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Air Waves … January 18 2008 CapeEyes.com

There are weeks I just want to hop on a plane and return to the valley. This was one of those. Yeah, MacWorld didn’t have the iPhone-mania of last year, but boy do I miss being part of a churning mass of thousands, all lusting after the latest from Cupertino.

And, in some ways, I think this year’s round of goodies was more interesting than the iPhone intro. I mean, iPhone was very sexy, but it wasn’t a statement about the way the world works. And the MacBook Air is.

We have crossed a threshold. The concept of wireless isn’t a feature. It is the way things are. Or they will be in an a few short blinks.

That’s the real message behind Air - and behind the movie rentals as well. We are swimming in the ether 24/7. Wires and cables are so, so, 90s.

And the industrial design … the look and feel of the new device … echoes the message. It is almost ethereal. It floats along, as thin as your fingers, as silvery as a cloud, as light as mist.
It is a creature of the Air, of the wireless data and movies and messages and all the stuff we do without hard connections. As in, pretty much everything.

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