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perhaps Steve listened to us bitching about his weight, so he grew his hair a bit, went to Mc Donalds ate a years supply of crabby pate's and special sauce et voila our new transformed CEO.
 
Looks like Al Gore's profile imho.

If in some shock statement Al Gore is announced as Steve's successor it'll be little more than a PR stunt to position Apple as the greenest computer company I reckon; Tim Cook will continue as COO with more power and maybe Jonathan Ive and Phil Schiller will take on more duties too.

While not belittling Gore's CV at all, I'm just not entirely convinced he's the best choice to put at the head of a computer company.
 
If in some shock statement Al Gore is announced as Steve's successor it'll be little more than a PR stunt ...

If Al Gore is announced as Steve's successor, I am switching to Windows after 30 years as an Apple user.
 
That guy in the spy shot is a tech guy. I work in TV and I can tell he is wearing a headset. If you look closely there is a small white or silver metal in his hair which is one side of the headset.
 
That guy in the spy shot is a tech guy. I work in TV and I can tell he is wearing a headset. If you look closely there is a small white or silver metal in his hair which is one side of the headset.

You don't have to look closely to see he's wearing a headset, but who says that Gore doesn't have so much to do that he doesn't have time to take it off as he powerwalks from one side of the stage to another giving his endorsement of Apple's move to a line of only LED displays?
 
looks to me like the guy from intel,maybe he,s coming on stage about the new i7s,releasing the new macpros

That'd be nice... except they haven't even started making Nehalem Xeon chips yet, so any announcement would come with a two month minimum wait for the computers, and Apple isn't going to not sell the Mac Pro for two months.

But thanks for playing. I wouldn't be opposed to it if they're available for preorder, but that darn Osborne Effect says that it's stupid from a business standpoint.
 
Looks like Al Gore's profile imho.
While not belittling Gore's CV at all, I'm just not entirely convinced he's the best choice to put at the head of a computer company.

At least Al Gore uses a Mac and actually uses FCP himself. That says a lot for a matured executive. Look at John Sculley before, that guy sells sugar water before and never laid a finger on any PC. much less knows how it works. Al is miles better and politically astuted as well which is a bonus. :cool:
 
That'd be nice... except they haven't even started making Nehalem Xeon chips yet, so any announcement would come with a two month minimum wait for the computers, and Apple isn't going to not sell the Mac Pro for two months.

But thanks for playing. I wouldn't be opposed to it if they're available for preorder, but that darn Osborne Effect says that it's stupid from a business standpoint.

how do you know with such certainty they haven't started making them yet? I agree that it does seem a bit unlikely now that they will announce the new Mac Pro's at MWSF. More surprising things have happened, and after all, there have been samples of them kicking around for a couple of months so it would be quite possible to have the machines ready to go just needing the chips to drop in
 
how do you know with such certainty they haven't started making them yet? I agree that it does seem a bit unlikely now that they will announce the new Mac Pro's at MWSF. More surprising things have happened, and after all, there have been samples of them kicking around for a couple of months so it would be quite possible to have the machines ready to go just needing the chips to drop in

When chips go into production, Intel gets all happy. They do press releases. We haven't seen any. Please link me to one if you have, because, as you can see from my sig, I'm waiting for them, too, and would like to see them as soon as possible. If they haven't gone into production yet, Apple won't announce them just to have all Mac Pros unavailable for two months.
 
I'm dreaming of a white Macworld
Unlike the ones I used to know
While attendees listen
Steve Jobs we're missin'
And Phil introduces Snow

I'm dreaming of a white Macworld
For white is the new black tonight
Will Apple's last Macworld delight
And will Schiller's turtleneck be white?

I'm dreaming of a white Macworld
With every rumor, wrong or right
May those elevators be bright
And may all our Macworlds be white
 
the only comment from Apple about Steve is likely that folks need to shut the F up about his health, it's none of anyone's business and he's not doing the speech cause he's not the only person at Apple with a brain and it's time for the world to get that through their collective thick skulls -- which they have basically said several times already.

In other words, they're preparing for the transition to occur.

Read this Gizmodo story about Steve's health. Whether or not the prognosis about Steve is right, it makes some good points about how Apple could go about undoing the over-hyped "Steve is Apple -- Apple is Steve" mindset.

