I think we can say with some amount of certainty that we’ve now got a third Stevenote that we can count on each year. Macworld, WWDC, and now an annual fall Special Event for Apple to unveil their holiday 2008 iPod lineup. However, this year’s keynote really didn’t deliver that much overwhelming or mind-boggling or anything like that, as Apple’s lineup appears to have taken its respective stereotypical roles.
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No, I’m not talking about the next season of new cars. For one thing, I wouldn’t call 95% of the cars out there “worth it”, mostly because their gas mileage would make any non-American laugh with their fingers pointing, and for another thing, I really don’t care about cars anyway. Nevertheless, yesterday, Apple released iLife and iWork ‘08 (along with some other new stuff, which aren’t the focus of this article), which Steve Jobs claims to be their biggest updates ever to both releases. But after spending a couple of hours today following the announcements through Engadget’s live coverage, rubbing my eyes all over the Apple.com website, watching demo videos and tutorials, and all that stuff, I’m ready to judge for myself if iLife and iWork ‘08 are really that substantial, and if they’re each worth their respective $80 upgrade price.
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