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Apple Announces WWDC 2009 Keynote to be Led by Phil Schiller

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Apple® will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address on Monday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. A team of Apple executives, led by Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the keynote. WWDC will offer in-depth sessions on both iPhone™ OS 3.0, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system, and Mac OS® X Snow Leopard™, an even more powerful and refined version of the world’s best desktop operating system and the foundation for future Mac® innovation.
Led by Philip Schiller :
Full presentation of NEW iPhone and iPhone™ OS 3.0
Full presentation of Mac OS® X Snow Leopard™
Lights off - lights on
STEVE JOBS is on the stage - and there is ONE MORE THING ...
Apple®'s brand new iTABLET
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I don't really care about who is presenting, they all have their goods and bads.

- Phil Schiller is a good speaker but seemes to be distracted sometimes, whereas the presentation does not flows so well. He does not seems rock-solid to me.
- Scott Forestall is very goal-oriented but this also means that he is not very flexible, his speak does not seem too natural. And everything blows him away. This is tedious, I think.
- Bertrand Serlet may have a funny accent and laughter to some people but on the other hand knows how to explain things simple and effective.
- Steve Jobs is a good seller and likes the big show but he tends to force the audience with his own opinion.

If I would do a ranking, I would prefer: B. Serlet, S. Jobs, P. Shiller and then S. Forestall.

What I wish is to have a good show. But I am afraid, at the beginning, there is some financial info, at the end, there is some musician and in the middle, there will again be around 15 demonstrations (maybe with OpenCL). This is all very boring and unneccesary at a WWDC keynote. Keep it simple and show the world what happend during the last 12 months. There are developers and engineers watching, the presenters should keep that in mind.

Looking forward for SL, OpenCL, maybe something about ZFS, 64bit and possible new devices.
 
coleridge78 said:
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I disagree with the idea that Schiller is really that bad, but in general people who are seriously obese are that way be choice and it's just as selfish and disgusting a choice as handing out poisoned candy to children. Our consumption is the direct cause of the skewing of resources that leads to people starving to death all over the world. If you're fat, you kill people. Not to mention that you are a huge leech on the rest of us via insurance premiums, and you put your family through hell when you drop dead of a heart attack at 50 and your kids don't get to have a grandparent.

The idea that obesity is a personal choice that is nobody else's business is a disgusting, deadly lie. Obesity has far more impact on your fellow humans than, say, second hand smoke.
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How stereotypical of you, I'm sure Schiller wouldn't care what you think. Folk are overreacting, you're not going to date the guy you're buying an apple product built by numerous people at Apple they might be black, brown, asian, fat, thin, odd shaped, with different personalities from different backgrounds from different parts of the world. Shame you have no respect for their talent. Sometimes its not a personal choice to be overweight, could get run over by a bus tomorrow.
 
I don't remember his name, but the Apple exec in charge of video production who demoed iMovie '09 was excellent.
 
I don't get all this degradatory comments in regards to Phil Schiller's presentation. While he's not Steve, his presentation is nice prompt, thorough and professional.

Steve is just a plain natural. Like he was born for it.
 
Mal said:
I think Apple will be happy if people realize that. Steve brought the company back from near extinction, and he's a great speaker and innovator, and deserves a lot of credit. However, if he never came back to Apple, they would continue to produce incredible products and innovate and would continue to be a successful company (barring any really bad leadership getting in, of course). I want Steve to stick around for a long time, but I also hope they diversify their product launches even more, so people stop associating Apple with Steve Jobs, and instead associate them with really cool products more directly.

jW
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Interesting... but that is kind of my point, I dont think the vast majority of people associate steve with apple... hell i'd bet 95% of ipod owning people dont know who Steve Jobs even is, let alone acre... this online mac community is a VERY small percentage of the population. anyway, jmo again.
 
coleridge78 said:
********.

I disagree with the idea that Schiller is really that bad, but in general people who are seriously obese are that way be choice and it's just as selfish and disgusting a choice as handing out poisoned candy to children. Our consumption is the direct cause of the skewing of resources that leads to people starving to death all over the world. If you're fat, you kill people. Not to mention that you are a huge leech on the rest of us via insurance premiums, and you put your family through hell when you drop dead of a heart attack at 50 and your kids don't get to have a grandparent.