Steve Jobs' Health Declining Rapidly, Reason for Macworld Cancellation

By Jesus Diaz, 12:15 PM on Tue Dec 30 2008

According to a previously reliable source, Apple misrepresented the reasons behind Macworld and Jobs' keynote cancellation. Allegedly, the real cause is his rapidly declining health. In fact, it may be even worse than we imagined:

Steves health is rapidly declining. Apple is choosing to remove the hype factor strategically vs letting the hype destroy apple when the inevitable news comes later this spring.

This strategic loss will be less of a bang with investors. This is why Macworld is a no-go anymore. No more Steve means no more hype. Saying they are no longer needing [Macworld] is the cover designed by the worldwide "loyalty" department.

This source has repeatedly been 100% correct before. Those times, however, were always related to news and images of unreleased Apple products. I can only hope that, in this more personal matter, it is absolutely wrong. And that if he is not, that sentence just means that Steve Jobs is retiring according to his plan.
...

Reduce the hype now and get Jobs out of the spotlight, so that when Steve leaves it won't seem like such a big deal.



and they already explained why they are pulling out of Macworld -- they don't need it anymore. there are other and better ways to do their announcements.

What this doesn't explain is the timing of Apple's announcement. They could have announced that they won't be returning anytime after the show, or even during the keynote.

The only reason to do it before the show seems to be a spiteful attempt to make this expo less successful. It seems calculated to do damage to IDG - not really anything else.

Perhaps Apple is angry about the interview with the IDG exec that Jobs would be there, and just wants to punish IDG. https://www.macrumors.com/2008/12/15/idg-jobs-expected-to-give-macworld-keynote/

(I'm talking about the timing only, not whether pulling out is the right thing.)
 
it's a nobody

Looks like Paul Otellini

If you've ever been involved with one of these big shows, you'd realize that these execs are very busy. They don't have time to be there a week before for sound and lighting checks.

Typically, they'll get to the hall an hour or so before the show, and get miked and do a quick sound check.

Also notice that the main keynote speaker never gives any substantial demo - they'll bring an engineer from the back who has rehearsed for the demo piece. Sometimes they meet the engineer the first time backstage. (I've been the engineer at some of these keynote demos - and there's never been a rehearsal with all parties present.)

After the keynote, the exec may have lunch with some important customer(s) - then fly off to the next meeting.
 
These are some great posts.:D

I agree with the thought that no one should be speculating about Steve's health. That's awful.:mad:

I hope Apple has some great new products released so we can talk about them. All those banners being covered up has to mean something new is coming. :rolleyes:
 
Agreed..
Mini and Pro - pretty much neglected for a while.

Meaning they are eligible for an upgrade. Also, the 17 inch MBP hasn't been updated in a while.

I'd buy a Mini if it had graphics performance on par with the MBP.

I also think we'll hear about a new iPhone software update. No hardware updates this year, so Apple will put the team to work on a major software update to address many of the issues still bugging iPhone owners.

Pulling out of Macworld is no big deal. All trade shows are suffering. It's a very expensive thing to put on, and it's really only journalists who attend. It happened to E3 in the video games market, and it's happening to Macworld. Smaller, more frequent events at a campus you own is much cheaper, and those same journalists get to report the same news.

Of course, the shows that it doesn't make sense to pull out from are developer shows. Every platform needs developers, and putting on a show for them with tutorials and people to ask questions to is something they like. That's why Microsoft has been continuing PDC and WinHEC (and even added MIX to their devshow portfolio), and why Apple isn't pulling out of WWDC. There is a perfectly rational explanation, so don't complicate matters by speculating about the sky falling down.
 
personally im looking forward to snow leopard most. i hope we get more info about it and it will be really different performance wise.(demos!!!)
 
Meaning they are eligible for an upgrade. Also, the 17 inch MBP hasn't been updated in a while.

I'd buy a Mini if it had graphics performance on par with the MBP.

I also think we'll hear about a new iPhone software update. No hardware updates this year, so Apple will put the team to work on a major software update to address many of the issues still bugging iPhone owners.

But surely we would've heard about it / beta on the iphone dev site? Or have i missed that :eek:
 
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