Jason Snell, "Macworld" magazine editor: Mr. Media Interview, Pt. 1 (Video)

Besides a glass of Dr. Pepper, the one material thing I look forward to every day is checking in with my Macintosh computer.

I’ve been one of those crazed Mac guys since 1984, I guess, when I bought my first Apple, a IIc. Since then, I’ve upgraded every couple years, through the Plus, the Centris, the iMac, a Power Computing clone, an early iBook, a special edition silver clamshell, a newer iBook, and the desktop G5 I’m looking at now. There are also two iPods in the house, one mini, one video

I’m the crazed Mac evangelist you PC holdouts hate so much.

Joining me today is a guy who is probably more Mac-crazed – by profession, at least -- than I am. He’s Jason Snell, editorial director of Macworld, publishers of Macworld magazine, Macworld.com, Playlist, Mac OS X Hints, and MacUser.com. He has covered Apple and the Mac market since 1994.

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Introduction

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iPhone, AT&T network, Apple TV, iTunes competition, YouTube

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Mac OS X Leopard, Macworld's relationship with Apple, Time Machine,
Safari 3.0, the suckiest Mac products ever

© 2007 by Bob Andelman. All rights reserved.

Jason Snell, "Macworld" magazine editor: Mr. Media Interview, Pt. 2 (Video)

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Watch Part 1
Introduction

Watch Part 3
Mac OS X Leopard, Macworld's relationship with Apple, Time Machine,
Safari 3.0, the suckiest Mac products ever

© 2007 by Bob Andelman. All rights reserved.

Jason Snell, "Macworld" magazine editor: Mr. Media Interview, Pt. 3 (Video)

DOWNLOAD THE VIDEO;
WATCH HIGHER QUALITY HERE.

ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PODCAST

ON iTUNES.

Watch Part 1
Introduction

Watch Part 2
iPhone, AT&T network, Apple TV, iTunes competition, YouTube

Watch Part 3
Mac OS X Leopard, Macworld's relationship with Apple, Time Machine,
Safari 3.0, the suckiest Mac products ever

© 2007 by Bob Andelman. All rights reserved.

Taking an Early Bite Out of Apple

Apple Computer's rabid legion of fans and evangelists don't care whether Steve Jobs broke a few rules, or took a few liberties with our female party guests... er, stock options dating. They just want to know what the Wizard of i will announce at the Macworld Conference & Expo in San Francisco this week.

If you're among the eager, searching the web for smoke signals, check out the site MacRumors.com. It has posted a link to an Italian site where some enterprising acolyte is posting photographs from inside Macworld as vendor booths are being constructed and readied. ("Esclusiva, lo stand di Apple all'alba del Macworld.")

The Apple Computer booth, however, is completely shrouded in black, floor to ceiling. What does that mean? Is black the new black again? Or is Paul dead again?

Elsewhere, Macworld magazine's site notes that this is the first year that the Macworld Expo and the Consumer Electronics Show (CES, in Las Vegas) will be running simultaneously, rather than being staggered a few days apart:

"At the precise moment Steve Jobs takes the stage for his Macworld Expo keynote at the Moscone Center," writes Philip Michaels, "Dell CEO Michael Dell will be doing likewise in Las Vegas. (Rumored topic of the Dell keynote: 'Dell’s desktops—now more beige than ever!') And while Jobs is wrapping things up with his 'One more thing…' patter in San Francisco, Dell will be yielding the floor to Cisco Systems Chairman and CEO John Chambers for a thrill-a-minute talk about networking."

Care to guess which CEO and company founder will generate more excitement and news?