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Apple Announces WWDC 2009 Keynote to be Led by Phil Schiller

sososowhat said:
Two weeks ago, Jobs let his lawyer go to the Woodside Town Council meeting to argue on his behalf about his house demolition permit. Not interesting, except for what the lawyer told the council about why he wasn't there:

"I don't think he would be strong enough if we were here until 1 a.m."

This house thing is a big deal for Jobs & he would have been there if he could have. He's definitely not 100% yet.

http://newsfeedresearcher.com/data/articles_t18/jobs-house-apple.html
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I bet that the Woodside town council meeting is pretty low on Steve Jobs' priority list, and that the "he's too weak" is a convenient excuse to have his lawyer attend without him. If it had been his doctor making that statement it would have been more interesting.

Ade-iMac-177 said:
I stand by my belief that Phil will announce a one more thing a Steve will walk onto the stage looking a lot better and possibly holding a new device!
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That would certainly be a top moment in the annals of egotism.

I don't care who gives the speech. What's important is what is said.
 
I think...

I think that Apple doesn't want to promise a Jobs Keynote when he might not be up to it. If they promised him and he didn't show up there would be rumors and hysteria. If he shows up it would be great. Apple might be playing it by ear.
 
Malcster said:
Disagree, the iPhone is Steves baby. He wouldn't let anyone else introduce it.
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I hear you, but I think it's a "been there, done that" scenario for Steve. Everyone knows what an iPhone is. It's almost old news, in many ways. And I don't think physically, there is going to be anything so remarkably different about this release - combined with timing (read: they want to get this new iPhone out the door pronto) - that Steve doesn't feel a need to come back early to keynote. Phil can handle the iPhone announcement.
Now, if the new device happens to do vid chatting (I say not until 2010, earliest), I could see Phil "calling" Steve. But Phil can handle this announcement. Plus, this iPhone announcement is more about the OS than the hardware anyway. And Steve has always been a hardware guy.
Which is why he will introduce us to the tablet. No way he'd let anyone else take that spotlight. Which will be as bright as it gets.
 
No Way...

KratosKilla said:
I think that Apple doesn't want to promise a Jobs Keynote when he might not be up to it. If they promised him and he didn't show up there would be rumors and hysteria. If he shows up it would be great. Apple might be playing it by ear.
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Nope. Steve will not be there in any shape, form, or fashion. Apple knows what they are doing and Steve has purposefully removed himself from the spotlight for now.

These are the same people that know what great products are even before we do, so I think they know better how to handle this situation than any of us armchair pundits.

As to the iPhone, it will be the same as last year. The new OS will be reviewed with a new iPhone model debuted as well at WWDC. The phone itself will not be ready until the end of June or early July, but I think the software will be released within a week or two after WWDC (maybe even that day) to avoid the deluge of download and network issues there were the last two years. That will eliminate the bottleneck of activations when the new iPhone is released a couple of weeks later and the process will be smooth as it should have been before.

iCal me...
 
villanova329 said:
I'm starting to lose interest on who leads whatever keynote, I just care about whats being presented. A little disappointed because it feels as if Snow Leopard is even farther from where I had hoped it would be released
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no point releasing snow leopard now... it's optimised for multi-core and gpu vectoring, which will have its full effect shown on NEHALEM machines which won't come until Q3 this year and that's the time frame apple refresh their laptop lineup too.

not saying it won't work great with the latest unibody, certainly the unibody macbook(pro)s were designed with snow leopard in mind, but still that's on the soon-to-be-replaced nehalem architecture
 
KratosKilla said:
I think that Apple doesn't want to promise a Jobs Keynote when he might not be up to it. If they promised him and he didn't show up there would be rumors and hysteria. If he shows up it would be great. Apple might be playing it by ear.
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You don't play by ear for a significant presentation that is more than an hour long when you're less than a month out.
 
agl82 said:
Uh-huh? And you have proof of this fact? I supposed he just decided to take a six-month vacation then? Face facts, he's extremely sick or he'd be speaking at WWDC. He had pancreatic cancer before and he has it now.
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I'm sorry, but if he had it when he took his leave, well, he'd be dead. You don't live this long with Pancreatic cancer, unless it's the rare curable kind he had before. And he'd been getting skinnier for 6 months before he took his leave. That would be a record if he's had a reoccurrence for that long.
 
