Originally posted by Blackcat
Actually, Apple (Fred Anderson?) did come right out and say that they wanted to get away from announcing hardware at Expos. I'll see if I can find a link.
Yes i remember that, BUT i believe he said they want to get away from announcing new hardware ONLY at the expos. Not that they would STOP announcing new hardware at expos. Expos draw alot of fanfare from both consumers and press, why not demonstrate your latest and greatest toy...
His statement makes it clear that apple will not limit themselves to expos but still doesn't back up your blanket statement of "no new hardware at expos" because i've already proven that there has been new hardware at every major expo this year.
The statement was made after the LCD iMac was released, and since then all the things you mention have been 'announced' as a sort of 2 line no fanfare thing - "and today you can buy a 20Gb iPod". They were all arguably minor updates too.
Minor? Thats debatable, the 17 inch imac was a good example of apple responding to what its consumers asked for, and in a timely fashion. Doubling the capacity of the ipod is pretty amazing also if you ask me...
...but back to the point still all those things are hardware released at an expo when you say there is a rule against that....
Expo announcements used to be huge things where you could feel Jobs excitement. They don't want that anymore. This year has been very dull Expo wise.
None the less hardware WAS released at the expos.
So, no exciting new Powerbook at MWSF or MWNY, but perhaps near them.
you may be right.... but you may be wrong... because as you can see apple will still release products at the expo's BUT doesn't limit themselves only to expo announcements..
What you "don't get" is that there is no rule as you imply, that hardware won't be released at expo's. Fact is that hardware has been released at expos all year long....