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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.
Maybe Steve will die for a few days and then come back from the dead, like Jesus.
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I disagree with you. Apple is synonymous with smartphones. At least in the eyes of consumers. Look at it, iPhone brought in the first touch screen, and now everybody and I mean everybody is coming out with touch screens. If a manufacturer did not have touchscreen they would seem out of touch (no pun intended).
What is making the iPhone a success is its touchscreen, UI and apps. Nobody else has managed to pull off this combination this well. And Apple did one thing well with the AppStore, they made it financially attractive for developers. This is a new one for Apple. Typically OSX has not been a cash cow for third party developers. For the iPhone it definitely is.
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