Can Apple out Apple itself?
Written by admin on May 22, 2008Welcome back!
It’s that time of year again. There’s a major Apple based conference coming up with a scheduled keynote by our God, Steve Jobs, and the geek media is frothing at the mouth of the possibilities it could hold.
In the past, Apple was pretty reliable about announcing new and awesome products at it’s major events. Lately, however, the groundbreaking product announcements haven’t really been happening like they used to. The last major, earth shattering product announcement was the iPhone and that was nearly 18 months ago.
So, with that fact in mind, perhaps that’s why the rumor sites are going crazy with speculation. It’s been so long since a major product announcement, there’s gotta be something up their sleeve. What’s Steve Jobs been up to?
We’re all hoping that it will be more than another version of the iPhone. That in itself would not be a major, groundbreaking announcement. Woohoo a 3G iPhone. Ok great, but it’s still the iPhone (I won’t be buying one).
There’s rumors circulating of an Apple Tablet PC based on the iPhone OS. This would be pretty cool, but honestly the idea of it doesn’t really impress me that much. It’s not something I would stand in line overnight for. Granted, Steve hasn’t demonstrated it yet.
This begs the question. Apple has conquered most avenues of revenue. They’re the standard for music players, standard for high end computers, standard for high end laptops, they’ve tackled TV, online music and movie sales, the list goes on and on. What could they possibly do next? Can Apple out Apple itself? Should we even expect it to at this point?
I hope this isn’t the beginning of a decline. Really, we should be content with every product Apple has given us. Why do we always need something MORE? Always need something better?
I’m not going to get very excited about WWDC. Of course, I’ll monitor the live feeds on the major Mac new sites, but I don’t expect anything earth shattering to come out of WWDC. I expect a new 3G iPhone, maybe a Mac tablet and maybe a preview of the next version of OS X.
We shall see. If anything, Steve Jobs is great a surprising us all.
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