Finally, the MacBook Pro 1
Stupid Name, but I'm sure I'll be ordering one.
I'm just waiting for confirmation that it can run Windows as well.
It looks like I might finally be free from carrying my Powerbook and my Dell to work every day.
Steve Jobs and Apple, my back, which is aching from carrying two laptops everyday, thanks you.
Update: Anybody see a number for battery life? Hopefully this thing runs longer than the old Powerbooks, but I haven't seen anything about it yet.
iTunes Media Store Can't Flop!
I just saw a post by Thomas Hawk about the new shows posted on the iTunes Music Store that includes the following quotes:
WHO IN THE WORLD IS GOING TO PAY TO DOWNLOAD ALL THIS STUFF?
THIS THING IS GOING TO FLOP SO HARD.
and it got me thinking. There's no way this can flop. Think about it, the cost of getting a clip in to iTunes from the source material probably isn't more than a few dollars (if anyone has real cost info and wants to e-mail it to me I'll update this figure). Then all Apple does is upload the clip to their servers and let it sit there (trivial cost). So if we assume that Apple makes $0.10 per show download, it only takes 10-20 downloads for a show to break even, and from there on out it's essentially pure profit. I'm pretty sure that Apple can generate 10-20 downloads on almost anything they put up there, even if most of us (me included) aren't really interested in the stuff they're putting up. It's the same model as selling software, but with a much larger and more diverse audience buying. Sounds like a pretty good business model to me, and definitely not one that'll flop.
End of the Year Ideas
You can tell it's getting close to the end of year, as the tech ideas that normally seem to come fast and furious seem to have tapered off a bit, and my day is a little more boring because of it. This week so far we've got "High Speed" Cingular cell phone access, NBC shows on iTunes, and Rhapsody for the Mac. Not exactly groundbreaking stuff.
Ah well, I suppose we've got January to look forward to, although hopefully someone will surprise me before then.
