“Apple held its annual meeting for company shareholders at its Cupertino, Calif. campus this morning. The meeting is the only time during the year when shareholders can ask a question to Apple executives and receive a live, immediate response. The meeting normally plays host to parties with a specific agenda, trying to make a point; off-the-wall, out-of-nowhere questions; and everything in between. This meeting was no different,” Think Secret reports. “The meeting did not offer much in the way of future company plans, though Apple CEO Steve Jobs did mention that an ‘exciting’ television ad campaign would launch next week.”
Think Secret has some notes and tidbits from the meeting with regard to some of the questions raised by shareholders and the issues that were addressed by Apple executives in their full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: “Exciting” television ad campaign to launch next week? “Exciting” as in iPod ad or… dare we entertain the thought?
[UPDATE: 4:22pm EDT: Revised headline and added “Take.”]
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What, a mention of Apple TV advertising and MDN makes no mention of it?
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So what does the “we hear you loud and clear” statement mean when Jobs replies to the Windows Media Center? What was the original question? Does anyone know???
I don’t know what was a reference to but it sounded like there’s something in the pipeline.
“Apple CEO Steve Jobs did mention that an “exciting” television ad campaign would launch next week.”
OMG… Hell has frozen over AGAIN.
After reading the minutes, Jobs sounds like a real prick. Where does he get off talking to share holders like that? Or worst yet, why do the shareholders let him treat them like that?
because his vision has made them all rich
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Woodcrest to be used in Apple powermac (replacement) and server line.
Dual core 2.6 Ghz 2x and 4x, each processor draws 80 watts.
Jobs is good at discerning who is a major shareholder and who is a pion. That’s why Daddy.
If the television ad is about OS X Leopard, I will sh*t my pants.
As far as the media center goes, this is all you need to know:
http://66.134.41.67/~ron/apple/index4.html
Andrew, won’t this be useless with a single bus? All that processing power and nowhere to go.
So what does the “we hear you loud and clear” statement mean when Jobs replies to the Windows Media Center? What was the original question? Does anyone know???
The only thing I can tell you for sure is that unless the question was Is it possible to design something that sucks and blows at the same time?, Windows Media Center wasn’t the answer.
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I think you mean “pee-on,” as in, a nobody. Or, one who the “sombodies” pee on.
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And you wonder where Apple’s arrogance comes from? Look no further than the offensive mogul in the black tee shirt.
Think he cares about the faithful? Think again.
The big ad roll out will be all about the $$$ machine know as iPod.
Interesting, although if the new TV campaign features Kiefer Sutherland talking about an iMac in a chip making plant where silhouettes dance, I’m switching to Windows.
Where did that image come from? Is it someone’s concept or is it from Apple?
Andrew, won’t this be useless with a single bus? All that processing power and nowhere to go.
two and four dual-core configurations.
one bus per dual core
short bus 4 u
“Daddy”,
I’m an Apple shareholder and I could care less if Steve Jobs spits on me as long as they keep making great products and keep making me money. Unfortunately, Steve Jobs’ less than perfect personality is one of the reasons Apple makes such awesome products.
Thank God Jobs is a discerning prick. He knows who is asking questions as opposed to whiny jack-offs making political statements.
Daddy & Billy Bob;
You both sound as if you’ve never actually attended a stockholder’s meeting. Seriously. Having worked at Apple for five year in an earlier incarnation, and having attended a half-dozen or so shareholder’s meetings since then, I don’t think you have a very good take on what went on.
The description of this one sounds like Jobs handled a couple of the less-graceful politely and with dispatch. He could have been hard on them.
What he did was allow the Q&A to procede with some dispatch and let actual questions get asked and answered.
Some of the people who rise to “ask a question” would, if allowed, spend hours going on about the oddest things; usually things that have nothing to do with shareholder concerns. And I’m not exaggerating. Sometimes they’re entertaining, usually merely dismal.
Jobs is an effective CEO because he understands when to ignore irrelevent nonsense. Environmental extremist pressure groups would have much less power if people in authority had the good sense to tell them to shut up and go away.
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http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/27/sharehldrmtg/index.php
It’s already over. Media Center ships inside of Vista, no separate edition required. Vista with Media center will be on millions of PCs. Vista alone will surpass OS X marketshare in a matter of months. YOU do the math.
If the television ad is about OS X Leopard, I will sh*t my pants.
The ad had better NOT be about Leopard.
Advertising an OS that’s not even out yet is so… MSFT.
If we can’t buy it today at the Apple Store, it shouldn’t be advertised.
As for the commercial itself, it’s sadly telling when news of A new commercial makes headlines. When was the last time you saw any buzz for, say, a new Wal-Mart commercial?
Or are we being played by a new kind of marketing, and just don’t know it yet?
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Cold Hard Troll,
Vista has to ship first. Vapor does not earn market share.
And nobody’s seriously expecting Vista to make it’s “early 2007” ship date anyway.