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Apple: Jobs Will Not Present at Apple's Final Macworld Keynote

I will miss the entertainment

Well, this ranks high on my list of lost entertainment. Around the same level as the stealth demise of AtAT.

But the RDF-stevenotes were only very good entertainment. If they keep producing great products and if they (again) will go for "innovating yourself out of a recession", then, given the depth of the recession, great things will still come from Apple, if they can again put someone with such strong visions at the helm.
 
mklos said:
Or it could be that IDG was just hoping they'd get the call from Apple saying Steve would be there. Or, they knew all along, but were holding off so they could sell more tickets and were just going to let Apple make the announcement instead of themselves.

I can't see what Apple did 9yrs ago effecting what they announced today. They would have backed out many years ago if this was true.
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Well, it was some time ago, but when this did happen, at least some of the drama between the companies played out in public. Apple wanted to show to be in New York, but IDG wanted to move it back to Boston. When IDG refused to keep it in New York, a stare-down ensued. Steve essentially took his ball and went home, effectively ending the East Coast expo -- which I'm sure ticked off IDG royally. I suspect that it hasn't been all peaches and cream between the companies since then. Reading between lines of this abrupt announcement so close to the opening date, it seems to me that whatever issues remained between the companies hadn't been resolved, or Apple would have handled this more gracefully.
 
Well this is bad news for MR, I bet a lot of traffic will be lost in the coming years. MR attracted a lot of new folks through the live coverage. If Apple simply releases products through a press release, there would be little reason to go to sites like MR for coverage. But the growing market-share of Apple should make up for this and hopefully keep this site strong.
 
I loved watching the keynotes, was like a movie with lots of cliffhangers and suspense with some comedy thrown in.
my stock shows apple up 0.72%, its still higher then it was yesterday.
I doubt this is anything to do with Steve's Health and it seems quite unfair to start speculating about someone's health and if you keep doing so then off course investors might worry, so if you care about apple stop being so irrational!!! Think Different! Think !
 
MvdM said:
Not at the IBC. Not at MacWorld after 2009. No more xraid. Dropping firewire.
No more pro machines in 2009? Glossy screens, glossy notebooks, iPods and iPhones, that's what's left of a company that was once in the pro business.
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http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/18841/

Take a longer look. xraid, FW are transient. Pro machines will be back in a big way. Glossy screens? Buy your own and get a Mac Pro. iPhones? A big earner, as iPod is for Apple.
 
IJ Reilly said:
Well, it was some time ago, but when this did happen, at least some of the drama between the companies played out in public. Apple wanted to show to be in New York, but IDG wanted to move it back to Boston. When IDG refused to keep it in New York, a stare-down ensued. Steve essentially took his ball and went home, effectively ending the East Coast expo -- which I'm sure ticked off IDG royally. I suspect that it hasn't been all peaches and cream between the companies since then. Reading between lines of this abrupt announcement so close to the opening date, it seems to me that whatever issues remained between the companies hadn't been resolved, or Apple would have handled this more gracefully.
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I bet Apple knew all along they were going to do this. You could almost see it coming between how they can just pull the media in whenever they want and how Phil Schiller and other key members of Apple gave the majority of the keynotes.
 
NO!!!! I feel so lost and confused!!!! No more looking forward to new products in January, no more New Year Stevenote, and no more "second Christmas"!!! Today is a sad day for everyone... :(
 
ArtOfWarfare said:
Of course,

Steve Jobs has been losing his magic recently.

I'm not sure about you, but the thing I've been quoting by him recently hasn't been "boom"...

it's been:

"Come on! You guys in the back! Move it along! You can see it later!"

LOL
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Haha, so true. In recent keynotes Steve is beginning to sound more and more like an old grumpy man, isn't he? ;)
 
Carniphage said:
There is a bit of over-reaction going on here. People are acting like the Beatles just split up.

Apple never waste money on products or ideas that were not strong enough to make sense (or a profit). Such ideas were dumped without ceremony. And I am guessing MacWorld fell into that category.

Apple does not want to hold-back announcments or rush products to launch to fit-in with someone else's calendar. MacWorld has its own timing.
The smart thing to do is launch products precisely when they are ready. Not a week too early or a week too late.

Bye MacWorld, its time for something better.

C.
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I totally agree... Look at what's happened lately with the iPhone, app store and MobileMe releases... I think apple has felt a huge pressure to release at fixed date events when really they would have preferred to choose their own dates... Although everything did turn out ok with all of those products it has to be said many had the feeling of being "rushed" which isn't like apple at all... This news is almost certainly a good thing for new products... Just can't get over why Steve isn't doing the last keynote... Sending a message perhaps? Dunno....
 
Great post! Apple has always been a control freak. Now they can decide for themselves when they want to have their product announcements and special events. This could actually be a good thing. And Steve may still do the special events when they have something spectacular to announce. That said, he will be missed at MacWorld. For me and many other Mac fans, that was the tech highlight of the year...

At 3:32 PM PST, the stock is now $93, down -2.43%.

zelmo said:
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.:)
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Oh, by the way, for those who think this is because Jobs is ill or starting to relinquish his duties; that doesn't make sense to me, because if that was the reason, they wouldn't have also announced that this was the last Macworld for Apple. They would have merely announced that Steve was not going to present at this Macworld, and left it at that.

Also I believe Jobs would not be coy if his health prevented him from doing his job, he would announce it, as required by law. He did not announce his surgeries because they were not material to the company; his form of cancer was curable with the operation he chose, and the complication he had treated later was also not life-threatening in any way.
 
corywoolf said:
Well this is bad news for MR, I bet a lot of traffic will be lost in the coming years. MR attracted a lot of new folks through the live coverage. If Apple simply releases products through a press release, there would be little reason to go to sites like MR for coverage. But the growing market-share of Apple should make up for this and hopefully keep this site strong.
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I don't think they're going to direct launches, more of Apple special events at the Apple campus (example: Apple SDK launch).
 
Small White Car said:
Come on people. This has nothing to do with Steve or Apple.

The internet is killing trade shows, just like it's killing newspapers and magazines.

Why should Apple spend millions of dollars to entertain thousands of journalists when they can just bring 150 bloggers into HQ and show them the same thing?

Used to be, that would mean no news coverage. Now? It will get you the exact same exposure for a LOT less money.
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you got a point the last Apple event was really a letdown due to the fact that the blogers etc leaked out everything before this happen and now with these events i think its somthing apple can pull together quicker with out perhaps geting the leaks websites produce
 
So they are trying to save money. Nothing wrong with that. Well the Mac Pro will now wait until WWDC. Anything else will probably get minor updates as per usual.
 
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