macworld's social software playing catch-up?
Now that the dust has settled a bit from yesterday's MacWorld Keynote, lets take a look at what some of these announcements may mean.
(Take a look at Engadget to see a full rundown of what the new products were).
MacBook Pro: Nice looking enclosure - it surprised a lot of people, by being more of a progression rather than a total redesign of the already successful Powerbook look. This is where Apple's Industrial Design excels over so many other similar companies - that they can take so long perfecting something like the lid closing mechanism - a feature that a vast majority of users would not notice - is a credit to design. Looks like iSight integration will be standard across the line. However Apple really do risk annoying some of their third party accessory manufacturers (especially after the 5G iPod resizing) and people hoping to re-use their power adaptors by reshaping the plug (even though it is a very innovative and well thought out progression!)
iLife: A bit puzzling why Apple seems to catch a year and half later on what the majority of the web community has been championing without them. Although all of the tools were well presented and the templates on offer in iLife are of the highest quality, it does makes you wonder who was asleep for the past year in Cupertino (for photocasting, read Flickr) it seems that Apple can be slow in picking up on lifestyle trends such as podcasting and blogging? No doubt the jury will be out on potential improvements over iPhoto 5's reported performance quirks.
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