Mike,

What is coming after Tiger? an OS that looks like iTunes? Is that really it? I believe most of us agree that the direction the Mac division is taking is getting old: The hardware is getting old and heavy -nothing there in two years!-, the software is iTunes married with Vista.

Then again, I still hear a lot of people saying I would love to take my Mac to work or on a business trip, but I don't want to risk it, being in a hotel trying to load up last minute data from my ERP only to be hung on the phone asking somebody to download it to Excel and pass it my way.

The stock was down 4% huge percentage points after the announcement yesterday, and the trend looks like to continue until the iPhone comes out. But then again, it says a lot about the Mac and OS development business of Apple.

Have you tried to look at an Apple site for enterprise solutions? They show you a lonely lawyer, a funny architect. But those people don't work on enterprises. They are one-man-shows. Apple already has a foot in the door on lifestyle software. Its old already: It should cater to the enterprise.

I must admit that I was dissapointed today after seeing the keynote. A hardware and software company, so where is the hardware?

Apple has fallen prey of two things they must have learned from Sony: 1. Never show a product twice (i.e. Playstation 3 demoes twice the second time is already late and shows the same as the first time)

2. Never try to further your thinking on one domain to another. Not everything should be 'iTunes like' with features based on 'nice looking' 'same look on all windows' Where is the innovation in that?

What is truly happening is that people are trying to take Macs to work only to find that you cannot install your .Net-SQL in-house apps on the Mac.

You want to sync your BlackBerry and find that there is a crappy third party indie app for you.

You want to be able to run more productivity apps: But you get Entourage, right which is already like 5 years old? Ah yes, but this developers are wowing to nicer looking windows, shiny desktops, to the five-minute-i-love-you-look. Macs get disrespected by 'Mac Haters' because the look 'toy like' yet Apple furthers that thinking even when there is a huge segment of the would be switches that would like to see the Mac positioned mostly for work.

This is yet another step in the toy like direction. Ah yes! Mac fans have more games now! Yet where is MS Office or that iWork apps going?

Do you need all the cursing to get your point across or that is your top of mind when speaking properly?

I've just hanged up my iPhone with Elgran Esteban Jobs (that's his real name and he is from Portugal). He asked me to pass on this as follows:

1. Leopard Demo heavy focus on a novel 3D interface+Spaces+for-dummies Widget development. Backup features will be presented too.

2. iPod refresher on capacity across the line - new 120GB replaces previous 80GB price-slot and 80GB is the new 30GB. 8 and 16 GB Nanos with Orange-color offering.

2. iWork update with novel Spreadsheet program.

3. Aiport Express Extreme with draft N support. Casing redesigned squared similar to current Airport Extreme design.

4. iMac will NOT be launched here people, that's for September au France. nuf of that already.

5. iPhone international available dates announce for September (that's why Esteban is launching 3Mill phones people!) with Vodafone International Partnership and Roger Wireless in Canada.

6. Demo of Third Party iPhone development tools by El Gran Esteban himself.

7. List of greedy labels who have turned un-greedy but bigbrothered Movie rental option added+more studios on the lineup of offerings.

8. 1080p resolution on the AppleTV + 5.1 Dolby Digital Audio update.

9. Flyover on Mac Pro updates and MacMinis. El Estevan asked me to pass on that the stupid comment on the Mini's demise is non-existent.

10. Improved push-email for the iPhone with Yahoo!.

(signed) El Esteban

I was referring to Tom + Kent (ambigously g...) and Molly (gestapo looking because she dresses like a pre-war german aunt). I do believe that podcast is out of touch. Nonetheless I will not leave more comments since I made it in the informal spirit of a blog. No harm intended.

Ps. And I do know by way of the fake Steve Jobs interview of both your involvement, which I congratulate deeply and hope the best to both.

Best to all, Roberto

It should be shorter, perhaps, but is a great assett. At least is much much better than the one from crappy CNET with the ambigously gay duo and that weird gestapo looking old lady...

If you look closely at the banners you will notice that there are two plys of banner on each side (one banner over another in each side). Off course the exterior has a non-suprising motive the Leopard OS art. While the JobsNote, they will 'peel' the one on the outside to reveal the originally intended on the inside. It is a rather nifty tactic. See for yourself.

Funny, all that show and no substance. No Quad Band... Looks like a Dash with an extra Flash OS shell. Poor execution.

$3.6 Bill for that excuse of a sweatshop?

Hanson is crying and pasting their pants over this.