Much Ado About (Almost) Nothing

Everything from Apple is a letdown! If it were good, microsoft would be doing it!

remember that people!
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Come on Apple: Think Different.

The reason we all feel let down by the "Rocks" event was that many of us feel you are emulating Microsoft.

The best you can offer is an iPod in more colors?

Where is the Super Thouch mini slate laptop/tablet?

How about a speed-bump on the Air?

How about the 8-core MacBook Pro laptop so many Photoshoppers have been looking for?

Learn how to exploit your competitor's weaknesses.

If we wanted boring, we would look to Dell/WalMart.

And the pricing is still wrong.

If each of the products announced were 30-50% less expensive, we might find some excitement in that alone.

I love the Mac, prefer OSX, but when it came for back to school, the kids got 17" laptops with the latest processors and 64-Bit Vista despite my dislike of Vista. The price was less than half of a competing Apple product.

If you want to coast, and rest on your laurels, you have miss-read your constituency.

It is the product, Genius!

(then the value/economy/price)

Dan, of course Steve doesn't look like a fit and healthy man in his early 50s - because he's not! He's survived cancer and has mostly likely had two major surgeries in recent years, both of which significantly effect the digestive system and can lead to weight loss. He's not a regular guy any more - yes, he has ongoing health issues, but which are by no means life threatening. Your article seems rather disrespectful in my opinion.

I don't even bother reading Mr Lyons (attention seeking) articles any more but go straight down to the comments section and write something negative.

Granted it maybe be irresponsible of me writing about something that I have not read/researched much on, but to be fair it is not that much different to what Mr Lyons does himself with his articles.

Ha ha, did you say Sarah Palin or Barack Obama??? 'Cause you just described Obama to the "T". In fact I think that's his new slogan, now that he figured out every other politician that's ever run for office against an incumbent has also used the same tired old "change" slogan. Hmm, kind of like Jobs hyper-spinning an OS patch into being the "coolest new OS" as he sells it to the cheering Apple fanboys. It amazes me how so many people are content eating what others are shoveling....

Where the heck is Dan? I just see an article written by an *** with no opinion about technology.

Dan, you continue to write like an ass hat. You are starting to make me skip over anything you do....you are giving into the negative each time you write to attract attention. Where is the wit?
This was an iPod event for Christmas 08 not the introduction of the iPad or OSX mind control devices. Lighten up and don't expect an iPhone every time he announces new products. Given the economic conditions, the fact that he stopped Zune in it's tracks, again and advanced the iTouch, it is not bad or nor is it "disappointing"...unless you were expecting a new Jesus Mac!

From all accounts you smoked weed at some point in your life, was every bag Thunder ****, right I thought so.

Apple reminds me of Sarah Palin. Lots of flash, many worshippers, but little substance.

I'm afraid Dan was funnier (or is it funnest?) when he pretended to be someone else. I feel sorry for Steve Jobs, the only CEO who has to put up with this mindless drivel from Apple critics - most of them in Silicon valley. Apple continues to produce excellent products that are years ahead of the competition. For years at work I've had to use a piece of crap called a PC, running a piece of crap operating system called Windows - whilst at home I use macs. I can't even begin to compare the difference. No wonder Apple is secretive.

I just wanted to say goodbye - I'm taking Newsweek off my RSS feed.

Lame opinion pieces like this aren't worth my time.

Maybe your product will improve and there will be a reason to be interested in Newsweek content. Maybe....

Of all the tools I use everyday, the most cherished of them all is my iPhone. Thank you Steve Jobs for giving the world a smart phone which doesn't get bogged down by mobile 6.0. Oh wait, it's mobile 7.0 now. Wow, I can use the internet and not worry about losing my stylus. Yeah, that terrible, bad old Steve Jobs. Of course, he's probably saying "Dan Lyons who?". By the way, I happen to like the ingenuity of "Genius" on my itunes. I can't wait to see how Microsoft screws up its version of itunes when they finally develop something close to it. I apologize if "izunes" has already come out. I must have missed that little bit of headline news.

Hey Dan... Get a Job or where you hunting Jobs. You really didn't understand what "Let's Rock" was all about. It was about Music and iPods. Get it?? Apple can't launch a rocket every time although they've had more than most. Evolving products like the Nano isn't going to be a major and wasn't supposed to be. But it was a good show. Can't get a iPhone announcement every time. You must have this hedge fund bug going on right now. Go enjoy that Zune you obviously were given!

You won't be happy unless he dies? What's wrong with you? When did you stop being a reporter of the news and become just a whiner? I have a PC which has to have a virus update everyday. I have to run a scan on it every week. Just so it can operate at a decent level. I think someone is just jealous of a truly gifted business man like Steve Jobs. Too bad you are so opinionated that the reporting suffers. (And yes, I do realize this is an "opinion" piece so the accurateness and professionalism are not required.) It's just sad seeing this crap in a national news magazine.

The apple products can crush their competition because the OS, computers and ipods are better than anything else. Yes you have your lemons in the bunch but all products come with lemons. After all they are just machines. I have an imac and it is absolutely the best computer I have had. I have had it for nearly 2 years now without anything wrong with it. NO VIRUSES, and no meltdowns. Steve Jobs is wonderful at his job and hopefully he has trained others to take over when the time is right.

I used to be an Apple cynic like you. But the iPod is a beautiful device. I love my G1 Touch and like the minor enhancements of the G2 Touch. I'm also impressed with Apple's ability to continuously innovate and introduce new versions in under 12 months. And the 16GB Nano will sell like hotcakes, no question about it.

So how much is Microsoft paying you? Your spin is worse than John McCain's campaign, and about as true.