I want an iPhone! and AppleTV!

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Heather and I went to MacWorld yesterday. We were pretty disappointed with the vendors who showed up. Sure, the big guys (Adobe, Micro$oft, Belkin etc) were there, but this year there were very few of the cool app builders like Rogue Amoeba or Panic. There was also a dearth of fly-by-night companies offering their latest odd gadgets. Mostly, the small companies that were there were showing off iPod skins and carrying cases. Yawn.

The lack of oddball vendors plus the fact that Apple wasn't offering anything tangible (as in - you can buy it today), made it less fun than in previous years.

I understand that Apple did actually introduce the new version of the Airport Extreme router, which handles n (in addition to b and g), but since this is the year of the AppleTV and iPhone, I didn't even see an Airport on display.

Here's what the crowd looked like at the Apple area:


Note the iPhone in a glass case on a rotating pedestal in the lower right. It certainly inspired geek lust.

Here's a short video I took of the iPhone.