Every day it becomes more clear that I should not have sold that Apple stock a couple of years ago. If anything, I should have sold it now so I could buy the new Apple products I want.

I don’t think of myself as a true gizmo hound (although I did have a home computer in 1980, and was on the Internet very early, and was an early adopter of first the Handspring Visor, then the Visorphone, then the Treo). No, it’s that I like useful gizmos that help me with information exchange (communication), because that underlies every single bit of what I do, professionally and personally. I am scheduled to the max, and my Treo helps me handle that. My wireless card (and/or Treo) allow me to get email most places I need to. Synching to .Mac allows me, potentially, to access backups from anywhere in the world. Could I have survived without these things even 10 years ago, let alone in Chaucer’s time? Sure. But now I don’t have to.
As I shared here previously, I greatly covet the iPhone. The Treo was state of the art; now, by comparison, the iPhone is a Lamborghini and the Treo is a Chevy Aveo. But the Treo does get the job done, at least for the moment. So maybe what I really want first is:

The iTV (or Apple TV). Why? Because I am indeed one of those guys with a bigscreen TV who finds himself all too often huddled over a 15″ laptop screen watching video. Sometimes it’s downloaded from iTunes, sometimes it’s streamed (as from CBS.com, where for some inexplicable reason I continue to watch “Jericho”), sometimes it’s made and edited by me myself with my Canon digital camcorder. Wouldn’t it be better to just beam it via the iTV to the large flatscreen, for the enjoyment of all in the household? (Especially when it’s a movie of my short play, or a movie of a speech or presentation I just gave? What could be more entertaining on the large screen?)

I’m not the only one pondering the calculation of iPhone or Apple TV (assuming one is not going to buy both, which this one is not, at least not right away). Over on Macworld, they’re wondering which will go over bigger. (And just 10 years ago, this was not the question on analysts’ minds; the question was when would Apple be going out of business.)

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