Did Steve Jobs just sacrifice Phil Schiller?

Re:Did Steve Jobs just sacrifice Phil Schiller? by tptacek on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @02:58PM (#422386)

Most of the Stevenotes aren't amazing.

'08: * The Air * Time Capsule * Movie Rentals

'07 * The iPhone (ok, ok)

'06 * Intel Macs * iWeb

'05 * Tiger, potlight * iWork * Shuffle

'04 * iLife * The iPod Mini

'03 * New iMovie, new iDVD * Safari * Keynote * 17" and 12" TiBooks

Was '09 as big as '07 or '06? No. But it's bigger than '03 and on par with '08 and '04. iPhone and iMovie are a big deal, the 17" MBP is their flagship computer (and some of the thunder from the MBP was stolen by the Q4 MacBook refresh --- which was a big deal), and the iTMS DRM thing is the biggest news on iTunes since Video.

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Re:Did Steve Jobs just sacrifice Phil Schiller? by michaelneale on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @03:57PM (#422491)

07 iphone - yes that was huge (sorry if I sound like a fan !). Mobile computing went mainstream (lots of attention).

06 - intel Macs - that was a big one (macs platforms went "mainstream" in their source of components).

I remember in 06 the world flipped - Apple went to intel. Microsoft went PowerPC for XBOX 360 !

So I think those 2 years kind of lifted the bar - so 08 and 09 seem like a relative let down.

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Re:Did Steve Jobs just sacrifice Phil Schiller? by tptacek on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @04:09PM (#422510)

In other words, '09 fits kind of right in the middle of all the MWSF's, and Apple is transitioning out of MWSF and into WWDC and its own special events. I don't think they phoned this in.

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Re:Did Steve Jobs just sacrifice Phil Schiller? by randallsquared on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @04:14PM (#422516)

The 17" TiBook was huge. I switched for essentially that reason alone in mid-2003... the fact that OS X was unix made it seem reasonable to switch, but the 17" laptop made me want to. :)

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Re:Did Steve Jobs just sacrifice Phil Schiller? by tptacek on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @04:32PM (#422541)

So just like in '02 there was a 15" TiBook and in '03 there was a 17", in '08 there was a 15" MBP, and in '09 there's a 17" with a new battery, new graphics, and more memory.

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Re:Did Steve Jobs just sacrifice Phil Schiller? by latortuga on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @07:02PM (#422714)

I feel like around '03 or '04 there was the introduction of GarageBand which I recall as being a pretty well put-together event. That may have been at the summer MacWorld expo.

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