what if....(expo related)

[macOSX-tastic]

...there is no keynote because steve thought that there was nothing much to talk about?

bear with me here.....look at all the other keynotes....they were dominated by OS X tiger, the MAJOR overhaul of the imacs and cinema displays, and other new software demonstrations. if its just a minor product upgrade and not a major overhaul, then it's probably not going to be worthy of a keynote. keynotes only seem suitable for overhauls and new product releases, wheras minor updates seem to happen on their own.

i do expect something (although not ground breaking; one of steve's exciting powerPC products) at apple expo paris.

just my theory, any thoughts?

tastic

 

[G5Unit]

Maybe he wants us to think there will be no major updates...

 

[Makosuke]

Now that it looks like the only announcement will be the .Mac upgrades, that points to one of two things:

My money is on that the Nano wasn't originally planned to be ready until now, but some combination of having it ready to ship a couple weeks earlier than expected and Moto's phone being a letdown (though they would've known about that a while ago) caused them to announce it early while people (as in everyday people, not us Mac-watchers) were paying attention.

The other possibility, as they did plan one originally then cancel it, is that whatever they were going to announce--say, a minor PM revision--has been delayed, so it wasn't worth getting up and talking about it.

I'd say it's possible there wasn't anything to talk about, but they'd have known that a month ago when the keynote was originally announced, so you gotta figure something changed that caused them to change their plans.

 

[SummerBreeze]

Maybe he wants us to think there will be no major updates...

Yeah, a part of me thinks this is a bit of a diversionary tactic, but then again the fact that there's no keynote will probably stop more press from showing up, and I'm sure Apple knows better than to do that.