It's probably good Steve sits this one out. His presence would greatly eclipse the introduction of any new hardware or software. Apple is playing this one right. They need the spotlight on their products, not on Steve Jobs.
 
I just realized that Snow Leopard is going to be the first version of Mac OS X not previewed to the public by Steve Jobs.
 
I am an Apple shareholder---

agl82 said:
And why can't he have the "rare curable" kind again? All I'm saying is that all the doctors interviewed in the media and my friend who is an M.D. said that a "hormone imbalance" (Apple's diagnosis) would not cause the rapid weight loss that Steve experienced. Whether it's a return of pancreatic cancer is arguable, but my point was that Apple is covering up the truth again. I'm not an AAPL shareholder, but if I was I would be pissed.
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...and I really am balantly pissed.

I'm not so pissed at a keynote, that is presented by Phil. Wake up guys, it's WWDC after all, so the main talk will be very technical about all the new Snow Leopard stuff, that is going to debut. Marble will take center stage, as will Grand Central and OpenCL (imagine a guest apperance by Intel or NVIDIA here). In other words - it's nerd-porn for developers, but very boring for the rest of us. As I said, hey it's WWDC. Get the meaning of the word 'developer' in there.

I am really really pissed, that all those FUD-sprayers come creeping out their holes and stert inflating stock price with their stupid "Steve is Apple and if he'd die, Apple is DOOMED!"-talk.

AFAIK Snow Leopard is not the "maintenance upgrade", Apple tries to make us belive. We will see significant changes in our computer experience, as PPC is officially declared dead.

And honestly I personally think that SL is rather polished by now, we will be blown away with Marble and the final developer builds without striped out content will hit the shelves. SL will sell August, so we sheep buy it. And it will be pre-installed with the notebook/iMac refresh due in Q3.

If Steve will ever return to the spotlight, he won't at a very technical keynote at WWDC, but rather takes the spotlight on some major hardware announcement. 3rd gen iPhone is not shiny enough (as is SL, as it still remains nerd porn), and the shiny stuff still isn't ready.

So could we return to bashing the FUD-talkers instead of bashing Steve, like he owed us a WWDC appearance?
 
If Apple is planning on tossing out those Nehalem-based Macbook Pros out to consumers this fall, I'll hold off on getting a new laptop 'til then. Should be exciting to see Snow Leopard's other features once WWDC comes around, though. Not a big supporter of a UI change, but Apple hasn't messed up much in the past afaik, so I think it'll work out in the end. Quicktime X is going to be cool. New iPhone (assuming the upgrade is worth it) is going to replace my 3G... That'll be interesting. :D Apple, Apple, Apple, what've you got in store for us, hmm?
 
He reminds me of a big dull football coach/dad, not someone I'd like to watch on a keynote.
 
While I do love Steve's style of presenting, I've been impressed by everyone Apple uses to present. Phil honestly seems enthusiastic and excited about showing us Apple's newest stuff. All the young guns have an air of genuine-ness to them that I enjoy, they seem really excited to be working there.
 
badNameErr said:
Who gives the keynote isn't important. It's the content that matters.

Bring it on!
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Hate to disagree, but I kind of do. When the Pre was announced a few months ago, the content was as good as the iPhone, but felt myself looking at the clock half way through webcast. However, during the iPhone announcement, I watched it several times for the sheer stagecraft shown by Steve Jobs.

In short, don't underestimate the packaging. Sure content is important, but so is the packaging.
 
just sent a 'Schill down my spine....:eek:

Looking forward to see whats up from Apple.....really cant wait to see whats in store for 3.0 and Snow Leopard
 
Full of Win said:
Hate to disagree, but I kind of do. When the Pre was announced a few months ago, the content was as good as the iPhone, but felt myself looking at the clock half way through webcast. However, during the iPhone announcement, I watched it several times for the sheer stagecraft shown by Steve Jobs.

In short, don't underestimate the packaging. Sure content is important, but so is the packaging.
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Did you watch Apple's last keynote? It rocked!
 
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