Apple is going to be huge this year! Forget the share price today. By the end of the year, $110 will see cheap.
AppleTV is nice, and I'll own one next month, but the iPhone is huge for two reasons. The cell phone industry is in need of some new features that are actually usable and iPhone brings that like the 4th of July!
OS X is the center of this touchscreen iPod device that allows you to sync your Contacts, Address Book, E-mail, and iTunes while also giving your full HTML Safari browsing. Has anyone tried to browse with IE? More work than fun is just the start. Not producing content as you see on your computer is the other. But Safari fixes that, as Apple always tends to do for us.
The phone has unique features such as visual voice mail where you can see the voice mails as you would e-mail. Select what to listen to in the order you want. No more scrolling through 5 unheard messages just to get to the last one that actually has the updated information you need. Answer a second call and link them together in a conference call with 1-icon action, or send e-mail while talking. Why only do one thing when you have Apple to help you do many at once?
Second and just as important, this gets OS X into many, many more hands than has purchased Macs. So this year should see a nice halo effect of people seeing what the OS can do, and want it on their desktop also.
Won't it be nice to talk on the phone while surfing the web, finding that phone number for mom, or having a conference call while stuck in traffic AND being able to send them e-mail?
The only thing I did not see is file exchange or Pages capability. but I suspect their Office offering won't come out until iLife 7. And being that Apple will maintain the OS, it should be an easy Apple store purchase and download.
The only bad news is availability is not until June. I'm sure Apple wants to weigh demand and order parts accordingly. This will be seen as the biggest release since OS X!
Thanks for reading,
Richard
