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.]
Yikes! was the code name for the G4, Yosemite (as others wrote) was for the B&W
Check out [url=http://www.mactracker.ca]http://www.mactracker.ca[/url] for other product code names
He’s just messin’ with us, folks – using old codenames to try to throw us off track.
I don’t know if I buy it or not but if it’s true that would be a very cool little game to play and I hope it’s something he continues. Very DaVinci Code-esque!
Wow! Some people have read the “Da Vinci Code” way too much, and cracked that code like it was nothing… Good job!
My friend Hubert told me:
Mid-July: rolling out the ipodminis in Europe, simultaneously HP starts selling HP-Pods.
End of July: new iMacs
Paris Expo: updated iPods.
Wow I wish that I could sit around all day and smoke dope and try to figure out Steve’s secret codes.
Amazing. I did not realise this. iMac Paris Birhtday. Really clever and we know that Steve likes things like this
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When he chose “iMac” for his search, I figured that after the Tiger presentation he might unveil the iMac, but no go. Now this Paris thing
really makes sense…gives them a little more time and the iMac doesn’t
hog the Tiger hoopla that we all really need to see and focus on at the conference. Also, this keeps Apple momentum in the media and keeps
the interest in stock going.
So, I guess when they do a minor upgrade to Tiger…..will it be Snow Tiger?
Simply put, if everything is shown in WWDC, what will he have left to talk in Paris keynote? So, some are reserved for that.
But, in my opinion, August 31 is too late for schools to purchase new machines..
Watch it all and you see he searches on (in this order)…
– iMac
– Paris
– Birthday
– Yosemite
– Paris
– Tiger
– Halfdome
Is “Halfdome” another reference to the iMac?
Will Tiger be released early, during the Paris Keynote, along with the new aluminum iMac (matching the G5 and the Powerbook)?
“Yosemite”, besides having a Halfdome, it can also have a second subliminal reference to “Yosemite Sam”, a small character that makes aloud noise, often entering a scene with his guns drawn and ready for a fight. As Steve made an unusually large number of indirect (and some not so indirect) references to Microsoft and Longhorn during this latest keynote.. and he seemed exceptionally happy to do so and even pointed out the banners at the convention hall. Perhaps, Steve is ready and Paris will be the time when Apple comes out with both guns drawn, ready for a full on attack with full multi-media advertising slamming Microsoft.
I was just hoping that when Steve “Spotlighted” Paris in the search field that it would turn up a file Paris_Hilton.mpg
Thank you guys for kepp me entertained….
You are all aware, aren’t you, that Paul is dead?
Mike
Yeah, I second that. This has been hella funny.
Yeah, they caught me in Konfab… er, Dashbord demo that Microsoft’s stock was $10 day from the real price that day, and ours was up $10 for the same period.
Some people do pick up our subtle hints.
Unlike Michael Dell’s customers, ours are smart.
Yeah, they caught me in Konfab… er, Dashbord demo that Microsoft’s stock was $10 day from the real price that day, and ours was up $10 for the same period.
Some people do pick up our subtle hints.
Unlike Michael Dell’s customers, ours are smart.
yea.. REACHING.. REACHING.. REACHING…
Perhaps there will be a Bengal release of Tiger…
Rearrange the letters of steve jobs name in french and it spells “imac 4 ghz at $599 price tag available august 30 in stores worldwide”
coincidence or????
also in late october, just in time for the US elections, there will be released the “goreimac” that has a photo of al gore on the start up scream…er…screen.
You forget that “Birthday” could be refering to the fact that it’s the Macintosh’s 20th B-day this year (well, was) and that he said in january they’d do something…
could be that in Paris, we’ll see a mini-tower (yosemite-G3 like) headless iMac… 😀
There was never any chance of the iMac debuting at WWDC. That is for pro stuff not consumer. Paris sounds about right and it isn’t too late for back to school. Schools aren’t buying desktops anymore in case some of you haven’t noticed. Laptop is the name of the game at the moment. Also, don’t hold your breath for a $500 or $600 iMac. Every year since its introduction people have said the iMac must be in that price range to sell. Apple has consistently said that they are not in the low-end business. So far, that has been their mantra. It won’t change anytime soon. Also, LCD displays are going up in cost again due to lack of capacity. No headless Mac, no mini tower. The new iMac will be stunning and immediately so-called Apple supporters will start complaining.
If you play the keynote backwards, around 33:40, Steve says “Buy it now, Buy it now, do it, do it, do it”
G5 iMacs, Baby.
This is an interesting theory. It goes to show that Mac users can expose conspiracies with the best of them. UFO spotters have nothing on us.
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