OK. April Fools is over, and those of us who made fools of ourselves for others, can put away the funny hats for another year. (Note: If you make a fool of yourself every day of the year, you can ignore this nostrum.)
But basically nothing happened in Apple Land this year, on the day of Apple’s Thritieth Anniversary. No noise from the Mother Ship. No parties. No happenings in Macdom. No cake. No champagne. No rolling out of the Reality Distortion Field. No new product announcements.
(Maybe Steve gave everyone the weekend off to celebrate.)
Or maybe it will all hit the fan on Monday. Who knows?
But there is another angle to all this. All this lack of nothing, when there should have at least been a party or some acknowlegment of thirty years of insane greatness, right?
Perhaps Mr. Steve is trying to wean us off our regular fixes. Maybe he is tired of micromanaging everything to get it right. It could be that he has had enough of those intense, perfect Keynotes, and all the public angst that goes with it. Maybe he is ready to put it all behind him. What do you think?
[__] True [__] Nah
Yesterday’s great lack of something, anything, from Apple (never mind that they never released the new iMate.), has made me think that this is how it will always be, from now on. Just as it may be when Steve Jobs is no longer at the head of Apple Computers.
I mean, who would ever take his place? How would Apple manage, and find their future direction, once he is gone? Is this how it is always going to feel, from now on? Friday night without a date? Saturday without someplace to go? Is this the way Apple is going to be, acting like Dell or HP does every day of the year?
(Sorry if this is scaring anyone, especially Apple stockholders.)
Most corporations have plans for such things. They also have people in place who are being groomed to step in, once such a great change happens. It is only wise to do so.
Therefore, I do not worry much about who will run Apple someday, or who will chart the company course. To me, Apple will always have world-class, cutting edge, uber-cool hardware and software. They are already light-years ahead of anyone else on the planet, aren’t they?
But yesterday’s non event makes you wonder, you know?
– – and where’s my Thirtieth Anniversary Mac???
Regards,
Roger Born
“Always drink upstream from the herd”
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