Apple TV: meh. It’s still too locked into iTunes. I’ve already got a PC hooked up to my TV, which works fine, and I’m looking at a SqueezeBox to hook up to the Rhapsody catalog.
Yea yea yea, the iPhone is cool. It’ll be great if all you did was browse the occasional webpage, send sms messages, and view photos. But what about hooking up with my work’s Exchange server? or hooking up with Rhapsody? I’m not holding my breath.
It took Apple forever to even allow simple things like different games onto the iPod. How long until they open up the software platform on the iPhone? (and not just widgets!) Maybe not very long, but Steve didn’t mention anything about that, which is cause for some concern.
Either way, it’s damn expensive. And I’m not up for a Cingular upgrade discount for another year. Thus my verdict is a solid “wait and see.”
Update: There are some reports that end users won’t be able to add applications to the iPhone. That sounds too stupid to be true. Maybe it will take them a few iterations to figure it out, but I’m definitely not getting one if there’s no way to get around the Apple lock-in.