During Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote presentation, where he demoed Spotlight, Mac OS X 10.4’s new system-wide metadata search engine technology, Jobs used the Finder’s search box to search for the term “iMac” starting at 45:31 in the QuickTime stream of the WWDC Keynote. Immediately thereafter, Jobs demoed Address Book’s use of “Spotlight” technology and used it to search for “Paris” starting at 46:52 and then used the term “birthday” to create a “Smart Group” in Address Book.
So, that’s it, it’s official: iMac’s birthday will be in Paris! Which, of course, means the Keynote 2004 presentation for Apple Expo 2004 Paris, on Tuesday, August 31 at 10:00 a.m.
Is Steve Jobs slyly dropping iMac debut hints during his WWDC keynote presentation? Watch it via QuickTime here. Or do you think Steve just picked these search terms at random?
[Thanks to MDN reader MK, wasting his/her time emailing us while supposedly attending Hahvahd, who found this tidbit buried in a SpyMac forum here.]
Must be all aluminum. I wonder.
hey hey, that’s actually pretty good. i don’t whether to think that’s reading too much into it or if it’s just an ingenious observation (I think it’s the lattar)
R-E-A-C-H-I-N-G??????
first po…..forget it
Next iPod will be aluminum!
I designed the new iMac. It’s beige and box-like.
Jonothan Ive was sacked yesterday after Steve saw my breakthrough design.
An August 31st introduction would be too late for the back to school season, they need to get it out by the end of July really. Unfortunately it’ll probably end up being the end of August and delivery in September though. 🙁
Random? Hardly, I don’t think SJ does anything random.
JB,
Wouldn’t that be perfect timing though? The last of the old inventory gets flushed when everyone gets their school gear, allowing Apple to start fresh.
Oh no! Steve is Nostradamus? I was born in Paris and that’s my birthday! The time is right too… halfway out at 9:30; back in at 0945; head out at 0955; slapped in the ass at 1000 (still have the mark).
iMac — I want it yesterday. I’ll settle for July. Not end of August. If no word in two weeks it’s eBay for me.
iMacs are overpriced, at $199 they woulda been sweet, but you can get the 10 gig for $249.
john,
If i could get an iMac for $199 I would shit my pants.
I am guessing you mean iPod.
I’ll have some of what john is drinking.
yeah, pass that bottle down please
The other search term was “Yosemite” — could this be the product Code Name for the new iMac. It occurs to me that Half Dome is in Yosemite, and, of course, the current iMac sports a half dome base…
I love a mystery!
I eviscerated my neighbor’s Labrador retriever last night so that I could read his entrails, and they say nothing about new iMacs in Paris.
However, I wouldn’t go near San Antonio in May, 2038…
paris was Apple’s codename for the Apple II
SomeBob, Yosemite was the codename for the PMG4 motherboards. I doubt Apple is recycling code names.
SomeBob…
Excellent thought….
If you watched Phils demo he took a picture of a Tiger and then did a transition to a picture of a Lion. I think that pretty much sews it up that the next OS X after Tiger will be Lion. This makes sense anyway as the Lion is the “King of the Beasts”. The question is then what will happen after Lion? There are no other big Cats to go to unless they do something like “Sabertooth” (which I kinda like by the way).
SomeBob: Yosemite was the code name for the original Blue and White G3 tower..
So what this says to me is that Apple has tonnes of Old Yosemite towers in surplus so he will be rebranding them as iMac G3 350 and announcing them at Paris
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Yosemite was also the codename for one of the original imac iterations
Obvious, I currently use an iMac, my favourite city is Paris and my Birthday is 31st August. (Which will most probably be the ship date of my new PM2.5 and alu 23″ display).
hey, that’s what i said…
Yosemite was the codename for the blue and white G3’s
Steve is a genious in communicating, cq this was on purpose.