Well it was a very exciting keynote. I was certainly not let down. First off, ever since they announced the iTV (now called Apple TV) back at the WWDC last year I knew I would have one. I have my G5 downstairs connected to my tv, just so I can do this kind of stuff. I would love to bring that up into the office and do something a little more useful with it.

But here is what I really want…. I have been working on building some home automation products. And what I would really love is to get to use Flex via Apollo and then run those on my Apple TV. We dont have much for specs on what the processor in the Apple TV is yet, but I think it would be amazing to build apps for that platform.

Then when they announced the new ipod widescreen with touch controls I just about wet my pants, I really didnt think that was coming yet. Followed closely by the fact that they were releasing the fabled mobile phone and an internet communication device…. I just about lost it. Then they told me that it was all one device the iPhone…. and I cried. Not tears of joy though. I am so very disappointed that this wonderful pda/ipod device comes bundled with a monthly contract to cingular phone service. I would pay the full price for the pda and ipod stuff and suffer through not having the phone, just to not have to pay for cingular phone service. I cant believe that cingular is the “nations #1 provider” because out here in portland my friends and I all joke about cingular. “Yeah fewest dropped calls, if you can make one!” and then we all laugh. I understand apple picking GSM as the technology for the phone, it makes the most sense for a company that interacts globally. But its very disappointing that cingular doesnt have better coverage out here.

To be fair the in-city coverage is fine, but my family lives at the coast and in some woodsy remote areas. I get verizon coverage very well in all of it. Even driving over the coast range to see our family, there is only a couple mile stretch that doesnt have verizon coverage… not the case for cingular.

So hats off to apple for making a couple devices that bridge that gap between frontiers I am very excited about. But I am pretty disappointed that I wont have the iPhone any time soon.

ps. How they heck can they call it the iPhone. Didnt linksys/cisco just launch that product last month?

[UPDATE] I didnt notice this in the coverage but apple also updated the Airport Extreme Base Station to support that the wireless N protocol as well as A and B. This is obviously to support the new cards in the Mac Book Pro’s and the Apple TV streaming. But one thing that I thought was very neat, is they added the ability to use a usb HD on the usb device of the base station and share that sans computer. Thats a neat extension that makes this a worth while upgrade.