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Ryan On Today's Apple Event
New Apple TV
Problem for me (and a lot like me) is that, outside of the US, the content selection is abysmal. Netflix is a nice addition, and with the service coming to Canada this fall, makes the $99 device a bit more enticing. But I already have a PS3 and an Xbox 360 that can stream Netflix, and everything stored on my Mac.
Netflix? Is that like Blockbuster, the place that I get into my car and drive to so I can pay for them let me have a disc for a short amount of time and then charge me extra if I don’t return it when they want me to? Anyway, content selection outside the US is abysmal — the Australian iBookstore is still just Project Gutenberg books. Our iTunes Store doesn’t even have Kindergarten Cop (just kidding — it does, and I totally watch that movie all the time).
Other miscellaneous snark:
- I think AirPlay looks really cool. If nothing else, it means the Remote app should finally be getting an update soon. It hasn’t seen an update since July of ‘08. I’d love a version of the Remote app for the iPad.
- Couldn’t they have killed Cover Flow and not the iPod Classic?
- The iPad gets its task tray on the bottom in landscape mode, but the iPhone doesn’t. Every time I double-click the home button on my iPhone in landscape mode and the task tray appears perpendicular to everything else on the screen, I sigh.
- What’s with this trend of “and it’ll be available next month?” I kinda miss “and we’re shipping it today.” I can’t help but wonder whether this shift happened because Apple realised they could, er, milk product launches a bit more by announcing the product a month before they ship it. Give people time to start lining up, etc. (There’s not seriously going to be a line for the new Apple TV, is there?)
