The biggest Apple story for 2007 is the phenomenal number of great products it released. OK, perhaps not every product was great. However, they were all still exciting and generated significant buzz. What other company can say that?
Here’s my look back at Apple’s year. I offer my brief assessment of each new product — with the benefit of end-of-year hindsight.
iPhone. The invention of the year. The gadget of the year. The you-name-it of the year. Could this product possibly live up to all this hype? Yes. Definitely.
Of course, it is not perfect. Where is voice dialing and built-in GPS, for starters? I am already salivating over the expected 3G iPhone 2.0 coming in 2008.
However, the 1.0 version is still as close to an out-of-the-park home run as anyone could wish for. For my money, it’s the most groundbreaking product Apple has created since the original Mac in 1984. It’s already hard for me to imagine how I managed without one. Whether I am looking up a location in Maps, checking movie times in Safari, listening to my voicemail with the incredible ease of its...