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The end of an era
Incredible…
This is Apple’s last year at MacWorld.
Steve Jobs will not be presenting (Phil Schiller will be…)
To quote CrunchGear.com:
There was a bit of rumbling the other day when Steve Jobs was curiously left off the Macworld SF speaker / events list and now it looks like big man himself isn’t going to take the stage at all. That’s right, no jeans and black turtleneck. No “one more thing.” No “boom!”
The power of the web … and retail stores… will knock out MacWorld – probably by next year. Several companies (big ones) have already pulled out this year… the end of an era!
Interestingly – the Mac is 25 years old in 2009. (I bought my first mac in June ‘84 – $3800 for the 128k Macintosh – with an external floppy drive, no hard drive and a dot matrix printer).
Would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting when they decided that Jobs would not address MacWorld – traditionally the time he introduced new products etc…
Well – there you have it. A brave new world!
1 Comment
1. Brian McKee
replies at 16th December 2008, 10:41 pm :
Wow indeed!
Now I’m starting to wonder about those rumours about his health…
I know that Apple has often announced all over the place lately, but still, the Steve Jobs Keynote, wherever it’s held was always an ‘event’
I wonder if we’ve heard the end of this story or not – like will they move to CES or whatever it is that’s traditionally held at that time? or let the new guy get the juicy announcements?
Time will tell
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