Russell Beattie is disappointed with Steve Job's Keynote from yesterday. I have to admit that I was hoping for a cheaper iPod as well, but when all is said and done, the price will drop, it's just not time yet.
As for Russell's point that the Mini is more like a marketing move than a true product innovation, I agree, but I don't see that as a negative! As in my post from yesterday, Apple finally owns a market. If the market leader doesn't make these "marketing" moves then someone else will....it's been the story of Apple's life and I for one am glad that they are finally making strategic moves that are meant to support the innovation/customer experience moves for which they are rightfully famous.
Oh, and Garage Band? Now THAT'S cool. I've been looking at Soundtrack for some time with envy but couldn't get myself to spring 200 bucks for it. Now, I'm showing up at an Apple store the day iLife comes out so I can try this thing out. Today's synths/sequencers/digital recorders are far beyond my abilities and interests (speaking as an old saxophone player here), but if it works as promised, Garage Band will let me use a computer to create music like no program since "Dr. T's Sequencer" on my old Commodore 64 (anyone else remember that?). All my iMovies will heretofore feature original soundtracks. Like I said...cool.
Steve,
I'm pretty excited about GarageBand, but really excited about a faster iPhoto. I just finally started playing with iMovie 3 recently and found out how awesome and easy it was.
mini iPod, at first, a little disappointed, but now, pretty excited. I do think that this will be a great product. I was at the apple store yesterday, and they say that have had an overwhelming response of people calling in and coming in for them, and many many pre-orders.
Pink and Silver are the two most popular colors.
Bhavesh
Posted by: Bhavesh Patel | January 11, 2004 at 10:01 AM