Apple’s Airport Express, the master streamer.

This weekend’s tech column:

Another year, another iPhone.

That’s five iPhones in five years. Coming next: Yet another iPad, the rumored Mini.

If longevity is a gauge of technological and design excellence, however, the AirPort Express could be Apple’s most perfect product. When Apple in June quietly updated the AirPort Express with a new body (the Apple TV’s chassis), the little wireless networking product essentially had been the same block of white bird suet introduced in mid-2004.

The AirPort Express is Apple’s divine jack-of-all-electronics: an audio streamer, a USB printer sharing device, a home network extender and a portable travel router, still less than $100.


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