“I’m sitting in a bar when I run into an old friend, who is very highly placed in the Apple world. I hate to cite an anonymous source, but trust me, he knows,” Leander Kahney reports in his Wired Cult of Mac Blog. “And he tells me the keynote that Jobs gave was not the keynote he had planned. Some of the speech had been cut out. Key products were missing.”
Kahney reports, “My source said there was some stuff, ‘some very, very cool stuff,’ that Jobs couldn’t unveil because of ‘supply issues.’ They can’t get enough Core Duo (chips),’ said my source. He also said that if he were me, he probably wouldn’t order one of the new MacBook Pros. I asked if there would be MacBook replacements for the 17-inch and 12-inch PowerBooks, but he said, ‘Oh, it’s much cooler than that. Much cooler.'”
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Mmmmmm… juicy rumors
Wooooo! From one supply drought to another! Apple can sure pick ‘um!
super secret juicy rumours!
Wow… how vague can you get =P
MDN MW: “Summer”, as in “We probably won’t see many of the snazzy new products until summer- and remember, Steve said there may be some more PowerPC things still in the pipeline.”
Talk like that just makes me moist!
oh thank god for this little tidbit. i was afraid my new rumor-powered robot was going to run out of its reserves quickly, what with the holidays and Macworld now past.
365x24x7 Rumor cycle….
Kinda like the 4 year election cycle…
dontcha love it?!!!!
This is a bunch of bull. Lies just to make money. Sure, Steve wanted to show an Apple time machine but his flux capacitors had supply chain issues!
Anybody could claim that there was something missing, but let’s not go make up stories about it.
Usually it takes more than 2 days after a stevenote for the rumors to start flying. Wow.
Is it just me or does there seem to be more rumors after the keynote than there was before? Seems kind of backwards but funny.
Remember that lawsuit and countersuit between Apple and Burst.com just before the keynote? Doesn’t it seem likely that Steve Jobs was really really counting on having those licensing rights as a foundation for some secret new thing he wanted to show us on Tuesday?
I’m not sure I believe that story about Core Duo supply issues, but I did get the very strong feeling that something was wrong onstage at the keynote. The presentation was not polished to Steve’s usual standard, and now evidence that he had to change the line-up at the last minute, scrapping a few things and maybe introducing other things that weren’t quite ready, fits the facts of what I saw come out of that keynote on Tuesday.
than there were before…. I really should proofread these things before I post.
I knew it! 2006, the year Apple comes roaring back! On the Apple web site, they list quite a few ‘special events’, not sure if its more than usual, but I’m sure we will be blown away. Sweet.
When and what is the next big trade show?
The Mac mini must be going through metamorphosis too. But to what?
“Apple Computer. Going out of business for thirty years and counting.”
look. i can’t hande another month or even week or rumors. my stomach jsut can’t take it.
I’m skeptical about Core Duo supply issues, but some product intro being pulled from the keynote would explain why it seemed to not flow too well – the iLife presentation seemed needlessly stretched out and overall it didn’t seem as well polished as previous addresses.
If the content had been set further in advance, I’d have expected less time on iLife and more on iWork, iTMS (especially video uptake) and financials. As I said, it seems like the iLife stuff was padded out at the last minute to fill space.
If there is in fact some wonderful new product we almost saw Tuesday, I suspect it might be pushed back to April and tied in with the 30th anniversary of Apple. We have iMac (January), MacBook Pro (February), Pro Apps as Universal Binaries (March)… so a major announcement around the first of April would keep the hype cycle in full swing…
“The new Ilife is here, the new iLife is here!”
hey.. just an update…. ILife just got here from FedEx….. the box is smaller, like an oversized CD box. Loading now…
MDN word is “stock”…. how appropriate… I’m making a bundle
I’ve got $5 that says we see a “media-focused/living-room” Apple special event in February.
The rapid-fire iPod events in the fall and the statements from Apple-execs that they were going to move away from relying on trade-shows to debut new products suggest that there is much more waiting to be unveiled. Also, i’m sure Steve enjoys f’ing with the rumour sites.
That was the strangest keynote I can recall
Well, this sheds some light on the anemic introductions. I’m not complaining though; I wished for an Intel iMac and got it. I was definitely shocked it was the first one out of the box. I’m anxious to see what is next. It better be soon. I have absolutely no patience waiting for my toys!!!
You’re welcome MDN.
iLife 06 update….
wow…. a 40 min install for iLife?….. what’s in this thing?
This rumor is clearly crap. It’s about on par with some sandwich guy at 7-11 suggesting that Apple is coming out with plasma TVs.
Why even post links to these things??
http://musobs.blogspot.com
Steve had Jan. 26th highlighted in the demo of iPhoto calendars during the keynote. Coindidence? We’ll see.
If the processors for the PowerMac Intel transition are ready, I predict all Macs will be transitioned by WWDC in June.
The rest of the year will be devoted to iPod/video/living room/OS Leopard.
There’s a huge thread at MacRumors about all this…