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Jobs Excited about Device, Keynote?

i hate to say it...

Steve is going to step aside. Not down, just, aside, I think anyway. It's just this bad feeling I have... HELP ME. OH GOD. NO STEVE! DON'T!

His comments on the Segway, dead on. And I'm glad he said as much to a room full of guys who had probably staked the meaning of their entire lives on it... why? Because, nerds willing, it made them better designers.

The segway story illustrates exactly why under no circumstances, until the next chosen one has revealed himself, is Steve allowed to step down.

Does anyone know if Steve has a Padawan Learner?

CAN SOMEONE GET HIM A PADAWAN LEARNER? THANKS.
 
4np said:
This funny for a little while but now it is getting annoying... could we quit this stupid joke?
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The regular "PowerBook G5s next Tuesday!!" post is akin to many comments on Slashdot -- e.g., "You must be new here," "In SOVIET RUSSIA...," "I for one welcome our new [whatever] overlords" [etc.] -- it's part of the forums' environment.

Whether that's good is, of course, open to interpretation. IMHO, the longer you've been here, the more likely it is that you'll find it amusing; but YMMV.
 
Does Steve not invite friends in the past? Maybe he is happy that he feels well this year or something? Some reports are saying that the phone has not been approved for the US yet? I will be glad when this is all over. The hype machine rolls on. I want to buy my refurbed iPod and get on with my life:)
 
Just wondering...

If you were Apple, would you release a product that would have been the *perfect* Xmas present just a few days after the shopping season is over?
Wouldn't you think they would have done anything to put it on the market just a couple of weeks before?

I'm surely wrong, but this should be something bigger than a so-called iPhone.

No expectations, sung Mick Jagger...

DJ Flux
 
mattalici said:
Does anyone know if Steve has a Padawan Learner?
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Well, there is Phil Schiller, but he sucks at keynotes. The one person who could succeed Steve as far as keynotes are concerned is Scott Forrestall. He did great job during the Leopard-presentation at WWDC.
 
AvatarDJFlux said:
If you were Apple, would you release a product that would have been the *perfect* Xmas present just a few days after the shopping season is over?
Wouldn't you think they would have done anything to put it on the market just a couple of weeks before?

DJ Flux
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The fact that people have just spent their money on Chrimbo is a forgone conclusion, but the majority of these would have been standard consumers. The sort that would walk into PC World to buy a Mac (or PC) and may well have tried an Apple Store through recommendation. Or perhaps they bought an iPod as a gift.

The majority of people I come into contact with (outside of work) that own an iPod or perhaps a Mac of some description have no idea that new products are announced at dates and times that we Mac Fans know about in advance. They often do not even know who Steve Jobs is.

Example, a PowerBook user for a whole year, asked me if I would recommend he upgrade his laptop to a new PowerBook, this was about 3 months after the MacBook Pro was announced. When I told him about the change to Intel and the new models he looked blankly at me. When I said they were announced by Steve Jobs at one of his keynotes, he glazed over completely, "Who is Steve Jobs?" ... I had to contain my smile and explain to him.

So the new products, they will be announced and the majority will be none the wiser until they hit the Apple Store shelves.
 
you're all wrong i tells ya..

he's gonna put an end to all of this ipod madness..

there will be no more apple.. instead thinking differently to another organic fruit :) oPod, oMac etc..

and he will release oVista :D
 
iPhone?

I deliberately used a question mark in my title, if the device is what is being hyped, having phone in the name would be a bit of a shortcoming.
Well just have to be patient (one more day folks), and see what is coming at us. Who knows they'll use the name Newton again, as that doesn't have a bad ring in my mind. It was ahead of it's time, the technologies have matured and can be integrated with other functionality.

I'll stop speculating, nobody knows anything, until Steve Jobs tells us it's okay and tells us what we are to know.
 
I'll be there :)

I'll be in line at 4:30 tomorrow morning to make sure I'm close to the stage!! My Treo 650 is a POS and has to go!!!
 
retire?

Maybe his announcement is personal in nature, like he's retiring or taking a leave, as rumored? I'd want my friends there if I were making such an announcement.
 
Evangelion said:
Well, there is Phil Schiller, but he sucks at keynotes. The one person who could succeed Steve as far as keynotes are concerned is Scott Forrestall. He did great job during the Leopard-presentation at WWDC.
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Should Steve step back to a chairman position, let me put it this way, when was the last time you heard Steve Ballmer of Microsoft of Kevin Rollins actually doing a major keynote or presentation? Never. It's always Bill Gates and Michael Dell who do them.

Frisco said:
The big news will be an announcement that Apple is merging with Google!
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I don't think they'll merge, I do think we might be stealing their CEO.
 
Hoping for a FOLED display.
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but I'll be happy with this.
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/not a startrek geek. but it seems to apply doesn't it?
 
it might have been said in the last 5 pages, but we all know jobs is very very secretive. how imo, he wouldnt be really really excited about anything that we have already heard about. i hope nothing was leaked about this upcoming... whatever.

apple is going to blow us out of the water.
 
. said:
..a very trusted (and extremely anonymous) source of mine in Silicon Valley told me recently that he has it on good faith that Apple CEO Steve Jobs has invited all of his best friends to his MacWorld SF Keynote on Tuesday. In Silicon Valley buzz code, that means he's got something really special to show.
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I think we all know this is not true, it is well documented that anyone who has become friends with steve he ends up making them hate him. So I would imagine this is very short list of people.
 
mattalici said:
Steve is going to step aside. Not down, just, aside, I think anyway. It's just this bad feeling I have... HELP ME. OH GOD. NO STEVE! DON'T!
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Ain't gonna happen, for now. Besides, Macworld is not the appropriate venue for such an announcement.
 
Brandon Sharitt said:
It seems like for the past two years, I've spent the days leading up to a keynote or other Apple event calling people hoping for the iPhone morons, but I think I'll refrain from that this this time around.
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While I've tried to be more civil than that, I've agreed that an Apple phone would be an unlikely thing for Apple to release, and the only reason I'm keeping my mouth closed this time is the sheer wealth of (admittedly COMPLETELY CONTRADICTORY) reports pointing to one right now.

That said, whatever Apple releases stikes me as unlikely to be "just a cellphone with an iPod in it." If it is, I'll repeat all my criticisms thus far. Yes, I know some people think the current crop of phones are "too hard", what with their "Dial a number, or select from phone book, and hit send" UIs, but that isn't a sentiment shared by the majority of people, who will pass over a device that isn't given away free that's sold primarily on the basis of user friendliness or iTunes integratedness. And such a phone would be a disaster in terms of destroying the market share levels that have made the iTunes Store viable.

It's got to be better than rumoured, or it's got to be something else entirely.
 
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