Picture of Steve's notes for the Macworld 07 keynote

Ahh Spymac. Their website needs to move more toward being a "Web" site rather than pure graphic pieces.

I wish my speaking notes were that tailored and beautiful. I just use an OmniOutliner file.

@Keith,
I am the one who took this particular picture -- they were not "on display" -- the shots were took during the keynote. Certain press folk who were standing in the right angle right in front of the stage could see this if they had a strong enough zoom lens. I actually have shots of a few of the other pages, as well. In fact, before and after the keynote, Steve covered this book up with a black cloth.
Hope that helps!
Kevin April

I doubt Steve has forgoten about Keynote and this will more than likely be a feature in the next release.

I also doubt Steve would let anyone else handle this sort of material before a show. I bet he printed & bound this himself. As others have mentioned, spiral binding is not difficult nor expensive.

What I find most intriguing is that these materials where not only left on stage, but that they appear to be "on display." I'll admit the spymac photo's have the "blurry cause I was rushed and shouldn't be taking this picture" look and feel so common in the industrial espionage sector.

However, in the crystal clear Univers photo's, everything seems quite deliberate, from the lighting, to the pages left open, to the placement of the water bottle. I believe this was meant to be found.

Many thanks to the photographers at spymac and Univers!

Posted at 11:25AM on Jan 24th 2007 by Andy

Yeah, I realized about ten minutes after I posted that my judgment had lapsed. ..zzzztt..

@ Michael Reilly

The notes pictured regard software? Yes, but for the iPhone specifically (Safari on the iPhone, Mail on the iPhone, widgets on the iPhone, etc). I don't know how you would gather that the notes are for Leopard and not the iPhone... strange conclusion.

"Shock & Awe"? You guys have set a new level of fawning over Lord Jobs. He is P. T. Barnum reborn, he is a master huckster. But, he is not a genius. His products never, never perform as well in the hands of consumers as they do in his annual Keynote show. The stuff absolutely DOES NOT 'just work'. Boom! It's a show folks, full of flash and misdirection. Get ahold of yourselves.

It may have been said but, being it's still essentially a prototype, each one performed a specific function.

Or that the other two served as a backup in case it got some kind of "bluescreenitis". Remember when he couldn't get that digital camera to work a handful of keynotes back, and had to wait for someone to give him a working one? That was embarrassing, and having a couple of backups (triple redundancy in Trek talk) makes sense.

Miles, can we bring our wax machines as well? It just won't be a revolution without the wax machines.

No one else found this odd? The notes pictured regard software, maybe leopard? He did not discuss any of those things. Why would that page have been opened to during the keynote? It wouldn't. Conclusion: The photo is fake, and not even well-thought out. Or is it real but from something prior to MacWorld 2007?