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Posted on 01/09/2006 9:25:44 PM PST by Panerai
I had a recurring dream this past weekend. I was sitting in Moscone Center, waiting for Steve Jobs to deliver his Macworld Expo keynote. The Apple CEO took the stage to a thunderous ovation and began a recitation of Apple’s past year—the success of the iPod, the release of Tiger, the forthcoming transition to Intel chips. And just as we’re getting to the point in the speech where Jobs traditionally starts rattling off the new products Apple plans on introducing, he looked right at me and said, “Well, that’s all I got for today…see you folks later.” He strode off the stage, again to a thunderous ovation, as my boss here at Macworld turns to me and says, ?Well, how do you plan on filling all the pages in the magazine with that?”
Which is about when I bolt upright in bed, drenched in sweat, reminding myself that it’s all a horrible, horrible dream.
Yes, I have dreams about Macworld Expo keynotes. And if that strikes you as terribly sad, consider that my Macworld Expo nightmare has actually been one of the more pleasant night terrors to visit me recently, as the majority of my REM sleep has been dominated by visions of the bathroom pipe that broke while I was on Christmas vacation. So, in that sense, a vision of Steve Jobs leaving us Mac users empty-handed after Expo keynote is a relatively pleasant respite.
Still, I’m fairly confident my nightmare of a product-free Expo keynote won’t come to pass when the Apple CEO steps on stage for real Tuesday morning. For starters, when you’re down to one Expo a year, you’ve really got to make your public pronouncements at trade shows count.
(Excerpt) Read more at macworld.com ...
I remember a few years ago thinking finally the MAC is dead, the cult will go away and then the Steve Jobs came out with the horrible I-Macs and the cult was saved.
Yes, a decent quality computer supplier lives on, a rarity in the Dell-created computer market of price competition.
Here's hoping for widescreen iBooks, DVR Mac Minis, and thinner PowerBooks.
Gates made another few million while he was sitting there, and managed to survive ;)
My uneducated guess -- Intel laptops (that's a safe one), plus y-another iPod, and a server update?
The rumor about the large-screen plasma HDTV with built-in Intel ViiV-based Mac/DVR is interesting.
Oh, yeah, forgot about that.
It's also fake. A site made it up as a parody of the Apple rumor sites. It's sad how many people are taking it seriously...
Apple just got over $80.00! Up at $80.17 high for the day!
The iPod sales were on the high end of Wall Street forecasts! Yippee!
Apple at $80.50!
Introduced radio remote that sells for $49.00.
Jobs still making speech!
Apple at $81.14! ... no it's at $81.36!
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