“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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VAPOR? OK, where is the Apple Media Center? Front Row is nothing but a bunch of fancy rotating shortcuts.
Front Row is better than the ticket counter
Just because Windows Media Center ships with Vista doesn’t mean people are going to find it any more useful. That’s like saying people “choose” Windows just because it happens to come pre-installed on most PCs.
“Jobs’ primary argument centered around Apple’s elimination of CRT monitors which contain heavy metals and how that move goes further to help the environment….”
Recycling computers = GOOD………….BUT:
ALL LCD monitors contain mercury for use in the back-lighting. I suppose CRTs just have more “toxic waste” than LCDs. Anyway………
This is all warm and fuzzy, but it’s no good if Apple will be advertising in America only. Remember we use Macs in other parts of the world too.
Let’s hope the ad doesn’t show a computer crashing through a house, or some maroon flailing around in silhouette with white strings hanging from his/her head.
Another shareholder requested that the company make “the ultimate media center,” a personal video recorder that could record television programs and share media on his computer.
“We hear you loud and clear,” Jobs responded
For those of you who are too lazy to click macnut’s link. Enjoy.
The Elgato EyeTV allows your computer to become a hard disc tv recorder. You can plug in active speakers and hey presto, the ultimate media center. Stop bitchin’
Rasterbator: “As far as the media center goes, this is all you need to know:
http://66.134.41.67/~ron/apple/index4.html“
Well, I already know how to use Photoshop, thank you. What would an Xserve do on top of my TV?