iPhone

Apple today introduced the iPhone, the next revolutionary new product. What can I say? I love it. If you haven't already, go watch the Steve Jobs Keynote from Macworld today.

It uses a touchscreen to do almost all actions. Every application is intuitive and amazing. Words really do not do this phone justice.

The most important part of the phone - the software, looks phenomenal. Everything from the browser, to the email client, to a virtual iPod to Google Maps. The iPhone has it all, and it all works amazingly.

The first thing that came to mind when I saw the iPhone browser was the Wii Internet Channel, and that's a good thing. This is how the web should be when its not possible to view every pixel at once. You can see the entire web page at once (scaled down), and zoom in/scroll around.

A missing feature is clearly games. But if they're on the iPod, they'll be on the iPhone. I'm positive we'll see at least one game ship with the iPhone, with more to come hopefully.

And regarding third party apps...nobody would like to see this happen more than me (Wallet for iPhone anyone?), but honestly I don't think its going to happen. The initial word on the street is "no", and the last thing Steve would want to see is his precious iPhone become a third party app nightmare. It does run OS X, and the apps are assumed to be written in Cocoa, so this is still a possibility in the future. You definitely won't see full blown OS X desktop apps without any revision on here though.

My only hope is that we see an AIM client for this phone. And that it comes to Canada soon.

tv

The tv finally completes the big picture in home entertainment. Now you can download Movies, TV Shows, and Music from the iTunes Store to your Mac, and sync or store it on your tv.

This is all a great effort to seamlessly connect the best part of your living room - the modern television, to content on your Mac. The days of heading down to Blockbuster late at night to rent movies will soon be over.