My random reactions to Macworld Keynote announcements.
Face recognition in iPhoto is pretty slick tech. Tagging people on facebook is way too laborious right now, this will speed up the uploading of drunk blackmail pictures.
Music lessons in Garage Band is something I’ll personally be using. I’m excited for the prospect of guitar lessons by John Mayer. I can dream, can’t I?
New Keynote templates and transitions will enable more crappy slide presentations possible. I’m a believer in less is more for presentations. All those fancy transitions and animations should be used sparing.
iWork.com? Yeah, like me.com was a rousing success. I give it a year until it’s somewhat stable and another year until it has feature parity with Google Docs.
New 17″ MacBooks with crazy new batteries. Batteries are tough tech but I for one cannot wait for batteries that last 24 hours.
DRM-free iTunes is fantastic. Too bad Amazon.com is still 10c cheaper per song (and iTunes-Plus is $1.29, that’s 40c
That’s it? Oh wait… one more thing! That’s right, AAPL just took a dive.
Somebody at GoDaddy needs to think about their promotion text.
Last year I was 50% accurate, let’s try for better this year. 
- Twitter will not be acquired. They’ll have their first revenue stream keeping them independent for a bit longer.
- Digg will not be acquired. There’s still a ton of crazy things they can do to become the center of news. I just hope they figure out how to get rid of the nerd factor. Just look at this list, it’s not exactly the things your mom would read.
- Apple will open up iTunes infrastructure to developers to start accepting micro-payments. The biggest hurdle for mobile (in the US more than others) is how do you get users to pay you without help from the carriers. If Apple opens this up the industry will take a huge leap in the right direction.
- Android phones sales will not exceed iPhones, maybe in 2010. Apple still has too much momentum and good Android phones (read: good hardware) still haven’t launched.
- Facebook connect will become more ubiquitous than OpenID as a way to login to websites. I’m guessing here but there are way more Facebook users and OpenID users. I, for one, won’t be using it but then again I’m more paranoid about my online privacy than others.
- IE6 marketshare will fall under 10% by years end. Millions of web devs will implode as they are overcome with joy.
