No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Meet MacBook Air.
As I told my wife, I am so getting one of these!

Boy, do I love this day. 53 weeks ago, I sat, comfortable but excited, in the Media section of the audience, waiting for my first live Keynote. As geeky and fanboy as it sounds, I’ll always remember (and bore my kid to death with stories of) that day. The iPhone was announced. Burned into my [...]

Well, the day is upon us. We are the Apple faithful, and many of us have waited in line, paid our hundreds of dollars and are counting the hours until Steve Jobs gets up on the stage, wearing jeans and turtleneck (I’m guessing) to tell us what the focus of our lives will be these [...]

Last year, around this time, I attended my second ever MacWorld in San Francisco (January 14-18 this year). For the first time last January however, I was on a Media pass and had access to Steve Jobs’ Keynote Address (January 15 this year), the most exciting event in the Macintosh year. New products are introduced, [...]

Well, Steve did it. Went onstage yesterday, introduced a couple new iPods and then, with a dramatic flair…Well, actually almost under his breath, cut the price of the iPhone by $200.
Ouch. Some of the fanboys are pissed.
I paid $599 for mine the day after they came out, but if I’d waited, I could have saved [...]

Jeesh, he’s hilarious…And he’s got his iPhone!
Welcome to the Tribe, Stephen…

Technorati : Colbert, iPhone

Dan Gillmor is a smart guy, and I usually agree with his opinions. He misses the boat in his current post at All Things Digital though, where he argues that the iPhone “feels like a beta product” and is “the most shamelessly overhyped consumer product since Windows 95.”
Shamelessy hyped? Sure. But overhyped? No way. With [...]