- Movie Rentals. Thumbs down. So much potential, so much wrong.
- Zero support for 5G / 5.5G iPods. You can’t play rented movies on them. Period. You need to buy a new one.
- Zero support for HD on anything other than an AppleTV. So you can’t watch HD movies on your Mac.
- Zero support for transferring purchases made on the AppleTV. If you buy on your Mac, you can transfer to an AppleTV, iPod, or iPhone. If you buy on your AppleTV, you can transfer it nowhere. This also means that anything you buy on a Mac that you later decide to watch on an AppleTV cannot be HD.
- 24 hours isn’t enough. You get 24 hours to watch your movie from the time you press the play button the first time. Simply not enough. This needs to be 48 hours at least. What happens if your 24 hours are up in the middle of the movie?
- Time Capsule. Big thumbs up. Very aggressively priced. They need a firmware update for the Extreme, so it can do this. I’d have liked to see an official add-on for current AirPort Extreme users, i.e. myself. Now I have to buy another thing - what do I do with the one I’ve got? Anyone want to buy a near-new AirPort Extreme?
- iPhone firmware. Thumbs up, excellent feature additions, though I’m sticking with my jailbroken 1.1.2 until this version is hacked. The tip-off is that I don’t want to wait. The faux GPS is killer. Admittedly, some of these features should have been there from the start (chapters & lyrics). My iPod shuffle supports chapters. Now where are my to-dos?
- iPod Touch firmware. Thumbs way down. $20? You’ve got to be kidding me. Don’t even think of blaming this on SOX. And what do you want to bet that you can’t watch rented movies on one until you fork over the cash? It’s dumb, customer-hostile stuff like this that loses a company mindshare. I don’t even own one, and it pisses me off.
- MacBook Air. Hand wavering in the middle. Thin like your wallet if you buy one. In all seriousness, it’s a very cool machine. It just seems like it’s a niche product. The sort of thing that will develop a cult following from a rabid hardcore, but fail to cross over into mass-market appeal. After a few years of mediocre sales, it will be unceremoniously axed, to much wailing and gnashing of teeth from the devoted few. Think G4 Cube, 12” PowerBook, Newton, iPod Hi-Fi.
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