Well, I do not want to start another rash of posts, but I do not know what your talking about ... After the first few weeks, Mobile Me was acceptable to me
congrats. Not everyone's mileage has been the same. Still isn't.
Seriously I want to know - because there is a rumor

(maybe a joke) about the iphone nano coming to sprint.
IF there was a nano, it would, like all iphones, but ATT only at this time.
I was referring to a statement of why all the news at the last minute
3 weeks ago is not last minute. last minute is the morning of, or even the day before.
and maybe a little information on the future direction of apple.
in solid terms, don't count on it. that sort of thing falls into the grey areas of confidential. The best you will likely get is vague clues from what they announce about products and services.
as for the consumer thing. they are a company. companies want to make money, lots of it. the professional market wasn't as viable, so they expanded.
I think that the only software move that would be exciting enough to be the centerpiece of the final Macworld would be the ultimate software move - Apple announcing that they are freeing OS X from being on Apple-only hardware and would allow OS X to install on any hardware. .
not going to happen. probably ever but certainly not in the foreseeable future.
Why? Because at this point legally they don't have to.
If the iPhone or any version of it were ever on Sprint's network I'd be more excited to NOT have to pay full price for a damaged/lost/stolen phone. Getting a new one in the mail within a week or sending the damaged phone in for a new on immediately would be a HUGE plus for lots of intelligent buyers.
that assumes that Sprint wouldn't change their policies
Other than that the bill would be much more reasonable,
that assumes Sprint wouldn't change their rates, have a special Iphone plan. after all, they know that folks will pay that much a month to have an iphone. so why not milk it for all you can
and the 3G speeds much more consistent and faster.
assuming their coverage is enough to handle the load
Not to mention the already happening rollout of WiMax.
which isn't supported by the hardware (hell the iphone isn't even 802.11n yet) and not likely to be until after a lot more of the rollout is complete. I'd keep
Is Steve really ok? Is he sick? Is he really going to retire soon now and fade away? Say it ain't so Apple

I will never have my dream of seeing a Stevenote live realized now it seems
well there are those that think that he's been lying since day one and dying since day one and he's going to kick the bucket any day. so take that for what you will
and yes he will retire and if you think that he hasn't created an Apple that can move on without him, then time to sell your stock and move on and back to the land of bill gates. I mean seriously. why do you think he hasn't done the announcements solo the last few times. to show folks that the whole of Apple is not him. He's got to be sick of everyone thinking he's the only brain, that he's all that matters, that apple is Steve Jobs and will die if he ever leaves. which is why the obsession with his health and the rampant belief that he has to tell all, to the point some folks claim he is legally bound to reveal everything at all times.
In other words, they're preparing for the transition to occur.
they have been preparing for it. doesn't mean it will happen at Macworld.
Read this Gizmodo story about Steve's health.
Giz is often full of crap. they reference unnamed sources etc. it reeks more of someone there wanting to buy Apple stock cheap right before a potentially big announcement than any truth.
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.
or the simple fact that someone would leak it out and make it seem worse than it is. make it seem like they are lying about everything and Steve is actually already die blah blah. so it was a risk they decided to take thinking that announcing it earlier the rumors wouldn't be as bad
Perhaps Apple is angry about the interview with the IDG exec that Jobs would be there, and just wants to punish IDG.
yeah Apple is angry that some yahoo at Businessweek was told by IDG that there had not been an official announcement but they expected Jobs would do the keynote, and that yahoo wrote in his column that Jobs would be there for sure.
if anyone needs to be punished it is the guy at Businessweek that can't listen to what is actually being said.
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.
bingo. and exactly what Apple has been saying. but folks just have to believe they are lying. and it's all about -- you guessed it -- Steve. Steve, Steve, Steve.
and why Apple isn't pulling out of WWDC.
well WWDC is Apple's show.
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!!!)
then you will be a tad disappointed.
they have already said that Snow Leopard is just a massive improvement, not a redesign.
which could be reflected in this other and more logical rumor, that this year will be the year of making existing stuff before and not trying to make 15 new great things.
I'd buy a Mini if it had graphics performance on par with the MBP.
the Mini is more likely to have the graphics of a MacBook, not a MB Pro. which is still better than it has now.
The Mini was designed as a transitional machine. something for the Wintel folks that didn't need a ton of power, didn't want to waste money on a new monitor etc when they have a perfectly good one at home.
not as a media server etc.
which is an interesting thought and one that is in the rumor mill. but I expect nothing of such a nature to be mentioned at MW, maybe WWDC to release just before the holidays, if this year at all (or even at all in general)