TUAW poll results: The big announcement

I agree with #3. Let it go people.

And if the majority think it sucked whose fault was that?

What this poll tells me is that TUAW and other apple related web sites over hyped the event. Apple certainly didn't, they don't need to.

Anyway enough of this - it's getting old.

If you want you can say that the (vast) majority thought that the event was, at best, mediocre. That's if you count in the hugely disappointed crowd, you get 41+25= 66. That's two thirds. So, yes, the majority thinks it sucked.
Nevertheless, I agree on letting go. We'll hopefully get two keynotes before half year (april 1 and WWDC) so it's really not so bad.

actually the polls skew *towards* "disappointment" is quite an indicator of the general publics opinion also.

still. yeah. i wish they would find interesting stuff for us to read :) its boring here lately

The poll might have been better summarised as 'The majority did not find it a 'Huge Disappointment'... in contrast to TUAW bloggers who saw this as a catastrophic turn of events perilling mankind.

I thought the boombox was particularly stupid. I just hope that Apple isn't losing its way.

I'm probably being pedantic here, but 41% is not a majority. It is the largest minority, but they wouldn't win an election. In most countries.

Wow, LD voted 61 times!?

I, for one, was actually pleased with the announcement. My father's wanted to get a Mac Mini for some time and I've been telling him not to because the Intel mini would be released shortly. His birthday is March 10th, and today we went and got him his Mac Mini at the Apple Store. I'm impressed. My Mini now seems slow and decrepit and it's only a few months old. While it's not the whiz-bang super-duper product announcement anyone wanted, it's not like Apple announced iPod socks or anything dumb like that. I would have loved to have seen the Mac Mini media center we ALL want, but obviously that's not in the cards...YET.
But front row is friggin awesome. I really wish I had it for my mini, but I just don't see the point without the remote. That and the intel macs really are stinkin fast.

41% isn't a majority.