Tuesday, June 8, 2004 |
20:50 - Buncha Tidbits
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=484
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Check out some of these bullet items from a press conference with Steve Jobs today.
• Jobs stated that he is proud not only of the products Apple has shipped, but also the products Apple has decided not to ship. When asked to elaborate, Jobs replied, "an Apple PDA."
Ouch! So much for all those rumors, then. It's probably just as well, though; after all, we all know how the PDA market is just erupting.
• Jobs was reportedly pressed hard about supporting the WMA format. He said that Apple has no plans to support the format unless Microsoft reaches 50% market share, at which point Jobs welcomed Microsoft to ask him again.
Steve, you frickin' smartass.
• Jobs confirmed the European launch of iTMS on June 15.
At last! Now if only they can come up with a European digital-photo-processing company that can make prints and books at anywhere near the US price point.
Steve Jobs dazzled a very exclusive, high-powered crowd. Carly Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard spoke before him, and took a barrage of questions for which she didn't have good answers; Bill Gates spoke of the digital hub in only the broadest visionary terms. Jobs was amazing and very insightful, and he actually delivered.
Yeah, he'll do that. I'm reminded of the unveiling of .Mac; Gates was in full blowhard mode that week, talking about Hailstorm and .NET and Passport and all the wonder that centralized services would bring the world, someday in the distant future... and then Steve said, "What, you mean like this?"
Oh, and those 30-inch LCD displays are coming. Any day now. (The fact that the story contains details about abandoning the ADC connector, an idealistic but ultimately problematic solution in a world of stupid and lamentable interoperability concerns, in favor of a reversion to DVI, lends some credence to this long-lived rumor.)
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