Missed all the news this morning? Well now is your chance to watch today’s Keynote given by none other than Mr. Steve Jobs. And I am glad to report he is alive and well!
Head on over to Apple’s web site and check it out!
After watching it let us know what you think in the comments or head over to the forums and discuss firmware 2.1 available this Friday!
Personally, I believe Steve Jobs’ health is his business unless and until it materially affects his ability to act as Apple’s CEO, and I believe a great deal of the internet speculation has been in poor taste, to say the least. But more than anything, I believe in the rights and freedoms of other people and sites to cover things however they best believe. So, while I’ll spare you my rant on how the stock market has gone from something that encouraged investment to grow companies and wealth over generations and increasingly turned it into the speculative, impatient mess that is modern hysteritrading, I will say I love me some Steve Jobs Keynotes, and it looks like we may just be getting one more for the record books tomorrow.
Daring Fireball says:
Spoiler: Jobs will be on stage, in his usual role. But he remains just as thin as he was in June. This isn’t some sort of state secret, though. Jobs is a common presence on the Apple campus. He eats in the cafeteria, he walks around between buildings. He’s not and has never been a recluse.
Gene Munster via Apple Insider says:
“While some investors are concerned that Jobs will not deliver the keynote, we have reason to believe he will,” Munster said. “Therefore, we believe his health has improved since the June event, which would be a positive for the stock.”
Don’t rant. Control rant. Deep, rant-cleansing breath…
So, with Jobs on stage, any guesses as to the “One More thing”? The thing that will make Steve go “Boom!”
In the wake of Bloomberg’s faux-pas to end all faux-pas’ last week, Forbes gives their list of the top 5 things they’d still like to see from a Steve Jobs run Apple. Sure, they tack on an unnecessarily morbid title, but at its core it’s an intriguing question: Macworld 2009 or 2010, what shiny new toys do we most want to see on the receiving end of a Jobsian “Boom!”?
Forbes includes, in ascending order, an iTablet, a TV, a remote control (not the tiny white one they already make — they want a Harmony killer), an eBook reader (Kindle Killer), and another paradigm shift in computing to follow the Apple II and Mac.
My list? Well, it would start with a hyper-miniaturized communicator that’s all but invisible, and makes whatever they used on the Berman-era Star Trek look old and lame. The Minority Report Cinema Displays and iMacs are high up there as well (though they’d need to keep the traditional inputs as well, lest my arms tire out before I finish blogging…) Location-based services that are truly useful would be nice: (Alert! You’re approaching mom’s house, she wanted help cleaning the gutters. Turn right to avoid…) Also, I’d like a real Apple TV, that does for the set-top what Apple’s done for the desktop, laptop, and palmtop. Time to move past hobby on that one, Mr. Jobs. (And it already has the ultimate remote — the iPhone/iPod Touch. C’mon!) But #1 on my list?
A truly integrated, location free computing experience. Bill Gates showed off the concept many years ago at CES, but I think only Apple could deliver it with any elegance or grace: I work on my iMac, pick up my iPhone (which has synced my entire environment, coordinated with the “cloud”), go to the office, and keep right on working on my MacBook as though it were the exact same machine. And more: stop over at a friend’s house and jump on her Mac Mini as though it were the same machine as well. No more location-locked environments or data. Back to my Mac becomes My Mac Anywhere, a truly MobileMe. (Though hopefully — for Jobs’ sake — with better branding…)
That’s the top 5 things I want from Steve Jobs’ Apple.
What’s yours?
Wow. Anyone remember what Steve Jobs did to the New York Times when they merely inquired about his health? Imagine what he’ll do to those poor fools at Bloomberg’s who just accidentally published — and then rapidly retracted — his obituary. (Our guess? 9-finger Wu-Shi death touch, minimum).
According to Gawker, the obit-fart:
…contains nothing to indicate Bloomberg has new information on Jobs’s health, at least in our quick skim.
Real Dan (the artist formerly known as Fake Steve), offers perhaps a more appropriate take on both the incident and its reporting:
Luckily, Gawker decided to humiliate Bloomberg by publishing the entire obit, including the list of people that Bloombots should call if/when Dear Leader actually does die, which I’m still not sure he ever will, because as far as I can recall from all that Greek and Latin I took in high school a man-god born of Zeus and mortal woman should be an immortal being, and furthermore, how would Apple PR handle it? I suppose for a while they could just stonewall by saying they weren’t here today to talk about Steve, they were here to talk about how excited everyone is about [FILL IN NAME OF NEW PRODUCT HERE] and maybe they could buy themselves a year or two during which the Apple faithful would continue to believe Steve was really alive despite having seen reports to the contrary on the news.
