Ah, the simpler times in which the Personal Computer was everything for Apple and no other device would ever take its place. I’m sure WWDC 2010 attendees – who will be almost entirely focused in creating iPhone and iPad apps – will appreciate the irony. [All Things D]
plenty more where that came from
Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 11:55 AMJobs is a marketing guy – a good one. I don’t agree with Apple’s take it all, no hostages philosophy, but in this case he is merely reflecting the tagline from McCann Erickson Advertising… The Truth Well Told.
Nate
Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 12:44 PMSo what? People aren’t permitted to change their minds EVER? or alter their personal viewpoint based on the CURRENT state of the rapidly evolving world technology, the market and people’s needs?
Steve was exactly right when he said that SEVEN YEARS ago, but times have changed… Tablets were next to useless and far too expensive back then, that’s why the market never took off for them. Today’s technology, affordability and peoples needs, however, are different… and so should peoples view on the suitability of tablet devices for personal computing be.
This is NOT “irony”.
Shane Perry
Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 1:27 PMwow… what happened to that beard steve had in 03?
dom must of took it for the new gears game.
matt
Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 2:30 PMhe is exactly right about handwriting recognition.
if handwriting was better than typing, why would they have invented the typewriter?
I don’t know why people keep pushing handwriting recognition…
remember two things have changed that might not have been so readily predictable:
that is the explosion in cheap, powerful, mobile hardware.
and the explosion in wireless internet, that was, up until recently, also cheap.
and lets not forget, their idea of the PC remaining the central hub is still something they persist with, with the ipod/phone/pad still needing to be drip fed through it. hopefully they will eventually discover cloud computing though, and internet will get cheap.
Antonino Giglio
Monday, June 7, 2010 at 12:04 AMC’mon! You must be joking mate! 2003 is aeons away!
Now ia 2010! What was silly in 2003 it is not now because technology changed pretty rapidly and hw prices drop too!