Firstly, I'm very glad to have the highly-desired iPhone apps on my iPod Touch, like Mail, Weather and Maps. Gmail may have updated their interface yesterday, but it's still nothing like having a native Mail app. But the catch was that to get these apps, you had to buy them in the iTunes store for $20. This caused a riff with some, but not for me since I still hadn't used a $25 ITunes gift card I got for Christmas (thanks Mom). But it's not only that I didn't really have to pay for it, it was a pretty big upgrade, and with most software, you have to pay for the big upgrade. But was the upgrade enough to justify the price? Why not just bundle it with the 1.1.3 update? I'm not sure yet, what do you think?

Time Capsule is pretty neat, but I don't think I'll be wanting to use something like that until the Drobo has some sort of network attachment feature. The key difference, and it's an important one, is Drobo's method means more reliable data. I cannot fully trust a single hard drive to keep my data safe. Actually, I don't even really trust backing up to something in my house, unless it's also being backed up online; there's always that what-if scenario. So for that reason, I use Amazon's S3 service. But anyway, instead of getting the Time Capsule, I'd rather see a network storage solution for the Drobo that will support both Windows and OSX writing to it, then from there, I'd sync it with S3.

Online movie rentals in HD! This was particularly exciting for me because I want to move into the HD movie world, but I don't want to commit to and particular format (Blu-ray, HD-DVD, HD-VMD, etc.). Online movie rentals through iTunes can allow me to simply rent an HD movie, have it within a few minutes, and watch it. Although, I think I read somewhere that you have to have an AppleTV to have access to the HD version, which is a problem for me cause all I have is a Mac Mini I hook up to the TV occasionally. Well with the new AppleTV pricedrop and software upgrade, plus the ability to watch podcasts on my TV which is more desirable than watching on my computer, I might seriously consider that. But $4.99 for an HD new release? That's going to add up quick. I propose a subscription service like Netflix does, except for HD movies on iTunes. Follow the netflix model of two movies out at a time or something for like $14.95 a month, and people will rejoice.

And finally, how about this MacBook Air thing? Well I said earlier I was somewhat disappointed. The reason is that I was hoping for what all the rumors were speculating towards, and that was pretty much a mini, 0.8" MacBook Pro, with a 13.3" 1440x900 screen and everything, to replace the MacBook line. If that was the case, I was going to order one right away; instead, they came out with an airplane wing type laptop. Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the design. Maybe I like symmetry or something because I'd rather just have it the same height all around. It just looks strange to me, but then again, it'll probably catch on and I'll love it in a few months. But for now, I'd rather just get the MacBook Pro and have all the ports, optical drive access, and screen real estate I need. Plus the screen could have been slightly larger to efficiently use the front panel space. 1280x800? The people need more resolution!! But it's a great achievement to have created the thinnest laptop in the world, plus the remote disk thing is genius (knowing Apple, you'd think they'd make you buy the external optical drive), but it's just not for me.

That's what I think; what do you think?