Crystal ball: Macworld Expo 2007

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I tend to agree with the macphone as red herring

Not long ago I was reading a web bio of The Steve and while I have long believed that he is a visionary and that he has singlehandedly affected our modern lives more than any living human (okay, go ahead and flame, but he is the person who is responsible for making the GUI a mass market product), I was struck by something in the bio about Thomas Edison.

I tend to think that like the iTV, most of what comes out of MacWorld will be unexpected, and likely why a lot of Leopard is under wraps. I have no idea what it is, though Cringely has been predicting big screens from Apple for a long time. I think some it will have an initial hunh? factor, but maybe the whole strategy will become clear.

Why the disappearance of the iSight? Legal troubles in Europe? I was thinking more like a Windows-friendly usb model, but no one seems to be saying that. iSights on big screens? That strikes me as weird and while it makes a certain kind of sense, it also has a big brother kind of echo to it that creeps me out. (As does the possibility that someone could hijack the one on my iMac.

The thing that's most striking about all of these predictions is that none of them is very interesting. Except iTV, which The Steve has already shown us. How does that fit together with the phone, the monitors/tvs, aside from the obvious? Where does google fit in? Disney?

Their new teaser logo seems to point to the movies. Is he going to out-tube youtube? Has narrowcasting's time come?

I know that I download a lot of free content (Ze Frank's The Show, for example, and lots of other podcasts -- Make Magazine, etc.) from iTunes. Maybe that's where this is going.

But what would Thomas Edison be working on?

Posted by: failednovelist   Posted on: 01/02/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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