Do the iLife apps matter?
Mike Kozlowski writes in Unmistakable Marks (via Electrolite):
I’ve never edited a movie in my life, never mastered a video DVD, and never even considered making a multi-track music recording. Neither have you, if I might be permitted to play the odds here.
Gee, I guess that DVD that my wife and I gave to her parents, made from a video transfer of their old family 8mm movies, must have been an illusion.
After all, nobody really uses iMovie and iDVD; we must not have paid the $50 for the last iLife box just to get the iDVD upgrade.
I’m not particularly musical (my last music “production” was playing cello in 6th grade), but I’ll certainly play with GarageBand when it ships. Sure, I might produce the musical equivalent of one of those old Mac-printed newsletters that used the “San Francisco” font, but I might not….
UPDATE 2004-01-11 02:02: Mike Kozlowski has updated his comments (pointing both to the Electrolite post and this as well) and is now more clearly saying that he thinks the “content creation” focus is sapping energy they could be using for more “integration of the computer with digital media devices” (a list which includes cell phones and PDAs, which are nicely supported by iSync; cameras, handled by iPhoto; and iPods, handled by iTunes. The only devices on his list not already having an iApp are TVs and stereos…but my PowerBook already has audio and S-Video out!).
Me, I actually remember the MacTV and the Performa-with-a-tuner-card. Only students in cramped dorm rooms, or my gadget-crazy father, ever bothered watching TV on them. (Or perhaps I’m just “permitted to play the odds here”, to quote Kozlowski.)
