Apple introduces new iMac (w/built-in iSight), new iPod (w/video), Front Row, Photo Booth, and iTunes 6
See the streaming video of Steve Jobs' presentation yesterday here.
Front Row is an app with a slick and tiny remote to allow you to sit on your sofa and watch DVDs, video, or slideshows of your iPhoto digital photos, and listen to your iTunes music. The iMac becomes an entertainment center -- a computer merging ever closer to a TV/multimedia/stero center.
Photo Booth -- like the little booth at the drugstore, but on your desktop -- uses the built-in iSight camera, and the computer's screen as the "flash" (it generates a white light burst). The software gives you lots of options (distortion, sepia, etc.):
Apple continues to be cutting edge. And with all the improvements, the price points remain the same -- or actually go down.
I've been a Palm PDA guy for around 8 years (currently use a Tungsten E), and my next toy will likely be a Treo 650. But I'm still hoping Apple will come up with an iPod-based smartphone (PDA, cell phone, iPod, handheld).
Right now users essentially have two PDA OS choices: WinCE (unfortunate acronym for Microsoft...), and Palm OS. Why doesn't Apple come out with a Mac PDA OS? They do an operating system better than anyone -- and to make it seamless with Mac OS X? -- makes sense to me.
Front Row is an app with a slick and tiny remote to allow you to sit on your sofa and watch DVDs, video, or slideshows of your iPhoto digital photos, and listen to your iTunes music. The iMac becomes an entertainment center -- a computer merging ever closer to a TV/multimedia/stero center.
Photo Booth -- like the little booth at the drugstore, but on your desktop -- uses the built-in iSight camera, and the computer's screen as the "flash" (it generates a white light burst). The software gives you lots of options (distortion, sepia, etc.):
Apple continues to be cutting edge. And with all the improvements, the price points remain the same -- or actually go down.
I've been a Palm PDA guy for around 8 years (currently use a Tungsten E), and my next toy will likely be a Treo 650. But I'm still hoping Apple will come up with an iPod-based smartphone (PDA, cell phone, iPod, handheld).
Right now users essentially have two PDA OS choices: WinCE (unfortunate acronym for Microsoft...), and Palm OS. Why doesn't Apple come out with a Mac PDA OS? They do an operating system better than anyone -- and to make it seamless with Mac OS X? -- makes sense to me.
posted by Barney at 6:37 PM
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