Fake Steve Jobs has some fantastic coverage of Macworld…and is offering a look into the inner psyche of Jobs while he delivers the keynote (Twitter crashed during the keynote). It’s brilliantly funny.
Hundreds of Apple faithful have been camping out in the streets around Moscone Center since last night. The brisk morning air is redolent with the odor of reefer, patchouli oil and nerd body funk. TV trucks are parked outside interviewing idiots and asking them what we’re going to announce today. The Starbucks on 4th Street has a line halfway down the block. Even the filthy hacks in the press corps have started lining up early. There’s pizza, Krispy Kreme donuts and lots of coffee. Sleeping bags and mats and folding chairs and pieces of cardboard, piles of fat geeks sprawled on the pavement — it looks like a homeless convention. Overall I think it’s about the ugliest single group of human beings I’ve ever seen in one place.
Also, FSJ’s update on the schedule change for the afternoon mass suicide slays me.
*Post keynote thoughts:
Time Capsule - would be great if they offered RAID 1. But otherwise a decent and obvious product.
iPhone update - not a big deal, details on this were leaked weeks ago.
iTunes Movie Rentals/Apple TV update - this certainly addresses the criticism I’ve had for the Apple TV which is there hasn’t been any HD content to play on it. Now there is, albeit in the form of rentals. Netflix must be pissed. Blockbuster was already done but now they just seem sad. Tivo and Amazon have to be concerned. Apple cut the price down to $229 but a HD Tivo can be purchased for $70 more. Hmmm.
Macbook Air - An amazing product if you have $3100 to blow. I wouldn’t buy the $1799 lower-end model. It has a frickin iPod hard drive in it. Parallel-ATA, not serial. 4800 RPM. I’ve seen way too many of those hard drives fail.
The design is ahead of it’s time. Maybe when SSD storage is cheaper and in higher quantities.