is it the end of macworld as we know it?
Well looking at MAcworld and the rumor round up, I'd say it was a little disappointing. Where were the surprises?
miPods: well that was in all of the newspapers and magazines.
Final Cut Express 2: Well think secret had that one
G5 Xserves: well that was a no-braininer with all the posts from beta testers and of course speculation from IT mags
iLife 04: well yet again all the rumor sites had this one
Office 2004: Yet again, already out there
The only surpirse: the 1984 poster.
It's the end of the macworld launch! And life will be full of random surprises.
Here's looking to a new year with "New products on Tuesday" rumors every week.
January:
miPod 2gb to go with Pepsi ad
20th anniversary mac product (with g5)
Pro music app at NAMM (apple has a good sized booth near the entrance)
February
more tunes, maybe 550,000
Garage Band section in iTunes: upload your tracks!
updated imacs
March
new g5s updated speeds, maybe 3ghz
the CRT is dead and so is the emac
April
g5 powerbooks
June
Final Cut Pro upgrade
Announcement of enterprise stategy and product map
And a whole new random timeline of updates. What's next? Product roadmaps????????
miPods: well that was in all of the newspapers and magazines.
Final Cut Express 2: Well think secret had that one
G5 Xserves: well that was a no-braininer with all the posts from beta testers and of course speculation from IT mags
iLife 04: well yet again all the rumor sites had this one
Office 2004: Yet again, already out there
The only surpirse: the 1984 poster.
It's the end of the macworld launch! And life will be full of random surprises.
Here's looking to a new year with "New products on Tuesday" rumors every week.
January:
miPod 2gb to go with Pepsi ad
20th anniversary mac product (with g5)
Pro music app at NAMM (apple has a good sized booth near the entrance)
February
more tunes, maybe 550,000
Garage Band section in iTunes: upload your tracks!
updated imacs
March
new g5s updated speeds, maybe 3ghz
the CRT is dead and so is the emac
April
g5 powerbooks
June
Final Cut Pro upgrade
Announcement of enterprise stategy and product map
And a whole new random timeline of updates. What's next? Product roadmaps????????
Comments
Originally posted by jade
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January:
miPod 2gb to go with Pepsi ad
20th anniversary mac product (with g5)
Pro music app at NAMM (apple has a good sized booth near the entrance)
I think the focus for January-Febuary
Is going to be *AND ONLY GOING TO BE*
A) iPod / mini iPod
iTunes sales/store updates(more songs)
C) The Pepsi giveaway
- NO 2gb mini iPod
- NO 20th anniversary mac product -before March (end of Pepsi promo)
Originally posted by jade
March
new g5s updated speeds, maybe 3ghz
the CRT is dead and so is the emac
I talked with a couple of sales guys at The Apple Store in Salem just after Christmas and they said they couldn't keep the eMacs in stock long enough to effectively inventory.
I certainly hope they don't drop this line. It's a fantastic introduction to Apple for switchers, I know because I've converted three using this product.
I don't know of any other CEO who is as good as salesman as Jobs is when you get him on stage.
The move away from keynote introductions has been going on for at least two years now. Look at the number of introductions over the course of 2003. Between a significant but carefully focused R&D budget, the more modular OS X and the low development times of Cocoa, Apple is able to maintain a steady stream of releases across the year. This, among other things, raises people's awareness of their vitality and their products. Expos have been dying slowly for the last few years, although not as steadily or as quickly as I remember projecting they would. If the economy turns around significantly, they might even recover.
Mark my words: You will never see a direct link between iTMS and GarageBand. They do not want piles of dross cluttering the store's search results, and they do not want to waste gigs of storage and bandwidth to accommodate it either. With the HP deal, they'll be hard up for bandwidth as it is. You'll see closer integration with .Mac, though.
As far as the Mac is concerned, Apple is hyping the products that are doing well, which is not a difficult strategy to understand. It all comes back to the Mac (which some analysts don't understand), but some of that follows. If the lure to pick up an iBook is the iBook itself, or an iApp, or an iPod, it's a sale. Apple doesn't have to pitch Macs in order to sell Macs. They're doing this, in fact, because pitching Macs directly doesn't seem to work all that well. They need a hook. They've got hooks now.
That said, moving to General Discussion...
...and I feel fine!
(my apologies to R.E.M.)
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Originally posted by Matsu
I don't know of any other CEO who is as good as salesman as Jobs is when you get him on stage.
That's because Steve Jobs is not a salesman.