Time Capsule, wtf Apple?

During January's MacWorld 2008 Keynote speech, Steve Jobs introduced the Time Capsule product that allow Leopard users to backup their data wirelessly to a Time Capsule. I pointed out at that time that the Time Capsule:

1. Was nothing more than an Airport Extreme Base Station with a built in server-grade Hard Disk.


2. Was way too expensive as a product.


3. That Apple should have just enabled wireless backup on the Airport Extreme instead of introducing the Time Capsule

Well lo and behold with this week's Airport Extreme update, Apple has done exactly what I said in point 3. The Airport Extreme can now wirelessly backup to any attached USB drive via Time Machine. This update exactly duplicates what the Time Capsule is doing at a much, much cheaper price point.

Way to go Apple, I pity all the early adopters who went to buy the expensive Time Capsule when they could have waited two months and buy an Airport Extreme and USB drive for the exact same functionality at half the Time Capsule price.