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Blogging Mac World
Posted by Chris Knudsen on January 10th, 2007
I’m here at Mac World in San Francisco having a great time. I’m blogging from the Microsoft Bloggers Lounge. There’s one other person in “the lounge” blogging with me. Needless to say, MS isn’t too popular here. Their booth is virtually empty. They even have a guy looking over my shoulder to make sure that I am blogging and not reading my email. Lame!
Here are a couple of observations from the show:
- Google is obviously positioning themselves to make a play in the graphic design arena. Not a good move if you ask me. The Adobe booth is packed - its one of the busiest booths at this show and they are launching some very cool products.Â
- iPhone is cool; however, I think it will have some drawbacks. You can only use Cingular as your service provider and Cingular sucks in Utah. As a matter of fact, the cingular service dropped a call and then the phone couldn’t get Internet access in front of a demo group of about 500 people. I also heard that the Cingular CEO blew the keynote yesterday. The phone/PDA/iPod is completely touch screen, which means that if you want to use it to view video or pictures you’re going to be constantly wiping finger prints and facial oil off the screen. I am concerned by the amount of technology packed into this tiny device. I’m not sure if I would recommend buying version 1.0 of this device but we’ll see what happens. Overall, I was impressed. People in the demo were clapping and cheering at some of the functionality (like proximity detection). I’ve learned being here that its not too hard to impress a Mac fanatic.
- Apple TV is amazing. I was taken back by the product and I think it could be huge. In my opinion, Apple should be giving this equal or more attention than the iPhone.
- The Canon booth is nuts - they have some amazing products. HP’s digital photo products are getting a ton of attention as well.
- I stopped by the Shieldzone booth earlier and they were very busy. This is a great venue for them.
More to come…Â
“MS isn’t too popular here … They even have a guy looking over my shoulder to make sure that I am blogging and not reading my email.”
That explains the lack of popularity, you being at a Mac event aside.
Left by Blake Snow on 01/10/2007