Talk about nits, what about having to schlep over to a very chaotic Moscone West in order to pick up your registration badge for the expo!!

Of course, that's not Apple's fault (and this article is really about picking nits with Apple, not IDG's Macworld show), but still.. it really puts one in a GRR!! mood even before they get to Apple's booth!

"If Steve Jobs isn't interested in it, it might not survive," Mr. Munson told Forbes. "We want to make sure they keep making 'real' computers."

While I'd like to think this person either knows better or is joking I get the feeling he isn't. I'm not sure what it is in Apple's Mac line-up that isn't a "real computer". If this is a dig towards the iMac, requesting more attention for the Mac Pro's as suggested in the article then I would say that Apple are making it clear that they are taking the "professional" market very seriously.

Not only are all the machines Apple sells suitable for the "professional" market (depending on their usage requirements), but the iMac is getting quite close to the Mac Pro in terms of real world performance for more and more "professional" needs. The MacBook Pro's and Xserves have also come on a long way over the past years.

If we are talking about sheer attention then I would say that Apple is firmly setting it's public attention on the "consumer" market for sure. That said, MacWorld has mainly been used for this purpose in terms of publicity in the past. The Mac Pro had a decent slot at WWDC for it's original announcement. This makes sense to me as it is a high end machine being demo'd in a setting with high-end users present. Further more, being that WWDC is also well covered by the media for expected OS updates, it seems likely that a Mac Pro update will also be covered by those journalists.

As I said, I am simply not understanding this comment at all.

This Violet Blue incident, did it really happen? Go read the article on her web site, warning the site contains nudity so caveat salutor. I am very suspicious, sounds like a hoax. She has one photo of someone who looks like Steve Jobs from the back, his face is hidden.

I did not attend the Expo this year. Can anyone who was there on verify that Steve Jobs was in the exhibit halls. I would think that if he was in the halls that there would be more photos of him and people bragging how he stopped by their booth to check out their products.

If she asks me for a picture, I sure as hell will be running away from such hideous encounter. If it really happened, who can blame Steve? Even worst, what if she asked for the picture for her 'journalist' work on that blog thing she has going on. I mean, come on, seriously.

"...the MacBook Air's non-user-replaceable battery..."

Actually, the battery is user replaceable:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/18/sources_macbook_air_battery_replacements_take_only_minutes.html

You know, Stevie has always been touchy. And if you knew much about him, you'd know he maintains an inner sanctum of friends and colleagues. He is not a gregarious person and such people tend to be offended by unwelcome intrusions.

Even so, his response seemed unnecessary, though I think blowing her off was probably a good idea. While he might take some heat for the way he handled himself, can you imagine the challenging damage control necessary if a pic of the two of them ended up on her site?

Headline: "Apple boss endorses porn site"

That would be worth avoiding.

All macs are professional grade

and the Air battery is replaceable

I'm sick of the nit pickers, they can go buy a dell dementia

as you wondered, here are other images of Jobs hanging out on the floor the same day I was:

http://flickr.com/photos/scarls13/2195601877/
http://flickr.com/photos/jimgoldstein/2197204314/
http://flickr.com/photos/jimgoldstein/2196416405/

as compared to mine:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/violetblue/2197331032/

aaaaand, I'm over it. for me he's just some guy I met that I now know I'd *never* want to be friends with. I could have been the chick who waited for the iPhone for 35 hours in line or the rep with $950K to spend for my company, and he snubbed me. I was just being a normal person, despite what some people think of what I write about. I still like Mac products and love Mac users/community, so whatever.

-VB

Okay Violet I guess he really was there looking at stuff. Next time wear a wire so you document the dialoge

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Guest wrote:
as you wondered, here are other images of Jobs hanging out on the floor the same day I was:

http://flickr.com/photos/scarls13/2195601877/
http://flickr.com/photos/jimgoldstein/2197204314/
http://flickr.com/photos/jimgoldstein/2196416405/

as compared to mine:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/violetblue/2197331032/

aaaaand, I'm over it. for me he's just some guy I met that I now know I'd *never* want to be friends with. I could have been the chick who waited for the iPhone for 35 hours in line or the rep with $950K to spend for my company, and he snubbed me. I was just being a normal person, despite what some people think of what I write about. I still like Mac products and love Mac users/community, so whatever.

-VB