Apple Nightmare

December 17th, 2006

Apple Went to the company holiday part last night - very fun, totally chaotic, always amusing to see coworkers dressed up instead of the usual business casual. There were a few funny moments, one along the line of asking my wife what she thinks about my huge mint tin collection (which I’m thinking of starting a web site for). To which I was asked later, “What else are you collecting that I don’t know about?” Well, subscribers to my RSS feed, for one…

Anyhow, I had a truly terrible Apple nightmare overnight due to the late night mix of fluids. Steve Jobs’ announcement for MacWorld 2007: A Macintosh for the car (the MacCar perhaps?). Instead of being small enough to fit in a glove compartment, it was a huge, dark-green laptop type thing with extra large keyboard buttons (I guess so you could use it while driving), designed to lie on top of the dashboard (essentially replacing it). Meaning, it had speedometer dials, radio controls, a dock for an iPod, a GPS unit, and of course, a power cable that plugged into the cigarette lighter for backup juice. The whole shebang looked more like the eMate than Apple’s current sleek hardware.

The truly nightmarish part: At the end of the keynote, Steve Jobs drives out in a Hummer onstage, and the Car Macintosh is hoisted on some sort of platform that made it bounce up and down, flashing lights, and honking.

And the worst part of all? There was no iPhone in any of this!

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