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“We still have a few surprises left for the remainder of this calendar year.” Was the Back to the Mac event it, or is there still “One More Thing”?
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Speaking of which, anyone ever been on the campus? I stopped by briefly on a weekend on my way to San Jose Airport, snapped some photos outside. Can you actually walk in the place? Do they have a gift shop? I can’t imagine you could get a tour unless you were like Obama or something.
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One Infinite Loop
Speaking of which, anyone ever been on the campus? I stopped by briefly on a weekend on my way to San Jose Airport, snapped some photos outside. Can you actually walk in the place? Do they have a gift shop? I can’t imagine you could get a tour unless you were like Obama or something.
JD
It’s locked down pretty tight. It’s my understanding that visitors are escorted around the place and aren’t allowed to roam freely. My nephew met me in the lobby where they have kind of a mini food and beverage area to serve what I assume are the casual visitors. They do have an Apple Store accessible without the need to enter the main lobby. Everyone in my family already knows that I’m the long standing Apple wonk so when my nephew pulled a “I visited the mothership” t-shirt off the rack and suggested that I buy it I politely declined. I did purchase a stainless travel mug with an Apple logo “so I got dat goin for me”.
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Is anyone else hearing Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is
It seems to me that the Air is ground breaking stuff in the same way the original iPod was. The tech world was decidedly underwhelmed by the event that would eventually lead Apple from 6 to 60 billion. I don’t see Steve wanting to further mess with the Christmas shopping list with last minute revisions. It is Apple so one never knows (which is yet another thing I love about them).
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Is anyone else hearing Peggy Lee’s Is That All There Is
It seems to me that the Air is ground breaking stuff in the same way the original iPod was. The tech world was decidedly underwhelmed by the event that would eventually lead Apple from 6 to 60 billion. I don’t see Steve wanting to further mess with the Christmas shopping list with last minute revisions. It IS Apple so one never knows (which is yet another thing I love about them).
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I’m probably nuts but I can’t help thinking that when the data center is actually announced as open there will be a big surprise announcement about what it will be.
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I don’t know… Killing the Xserve surprised a few!
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I believe that the ‘Back to the Mac’ event was what Steve was talking about as the new MacBook Airs are significant new products…..as was the Mac App Store…..and new iLife…...as Steve does consider everything significant. And the Airs are also a core focus of Apple’s marketing as can be seen by their new MacBook Air commercial and how often it is being broadcast.
I don’t really remember Apple ever announcing anything in Nov/Dec as I believe that anything they want to focus on for the holiday season is announced in October or earlier.
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This thread’s a tease. I feel like I clicked on a porn advertisement e-mail link and got a Viagra for sale spammer Web site with pics of Rosanne Barr.
That’s not the mental picture I wanted before going to sleep.
If its any consolation, that’s not exactly the mental picture I want when I first get up. :bugeyed:
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FateTime on the Mac was a surprise.
iOS 4.2, due any day now, isn’t a surprise, but some added features in it may be (FaceTime over 3G perhaps).
MacPro Server was a surprise, I guess, but dropping the rack mounts was a bigger surprise.
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I don’t know… Killing the Xserve surprised a few!
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I can tell you I was surprised by Wal-Mart selling $50 itunes cards for $35.
Just today though? I usually buy my iTunes cards at Costco, $60 worth for $55
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If its any consolation, that’s not exactly the mental picture I want when I first get up. :bugeyed:
Well at least you can still “get up”
Back on topic. I would not surprised if Apple surprised us with something new in time for the Christmas shopping season. Something not in the rumor mill, but something that will everyone saying “Why didn’t I think of that?”
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“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.” E. M. Forster
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Speaking of which, anyone ever been on the campus? I stopped by briefly on a weekend on my way to San Jose Airport, snapped some photos outside. Can you actually walk in the place? Do they have a gift shop? I can’t imagine you could get a tour unless you were like Obama or something.
I had a tour once, and lunch at that place in the center of the Campus. This was maybe 15 years ago and was someone I met via the VW Type2 network.
Yes, the “Store” is open to the public and I was there when I was given a tour by my friend. However, if I remember correctly you can not buy Macs there, just software, accessories and swag. The wife and I are heading up to the Bay Area in a few weeks, maybe we will stop in.
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“Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don’t believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art’s sake.” E. M. Forster
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Maybe Nick Carr is on to something via Cult of Mac
Carr wrote in an email. ?From that perspective, the North Carolina data center can be seen as essentially a broadcasting system that will enable Apple to make the shift from a downloading model of media distribution to a streaming model. It?s a proprietary broadcasting system (not altogether unlike traditional broadcasting systems), which means it?s a very different model of the cloud from the open model promoted by Google.?
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I can tell you I was surprised by Wal-Mart selling $50 itunes cards for $35.
“You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger…”
*bad Inception movie reference joke*
I hope one day you will realize my humor. I would like to think Apple has something bigger in mind.
FTR, it was only today that WM ran that special.Bigger, eh? In other news Apple buys Micrcosoft, hires former President Bush who, during a Monday morning live press release, announced the merger between Apple and Microsoft will be, “Synergistical!”*
* My mind wanders. Snicker.Signature
Black Swan Counter: 9 (Banks need money, Jobs needs a break, Geithner has no plan, Cuomo’s grandstanding, .Gov needs a hobby, GS works for money, flash crash, is that bubbling crude?).
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