Notes on MacWorld 2008

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Last night I stayed from 2:00 to 4:00 o'clock, following the online coverage of MacWorld 2008 Conference and & Expo. Some thoughts:

  • In fact all sites following the presentation was not fully functional - connection errors, slow refresh. Live video streaming - couldn't find any. Maybe for the next conference some Comet based server, pushing updated to the connected clients can do the job. Hm, or can be used some form of P2P video streaming.
  • Time Capsule - so we need to replace the freedom to connect the other makers HDDs to the USB port of the AirMac with capsulated, produced be Apple HDDs. No, thanks.
  • iPhone SDK is coming in February. iPod Touch have already Mail, Maps, Notes, Stocks and Weather included. Maybe only that was interesting for me. Will probably buy an iPod Touch. Cause iPhone will never come to Japan. Google and Apple working together - bad boys(C) for life. Most of the mobiles in Japan have an Yahoo! Mail button. Will they add also a Gmail one ;)
  • Rental Movies. Worldwide Gyao Next. Tryed already with their devices. Not bad, depends on the contents. For me the interesting was not Apple TV, but the fact Apple convinced all big film makers to work with them. Scary :(
  • MacBook Air - the biggest disappointment. Just cannot figure where can I use it: 1. in home - then better use the usual MacBook; 2. in the train - Steve never traveled with Japanese train. You have just ONE FREE HAND. That's why everybody is using mobiles, not notebooks; 3. in Starbucks - are you kidding me! $3000 bucks notebook, near to my cup of coffee? No way. Think will wait for the $75 notebook.

Finnaly good tip for noise IRC channels (irssi):

/ignore -channels #noisy_spammers * JOINS PARTS QUITS NICKS