“Even two years after I left Apple, I still feel like I celebrate two Christmases: the one I celebrate with my family, and the one in January that we celebrate when Steve Jobs gets up on stage and says: ‘I have a few things to show you today that I think you’ll really like,’” Chuq von Rospach reports for The Guardian.
“When I worked there, the MacWorld speech was always the point at which most of us stopped work and gathered around the screens – there was always a big gathering and a special screen in the restaurant. Work would stop for a while as everyone enjoyed the surprise. And for most of us it was a surprise; only for those in the small teams working on, say, the iPhone or the new release of Apple’s office suite iWork would know precisely what was coming; and even they didn’t know what the other teams had. And afterwards people talk about it for days; and the staff discount means that there are plenty of orders right after the speech ends,” von Rospach reports.
“Only, of course, this year it won’t be Steve. It’ll be Phil Schiller, Apple’s own Vice President of Demos, as we liked to call him, because he’d always be the second guy who’d come out to help Steve out,” von Rospach reports. “I’ll still tune in with great anticipation, and while people are already predicting there will be no major announcements, I’m not so sure.”
von Rospach reports, “When I joined, John Sculley was CEO and the Macintosh II was the state of the art… When I left, Steve Jobs was in charge and the Macbook Pro was the best of the best, the iPod was a global success and Apple was reshaping the music industry.”
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