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BTW, switched back about a week ago. Small learning curve to adopt, but all ready feeling greater productivity coming my way…

Worst keynote ever!
Shame on you, Steve Jobs. 2 hours of badly executed demos of midi keyboards and an ipod mini priced at 249$ which doesn’t get Apple into the entry point of the mp3 player market.

My littlebrother - the digital beat generation poet - wise words of the day:
“The only good thing about Windows is that everybody’s using it”

Rant: What standards to hold Apple up against?
All the pundits are bashing apple for the iMac announcement - and they would have every right to do so, if this was an ordinary pc/software company. (Just look at the announcements/previews Microsoft and Moxi made the same day - that’s where the visionary stuff is happening).
This isn’t Apple of the 70’s and 80’s - this is a funky sexy pc company that does design, usability and marketing very well - which are the only areas that they are focusing on. It’s the legend of the garage, the two Steve’s, revolution, counterculture, the original Apple team and the founder’s comeback.
It’s the first love, the magic tale, the innocence of digital generation!
Sure i would love to have Apple take chances, take part in the future of web services, the semantic web, digital identity, truly reshaping the user interfaces of the future, personal publishing, etc., but that isn’t the business that Apple themselves thinks they’re in. (allthough a lot of their competences in usability, branding, etc. would be deeply appreciated in web services/digital identity).
The iMac will, if it’s successful, probably speed up the proces in the rest of the industry of adapting flat-screens, put even more focus on design and the soft sides of hardware products and a lot of the industry players will give an integrated product design another try - call that revolution if you want.
So, forget all your usual standards and enjoy the hell of show that Apple puts on! That’s at least what i’m doing ;_)

Steve, I’m Back!
Just put in an order for the new Apple iMac G4. My first Macintosh in six years after i abandoned the platform in 1996. The new iMac is the most well-designed desktop computer ever seen - it isn’t the most elegant at first sight, but it is a designed piece for real world use! It’s organic/natural design - there’s something almost human to it - or as Steve Jobs instructed Jonathan Ive: “Let each element be what it is, be true to itself. Instead of looking like the old iMac, the thing should look more like the flowers in the garden. It should look like a sunflower.”
Looking forward to having it as my home office machine!
And no - i’m not suffering from Jobs’ reality distortion field ;_)

The next iMac? [uspto - requires quicktime plugin]