you miss my point. it's the bloggers/reporters that i'm taking to task, not Jobs or Apple. somehow there is an expectation by those who choose to report that WWDC is MacWorld, 'one more thing' and all. I would prefer a low key "fireside chat' approach for WWDC without people parading on stage, save that for MacWorld. [1] at least one understood what had transpired. best...jf
[1] http://homepage.mac.com/lesposen/blogwavestudio/index.html On Aug 9, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > John, I hear you and I did hear it in the speech, but these things > are usually drowned by all the other humdrum. i am glad you pointed > them out in isolation and with clarity. I do want to watch that > speech again while not having food cooking!!!, though. - As to the > lackluster of the presentation Jerry related to, well, how can one > keep on ra ra rawing it all the time ( think of those crazy Walmart > morning PRAYERS- that is what they are, and the God is Walmart), a > low key approach with highly creative products seems to me more > believable. Secondly, we can't all be screamingly enthusiastic all > the time, and what we don't want is a speech like Jerry Falwell > would give on the infallibility of the Christian right, Steve Jobs > giving one on the new godlike attributes of the time machine. So a > little dullness versus false enthusiasm to me is not at all a bad > idea. > Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 22 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
