John Steinberg wrote:

The times are screwy, the chronology is bottom is oldest, top is freshest,
but here's how it's gone down. Start at the bottom and read up for full
excitation.


11:05 am That's it, keynote over. [Wait! Come back!] 11:04 am more than
even hardware innovations, the core of the mac is the operating system
that's not changing. [Amen] 11:04 am many will be shipping universal
binaries by this time next year [OMG!] 11:04 am 500 apple engineers
on-site [And not a Mountain Dew to be found for miles] 11:03 am talking
about different venues at conference [The Corn Dog Pavillion is great!]
11:03 am fairly far along already create universal binaries [But nothing
about Galactic binaries? Boo!] 11:03 am OS X runs fantastically on Intel
processors [Tell me more] 11:02 am lot of work ahead [Translation: Welcome
to serfdom] 11:02 am intel-based macs in marketplace next year [Buh bie,
IBM] 11:02 am lots of great power pc products in pipeline [Yippee! Intel
PPCs!? I won!?] 11:02 am will continue with 3rd transition - will make
best machines we know how to make will not happen overnight [A long
weekend, then?] 11:02 am "we know transitions" [Code for all vacays
cancelled] 11:02 am great time to start building for the future [Better
than the reverse] 10:47 am Coverage will resume shortly [I hope he turned
his mic off] 10:12 am steve wearing all black [Costume change] 5:33 pm
Apple to buy A-P and TeleVue [Psyche!] 5:33 pm next release will be
called Leopard [Not domestic house cat? *Shrug*] 5:33 pm 5 major versions
of OS X [Name them all in order for bonus points] 5:33 pm most say intel
rumors [Say what!?] 5:33 pm shows Apple stories in RSS feed [Oooers] 5:33
pm over 400 dashboard widgets [Widgets are little Java applets for Tiger-
I hate widgets] 5:33 pm this week - will deliver the 2 millionth copy of
OS X Tiger [ I bought the family pack] 5:33 pm Quicktime 7.0 for windows
available later today [And still later, a zillion support calls to MS, et
al.] 5:33 pm over a billion copies of quicktime downloaded [1,000,000,000
+] 5:33 pm mentions spotlight, dashboard, h.264 [HQ video] 5:33 pm one
more way iPod/iTunes at the forefront of digital music revolution [Vive
le...ehh] 5:33 pm makes podcasting mainstream for everyone [*yawn*] 5:00
pm Doors to hall are open People beginning to take seats [Stop that, those
seats aren't free!] 5:00 pm testing 1234 5:00 pm *music playing* [Not
Glenn Miller...damn] 5:00 pm Steve takes the stage [Put that back, we
bought you a GulfStream!] 5:00 pm steve wearing all black [OMG!] 5:00 pm
109 stores worldwide [How many before Gateway tanked again?] 5:00 pm $1/2
billion products moved [Does that include the Gucci knockoffs?] 5:00 pm
retail group trying to find best interface for stores [Translation: More
hot salesgirls] 5:00 pm best buying experience in the world [*cough*] 5:00
pm update on iPod [I hope it includes Tetris] 5:00 pm last quarter - sold
16 million ipods, reflected in market share - overall 76% among ALL
players [I bought two] 5:00 pm recently had 430 million songs downloaded -
marketshare going up



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Gareth Slee