The worst MacWorld ?

[gigapixels Veteran]

Seriously, how often does Microsoft take Apple ads or logos and light them on fire?

Well, I don't know if you remember it but when Microsoft was starting on the Zune and they made those really strange ads, one showed a large bird and a small bird (representing the iPod and the Zune, respectively) and the large bird burst into flames. Not that it's the same thing, and I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but I just thought I'd mention it.

[Edrick Smith]

Time to switch to linux. Apple Computers has become Apple.... Just like every other company out there. Well not true entierly I'm just horribly disappointed. They used to actually release useful stuff at these events and now they're just interested in the media.

[Detroit]

Even though the iphone is insanely cool, leapord would touch more of people's lives :( (more pertinent to me anyway)

[AppleDave Veteran]

What's funny is that Vista is being released on schedule and Leopard wasn't even mentioned. Got to wonder what that's all about, huh.

Yeah it's on schedule now, how many times was it delayed?

[PL_ Veteran]

Must have had some pretty low expectations! I certainly didn't expect them to launch the iPhone with technology from 2004.

Brandon Live - are you that guy from that Zune video? If not, then you look JUST like him!

[C_Guy]

"People who have these types of phones are use to paying this amount.. it's not for everyone."

Definately not. Which is weird because with iPod, Apple wanted to gear it to "everyone". With the iPhone they must realize its not affordable or even appealing to everyone. I wonder why they are targetting such a smaller audience with the iPhone.

[Hills420]

A very bad MacWorld. Besides the iPhone and AppleTV - neither of which really interests me - I expected and/or wanted to hear -

- specific 10.5 release date set inc system reqs

- iwork/ilife 07

- redesigned mighty mouse

- hardware boosts to mac line

- new iSight

- 10.4.9 in software update

I was very excited to hear about iphone and apple tv but really wanted to also hear about iwork/ilife 07 and the updated mac hardware line. I am purchasing a new Mac once they bring out the new line, so I guess I am waiting a while longer.

[KeR]

I remember when the iPod first came out, the price was outrageous too.

[GM_Axis]

Yeah it's on schedule now, how many times was it delayed?

That's what I was just thinking.

[Hurmoth]

Yeah it's on schedule now, how many times was it delayed?

It was officially delayed three times, although no specific date was ever publicly announced. Even so, they did do a complete restart in there too. So a delay would be expected with a complete restart. It still would have been nice for Jobs to give us some kind of update.

I was actually considering going with a MacBook Pro, hoping that we'd get a release time or at least a time frame for Leopard, but with no mention of Leopard at all, I'm going with a Windows Vista powered notebook for sure now. (unless a time frame is announced before Vista is released--which if there was a mention at Macworld about it, I doubt we'll hear anything about it in the next 20 days).

Edited January 9, 2007 by Hurmoth

[[Fosters]]

The phone is OK in my opinion not revolutionary.

Typing emails on a small touch screen really sucks -- so in a way its also a step back.

My brother brought a mobile phone last year which does everything this does and includes GPS + a sliding keyboard but less ram. I will guess there will be new mobile phones with more ram by mid-year.

[Black Hawk]

w00t! My current contract ends in May and the iPhone is just what I was looking for. :punk:

[GM_Axis]

What I find odd about making the entire keynote about the iPhone is that it's obviously earlier than Apple would have liked to talk about the iPhone, Jobs said it himself, they knew it was going to get leaked when FCC tested it, they figured the news should come from Apple.

So why not do the entire beginning of the keynote the same, same with Apple TV, then say "well, you're going to need a good OS to serve all that media from.." Make the meat of the show about Leopard..

... do a "one more thing" at the end and show off the iPhone a bit and leave the rest of the explaining to the website.

There are two reasonable explanations that I can think of and one of them is pretty depressing.

1) The one we're all hoping for is that Leopard will be done soon, like March soon, and they'll be holding a special event to show it off. I'm sorry but you don't show it off first at the 2006 WWDC, say Spring 2007 then wait till the NEXT WWDC just to TALK about it next. We can only hope the event is in a few weeks.

