Video of WWDC 2011 Keynote Now Available

[marconiusrex]

Steve lives for this stuff

Echo that. He doesn't look well at all, I was hoping he might have put on a little more weight and have generally recovered a bit. Quite the opposite, very frail. Health to you Steve.

I appreciate what you are saying about Steve's health...but he clearly thrives on this stuff.... I think its just what the Dr ordered!

 

[thelonelylimo]

I went to Apple.com on my iPad, AirPlayed it to my Apple TV 2 without any hesitation or buffering.

 

[thelonelylimo]

Yes, it is very sad. Steve appears to not being doing well at all, you can see it as plain as day. Compared to last summer he has lost allot of weight and really should be focusing in on his health as his main priority and concern.

Agreed. It crossed my mind while he was introducing iCloud, it seems he cares more about his company rather than his own health.

I watch Apple's keynotes for Steve specifically most of the time. I know I'll own and use all the products eventually anyway.

Wouldn't it be great to see Woz and Jobs on the same stage together once more? Just one more time....

 

[pdjudd]

Woz hasn't been involved with Apple from a business standpoint in a long, long time (aside from making dividends, of course) and nothing in any of his biographical information I've read indicates that he has any interest in a return. Not that it wouldn't be cool especially from a sentimental standpoint, but I don't see it happening. It'll almost certainly be Tim Cook as he's already been groomed to step into the role over the past year or so. Let's just hope we don't have to cross that bridge as soon as it looks like we might.

That is what I have been getting from Woz as well. While he may talk with Steve occasionally (as old friends would) and possibly he might have some ties with people at Apple, he has absolutely no formal employment ties with Apple and that has been the case for a couple of decades. Any ties with Apple are largely symbolic ones as the co-founder and possibly via dividends.

He has pretty much made it clear that he wouldn't want the job - he's not the managerial type. Working for Apple is in Woz's past - he has other things that he likes to do. I think that Jobs respects that choice.

 

[No More Windows]

He looks more like a dying cancer patient than any other keynote before... how sad it is. His situation is clearly not optimistic, you can see he tried to look exciting when he announced iCloud, but....

I'm a fairly new Apple convert, since the 4th Gen iPod Touch I was given for Christmas I now have an iPhone 4, Apple TV2 and 21.5" current model iMac. My wife has also had a similar conversion to myself with iPod, iPhone and we share the iMac!! I can't seem to get enough of Apple having downloaded and watched every available Keynote and product presentation available on iTunes. I've recently bought several books about Steve Jobs including iLeadership, iCon and the Return to the Little Kingdom as well as Steve Wozniak's iWoz and loved them all.

Recently I've found myself feeling really sad at the situation that Steve Jobs finds himself in at the moment. Anybody who has lost a loved one to cancer, or any other disease knows the "Look" of someone who is not doing well. Clearly Steve has deteriorated in recent months, and he did seem to struggle at certain points in this Keynote, but if history has taught us anything about Steve Jobs, he can never be under-estimated. He has the will power and the drive to beat this and I would not in the slightest bit be surprised to see him make a full recovery.

His drive and character could be the key to beating his health issues. The fact that he is clearly so sick and he still fronted the keynote is testamet to that drive and ambition. This is a man that has already changed the world and I suspect that he's not finished just yet. There was another post earlier in this thread along the lines that he thrives on this stuff... and that this could be just the medicine he needs. I certainly believe that this may well be the case, and at the risk of sounding way too optomistic, I just loved the fact that he did present the Keynote in a kind of triumphant "Up-Yours" to the trashy tabloid media types like the National Enquirer's infamous "Six Weeks To Live" story based on that Palo Alto carpark video.

All power to you Steve, I hope you come through this and you are able to one day enjoy a long and healthy retirement. I thank you for your wisdom and your wonderful company, and I trust that when you do retire Apple will be in the safe hands of your chosen succsessors. I just wish I had discovered Apple products sooner!!