MacWorld has come and going and the dust has settled. The big announce­ment of MacWorld was the intro­duc­tion of the MacBook Air. This device has had some mixed reviews and the major players have had the time to look it over and review it. Check some of these reviews out here: Walt Mossberg, David Pogue, and cnet.

My predic­tions for MacWorld were not to good but they were close.
iTunes was upgraded to version 7.6. This has movie rentals with all of the major movie studios on board. Right now there are not many major titles avail­able, but that will grow with time just like their music library has grown.
The tv was revised and had a price drop. The revi­sion was only a soft­ware revi­sion and no new hard­ware. This makes me rethink my whole stand­point on the MacMini and the tv becoming one. The tv Take2 works without a computer and is a stand alone box. With this box you can rent movies and buy TV shows from your couch with out having to purchase an apple computer, this is a smart move by Apple inc. We will just have to wait and see what the fate of the MacMini is.
There were no note­book upgrades; this will prob­ably happen silently in the next few months.
No new desktop computer were intro­duce as I have suggested. I believe that apple is working on this and it will take some time. Same with the Apple Cinema Displays.
The item that I was excited about, is the soft­ware upgrade to the iPod Touch. I have wanted mail on the iPod Touch since it was released, and finely it has arrived! I went out that night and purchased an iPod Touch to replace my 2^nd gener­a­tion iPod Nano. I had to play the $20 premium to get the soft­ware upgrade that night, but to me that was worth the extra price.
The last major announce­ment was the MacBook Air. This is Apples thin note­book that only weighs 3 pounds and is only .5 inches thick. This note­book has a lot of great features, a touch pad with gesture recog­ni­tion, an SSD hard drive (for a price upgrade), and its small size. I am unsure of the market for this item, we will just have to wait and see what will happen.
The iPhone SDK was not talked about, it looks like Apple inc. will be having another event in February to make this announce. The thing that they did announce about the iPhone was the firmware upgrade to v1.1.3. This is just like the video that was leaked just a few weeks ago.

The world of Apple is a compli­cated, and we will not know exactly what they have up there sleeves until they make the announce­ment. We will just have to wait and see what new things Apple is working on.

Andrew