Quite the day.
Up at 4am to join Steve Sorbo (of seattlemacsos.com) in the line for the keynote. It's a fun thing to do, if you don't mind the cold, the boredom, and the standing around for four or five hours, and you get to see such public figures as Fake Steve Jobs, and the triumphant, high-fivin', Segway-drivin' Real Steve Wozniak.
The conference and expo are in full swing, and all are abuzz about the MacBook Air - is it the new iPhone, or the new Cube? Do people really want a subnotebook? If so, who are those people?
Personally, I think it's a fine machine. The lack of ports can be fixed with a good USB hub and a USB-to-Ethernet dongle (yours at Fry's for about ten bucks, but probably coming soon from Apple at forty or so), and it really is terribly, terribly, bite-the-back-of-your-hand pretty.
The paid upgrade for the iPod touch smacks of some variety of chicanery, but the AppleTV and movie rentals stuff is welcome if not entirely unexpected. All in all a good show, mostly a well-timed retool or retune of the existing lineup, with a few little extras thrown in.
