Tuesday, January 11, 2005
I get a tear in my eye during everything keynote. This one was one of the best, with the most amazing new products. If you are at all in the tech industry (or just a geek like me) you should watch the video stream here so you can see the demos, see Steve present everything, and get all the jokes against Microsoft and other companies. But here's a quick summary:
Tiger: Steve demod the new OS due for release in a few months. Cool features include Dashboard, a new Mail, and Spotlight our OS integrated desktop search tool.
Final Cut Express HD: Based on Final Cut Pro 4.5 that I work on, this product now supports HDV editing.
iLife 05: iPhoto has new features, and really cool new book printing options. New iMovie supports HDV editing. New iDVD, and new Garage Band (demo'd by John Mayer)
iWork: Good bye (and good riddens) to Microsoft Word. Pages is a word processor that does what you need (make good looking documents) and cuts out all the crap that makes Word big and bloated.
The common theme in both iLife and iWork (what makes them so great) is templates. Every one of these applications has templates so you can very easily use Apple designed themes and make super looking projects in a second, or spend a little more time to customize.
Mac mini: New $500 mac. This is the first time Apple has entered this market and people can no longer say Macs are expensive. This is BYODKM: bring your own display, keyboard, mouse. It's a super small computer but has everything you would ever need. This is going to get a lot of switchers who already own monitors and shitty $500 dells. And the education (k-12) market should buy a million of these.
iPod shuffle: When I first saw this product, I thought who would use something with no screen? But I see it now. When I listen to my ipod mini, I use the shuffle mode about 90% of the time. So they nixed the screen and made shuffle the standard mode. Works for me. And the price is right.
Update: Thank you, Steve.
Tiger: Steve demod the new OS due for release in a few months. Cool features include Dashboard, a new Mail, and Spotlight our OS integrated desktop search tool.
Final Cut Express HD: Based on Final Cut Pro 4.5 that I work on, this product now supports HDV editing.
iLife 05: iPhoto has new features, and really cool new book printing options. New iMovie supports HDV editing. New iDVD, and new Garage Band (demo'd by John Mayer)
iWork: Good bye (and good riddens) to Microsoft Word. Pages is a word processor that does what you need (make good looking documents) and cuts out all the crap that makes Word big and bloated.
The common theme in both iLife and iWork (what makes them so great) is templates. Every one of these applications has templates so you can very easily use Apple designed themes and make super looking projects in a second, or spend a little more time to customize.
Mac mini: New $500 mac. This is the first time Apple has entered this market and people can no longer say Macs are expensive. This is BYODKM: bring your own display, keyboard, mouse. It's a super small computer but has everything you would ever need. This is going to get a lot of switchers who already own monitors and shitty $500 dells. And the education (k-12) market should buy a million of these.
iPod shuffle: When I first saw this product, I thought who would use something with no screen? But I see it now. When I listen to my ipod mini, I use the shuffle mode about 90% of the time. So they nixed the screen and made shuffle the standard mode. Works for me. And the price is right.
Update: Thank you, Steve.