Philip Michaels of Macworld.com brings a summary of the event, but the interesting part are the comments from readers! If you didn’t make the show, and were too tied up to log in and follow along, this is probably the summary you want to read…
Comments heard:
Where are the updates for the crusty MacPros? Where are the Midtowers? Mac Mini replacements? Not even any new iMacs. And not ONE PEEP about Snow Leopard. No wonder Steve didn’t want to show. There was nothing TO show. X-(
and …
Worst keynote announcements yet. Yeeesh. And 50 bucks extra to keep your reflection off the screen you have to look at in order to use the computer??
then…
Apple knows how pathetic their presentation was. They shut down Apple Discussions to wait until heads cool down.
In what the company has said will be its last Macworld Expo keynote ever, Apple on Tuesday announced updates to its iLife and iWork suites while unveiling a 17-inch MacBook Pro that now mirrors the unibody design of the rest of Apple’s laptop line.
Philip Michaels, Macworld.com says :
Schiller focused largely on updating existing products. His 98-minute keynote led off with iLife ’09, the latest version of Apple’s suite of digital lifestyle applications.
Apple announced last month that Jobs would not deliver this year’s keynote and that the company would not attend future Macworld Expos. Whether it was Jobs’ absence from the keynote stage or Apple’s ambivalence about the annual Mac trade event, this year’s keynote lacked a major product introduction like the 2008 unveiling of the ultra-thin MacBook Air laptop or the iPhone’s memorable debut in 2007.
Full article by Philip Michaels, Macworld.com
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Apple also announced changes to the iTunes Store, highlighted by the news that music tracks will now be free of digital-rights management restrictions.
