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Apple: Fruit Messiah is set for return
Author: Tim SmalleyPublished: 11th June 2009
Phil Schiller, VP of Product Marketing at Apple, has said that Jobs' planned end-of-June return is still on.
Schiller said that the plan hasn't changed and he added that although Jobs wasn't on stage to remove the covers from the new MacBooks, Snow Leopard, iPhone OS 3.0 and the iPhone 3G S, he was "very involved" in their development all along.
"You could say that Steve has stayed on top of some of the key strategic things at Apple throughout [his period of absence" said Schiller.
Many have felt that an Apple without Steve Jobs wouldn't be the same and even though Apple's CEO has sat out the last few keynotes, we can't help but feel that's still very true. Apple's initial explanation for not taking the stage was that there's more to Apple than just Mr. Jobs, but we're not convinced at the moment.
You can read more over at The Telegraph.
Do you think Apple would be the same without Jobs at the helm in at least some capacity? Share your thoughts in the forums.
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for a while things will go well.. until one of 2 things happens...
1) no more new ideas from Apple (It happened before.. just before Jobs came back and released the 1st iMac)
2) or stupid ideas get released as products as Jobs isnt there to veto their existence ! (this has definitely happened before !)
alternatively... with Jobs not present, Apple might actually release a mid desktop tower which is affordable rather than an iMac and a tower that neither are affordable for the spec... especially in the £ shafted UK, and finally release a lower end laptop which is affordable with 'reasonable' specifications.. not quite netbook, but you know.. special.
I just got a Mac Mini and was LOL'ing that the vaunted Mac desktop is nothing more than a tarted up version of CDE/HP View on top of a tarted up version of UNIX/Linux.
There, fixed that for you :). In my humble opinion, and that of many others, the move to a UNIX-like, (and now UNIX compliant/certified*) operating system was the best thing Apple could have done.
Also, CDE? HP-view? I know the interface isn't actually original (but Apple never really invented anything. ever. that's nothing new**.) , but AFAIK, Quartz is in no way technically indebted to either of those two.
*yes, being unable to use 'echo -n' without specifiying bash and not just sh as a shell is a little annoying.
**I know someone will correct me on this. I don't mean it completely literally...
cryptic?
edit: got it, oops