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Will Apple Disappoint on 30th Anniversary?
An anonymous reader writes "We've seen the media get over-excited about an Apple launch before, but one CNET columnist is 'threatening suicide' if Apple don't announce something for their 30th Anniversary this Saturday. CNET is concerned at the lack of any news from Apple: 'You'd guess that Steve Jobs will at least have to walk out onto the lawn in Cupertino, light a few fireworks and make some whooping noises. It's that or risk an international incident.' Is Apple going to keep a low profile for their 30th?"
I hope Chris Stevens and his wife don't have any anniversaries coming up. I guess she could always 'forget one' after taking out a lucrative life insurance policy on him.
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Is there even a story here? This is possibly the most content-free Slashdot post ever.
Said Steve Jobs, "It has been a good 30 year run and, unlike most companies, we want to close the doors while we are still profitable"
I would settle for a one day sale of 30% in celebration of 30 years. Every Apple product 30% off, then I would buy a MacBook Pro. They at least need to do an April Fool's joke. Like "We're making OS X available to install legally on all generic x86 harware." ... Gotcha! April Fools!!
Apple plans on selling their portable computers to Lenovo and the desktop computers to Dell, following the leads of IBM and Alienware. Apple will then take the money from those two deals and purchase apple music thereby bringing a long-time battle to a close. Of course this will result in Beatles music being available in iTunes for 9cents per song, to spite Yoko Ono.
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"Apple Computer - proudly going out of business for thirty years"!
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A suicide is not a light subject to be throwing it around like it's some joke...
I'm as much of an Apple fanboy as the next guy (3 Macs at home, 2 ipods, 6 converts), but whose head is so far up Apple's ass that they joke about suicide?
Apple has its schedule, and whether they celebrate their 30th anniversary is irrelevant to me. Yes, it would be great and hip, but they already have an outstanding product lineup.
Also the poster for the iPhone looks pretty damn good.
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So yeah, wake the fuck up whiners and clean the brown from your face.
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Look, there have been announcements earlier this year, there will be announcements in a couple more months. The Conroe Towers (ask about our move-in specials!) and Leopard may both be out in August, which is why we think they moved the next big conference back. Do they have to announce something on Saturay, just to give reporters something to do? Yah, I'd almost die at the thought of having to dig up an original story, instead of rehashing a press conference, too. So, you want them to announce something early, before they're close to ready? Apple doesn't want a rep as a vaporware provider. Apple needs to fix bugs in its current MacBookPro, among other things, in fact. So calm down. About the only thing ready now might be the budget MacBooks. Oh, and maybe a phone. :)
Nobody asks Microsoft or Intel or even IBM what their anniversary products will be.
What is the big deal about this? Microsoft announces a new product and service and people are all like "who cares? this isn't even news" but Apple doesn't have plans to have the Stones playing at their 30th birthday party and everyone is ready to get all upset over it?
I just can't understand it.
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Are you kidding me??? You obviously don't know how to kill yourself like a man.
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Steve should bring out a wheelbarrow of newspaper and magazine articles about "beleaguered Apple" or "Apple going out of business" and light them up in the parking lot. And maybe send a get well card to Michael Dell.
I'm as much of an Apple fanboy as the next guy (3 Macs at home, 2 ipods, 6 converts)
Thats one thing I've noticed all Mac users I know(including myself) keep track of...number of people coverted. I've only got 1 convert(wife), but she's already racked up 6, and they've converted a few more. All happy Mac users now.
Are there any Mac users out there who don't keep track of the number of people who have "switched" after playing around with his or her computer for a while?
Nah. He'll walk out onto the lawn and yell at some kids to get off it.
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This is indeed one area where Apple lags behind Microsoft. Microsoft has the ability to not just disappoint on each and every anniversary of their founding, but most of the days in between as well.
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"but one CNET columnist is 'threatening suicide' if Apple don't announce something for their 30th Anniversary this Saturday."
CNET? Heck, I'll chip in and buy the Kool-Aid!
They've done small. Enough of that. Now they're gonna go BIG. Everyone will want one of these. ;)
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That's why iPod earbuds are so uncomfortable. Even nanomachines in the white earbuds take up space. And you thought yesterday's iPod update was for volume control. It was really for control of volumes of people!
I have used some of the best designed Windows laptops the planet has to offer. The second mouse button is NEVER is a good place or easy to use.
On a laptop, where your fingers controlling the trackpad are right by the keyboard, chording keys to get to the second button is much, much better because you get the second button exactly when you want it.
I've been using a Powerbook at home for years now and it's the only laptop I've ever used that I do not ever use an external mouse for. There simply is no need.
I do use a three button Logitech mouse on my desktop, which I could not be without. But in the laptop a single button that you chord to activate other features is the way to go.
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The whole point of a company making a "big announcement" is to get the media buzz that accompanies such theatrics. Apple's got it without taking any risk and without expending any effort; I say it'd be smarter (and more "mysterious", thereby generating even MORE buzz) to just let it pass quietly.
And then dazzle us the NEXT week (maybe a new iPod so small you need an electron microscope to see it...)
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didn't cnet recently run an article about how the press always overhype apple launch announcements before they happen, and then get disappointed when nothing major is announced?
It's Apple's 30th Anniversary, they haven't announced anything significant, and yet ...
You are all discussing Apple and it's products.
I'd say the RDF is working quite well.
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