When all the talk was out there about a possible Apple slate, how many wanted a Mac slate? How many were dissapointed to see yet another iPod? I know I was.
Apple seem to be moving away from real computers and going into gadgets.
I have to be honest and say that I'm not an IPod/Phone/Pad person. I love Apple Macs, but not the toys the company are producing to please the gadgeteers out there.
I would have loved to have seen the Mac Slate. A full functioning Mac OSX machine, but no, we get a large iPod. They had the chance to make great in roads into the "slate" market. There are many Windows based slates on the way. The decision to make the Apple slate an iPod was a mistake. Yes it will sell. The "I'll buy anything Apple produce" guys will buy it, but businesses won't. The iPad will not compete against the Windows slates and I think this will hurt Apple.
Apple are now a mobile company, that just happens to have a line of computers in their catalogue. How long before Apple no longer produce The Mac pro or Mini? How long before even the (mobile) Macbook range has ceased to be. I fear the end of the Macintosh