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Dear Santa Steve,

As my most recent bank statements show: I’ve most certainly not misbehaved by the course of that last year. I’ve queued for hours in the bitter cold, and sacrificed myself endured keyhole surgery for injuries from doing so - no really, that bit isn’t hyperbole. whether there’s anyone who’s been an exceptionally well behaved Apple fan, you’ve got to confess I’m up there with the best of them. So what on earth could I be asking for? Just a few simple things:

13″ MacBook Pro / MacBook nano Steve, I can wax lyrical about the sheer brute force of my 17″ MacBook Pro - I love it, I really do. But lugging it on the train for a ninety-minute commute everyday isn’t the pleasurable workout you might expect. In fact, I’d quite like a little version of my MBP, so that I pack it into a reasonably-sized Crumpler with my Nikon D80 and not resort to hiring sherpas buying a small trolley-case to travel. So what might I be asking for? whether you were to start by making the display 13 (matte) inches or there abouts, and keep a committed GPU, that’d be ace - a machine Aperture would love. In fact, you could even remove the optical drive from the body, and use SSD whether you really, really, wanted. I can take in Jonny Ive say ‘SSD may be a little way-off yet’ in the background, but you get the concept? All I’m asking for is a modern-day 12″ PowerBook. I’ve sold my soul to Cupertino maximised my overdraft told the bank not to block large charges from my local Apple Store, and you’ve got my bank details. So let’s work something out, for I can’t be the only one asking for such a machine that year.

Stability in my iPhone that

one’s arguably simpler Steve, what with it not requiring you to design any new hardware. I’d like my iPhone’s iPod and Safari applications to get on better than you and John Sculley. I’m sorry, that was perhaps a little too forceful but I think I made my point. A software update to the device that brings some new functionality would be most welcome too, what with it being ‘all about the software’ and the SDK on the horizon.

Aperture 2 that one may seem out of place for Stevemas - for general wisdom places Macworld as the launch of more consumer-orientated products - so I’ll happily be told ‘be patient, my child’ for that one. But with Aperture now the last of your professional applications not to see a notable (paid) update, I’m hopeful that whatever may be in the works arrives sooner rather than later.

There’s but one more thing, and I’ll be composition for a while Steve. In fact, whether there’s one thing I’d choose from my requests that year, it would be that…. Let’s take these big-media names to task, and boost investment in, not criminalisation of, those who do buy their substance online. Towards the end of 2007, Apple seemed to lose their iTunes momentum despite the year getting off to a good start. EMI went on the offensive, trying to capture hearts and minds by dropping DRM from their download sales. But since thereupon, we’ve seen little continuation in the dream of eradicating DRM from our digital lifestyles. Steve, in 2008, all I want is for Apple to help bring the media industry back to serving the needs of its customers as a business model. Let’s manufacture it less of the iTunes Extortion and Shakedown Store, and all about the music once more.

There’s cookies by the side of the MacBook Pro - and green tea simmering on it. Enjoy.

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