2) Apple had a lot of pressure from... **cough** outside.. forces to debut the iPhone early, and strong. I'm thinking not only Cingular, but Yahoo. You can basically count any huge corporation that has any kind of technology banking on this phone. Yahoo is the most like candidate with their movement to IMAP. It may not seem big to you and me, but I bet it is over at Yahoo. And Cingular.. well don't even get me started on that guy.

[TruckWEB]

Microsoft is free to talk about Vista all they want. Nothing from Apple to "beat" the launch of MS. You can say that OS X is already better than Vista, but with not a bleep from Apple about Leopard....

[I am Reid]

I have a tmobile sidekick too

[osirisX]

After watching the keynote and seeing the iPhone in action it's better than I first thought. But still to expensive for me.

[Vice]

I thought the keynote was awesome I didn't have high expectations I really just wanted to see the iPhone and it did look pretty amazing I think this is the first time that the final product blows all the rumours out of the water no one could even make up a rumour that included those features it was just so good.

Can't wait for June!

[error404ts]

I'm not sure how anyone can be disappointed by the iPhone or Appltv. For the money the iPhone is amazing - is there any other phone that can do everything that it can do? And I mean everything, including the screen size, storage space, and all of it's abilities? I've seen Treo's, Palm Pilots, PDA's, etc, and none of them have the capabilities that the iPhone has. And they all usually run, what, about $300-400 (without a contract or renewal)? Maybe a little more depending on the tech? Nah, the iPhone has them all beat. Is it expensive? Yes, it is, but even without the phone capabilities it makes an incredible mulitmedia toy that also beats any previous iPods (well, except for storage capabilities)

And as far as Leopard goes, if they are going through a change in GUI (as stated in recent Apple forums) then there wasn't much of a chance to show off Leopard or any of the iLife applications. I'm sure this will come later at another event - it has to. For Apple to show off Leopard as it is right now would be ridiculous if the speculation of a new GUI is true.

[Tech_Dude_5000]

May be new mac hardware will come when leopard launches

[mattrobs]

They didn't have time -- 3/4 of the event was the iPhone, and it was nice and thorough.

[Pox]

Not a mention of OS X. I've had the Macworld countdown on my dashboard for over three months just to see what Leopard was going to be like. What, now we wait till WWDC? That can't be right. Spring my arse.

I could've sworn Leopard was like, out 0_o

[osirisX]

Apple showed a preview of Leopard back at WWDC 2006 and everyone expected them to fully show Leopard off today. Leopard is being released in Spring of this year (Autumn for us in Australia).

[PyX]

How did you guys expect updated hardware? All the lines were just updated. Usually, they give an 8 month interval between each upgrade, the Mac Pro is 5 months old, give them a break.

The new iPhone is a nice preview of the upcoming iPod... actually, I think it became the new iPod nano (as of June), but it's a bit expensive lol

The lack of iLife, iWork and Leopard kills me. I wanted TV displays too, but oh well.

[LTD]

Apple's Big Product is the iphone.

The hardware lines were *just* updated. What did you want to see? A 24-core processor????

Leopard is on the way, but it wasn't shown. Apple *knows* they didn't show off Leopard. I think they had pretty good reasons. If you want to know what they are, call them.

Otherwise, get over it.

[TruckWEB]

Even if Apple did refresh the hardware, they could have added :

1) A new iPod with the same display as the iPhone, but only for music/video/photo with a HDD of 40 / 80 Gig.

2) Mac Mini with a Core2 Duo

3) Mac Pro with the new Intel QuadCore CPU

4) Upgraded display, removing the 20,23 inch, replace them with 22, 24 inch and lower the cost. Maybe a updated 30 inch display. Apple LCD seriously cost too much.

Those are all things that people where wishing for. Those are all things that Apple could have done with no problem.