Oh well-now this keynote won't have anything major.
Perhaps Apple will do its own event-like they do for iPods from now on.
Perhaps Apple will do its own event-like they do for iPods from now on.
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Apple: Jobs Will Not Present at Apple's Final Macworld Keynote
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Wake up arn your missing some big news!
Wake up arn your missing some big news!
Hmmm...
From what I heard generally about the ca that Steve has, he is likely to be on a slow decline for years and then it will get rapidly worse before 'the end'.
But you also have to wonder how Apple is going to deal with the huge speed bumps in their future. One being the eventual demise/retirement of their saviour Steve Jobs and two being the souring global economy. To a lesser extent is their competition who are slowly getting better at coming up with products that either compete with or offer a somewhat viable alternative to Apple products.
In the short term, not unlike Magrathea, Apple could find themselves priced out of the reach of many people, especially schools and students. Many people don't realize that the average student discount was (and may still be) $100.00 on an iMac. It's out of reach for many students. Yes, the iMac is worth more in what it can potentially do but it is actually lagging behind the PC market in the ability to support second internal hard drives for desktop RAID and is sorely lacking in USB ports. My iMac has three, a PC sitting on the next desk has eight AND I can add more too. Flexibility, or more accurately the lack, will bite into the iMac's sales harder than ever.
Apple needs to morph the Mac Mini into a Micro-ATX slot based minitower and quick or at least provide for 2 drives and a lot more USB ports in an iMac update. Flexibility and adaptability can save Apple. They have the most unique and powerful operating system (in spite of Leopard's rough birth) and now need the flexibility in their hardware to help carry them through. I hope they don't release an open version of Leopard because I see that as a tactical mistake at this time. Apple will lose all leverage and will be like Sega who dumped their hardware and shifted to software only. (Are they still around?)
2009 is likely to be a tough year for Apple and the rest of the country and probably the world...
From what I heard generally about the ca that Steve has, he is likely to be on a slow decline for years and then it will get rapidly worse before 'the end'.
But you also have to wonder how Apple is going to deal with the huge speed bumps in their future. One being the eventual demise/retirement of their saviour Steve Jobs and two being the souring global economy. To a lesser extent is their competition who are slowly getting better at coming up with products that either compete with or offer a somewhat viable alternative to Apple products.
In the short term, not unlike Magrathea, Apple could find themselves priced out of the reach of many people, especially schools and students. Many people don't realize that the average student discount was (and may still be) $100.00 on an iMac. It's out of reach for many students. Yes, the iMac is worth more in what it can potentially do but it is actually lagging behind the PC market in the ability to support second internal hard drives for desktop RAID and is sorely lacking in USB ports. My iMac has three, a PC sitting on the next desk has eight AND I can add more too. Flexibility, or more accurately the lack, will bite into the iMac's sales harder than ever.
Apple needs to morph the Mac Mini into a Micro-ATX slot based minitower and quick or at least provide for 2 drives and a lot more USB ports in an iMac update. Flexibility and adaptability can save Apple. They have the most unique and powerful operating system (in spite of Leopard's rough birth) and now need the flexibility in their hardware to help carry them through. I hope they don't release an open version of Leopard because I see that as a tactical mistake at this time. Apple will lose all leverage and will be like Sega who dumped their hardware and shifted to software only. (Are they still around?)
2009 is likely to be a tough year for Apple and the rest of the country and probably the world...
well, i hope in january you will be eating your words about the blu-ray part.
also, you ought to haveb said
steve jobs = no mid sized mac tower
I guess Arn is busy buying Christmas presents today.Otherwise, you would think this would be the lead story on the front page.
I submitted the story for the front page about an hour ago. Maybe he's busy?
Or Apple told them before hand and they jumped ship.
We're below $90/share already.
Apple: Jobs Will Not Present at Apple's Final Macworld Keynote
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Apple has announced that Steve Jobs will not deliver the opening keynote presentation at the upcoming Macworld Expo in San Francisco on January 6th, 2009. Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will take the stage in Jobs' place. In addition, Apple announced that this is the final year in which Apple will exhibit at the Macworld Expo, pointing to the decreasing relevance of trade shows as Apple has expanded its direct contact with customers via retail stores and the company's website.
Apple's decision comes on the heels of news that Adobe would not be exhibiting at Macworld San Francisco. Several other vendors, including Belkin, Seagate, and Google, have also withdrawn from the expo or downsized their presence.