Strangely, we can’t seem to determine whose filthy hackery is the most fake these days…
Peeved that your iPhone 3G didn’t come with a dock? Annoyed that the dock is just too, plain? Well, if you want to add some color, creativity, and character, there probably isn’t anything better than a Steve Jobs Dock! The detail is amazing, the color is accurate, and the Steve Jobs Keynote pose is downright hilarious. Not to mention, it’s a bobblehead that works with both original iPhone and the iPhone 3G.
What would be even cooler is if you could rig Steve Jobs the Bobblehead to say “Boom” every time you insert your iPhone into the dock.
A reporter over at one of those reputable, printing companies recently received a phone call from Steve Jobs and this was his opening line:
“This is Steve Jobs,” he began. “You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong.”You gotta hand it to him, even if he is feeling a little down, Steve will still serve you a new one if he wants to. But there has been a lot of speculation lately on what’s affecting Steve Jobs’ health and it’s making investors worried.
The whole conversation with Steve Jobs was off the record so we still don’t know the nitty gritty details but according to the New York Times, it’s more than just a common bug but isn’t life threatening and it’s not cancer.
Some think his health should be a private matter, which makes sense because we should all have some level of privacy. Some think his health should be public knowledge if it is serious enough, which also makes sense because of Steve Jobs unique role in Apple and Apple being a public company.
We at TiPb just want him to get better and hopefully the rest will handle itself.
What do you think?
Another day, another Apple patent. This one’s a biggie, the whole iPhone enchilada. Current functionality and future potentials (web clips? blogging app?) all rolled into one monstrous document, and all sitting beneath the top-tiered name of Steve Jobs. Yup. According the US Patent Office, El Jobso was the architect of the iPhone. And you know what that means!
[Carrier signal intercept...]
Upon first inspection, while preposterous, it remains equally irrefutable that recent filings, previously unrevealed but now extricated from the plethora of Apple applied patents, demonstrate undeniably, if indefensibly, that no mere hardware engineer, software programmer, or industrial designer envisioned the integral experience of multiple touch-based interface melded to gloss-black glass and immaculate aluminum. No. Only the One, Steven P. Jobs, through systematic application of unparalleled will, was and remains sole and primary architect of the harmonious singularity that is iPhone.
[Signal terminated...]
Hit the read link for the usual diagrams and verbiage.
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Steven “the Hannah Montana of Tech” Jobs!
No sooner did Apple official announce that their iConic CEO would once again be keynoting the 2008 World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) then the event sold out. First time in history.
(Of course the odd rumor here or there about the release of some doohickey called the iPhone 3G might also have something to do with it as well…)
Don’t have your tickets yet? Not to worry! The Jobsnote will no doubt be available via Apple.com and iTunes, the latter of which will also be posting videos of the sessions for ADC members post-event.
Pop quiz, hotshot: You’re the acclaimed director of Finding Nemo and a Bug’s Life. Your latest project, Wall-E, requires a state-of-the-art-of-design robot straight from the 26th century. What do you do?
If you answered, call your boss Steven P. Jobs, who also happens to run a little, perennially design-award winning, consumer electronics company called Apple, and see if he can hook you up with uber-designer Jonathan Ive, than you, like Andrew Stanton, are correct.
Ive, the genius behind Apple’s industrial design team, oft-(poorly)-imitated industry trend-setter, and innovator of the twin-injection plastics technology seen in the iPod and the aluminum and glass innovations in the iMac and iPhone, was uniquely positioned to glance just that far into the future, whether or not he could declassify said glance:
Stanton said that it was a “lovefest” with Ive, but that the notoriously tight-lipped design wizard offered few specific modifications. “Apple is so proprietary and so secretive that he couldn’t even really allude to where the future of technology was going,” says Stanton. “The most he could do is nod his head to the things we said we wanted to do.” (Through a spokesman, Ive declined to comment.)
Is Eve just a cute CG character for this summer’s Pixar blockbuster, or a glimmer of iPhone (iDroid?) designs to come? Only Ive knows for sure, and he ain’t sharing.
We all knew it was coming. How could it not? Steve Jobs’ keynotes are the legendary, iWork-app defining, AOL Data Center crashing, prediction proliferating, rumor piling, blog bursting, universe denting tech events of our time. But now Apple has gone and made it all nice and official-like:
On Monday, June 9, a team of Apple executives led by CEO Steve Jobs will kick off the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) with a keynote address, Apple today announced. The keynote showcases two revolutionary development platforms: Mac OS X Leopard and OS X iPhone, the world’s most advanced mobile operating system.
And of course, I’m still betting he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a little (all black?) device; the iPhone 3G. C’mon, give me a “boom”.
  
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