“Publisher McGraw-Hill may have inadvertently spoiled Apple’s event plans today in an interview (shown below) with CNBC,” Electronista reports. “CEO Terry McGraw told the TV network that the company has worked with Apple for “quite awhile” on making content for the tablet and that “95 percent” of its e-books will be available. It should run a variant of the iPhone OS and will therefore let users transfer content between platforms.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Hey, Terry, a bit of advice: When Steve calls, don’t pick up.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
She doesn’t want to sniff the Tabloid LOL
Good way to start a relationship: show that you’re not to be trusted with anything confidential…
First! HA!
Actually, I didn’t watch cuz I don’t want the spoiler.
foo
What about PlayBoy and Penthouse?
OK. So… not first.
THIRD!! HA!
and Fourth, but who cares?
“I like to smell my Text Books”
Just wow the dirty things I wanna say!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW, First?
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I like to smell my textbooks???? WTF
release the CRAKEN!
Can’t wait for tomorrow! And you like to smell your books?
2min45 sec blah blah blah and then boom! He is getting a call from Steve tonight – if he hasn’t already and being screamed at.
BREAKING NEWS!
McGraw-Hill CEO, Terry Hill found dead by what appears to be some kind of laser burn. Witnesses say he was shot by a star trek-like phaser beam shot from a ten-inch, very thin box-shaped device.
Terry just got McGraw Hill kicked off the keynote tomorrow. I call it now!
He probably felt ignored and want some PR because he didn’t get invited to be on the stage tomorrow. And he probably never will.
that got shut down pretty quick, didn’t it?
No way their CEO is this stupid. I think that Jobs is fine with it and that it is meant to lower expectations. He gave nothing away with this. We’re all expecting a tablet that can act as an e-reader.
Now, if he spilled something on how we interact with the tablet or some great new feature that no one sees coming, then I’d be surprised.
Of course this thing is “based” on the iPhone OS. That doesn’t mean it’s just a big iPhone. If you’re Apple, you wouldn’t waste R&D;resources reinventing the OS that already works great in a smaller form factor.
But you could surely add things to it, and that’s what I’m wetting my pants over in anticipation.
I’d like to smell her textbook.
Ok, Terry, you’ll be having 0 textbooks on the tablet now.
McGraw-Hill content may be conspicuously absent from the presentation tomorrow….
I myself cannot smell Erin’s textbook. But she uses Evian skin cream, and sometimes she wears L’Air du Temps…
But not today.
That seems definitive regarding the existence of the tablet, and not at all surprising given the consistency of Apple tablet speculation and information from “sources” over the last couple of months.
Still, it does seem a little like opening a present on Christmas Eve.
I would LMAO if Steve said: “McGraw-Hill publications coming soon.” Blame it on “negotiations.”
@Grue
“I like to smell my Text Books”
They’ll be an app for that.
Disappointed, not happy. If the tablet was more a desktop, you could code on it. If it’s more an iPhone, you’re limited.
I totally smell my new books. Love it.
MDN Magic Word: Personal. Wow.
Headline tomorrow:
Terry McGraw was found dead early this morning, with an iPhone embedded squarely in his forehead.
The coroner has ruled the death a suicide.
@ Midwest mac
totally agree, it should be obvious to anyone that it’s going to run an iPhone is variant and be an e reader. this does seem like a well timed “leak”
leave to a 3rd party to take Apple’s thunder. Enforce those NDA (non-disclosure agreements)!
Oooops, yeah it was going to be just terrific, except that Jobs just now decided to keep you off it Mr. McGraw.
Terry McGraw, everything that you own in a box to the left . . .
He should be eliminated on principal. I mean, McGraw Hill owns Standard & Poors, and those rating agencies are the numbnuts who put those ridiculous AAA ratings on those mortgage-backed assets that tanked. I say Steve should tell him to shove it.
Belkin to announce “book smell” spray for iSlate?
An astute person can always smell between the lines.
Wait, what if the new tablet is actually a caplet? It would have absolutely no odor at all!
@ChrissyOne: People will say we’re in love.
Hey, Remember when ATI leaked the specs of the G4 Cube the day before it was released, and was pimping the design win for the brand new Radeon chips? Remember How steve cut them out of not just the keynote, but did not ship a single radeon chip in any apple product for 6 months and then only as a BTO and not as standard? Steve kept the older rage graphics in the machines for months just to spite ATI
Yeah McGraw-Hill just royally screwed themselves. You do NOT mess with the RDF.
“McGraw-Hill content may be conspicuously absent from the presentation tomorrow….”
Hundreds of red, apple shaped laser dots are dancing on McGraw’s pajamas.
How many traitor’s last words have been, “I’m so sorry, Steve. Ack.”?
@ Scot Murphy
Quid pro quo, Mr. Murphy. Tell me about Miss Hester Tablet.
What happened to MDN’s boldness?
Did Mr McGraw not sign a confidentiality agreement?
Or he just forgot he signed an agreement.
At his level, even without signing one, who you think you are to vent your partner’s big party/announcement?
Cannot believe the level of irresponsibility there.
breeze is right on,
“Good way to start a relationship: show that you’re not to be trusted with anything confidential…”
First off- I’d love to smell her.
Second… it’s the day before “the announcement”- A great way to keep monkey boy tossing and turning.
What happened to Men Without Hats and xkcd?
And where is SteveJack?
Erin shouldn’t complain if the Chinese put a little lead in her textbooks.
I think she said, “I like the smell of my textbooks.”
Ayyyyyy! I gotcher smelly textbook RIGHT HERE!
You guys missed the real video of what happened on CNBC yesterday. Here it is:
‘Doofus’ McGraw stated: “… the tablet is gonna be based on the iPhone operating system…”
erm, also known as OS X to people that actually *use* Macs… *sigh*
From the mouth of Jobs, 5:00 into this vid…
I notice McGraw-Hill wasn’t mentioned today. At. All. Did he shoot himself in the foot last night?
Hey you used my video awesome thanks.
Jake.
P.S. I am a little creeped out someone with my last name found my video.
“[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]”