Outside the US Boxee is pretty USELESS!!! So please stop claiming it to be the second coming of christ...

Interesting that they call it Carousel. Will this be the new name of CoverFlow in Leopard? After all the name "CoverFlow" wouldn't make much sense inside the Finder.

God forbid they will update one of their products!

I mean the iPod is still up to 2005 specs and the MacMini is still sporting a CoreDuo.

Norway is also not part of the EU!

Ok, here is my story of Mac market share growth:
In 1996 I bought a Mac. At the same time I started doing to work in the Netherlands were almost nobody was using Macs and everyone thought I'm a freak for using a Mac.

Nothing changed until 2003 when I bought a 2nd hand iMac. Soon after that a friend of mine also bought a 2nd hand iMac. In 2004 I bought an iBook, my brother followed and this friend also bought an iBook. A few months later I arranged a 2nd hand iMac for my best friend who has turned into a true Apple fan. The other friend by now switched to an Mac Book Pro. My brother and I are waiting for Core2Duo Mac minis to buy.
Additionally at the research institute were I work I all of a sudden see people using iBooks, PowerBooks and MacBook Pros, while I converted my PC at work to a 'Hackintosh'. Last thing I heard was that another colleague ordered a 24" iMac.

That's in the Netherlands where just a few years ago nobody would have ever considered buying an Apple product.

Only if it's on Core 2 Duo Mac mini!

A simple reason why Apple needs this product:
12" iBook users can move to the 13" MacBook
12" Powerbook users have nowhere to go.

The MacBook is a students laptop. Not even the black one could be called a 'premium' machine.

The Zune is a huge blow???
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/new-for-you/top-sellers/-/electronics/all/

There are 9 iPods in the Top20 at Amazon... The Zune? at #45

So this is all based on a random blog writing half a sentence in italics? Give me a break!

In defense of Apple:
I never ever expected 10.5 to arrive this year and I never ever read any announcements or even rumours that it would. I always thought it would arrive in January or spring.

BUT, after reading about those mediocre improvements to the OS I decided that I will pirate the next version instead of again chipping out another 150 Euro for additional features I will very rarely use or don't care about. I was very pissed about going from Panther to Tiger for 150 Euro for the iCandy of Dashboard and the rarely used Spotlight. It was my first upgrade of OS X and since then I will only pay for an OS upgrade if it also feel like an OS upgrade. I really hope Apple doesn't believe going from 10.4 to 10.5 will be in any way similar to going from XP to Vista. It will be more like going from XP SP1 to SP2.