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Steve Jobs declares 2007 to be "one of the most exciting" in Apple's history
During last week's conference call in which Apple announced preliminary 4th Q earnings, Mr. J apparently also declared 2007 to be "one of the most exciting new product years in Apple's history." While we already know about some things like the iTV, we don't have much else to go on but unconfirmed rumors of iPhones and 6G wide and/or touchscreen iPods. For now, the real significance here is Steve's bragging about 2007's lineup. In the past he's declared 'the year of the notebook' or 'the year of HD'
[via LoopRumors]
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Paul WIlde said 8:39PM on 10-21-2006
"[via LoopRumors]"
Right, okay. I believe it.
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MacBill said 11:02AM on 10-25-2006
No he didn't. When he declared the year of the notebook and the year of HD, those statements were both made at MacWorld Expo, the FIRST WEEK OF THE NEW YEAR. He didn't make them midway through any years.
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patr1ck said 8:51PM on 10-21-2006
Um, you realize you can listen to the conference call yourself right? It's at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq406/
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Paul said 9:00PM on 10-21-2006
Steve Jobs was quoted as having said that in the company's press release, but he was not even present on the call.
As the previous poster pointed out, the call is available through a QuickTime stream as the event happens. Details can be found at www.apple.com/investor in advance of each quarter's earnings announcements. Feel free to invite yourself next time.
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Ed said 9:02PM on 10-21-2006
To back up MacBill's statement and to rubbish the "middle of the year" nonsense: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jan/11fce.html
Honestly, just because this is a blog it doesn't mean you can write terrible articles with glaring inaccuracies all over the place. Have some standards TUAW, check the facts before you post.
Interestingly, the bits you ripped are the accurate ones, the bits you added to make it seem less like plagiarism are the bits you need to check.
Why has it taken you 3 days to write this up? Why quote LoopRumors rather than the original source (i.e. Apple). Why not fix the link to LoopRumours at least?
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south said 9:46PM on 10-21-2006
by "one of the most exciting" i hope he's not just talking about an update to the iPod hi-fi.
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Edsel said 10:58PM on 10-21-2006
Apple is pulling and ruling the consumer electronics market. They are the herdsman of 800 pound gorillas that once dominated the electronic entertainment industry. 2007 will be a great year for Apple.
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Leif Olson said 11:39PM on 10-21-2006
I believe the iTV will one day become the game system of our homes. If it has the guts of an iPod it can play games. Think if you had 4 Apple remotes.. starts to look like a Nintendo wii.
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Coburn said 5:02AM on 10-22-2006
Hell they have me thinking about buying a macintosh laptop!! That is crazy since I have and love my Xp speed demon note book machine.
What in the world do I think I am doing even considdering such a crazy idea!.
Hell I may do it anyway. They really look cool. They all have a mic and camera built in. I love confrencing with video.
The computer should have all the abilities of the phone. I want built in brodband.
Macs are cool. Maybe too cool.
Yep. Too cool.
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andreas said 5:17AM on 10-22-2006
Every year can be said to be "one of the most exciting new product years in Apple's history." Until next year, that is.
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icerabbit said 9:34AM on 10-22-2006
Should we prepare to be underwhelmed?
Or not?
6G iPod Video
10" notebook
PDA
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wouldloveamac said 10:00AM on 10-22-2006
An affordable laptop to encourage people to make the jump to apple?
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Reg said 7:16PM on 10-22-2006
south> "i hope he's not just talking about an update to the iPod hi-fi"
Presenting iPod Hi-Fi 2.0... Now with widescreen clock radio!!!
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ManBerries @ thedilly.com said 8:04PM on 10-22-2006
OS X 10.5, ipod video widescreen, iphone, maybe a merger of the two ideas? ipod video/iphone with touchscreen dialpad? (hope it has at least 24 hours of battery life. phones that dont.... not such good phones), iTV, faster mac minis, quadcore xserves, quadcore mac pros...
i can see him being excited. with intel aggressively competing to gain back market share by introducing better products, and apple aggressively gaining as much PC marketshare as they can I can see why it would be a very awesome year for apple, and especially so if they're launch into the gazillion dollar mobile phone and home entertainment markets go well
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David said 12:40AM on 10-23-2006
I'm looking forward to Leopard. That's exciting enough for me. Anything else would be icing on the cake.
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Larry said 11:43AM on 10-23-2006
Boy I hope this isn't like the "Year of the Notebook", you know the year we stayed with 1.67 G4s.
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