Article Link: Apple: Jobs Will Not Present at Apple's Final Macworld Keynote
Apple has announced that Steve Jobs will not deliver the opening keynote presentation at the upcoming Macworld Expo in San Francisco on January 6th, 2009. Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will take the stage in Jobs' place. In addition, Apple announced that this is the final year in which Apple will exhibit at the Macworld Expo, pointing to the decreasing relevance of trade shows as Apple has expanded its direct contact with customers via retail stores and the company's website.
Apple's decision comes on the heels of news that Adobe would not be exhibiting at Macworld San Francisco. Several other vendors, including Belkin, Seagate, and Google, have also withdrawn from the expo or downsized their presence.
Article Link: Apple: Jobs Will Not Present at Apple's Final Macworld Keynote
Ugh!
Is Macworld dead? I'm mean they might keep going (for a while), but it would be much, much smaller. Like a hobbist's conference. Ha ha... <cries a little>
I did always wonder about the timing of the conference though. Who wants to announce products right *after* Christmas season?
Oh well. The Apple ecosystem--even the third-party ecosystem--probably really does not need big conferences to be healthy. And Apple can announce products any time they want--they don't need a conference keynote to get the press' attention.
Is Macworld dead? I'm mean they might keep going (for a while), but it would be much, much smaller. Like a hobbist's conference. Ha ha... <cries a little>
I did always wonder about the timing of the conference though. Who wants to announce products right *after* Christmas season?
Oh well. The Apple ecosystem--even the third-party ecosystem--probably really does not need big conferences to be healthy. And Apple can announce products any time they want--they don't need a conference keynote to get the press' attention.
On the health note: Who knows...
I doubt that Apple is just going to lay down and roll over for nothing. Macworld can be a distraction for Apple. They may be thinking of another re-org and focusing on a different market or direction.
Plus, Steve is eventually going to either retire or die. More likely the former than the latter but he's only human after all...
I imagine that this is like the death of Comdex. I had gone to a few of them but they changed over the years... They got to be too big and too expensive. Perhaps the age of the huge single market rah-rah fest is over? I heard from folks that did the last consumer electronics show that it was a drag... Too big and chaotic.
I doubt that Apple is just going to lay down and roll over for nothing. Macworld can be a distraction for Apple. They may be thinking of another re-org and focusing on a different market or direction.
Plus, Steve is eventually going to either retire or die. More likely the former than the latter but he's only human after all...
I imagine that this is like the death of Comdex. I had gone to a few of them but they changed over the years... They got to be too big and too expensive. Perhaps the age of the huge single market rah-rah fest is over? I heard from folks that did the last consumer electronics show that it was a drag... Too big and chaotic.
This is the worst thing that could possibly happen. =( I'm VERY VERY sad, and VERY speechless. Long live 
I agree it's not so much about Steve's health. A lot of your points are big factors but I think this is also part of a process to transition Apple to not being Steve's company.I know everyone is going to speculate about Steve's health being the cause, but I think it's more likely a result of (in no specific order):
[1] Apple no longer focusing solely on the Mac platform. Let's face it - most of the news these days is about the iPhone or iPod anyway.
[2] Intel platform means there can't really be too many bombshell hardware announcements, as the roadmap is clear and competitors are quick with similarly spec'd kit.
[3] Apple is a fan of special events, and dropping out of MacWorld frees them from having to have something spectacular to unveil every January, and frees us of the disappointment when what is shown is less than we want or predict.
All in all, a sad day, but perhaps not the end of the world.
It is interesting and somewhat fun to have a CEO like Steve Jobs who very much the figure head and in charge of vision and creative direction for the company. However, from a business perspective it is a very, very risky proposition to have your company so tightly bound to one individual where if anything where to happen to that individual people's perceived value of Apple is significantly damaged.
I think we will continue to see other executives in more of a PR role and in general we'll see less of Steve Jobs as a public figurehead. We've already started to see this happen. Currently if Steve were to leave Apple it would hurt the perceived value of the company a lot - not as bad as a year or two ago though. Steve will be leaving Apple - maybe in six months, maybe in 3 years but it is to the point that Apple needs to start transitioning.
So what does this mean??? Will Apple just release products via website now or private events on Apple campus (example: SDK launch)?
I really hope this isn't because of Steve Job's health - although I believe the shares are plummeting now because of this anouncement. Would Apple let their share slide for something like this? I think something might be up ... or Steve wants a longer Christmas holiday