Live Updates: Apple Goes Back to Mac - New Air?
Apple's been all about its iOS devices the past while. Is this the time that Apple gets back behind the original computing product?
10:00 - Steve hits the stage and introduces Tim Cook to start the Back to the Mac event.
10:04 - Tim Cook is talking about how well the Mac still doing. How it's growing faster than the PC and the rest of the industry. 600,000 registered Mac developers per month, with 30,000 new ones per month. One of the recent new ones was Valve Software.
10:06 - Yay, the Mac is getting great games like Half-Life! (But where is our Episode 3?)
10:07 - 318 Apple stores. Lots of new stores selling people to who have never used a Mac before. Half of the Mac buyers are new to the platform.
10:10 - Steve is back on stage talking about iLife.
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- Blizzard Sues StarCraft II Hackers
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- Steve Jobs Hates on RIM, Android, Smaller Tablets
- Apple Making Huge Money; iPad Outsells Macs
- Microsoft Gives More Free Software to NGOs
- Is This the New, Even Thinner MacBook Air?
- Onkyo Windows 7 Tablet Costs $1129
- Apple Launches Two Crazily Skinny MacBook Airs
- Force Unleashed II, Black Ops PC Specs
- Samsung Galaxy Tab Coming to Verizon
- Microsoft Unveils Subscription Version of Office
- Android 3.0 Sample Tablets Available by Dec. '10
- PC Enthusiast Builds 70TB Loaded PC with 40 Fans
- Happy First Birthday, Windows 7 (240,000,000!)
- The HP Slate is Finally Official; It Costs $800!
iYawn.
iYawn.
Amen. Every possible relevant comment on this presentation has now been given.
and yet more bore will surely follow.
Of course the Mac is growing faster than the PC because everybody who wants a computer and has half a brain pretty much already has a PC, so there's not much of a market left. Those without a brain are lapping up iPads.
Now, compare Mac purchases to PC component upgrades and then we'll see where the computing spend really is.
ipads are useless, their macs aren't that good my mates mac has been in the shop more times than most normal laptops.
macs suck.
ipads are useless
iPads are awesome if you apply them correctly - I've used one for demonstrating project concepts, approval videos, design work and initial website builds.
BUT I can do that with any tablet so it's not something only the "magical" iPad can do. Doing it on a tablet instead of a laptop has an extra "wow" factor which is always important when dealing with clients.
I thought the spam situation was improving...