Macworld 2007 became Appleworld 2007?

The new Apple TV and Apple iPhone are both terrific but we were surprised that there were no new announcements directly involving Macs during Steve Jobs' Macworld keynote address. Not even the revised Apple Extreme Base Station was mentioned. Hey, this is Macworld! At least we thought so.

I guess we should have expected a departure at some point. After all, Apple's revenue from iPod sales has approached that of Macs in recent quarters. In fact, Apple appears to have changed its official name from Apple Computer, Inc., to Apple, Inc. You can see this wherever Apple claims a 2007 copyright.

We also noticed that this year was the first time in some years that no Apple product was announced that is actually shipping, although a month is not really significant.

Fortunately, Steve Jobs also said that 2007 would be a great year for the Mac so the best is yet to come even if it won't be at Macworld. [Bill Fox & Dana Baggett]