Apple Announces Last Year of Christmas:
Apple today announced that this is the last year for Christmas. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, spoke at a joint press conference held with Santa Claus at the North Pole this morning.
(Via DF.)
Apple today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo, and it will be Apple’s last keynote at the show.
This is a huge black eye for IDG which runs the Expo. There used to be two Macworld Expos each year, one on the East Coast (Boston or New York) in the summer and one in San Francisco in the winter. The East Coast show shriveled up and died after Apple withdrew from the show (to refocus on WWDC and other smaller press events they had more direct control over). I have a hard time believing that the San Francisco show is destined for anything else now that Apple is out. Hell, Steve couldn’t even be bothered to show up this year, and Adobe, Belkin, Seagate, and others have already pulled out.
It’s a sad day for Expo fans.
Apple has an excellent video on the behind-the-scenes design process of the new MacBook.
The bits about the machining process were especially interesting to me because of my mechanical engineering background. I can only hope to someday design something so amazing.
(Via DF.)
Check out the new iPhone 3G ad and see if you can guess the narrator.
Need a hint? He’s an iron man.
Sweetness.
The iFund is a $100 million venture capital investment initiative that will fund innovators developing applications, services, and components for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch platform. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) has earmarked $100 million for this initiative and it will be managed by KPCB’s partners. Apple will provide KPCB with market insight and support.
More info on their site.