Jobs Not Giving This Year's Macworld Keynote

Many readers including thermopile wrote in about Apple withdrawing from Macworld Expo after this year. The other bad news for Apple fans is that Steve Jobs won't be delivering the keynote in 3 weeks — we may have seen his last "one more thing." Apple VP Phil Schiller will be doing the honors. He's "an Apple executive notably lacking in Jobs's showmanship and star power," according to the Fortune blogger. Apple's press release states that "trade shows have become a very minor part of how Apple reaches its customers." While this may be true, the keynote addresses have been a critical venue for major new product announcements. Apple's stock is taking a 6% hit in after-hours trading, possibly on concerns about Jobs's health. Reader Harry has gathered together YouTube clips from most of the Macworld keynotes Jobs given since 1997.

Comments

Re:iPod, iPhone, then what?

[Creepy Crawler]

Im sure they could create beautiful and "Just Works" applications, but they wont.

If history proves anything, is that they are a hardware company that demands an iron fist over "Their" hardware, regardless who actually buys it. In that regard, they are worse than anything Microsoft can ever throw at us. Our Ipod touches are not ours, never ours, and never will be ours as long as they have anything to say about it. The only reason certain Ipods are exempt from the iron grasp is because of Linux and freedom fighters have hacked the firmware to install things like Rockbox.

And Jobs isnt giving a keynote. I really dont care. They refuse to listen to their market segment (touchscreen Mac, mac pro mini, and others), and they put our crippled device after crippled device, some being remotely disablable. Perhaps one time, I did care about OSX, and the Ipod, but I have Ubuntu and a myriad of HD MP3 players 1/2 the price the smallest Ipod classic.

Re:Cue the "Jobs is dying, Apple is doomed" storie

[frank_adrian314159]

...since Jobs lost significant weight as a result of his surgery (an obligatory side effect for the type of surgery he had)

What was it? An attempted ego-ectomy? If so, I don't think it worked.