Comments on: Apple Investors: "Philnote" Just Doesn't Have the Same Ring to It

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Fri, 22 May 2009 14:02:09 +0000

[...] Apple Investors: “Philnote” Just Doesn’t Have the Same Ring to It [...]

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AAPL Sauce | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 19:36:09 +0000

[...] them with the nearest MacBook. But CNBC’s Jim Goldman — who earlier this month reported Jobs’s decision to skip the Macworld keynote had nothing to do with his health — is calling BS on the Gizmodo report. There is “no new news,” Goldman says of [...]

By: Dave Barnes

Dave Barnes — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:33:43 +0000

Apple does not need Macworld Expo as they can command press attention anytime they want.

However, this (the death of Macworld Expo) is blow to all the smaller companies that appear at Macworld and get some attention.

This is the very sad aspect of the death of Macworld Expo.

By: Charles Miller

Charles Miller — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:44:24 +0000

Maybe Apple is just sick of having its employees work “crunch time” over the holiday season, just to give Steve something interesting to announce in January, a time when consumer disposable income is at its lowest for the year?

By: kevin bailey

kevin bailey — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:31:45 +0000

I agree with Goldman on this, there’s politics involved. Too, Apple has an advantage here to roll out product anytime and are no longer beholden to expectations of this conference. I like it better that they announce new product in the second quarter for instance, which is a lower revenue quarter and generally lackluster period relative to news. Macworld has always been a badly timed event, right before what is typically stellar earnings.

And what about the gaming that surrounds Macworld by analysts every year. It has to drive Apple management mad. This will defeat the gaming that happens every time this year, Apple can announce product more opportunistically relative to marketing and general sentiments at any point in time. Much better for them.