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Over the last few days I’ve been thinking about what the new iMac means. Building iSight into the base unit is simple but significant.
Having a young child, and frequently travelling, I’m excited that over the next few years it’s going to be easy to instantly connect back home with video. Nothing to think about, it’s just there. I could be at the start of the day in London and say good night to my boy in Wellington.
It would make those 2 week trips a lot easier.
The hardware/software integration that Apple is doing is making comms super easy. As I’m doing less development now, my computer is becoming a communications tool. I’m very close to flipping. When I flip it’s at least a PowerBook for work, iBook for the wife, iMac for the home office, MacMini off the TV.
Video, photo’s and music is just easier with the Mac platform. We’re doing more of that as the little one grows.
With Vista Microsoft has a powerful new platform that has the opportunity to be ‘apple sexy’. But MS does not have the tight hardware/software relationship. Compare just powering up the Mac with everything bundled with adding web cam’s etc to the PC.
Apple is doing it right, maybe MS has to take a hardware lead for the ‘all in one’ Communications PC. The iMac format where ‘it’s the screen baby’ makes so much sense.
You just know that all iBook’s are soon going to have a Camera built in.
MS needs a hardware brand or stamp out a tight reference platform. The have to pull hardware and software closer together. The current decoupled model can’t compete.
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