“Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs used the stage at the company’s annual developers conference Monday to show off Leopard, the up-coming version of the company’s famous operating system,” Rex Crum and Dan Gallagher report for MarketWatch.
“Jobs gave little new information about the company’s wildly anticipated iPhone, slated to go on sale in three weeks. Nor did he announce any news related to the company’s popular iPod digital music players,” Crum and Gallagher report.
“He did say that Apple has launched a new version of its Web browser software for Windows users. He also outlined a system by which independent developers can write new programs for the iPhone – though he stopped short of opening up the device’s software code for developers,” Crum and Gallagher report.
“Lack of news about the iPhone may have contributed to the weakness in Apple’s shares following Jobs’ keynote address at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco,” Crum and Gallagher report.
“After concluding his speech, Apple’s shares slipped more than 3% to a low of $120.30. The stock has been on a tear of late – surging nearly 40% in the last two months on anticipation of the iPhone’s potential business,” Crum and Gallagher report. “The stock was trading up about 1% before Jobs took the stage.”
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@MacZeus,
“It’s pretty much just an ordinary browser.” AAAAAggggghhhhh!!!
Its Safari running on windows.!!! You people are WAY to jaded. And I don’t think you even try to read between the lines. Sheeezzzzeee. I expect that from “professional analysis” idiots but give me a break.
People wanted Mac OSX to run on windows. NOW iTunes runs on Windows, Safari runs on Windows, iPhone will run on Windows, and you know they will all run great, even if it is Windows that they are running on..
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Time Machine runs and it runs on networks for all your computers at once.
View documents in cover flow!!! Can’t find what your looking for? Do a search, get 150 documents and then just flip thru them, zip, zip, zip, including videos, pictures, etc ah got ya. Simple as “APPLE” pie.
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OH yea, you wanted iPhone to be open for 3rd party apps, OK it will be, some already on way. Your computer in your pocket, even better.
But NO. Its not enough. Even the market does its standard drop in value cause the spaceship is not ready for mass sales yet. I guess the family vacation to Mars will have to go on hold.
All, I can say, is BUY, BUY,BUY, quick before people realize their mistake and Apple hits 150.
Rant over,
en.
It was expected that the short-term profit takers would bring the stock down after hitting new highs on most of the trading days for the last 30 days. Long-term investors will come out ahead, whether then bought AAPL last Friday or last year.
I laugh at all you people laughing at Safari for Windows. Apple really started growing the second they released iTunes for Windows. This was the beginning of the halo effect and has dramatically affected Mac sales in a huge and positive way.
Personally, Stacks, Quickview, Spaces, and CoverFlow are really going to help my productivity, as well as make Windows users drool. Now my mom can visually flip through her files instead of the old file system method. I thought it was a great day with some really cool stuff without losing productivity. Did people forget that it was only 10 of 300 features?Does complete 64 bit intrigue anyone at all?
My goodness…shame on all you spoiled people. Sell your stock, you short-term boneheads.
The big news is Apple is gunning for M$.
– read between the lines here:
1) iTunes – started to get Window users exposed to what Mac’s can do in ease of use
2) iPods – started to get Windows users exposed to what Mac users get in quality of hardware
3) iPhone – getting the Business user exposed to what Mac users can get done, its not just about creative
4) Safari for Windows – exposing Window users to better programing that Mac users live by
This is another Trojan horse – thik about it if you’ve paid $500-$600 for an iPhone you will have to get Safari for Windows to get full functionality of your purchase. Another 10 to 45 million users that potentially have to use Safari they haven’t been exposed to another Apple program.
Plus – this is another incentive for PROGRAMMERS to write for the Mac platform instead of only for the Windows platform.
PLUS, Plus – Games are coming to the Mac platform (not sure if this leaves out us older PPC users).
My 2 cents.
I wouldn’t be suprised that tomorrow a lot of mutual fund managers start buying bargain-priced aapl shares and then the price will start to go up again…
The Airport backup thing makes me queasy – wireless backup with no corruption? Better stay off the wireless phone and shut off the microwave.
And yes, Apple is in the business of having to “Wow us” every six months. It makes the stockholders money. So where are the other goodies? “iLife/iWork ‘07.5? Maybe iLife/iWork ’07 at half price?
MDN word, Ground, as to a halt.
One more thought:
Maybe one of the big planned announcements was using the new file system ZFS.
Perhaps, Steve took it out of the presentation because the SUN Ceo pre-announced it.
@Matrix3:
Two problems with your number 4: First, Safari isn’t really indicative of good Mac programming. The menus and such, sure, but overall, I don’t think it’s anything that could get people interested in Macs. It’s a browser for crying out loud. And, IMHO, not even a really good one. . If anything, it will just annoy people that they have to install yet another browser.
