolutionary, and that is okay. Mac OS X is built on a solid core and this is a good time for products to mature, evolve and the platform to entrench itself.



I have resisted Panther. I have nothing against the OS, except maybe concerns with the, in my opinion, somewhat sketchy quality control with the first release. It is just that I have not seen anything I need in this release. It's like when they released Windows XP. It's nice and pretty but Windows 2000 still does everything I need done. Jaguar gets done what I need done. Why fix what isn't broken?

Since MacWorld my wish list has been extended. There was some really cool stuff there. But, the growing iPod centricity of the event made me wonder. Is the day far off where we will have an event devoted to Apple's music and perhaps video entertainment business eclipse the Mac side of the house? Will Apple spin off its computer business and become a digital entertainment content provider? Is that too far fetched? Will that happen, "when hell freezes over"?

Posted: Sun - January 11, 2004 at 10:06 AM      

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