Apple announced a new MacBook Air, a new version of Mac OS X and iLife ’11. But they also announced a new philosophy.
Their hardware vision of the future is the MacBook Air they made. Flash storage, (lighter, safer) high-resolution display, important graphics processor and so forth. My first impression is that it is great, but I don’t like the MacBook Air. They aren’t powerful. Steve, we didn’t ask for an iPad with an actual keyboard, we asked for a multitasking-capable machine. We’ll see. I don’t think that the next MacBook Pros are going to go through the flash memory treatment, but it’s just an early opinion.
Their software vision of the future is iOS. iOS meets OS X. Multi-touch gestures, on the trackpad and the Mouse—which has finally become useful. As you probably think, the Mac App Store is a broken promise. It’s not because Steve said that there won’t be a Mac App Store that only allows approved apps. So, the Mac App Store (MAS) will probably be a great experience and more certainly a place where you can buy quality software for relatively low prices.
The real thing is the trackpad. The future is there. Both hardware and software use it and this is where everything will happen.
