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Time Canada Shows New iMac
Kira-Baka writes "Okay, Time Canada screwed up big time. They have pictures of the new iMac which will be released tomorrow during the Mac World Expo keynote on their front page. it is likely that they will be getting a letter soon so though..." I'll be posting a full report on the keynote and other MacWorld goodness tomorrow as it happens. Time Canada seems a bit slow, but in short, think little pod of iMac with superdrive and flat panel screen. Update: 01/07 13:22 GMT by T : Several readers have pointed out that the story can (for now) still be found mirrored here, though it's been pulled from the Time site.
My number one rule with people is that they are generally lazy. People are often too lazy to even look at a Mac, let alone use it long enough to try and understand how to work it. No start button? My God! What do I do?!? It can't run my kid's games? Well, forget that! It takes a relatively rare kind of person to make the switch from PC to Mac, and a clever (albeit weird) new design isn't really going to matter much.
The other thing I have issues with is the whole "digital lifestyle" concept that Jobs keeps pushing. Why is it that you have all these commercials, from Apple, Microsoft, HP, and others going on about how easy it is to create shit on your computer? I just don't understand. Yeah, plenty of people create with their computers (God bless 'em) but the majority of the people out there are still astonished that they can actually buy a device to copy their friend's CD's! Combine that with the fact that most people actually consider themselves far too busy to go about creating some stupid coffee table book or movie, there's no way this will fly. I like the iPhoto idea for actually organizing things, but I'm skeptical that it will matter in the long run, as people will just use the free (Windows) software that came with their camera.
Apple could do very well, the possibility is always there so long as they keep up what they're doing, but it would take some serious serious blunders on Microsoft's part, the likes of which we've never seen before, to make people switch.
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
I would believe it to be 1800 dollars US.
I mean since they are going to sell a grand total of four, they'll have to make up money somehow.
"when life gets complicated, I like to take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner" - Hobbes.
Maybe Jobs can use the same proctologist when he goes to have his head removed from his ass. This thing looks like a makeup mirror at the beauty college.
And not upgradeable at all, I'll bet. Oh, maybe they'll let you add a bit of RAM. And not only that, you can run all the software you need! Both Office and Photoshop!
Besides, this monstrosity looks like a combination of eyestalk and ugly lamp. Yup. I'm an anti-mac bigot. But I've got a long and torturous history with the wretched things, starting with an LC3 I was forced to use in high school, so I'm proud of my bigotry.
It's not about software, it's just that those kinds of designs only fit into 5% of the country's living rooms. Seriously, Apple's very limited product design range (one big G4 clunker, an oddball looking iMac, and two laptops with one choice of pointing device) really limits the adoption of their systems. Intel system, in contrast, come in hundreds of different shapes and sizes, from stylish to practical to industrial. Add to that that $1200 is rather high for an entry-level system, and it's not difficult to see why Apple has only a niche market and won't grow beyond it.