Aug 09
I’ve read some of the point-counterpoint postings about the gentleman from Cox who asked about the Intel stickers during Apple’s iMac unveiling event Tuesday, and I want to add my little bit. I’m befuddled as to why Apple bothered to have a Q&A session after the event to begin with. The company is famous for responses that are scripted, terse, obvious, and otherwise answer-free. Why did they open the floor to possible questions they knew they had no intention of answering? What person in that room who was familiar with Apple would even bother to ask a question, since they can practically predict Apple’s answers? I don’t understand the point of the whole exchange.
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August 9th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Possibly as an opportunity to open the floor to mentioning upgrades on products that Jobs didn’t feel like speaking directly about, like the mini. He ain’t proud of it, but he has to admit that it’s a conduit for new customers nonetheless.
Dan Dilger’s excellent questions during the last shareholders’ meeting may have given Apple brass undue optimism about the level of queries they could expect from the press the other day. Sticker-boy merely reflected the normal ratio of noise to signal.