Each year, the various Macintosh pundits, experts, aficionados, and self-proclaimed know-it-alls pronounce their annual prognostications for Macworld. Most of them are wrong, and some of them are horrendously wrong. To make matters worse, most of the postings are not original. One blogger has some crackpot idea about some Apple iPhone-cum-scanner he thinks would be great, cranks out a couple of paragraphs, skips the spell check, and soon it’s all over the Internet. Some other blogger sees it on an aggregator site, and poof, it’s redistributed. Thanks so much, whoever invented copy and paste.
I’m tired of reading the same recycled dreck. It gets people over-revved, and prone to the post-Macworld Keynote letdown. “That’s all Steve announced? What! I should’ve stayed in bed and watched the QuickTime version this afternoon. No iPhone-cum-scanner? Apple is doomed. DOOMED.”
Not that I’m particularly philosophical, but I’ve decided to adopt a Zen attitude this Macworld season. Live in the Macworld moment.
I’m no longer going to worry about whether or not the Mac Mini comes with a Mini Display port. I’ll sleep well without knowing if the iPhone Nano is Schiller’s “One more thing.” In fact, my blood pressure will be fine without “One more thing” at all.
Macworld generates plenty of excitement without the Mac blogosphere spin machine saying far too little in far too many words. I’ll be at Macworld reporting for MyMac.com for a day and a half this year. I’ll be discovering new vendors and products this year, and taking the pulse of the industry as I float about the floor. Macworld speaks for itself, and it does just fine without pointless blathering about what might, could, or should be. I’ll be happy to see what is.
More from Macworld tomorrow.
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