iParadise Lost

A yawning keynote by the old duffer Phil schiller
A new mac mini clad in Aluminum
A new faster imac even thinnner with LCD instant on
A new Apple TV (that maybe combined with mac mini)
A new ilfe 09 suite with more mobile device integration

A one more thing moment by Steve himself, there is no way that Apple would bow out of Macworld without a word from Steve who may indeed announce he is stepping down. He did once mention top management teams work best for a decade and that 10 year point has just been passed.

Well what more can you say ? Pray ? Johnny Ive for CEO ??

With the new that Apple are pulling out for Macworld in 2010 and Steve Jobs wont be giving the key note at 2009 (why bother going now ?) it really begs the question what do large industry conference have going for them these days. In terms of business booth prices are so expensive hotel prices inflated during the time of the conference and dare I say it due to technology this is little need to meet up face to face.

Or is that the point if we give up entirely on face to face are we risking the fact that business will become so virtual that the very thought of a human meeting will make us run for the hills ?

Which will you attend in 2009 ?

Utz

In no particular order :

1 Bento Database for the rest of us software
2 Flip mino video camera
3 iphone app store -apps night stand italk and scribble
4 Writeroom text editor - so clean so clear
5 Cambria font- very 2009
6 Nintendo wii ware app - bubbles
7 OmniFocus -go plan it all
8 Solar chargers in theory and when they work with the iphone
9 AB sutton ipod and iphone cases - so bespoke and so lovely
10 http://www.slideshare.net/ -facebook for powerpoint ideas fab

and one for next year - the new palm OS we hope and pray !

And yours ?

Yes it's sold million and yes its made pocket browsing fun and it's lovely and sleek and oh so apple. But like a lot of apple stuff its not as brilliant as the shine of their marketing would make out or nearly as fast. Anyway I'd love to know yours are so here are a few of mine.

1 with so much info now on your phone why is there still know copy and paste

2 I like simple and one touch but could we have a few phone features given we have such a nice screen

3 My day - a one stop first screen to see your business day or customise the home screen with a little more info.

4 A better battery talk time/surf time left gauge

I know all of these may be in the app store somewhere but I also know Apple are very protective of what you can use on the iphone.

What about you ?

Utz

So this will be a graph on every mobile tech managers presentation slides - Apple are beating the Microsoft mobile platform in to fourth place globally by smart phone sales. It was not long ago that Steve Ballmer chuckling at the expensive iPhone saying that Microsoft had the mobile software on a whole rafter of handsets- including the out of sync Palm and the better placed HTC sets. Obviously Android is not showing up yet but it shows how this market is just at its beginning with a lot of options being lobbed at the consumer and not all of them sticking and that goes for the software and also the hardware that is offered.

The market share by OS software platform :

1 Nokia Symbian 49.8%
2 Rim Blackberry 15.9%
3 Apple OSX 12.9%
4 Microsoft Mobile 11.1%
5 Linux 7.2%
6 Palm 2.1%
7 Other 1.%