The idea that obesity is a personal choice that is nobody else's business is a disgusting, deadly lie. Obesity has far more impact on your fellow humans than, say, second hand smoke.
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Well, somebody has to buy Wii Fit, don't you think :cool:
 
fokket said:
I don't get all this degradatory comments in regards to Phil Schiller's presentation. While he's not Steve, his presentation is nice prompt, thorough and professional.

Steve is just a plain natural. Like he was born for it.
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Prompt, thorough, and professional???

That may be good for a prostate exam, but those are hardly the most important qualities you want in what is supposed to be an engaging presentation of new products!

Obviously no one can top Jobs, but my god Schiller is the most annoying, akward, and *dreadfully boring* of all of the Apple speakers I've seen so far.

Screw the executives, if Steve isn't going to run the show at many of these in the future, Apple needs to find an alternate presenter who can hold the audience's attention and not bore them to death.
 
Ugh.. Phil Schiller.

At least go with Scott Forestall if Jobs isn't willing to do it.

Schiller sucks at giving presentations. He sounds like an infomercial guy and isn't in shape.
 
zedsdead said:
I don't remember his name, but the Apple exec in charge of video production who demoed iMovie '09 was excellent.
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Randy Ubillos - who came up with it in the first place. Chief Architect of Video Applications for Apple. Involved in Adobe Premier, Final Cut Pro and more.

He's very likely also behind other upcoming video applications - iMovie's editing style has been rolled into Snow Leopard's Quicktime video editing and if you believe the rumor about files in a OS 3.0 beta, it's been added to iPhone (and might be similar to iMovie/Quicktime style, or a bit more like a cut copy paste - we'll see).

Phil Schiller isn't that bad - he just hasn't had too much practise. Scott Forestall looks more polished, but his enthusiam seems a little plastic. He gets nervous, as most of them do I imagine. Bertrand Serlet is good, and it's a pity the State of the Union is NDA'd from last year - as I think people would enjoy seeing more of him.
 
gregorsamsa said:
No probs here with Schiller doing the talk, but frankly I find a good number of posts here as inane as it gets. I've never read so much fattism in a Mac thread. Don't see any reason for it.
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It is because Apple itself has both overtly and subliminally emphasized thin is better than fat.....

Macbook Air- thin is in.
Mac guy thin, PC guy fat...
iPod nano.
 
Schiller does a great job - but obviously he will never be as good as Jobs. I care more about the announcements than who is giving the presentation. I'd love an "update" on Jobs, though, more than anything.
 
TheSlush said:
Anybody else kinda NOT looking forward to Phil's over-rehearsed enthusiasm?
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Everyone here, lol. You nailed it though, Schiller doesn't seem to actually care about the announcements; his emotion is really fake. He's the Keanu Reeves of execs.
 
TheSlush said:
Anybody else kinda NOT looking forward to Phil's over-rehearsed enthusiasm?
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I like Philnotes. They always seem more human than a Stevenote, as though real people are running the company.

Stevenotes have the glamour, Philnotes have the soul.
 
Chundles said:
I like Philnotes. They always seem more human than a Stevenote, as though real people are running the company.

Stevenotes have the glamour, Philnotes have the soul.
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I also like Philnotes. I'm just hoping that Scott Forstall doesn't make an appearance. He seems 100 times more rehearsed than Phil could even imagine.
 
winterspan said:
Prompt, thorough, and professional???

That may be good for a prostate exam, but those are hardly the most important qualities you want in what is supposed to be an engaging presentation of new products!

Obviously no one can top Jobs, but my god Schiller is the most annoying, akward, and *dreadfully boring* of all of the Apple speakers I've seen so far.

Screw the executives, if Steve isn't going to run the show at many of these in the future, Apple needs to find an alternate presenter who can hold the audience's attention and not bore them to death.
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Could always WOW them with products?!? Maybe hire an actor ... naked victorias secret model ... mmmmmm. While I would love to see the model, I want to hear about apple products from the people that live and breath the stuff.
 
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