Apple is playing it by ear
meaning they are going to wait and see what happens. if enough of us look upset over the lack of a powermac improvement, then they'll rush a quick fix through. their stock fell today by around 75cents, which should give them a bit of a reality check.....don't mess with your customers, especially your loyal fan base....give them what they want. Apple probably would prefer and wait until the G5 is ready, but i think they'll have a back up plan ready. furthermore, after AOL/Time magazine stabbed them in the back, and ruined their surprise last night....Jobs will have to do something. it's business after all. <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
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If an employee had done that, Jobs would have fired them. But it's OK for Jobs to do it himself
Still, none of the rumor sites had this iMac very well. As usual, AI was totally off on their iMac predicitons. I knew AI was full of shiit the second I read it....no new Apple computer is going to use a G3 unless it's a laptop. The G3 is being phased out.
<strong>LOL, that's funny, how Apple expends serious resources to keep everything top secret, and then Jobs goes and does an interview with time and blows the surprise.
If an employee had done that, Jobs would have fired them. But it's OK for Jobs to do it himself
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I think the interview with Time was a very good thing. It's frickin free advertising! What is Time's circulation? How many million? Despite the early leak, Apple made out like a bandit with this one.
I read that the articles weren't supposed to be online until noon eastern, but Time Canada screwed up.
And the only reason Apple didn't release faster PowerMacs today is because they weren't ready. If they had been ready, they would have been released.
I guess Apple has a few hundred thousand G5 Powermacs under tarps in some warehouse somewhere, and they're just waiting to spring them on us until the timing is exactly right with regard to the price arc of AAPL.
<strong>The markets in general were down about the same percentage as Apple was today. It wasn't down because there was no G5.
And the only reason Apple didn't release faster PowerMacs today is because they weren't ready. If they had been ready, they would have been released.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I think its more that, they are either Ready or JUST about ready but The thing is, I think steve WANTED this, he wanted the iMac to be the show, as said in another thread the iMac is steves baby, naturally he gives it all the attention first cause its what will get new users, then the big brother Powermacs get updated a little quieter, so as to give the iMac all the attention that beauty deserves(the more I look at the more I like it)
The fact that cheap corprate advertising is the cover story, shows how pathetic the media in North America is.
<strong>It's amazing to me how people think that something like developing a newer, faster, better computer is so simple and easy that you do it on a moment's notice whenever your customers get disgruntled or your stock price falls.
I guess Apple has a few hundred thousand G5 Powermacs under tarps in some warehouse somewhere, and they're just waiting to spring them on us until the timing is exactly right with regard to the price arc of AAPL.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I would agree to a point. Apple without a doubt 'paces' the releases. They have a very methodical pace to their speed upgrades, don't you think? They could have released faster machines at many different points in the past. But they chose NOT TO.
They like to keep the products and the timing spaced. Except for this brief moment where the PMs are out of phase, I'd say.
Makes sense. Keynote was 1/2hr short