Second, I hate to generalize, but I really think it’s true that most Windows users really don’t care all that much about the interface, or about true quality. Some will start to see the light if given the chance, sure, but most people really have no taste. Most Windows users are perfectly happy with oodles of crappy software. If you doubt me, take a look at giveawayoftheday.com sometime. Just absolute garbage software, every day for the most part. Just total junk. That’s the software the Windows world deals with, and doesn’t seem to care.
You’d sell too.. this happens every year. Why not sell at 125… There’s tons of new stuff coming out
Its Safari running on windows.!!!
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Umm yeah. I understand that.. Still not that big of a deal. Most browsers run on Windows and Macs, now Safari does too. I still don’t really see what is so much better about Safari than say Firefox or Netscape which both run on Windows and Macs.
What was anticipated due to the rumors and hype from Apple:
1. “Top Secret Feartures”
No TS features that lived up to what was hyped. Though cool Leopard features, why hype as “Top Secret”?
2. Sun CEO “ZSF” File System.
No demo of the ZSF File System, or how Finder uses it, unless it was in the demo of Stacks.
3. No new Hardware, specifically the iMac or Cinema displays, especially since the Mac Pro-Octo upgrade, MacBook and MacBook Pro upgrades recently.
4. No mention of AppleTV re: YouTube.
5. No mention of iTunes Plus or DRM free songs.
6. No mention of iTunes, iPods, Apple Retail store, Mac Stats for the quarter or marketshare increase.
I truly feel Apple had a “Wow” announcement ready and due to some glitch or issue couldn’t make the announcement at this time. OR they are planning one in the near future due to it being inappropriate to announce at a Developer’s conference. In any case I think the hype that apple generated based on it’s history of past WWDC announcements was a let down to those who were anticipating much more.
@Chris ][
– I understand your point, but I think this is just another push to get more Apple software exposure in the hands of Window users.
Think about it, before iTunes most M$ users wouldn’t even consider anything Apple. Now there are more iTune users than iPod owners.
Which also means more Window users are using Apple software.
Second – most Windows users use whatever is the default (already installed) software. I think with the hype, perhaps we can get a few more users to try/download Safari.
The ultimate reason why Programmers program in a particular language is the audience available. The more users of Safari will hopefully translate (long-term) to more Programmers for Mac.
Let me know what you think.
@hey –
Regarding your point #2-
I think this might have been the real top-secret item, but the cat got let out of the bag by some Sun executive.
Based on all I heard about Steve -I think he would pull it from the presentation rather that have it said his top-secret feature was blown a week before his announcement.
I hope that Sun executive got his a$$ reamed for letting the cat out of the bag.
And leopard is not available until October….so ho-hum, wake me up in 4 months….
Well I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m going to buy Mac OS X Leopard Ultimate this October!
I thought everything about the new leopard was terrific and I am anxiously awaiting its release. And will be buying leopard as soon as it is released. This looks way cooler than Vista in so many ways. He didn’t need to mention any of those things as he has already mentioned some of them. His focus today was Leopard and nothing else. Nothing wrong with that. Things can be released anytime these days from Apple.
*Yawn*
Steve Jobs is my new hero ever since he rescued me from Windows. Especially night before last when I had to reactivate Vista by phone and they accused me of stealing it. I’m going all Apple now. However, this was a ho-hum keynote. We didn’t learn about any new features of Leopard that we didn’t know about already. Just a few details about Finder. iPhone is an open platform, but not spectacularly, since it’s just web development. Some hints about .Mac. And there is a Safari beta for Windows–which I downloaded and use on Windows XP, and since it is a beta, it has already crashed six times. I see nothing new in Safari version 3. It’s good, but it can’t synchronize with .Mac.
But no hardware even though the iMacs are overdue.
I guess they aren’t ready for the rest of the stuff. I hope there is a “rest of the stuff.”
Man I bailed my June options this morning, made it out with 300% profit…coulda had 700%…*tear*. I woulda got out sooner, but I was just in disbelief about how crappy WWDC was (it really wasn’t crappy, but Investors want unreasonably more than techs do). We’ll see what happens tomorrow. I hope this got rid of folks who wanted to mass-sell on the 29th. Hello AT&T =)
I thought Mac OS X was all about impervious security and breath taking graphics. Where is the innovation?
I was expecting a holographic emitter for true 3D graphics, and a force field to protect me and my Macintosh from evil doers. And a light saber.
You let me down again apple.
The only windows user I could remotely see downloading Safari for their PC, are ones that already use mac as their primary computer.
Even if that’s the case, they probably know a thing or two about browsers to get them thinking about it in the first place.
