Reactions to Apple announcements

So the "big" event came and went yesterday, and I have to say that I too am underwhelmed. Why does a leather case merit a big announcement? And why does the damn thing cost a hundred bucks? The Hi-Fi is a nice concept and all, but it lacks what I was expecting, which is wireless streaming like Airport Express. And don't get me going on that price. Sheesh.
The Mini going Intel is the newsworthy item here, but I'm still ambivalent because it means that's one more model that doesn't support any OS 9 apps, which are critical to my job as a K-6 computer teacher. Losing those apps pokes huge holes in the curricula of many grades, and the moribund education software market is doing nothing to update most old titles. Thus a huge body of cool, useful software is just abandoned, alienating thousands of us in education and creating no small amount of ill will toward Apple and the OS X team. I just wrote an email to my local Systems Engineer and the OS X feedback page saying as much, and I hope that many others do the same so that they sit down and reconsider such a devastating decision.
It may sound weird that I am such an adherent of the Classic environment, but there truly are some awesome programs out there that have not been duplicated in OS X. It would be a real shame to lose them.