In the same town-hall session where he announced that
every Apple employee would be getting a free 8GB iPhone, Steve Jobs discussed his thoughts and plans for the
company's latest device, talked about new Mac systems and iPods on the way, and detailed the ever-broadening business model of Apple. Jobs opened the meeting by expanding on his previous praise for the iPhone, equating its release to that of the original Mac, and saying that its creation was borne out of frustration with current phone technology. During the company-wide discussion, Jobs noted that Apple currently had a "two leg" business (Mac hardware and the iPod/iTunes union), which would be expanded with the "third leg" of the iPhone (he hinted that Apple TV would be the fourth, though current efforts were focused on the iPhone). He went on to talk about the new Macs, which he described in typical Jobs-ian fashion as "off the charts" and "the best Macs ever", and mentioned new OS X-based iPods that the company was working on (widescreen/touchscreen, perhaps?). Jobs fielded questions as well, included the oft-repeated "why EDGE?", which he answered by saying that the technology is more pervasive, and less power hungry than 3G, although he forgot to mention that it's also much, much slower. Jobs apparently wrapped things up by messianically telling employees that they would "tell their grandchildren" that they were at Apple when the iPhone was launched and that it was, "worth the sacrifice". Okay, Steve.
posted June 28th 2007 6:29PM
No, they captured an alien vessel and are extracting and selling the technologies off it. Doh.
Area 51 is in Cupertino! D:
My good friend said it best:
Engadget is Apples bitch.
I don't want an iPhone but I'd buy that new iPod in a heart beat!
What a tool Steve Jobs is.......If they didn't want to use 3G, why did they go to Verizon first. Verizon has the fastest network and is 3G but they turned down apple's offer. Then they went crawling to Cingular. God i hate APPLE.
So where exactly is the reference to new ipods/Mac products and an internal memo by Jobs that the title refers to? The article seems to be talking about a presentation he gave to employees about the iphone???
Try http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars/2007/06/28/internal-apple-stevenote-iphone-ipods-with-os-x-and-off-the-charts-macs-in-the-pipeline for the full (well, at least a more detailed) story.
Instead of Kool-Aid, they will kill themselves with the cancer their iPhones gives them.
Bloody cults.
Josh, FYI... it's called a 'SteveNote', not a 'Jobsnote'.
Crap!
I just ordered an iMac last week.