Steve Jobs made a number of appearances at the D conferences, including a notable joint appearance with Bill Gates at D5 in 2007 and his final appearance there at D8 in 2010.
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Tim Cook to Headline D10 Conference on May 29
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Article Link: Tim Cook to Headline D10 Conference on May 29
I'd like to see Apple shift its focus back on making computers. Enough with this iOS/iToy crap, theres still a lot of old school mac users that do actual work on them.
The iOS/iToy crap is where Apple makes most of it's profits so I don't think you'll see a shift in focus.
Gates and Jobs are influential people. Let's see how Tim Cook will fair. He does have a monumental publicity burden on his shoulders. So far, he seems to be doing quite well. What I respect is that he doesn't try to copy Steve Jobs's style.
This is very interesting, he did a good job with the iPad launch, would be crazy if he actually announced a product at D but I have my doubts.
Yay! Time for a boring ass speech by a man who should have always stayed behind the curtain. Apple needs to appoint a showman. Someone who uses tone and a slow reveal to announce products - much like Steve and how he knew how to get a crowd going. Even Phil is better at this than Cook. 
Yet, there are a significantly greater number of people who do significant, actual work on their iOS devices.
Tim has been getting better but he is certainly no Steve, or Xander Soren. By the way, where's Scott Forstall? Any rumors about him? He was a no-show at the new iPad event, though I guess there wasn't anything new about iOS itself.
Wow the Terranea Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes is within easy bicycle ride distance from my house. It's a brand new development that was build on the site of an old theme part called "marine Land" which was a 50s version of Sea World. They did a nice job. It looks good and has some of the best scuba diving of any place in the So Cal. mainland. They allow the public on the grounds, even have public parking and allow people to climb down the buff to the ocean. Being on the "back" side of PV it feels remote but it's not. This is the first time I've read about anything major happening there.
Steve jobs use to announce things at macworld. Steve was also never the keynote speaker at D.
Steve is gone. Tim Cook makes the rules now. An announcement should not be ruled out.
Yay! Time for a boring ass speech by a man who should have always stayed behind the curtain. Apple needs to appoint a showman. Someone who uses tone and a slow reveal to announce products - much like Steve and how he knew how to get a crowd going. Even Phil is better at this than Cook.
At this point, Apple has enough credibility and product success that people arent going to buy more or less of the product over the long term based on the performance at the product introduction. Very few people outside of the media and the hardcore fans actually watch the presentation. By the time CNN and other new sources tell the public, it doesnt matter how fascinating the speaker was as long as he presents a great product. Seriously, great products sell a lot and that's the reason Apple is doing so well right now.
The only thing Tim will talk about is the wonderful world of the Apple ecosystem and the upcoming WWDC.
I'm not so sure. He may not be trying to, but at the iPad product release I could see a lot of the presentation being very much in Steve's style. But since Apple itself embodies everything that was Steve Jobs, it's not surprising and not necessarily a bad thing. Jobs made Apple what it is today. Anyone would be a fool not to emulate at least some of what Steve did to get it there.
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Sorry, but in this "Post PC Era", the old school will be left behind by the new school. At some point they will however find a way to bring everyone into the fold.
And a lot of the profits it does make on computers come from people who originally owned iOS/iToy crap and would have never considered buying a Mac otherwise.