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Guess Who's Coming To SF (10/26/00)
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Not long after last week's earnings statement, things suddenly got very, very quiet in the Apple world. Our guess is that people were too shellshocked by the ongoing stock cratering to make any news-- and there's only so much anyone can say about AAPL's performance before either driving people to mass suicide, or boring them to death like a final-season episode of Happy Days. As a community we're in a somber period, to be sure, and somber and quiet go hand in hand.
In fact, have you seen what passes for actual news in a lull like this? Why, it's enough to force us to indulge in petty sarcasm out of sheer boredom. See, the kick-off keynote slot for this January's Macworld Expo is still officially vacant, bearing only a "To be announced" tag at the conference's official site. We wonder who it'll be? Perhaps Britney Spears could deliver a presentation on recent theoretical progress in the field of quantum physics and how it influenced her choreography in the video for "Oops!... I Did It Again." Or maybe that guy at the Sunglass Hut at the mall will be tapped to talk about that time he found half a worm in his food court cheese fries. Heck, maybe they'll ask us to get up and explain in detail how the switch from Dick York to Dick Sargent on "Bewitched" officially marked the ideological end of the fabled 1969 "Summer of Love." The possibilities are endless!
But alas, we won't be taking the stage in San Francisco after all, it seems, if MacCentral is correct. According to their sources, none other than Steve Jobs himself will be delivering the keynote come January 9th, at which he's expected to talk about Apple's progress (he's the CEO, you know) and possibly take the wraps off some great new products. We have to admit, Steve's a very appropriate choice for such an Apple-themed event, and we wonder why we never thought of him before. Kudos to the Expo folks for thinking of such a perfect speaker to kick off the festivities. (Further harmless sarcasm is left as an exercise to the viewer, but remember, descend not into bitterness, Grasshopper-- that way lies madness.)
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Other scenes from that episode: 2637: 600 MHz Or The Kid Gets It (10/26/00) Regarding the so-called "Megahertz Gap," does everybody remember Steve's exact words when he stumbled through his prepared written statement during that exceedingly uncomfortable earnings conference call last week?... 2639: Back To The Ol' Garage (10/26/00) While things are uncomfortably quiet here in the States, it looks like every once in a while we're going to have to find our plot twists overseas. So hooray for ZDNet, who published a short interview with Thomas Lot, the general manager of Apple France...
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