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The Holidays Are Here!!!!
Twas the night before Macworld, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Steve soon would be there.
Yes yes people get your internet connections ready, tomorrow (01-14-08) at 9am PST Apple will help kickoff the annual Macworld Conference & Expo. Thousands upon thousands of Mac enthusiasts will wait anxiously to see what new "goodies" Apple has for them. Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Inc., has traditionally kicked off the first day of the four day expo, and Steve normally finds a way to please the anxious attendees.
Macworld is truly a Mac Geek Christmas. It's pretty sad really. We stay up all night, probably in our underwear, (not me though, I'm normally wearing a tuxedo, cummerbund and all) reading rumor sites hoping to get some hint of what Apple is going to release. Some come up with half-baked conspiracy theories in hopes that they have their finger on the pulse of what Apple is going to do, "Notice how Apple hasn't come out with a new portable since the last crescent moon? Well I was looking at a weather report and they say that there will be a crescent moon on the the night before Macworld ... coincidence? I think not!", others go even further by coming up with mock system designs that Apple is going to unveil. I once saw a mock system that was an all black truncated cuboctahedron that almost looked like the Deathstar. Some really gutsy fans go to their local Apple Store grilling employees about what they know, not realizing that Apple doesn't even tell it's employees what they have in store, until the minute it's announced. I was once in a grocery store a day before the convention, just after work (when I worked for Apple) still wearing my Apple shirt, when a gentleman came up to me and said, "Hey! You work at the Apple Store?", "Yes." I said, "I saw on a rumor site that Apple was going release a 20 gig iPod (when 20 gigs was a lot, way back in the olden days of 2003) in the shape of a pine-cone!! Is that true?", I could only laugh, notify him that he probably knew more than me and go to work the next day to tell all of my coworkers just how ridiculous the the concept of a pine-cone shaped iPod was.
But the reasoning for such anticipation of what types of groundbreaking high-tech wizardry Steve Jobs is going to exhibit is perfectly understandable. When you take into consideration just what Apple has done over the years, you realize something. Apple has helped shape generations, they've forced people out of their computing comfort zones and taken them into the 21st century on the right track, and Macworld is their release party.
I could go in depth about the products released in the past, but this blog would be way too long ... and it's already too long. But just do a Google search for names like, Mac OS X, Power Mac G4 Cube, Titanium Powerbook, 17" Powerbook, Flat Panel iMac G4, Mac Mini, iLife, Intel iMac, iPhone, and some of these product are just the early mentions, and if you know anything about a Steve Jobs' presentation, you know that he always has an ace up his sleeve.
Steve works the stage like a rock star, I've never seen a keynote speaker that does an encore ... Steve does though. Go to any die-hard Mac user and say the words, "Oh, and there's one more thing ...", if they don't know what that means, then they're not a real Mac user. Steve Jobs during just about every Macworld keynote speech will go through an array of new products, for about an hour, as he walks off stage to applause he turns around and bashfully, as if he forgot to mention it making you think it's not important, admits, "Oh and there's one more thing ...". He then dazzles the crowd with an amazing new product that changes every person that it makes contact with. Mac fans became so used to Steve's catch-phrase, that at the mere utterance in one of his shows women faint and men get bright eyed and bushy-tail much like a kid at Disney World.
Ahhh, Ed Pola and George Wyle were right when they said, "It's the most wonderful time of the year!", they were talking about Macworld ... weren't they?
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