Macworld Expo Keynote

I went to the Black Swamp Mac Users Group meeting at Beaners in Perrysburg last night and to my surprise there were 21 people there.

We tried to watch the keynote which had only just been released as a video stream at 6.30pm. Alas we could not get the stream due to high demand. So Chris Hamady went through the announcements at MacWorld.

I think that the iPhone was cool looking .... but due to the cost ($500 +) and the fact that Cingular coverage sucks in NW Ohio. I doubt I will ever own one of these babies...

The AppleTV looks interesting, I do want to put all my DVDs into digital format and play them using Front Row on my TV. I am not sure if this device will do all that I want to do.

I will be waiting to see what comes in the way of Video ipods. I would buy a Full screen video ipod with the same form factor as the iPhone if it was reasonably priced.

I wonder why Apple chose to do only non-macintosh announcements at a MacWorld. I feel a little slighted... Oh well I guess that they had a captive audience and with CES going on they needed to use up some of the Oxgen..

Maybe they should change the name of MacWorld Expo to Apple World Expo.