| Wednesday, January 28, 2004 |
15:07 - "Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world?"
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If only John Sculley were around to see this...
(Of course, the sweet, luscious, fizzy irony has been noted before. But now we're on the brink of the release, and a lot more people will be making these kinds of jokey observations, so I'd better at least get my hand in.)
Apple's sure feeling their oats lately, huh? A friend noted in e-mail how GarageBand seems to him to be something that "makes great demo"-- it isn't intended to alter our perceptions of reality the way iTunes and the iPod have, or even to change how we spend much of our leisure time the way iMovie did; he says GarageBand's primary purpose is to sit on computers on showroom floors and ask customers, "Is that a bulging wallet in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"
I dunno, though. Damien Del Russo is enjoying the hell out of his copy, and J Greely has been all over GarageBand's technical minutiae (both pro and con); just keep scrolling. And of course there's MacJukebox, which appears to be growing in content faster than the admins can keep on top of their frantic lawsuit-avoiding domain-name change. And it carries breathless testimonials like:
This time, the adulation comes from Detroit Free Press columnist Mike Wendland. He wraps up his column by explaining to non-Mac folks:
"...if you've ever needed an excuse to buy a Mac, GarageBand is a pretty good one. It's that cool."
There seems to be more attention getting paid to GarageBand than a simple piece of fluffware usually gets. Let's see how long it lasts...
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Brian Tiemann