Which then means… they probably use Firefox.
I love my Apple to death and am definitely an Apple Fanboy amongst my peers, but I certainly would never pretend that Safari is any sort of advanced or quality browser. In fact, most programmers I know (also in my own web design experience) LOATHE Safari!! Sadly… those would be the few people I can think of that know enough about the web and browsers themselves to actually take a second to think about the browser their using to get them to make any switch from one or the other. In their case… they’re probably use Firefox. Most likely would only install Safari for cross-browser testing purposes during development.
If Steve hadn’t hyped Top Secret features, if Steve weren’t giving the keynote, if they Apple Store hadn’t been brought down, and if Steve had not used the lighting rod phrase “And one more thing…”, nobody would be complaining.
Nobody, not even the faithful expect miracles every six months. What we do expect is for Apple to fulfill the expectations that it hypes. That’s all.
But, I am holding on to my stocks and waiting for June 29th when I fully expect them to take off.
MDN Secret word – ‘writing’ as in ‘As of this writing’…
> The Airport backup thing makes me queasy – wireless backup with no corruption?
It’s a proven industry-standard technology. If people (including businesses) are using 802.11g (and now n) for networking and saving their “normal” files without “corruption,” why would it be an issue for doing backups? FYI – the new Airport Extreme Base Station is awesome.
The bigger concern for backup software is the robustness of the backup software itself. For most people, the only time they will “test” their backup is if they have a drive failure and they need to restore from their backup archive files. That would be a really bad time to discover that their backup software created faulty backup files. For that reason, I like backup software that backs up the actual files individually; I use a program called ChronoSync by Econ.
http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/index.html
I’ll let others use TimeMachine for a while before I start using it.
Like it or not, Apple Inc. has put their butt on the line. Gone are the days when fanboys opinions meant something for a struggling company that didn’t market itself, well if at all.
If SJ and Apple don’t produce and make good their promises, they will join the list of hundreds of failed companies that almost made it. Consumers deserve to be upset if a retail company fails to deliver. This ain’t a hobby, Steve! You don’t want to ride on the elevator, do you?
MDN word – “business” – Capisce?
1. “Top Secret Feartures”
No TS features that lived up to what was hyped. Though cool Leopard features, why hype as “Top Secret”?
Stacks has only ever been a patent before and – AFAIK – has never been seen as an actual bit of running code. CoverFlow in Finder? “Back To My Mac”? Out of the country? Get back to your home or office Mac, no muss, no fuss!
2. Sun CEO “ZSF” File System.
No demo of the ZSF File System, or how Finder uses it, unless it was in the demo of Stacks.
I never thought it was going to be in there in the first place, but then the last conversation I had with an Apple product manager pretty much made that obvious.
You might see it appear in Server around 10.5.5 as an adjunct to XSan, but it won’t show up for real until 10.6 – BTW, that’s my opinion based on nothing more than an educated guess rather than the conversation with the afore-mentioned product manager.
3. No new Hardware, specifically the iMac or Cinema displays, especially since the Mac Pro-Octo upgrade, MacBook and MacBook Pro upgrades recently.
It’s called managing and maximising the news cycle. There’s no point in flooding the specialist or general news media with more information than it can accommodate in any given cycle.
You might, if you’re lucky, see a new iMac next week. But, if it were me, I’d make you wait until I’d maximised the PR return on investment afforded by iPhone – seven days of stories of people fighting in the aisles of AT&T stores is more interesting and useful to the overall cause than a Santa Rosa iMac, it’s that simple. Get over it.
4. No mention of AppleTV re: YouTube.
And the relevance to people paying a couple of thousand clams for new developer info would be what precisely? AppleTV is – theoretically – a “closed” system. If you want to develop your own media server software, go and do it or participate in one of the open-source projects.
5. No mention of iTunes Plus or DRM free songs.
See the above.
6. No mention of iTunes, iPods, Apple Retail store, Mac Stats for the quarter or marketshare increase.
Good idea. I’m relatively certain it’s against the rules to give information that would/could affect the share price to any audience, without first making that data/opinion available to the market at large.
If he made that announcement in an audience of several thousand developers – many of whom are probably shareholders – exactly how would they feel if the price of their shares plummeted whilst they were unable to do anything about it.
I’d feel pretty pissed if I paid over $2000 to be in San Francisco, and then got screwed for another four/five-figure sum because I couldn’t get to my e-trade account.
Nothing will really be allowed to eclipse iPhone for the next few weeks. There will almost certainly be another special big event to launch Leopard come October/Sept. Maybe we can expect some related hardware announcements then too. Remember Leopard was very recently delayed… and think what this Stevenote MIGHT have been if the OS release had kept to its original schedule.