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Apple reportedly schedules all-hands retail meeting for this week

by Steven Sande Feb 22nd 2011 at 12:30PM

If you work in an Apple Store, you're either about to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) for an all-hands retail meeting later this week, or you already have. The meetings are generally held Sunday evenings after the stores close.

While nobody is quite sure what the all-hands meeting will be about, it's unlikely that it will focus on the new MacBook Pro models that are expected to appear on Thursday unless the new laptops are actually going to show up next week. If history repeats itself, as it usually does in Apple Retail land, we'd be expecting to see a new iPad within the next two months -- the original iPad launched on April 3, 2010. Perhaps the meeting is going to be used to introduce a new iPad with a front-facing camera, Mini DisplayPort, more speed and other rumored improvements.

Whatever the topic of the meeting, it's pretty sure that some disgruntled Apple Store employee will spill the beans if anything spicy is announced. Your friendly TUAW bloggers will be here waiting to listen -- just use our Send Tips & Feedback link in the site navigation bar above to let us know what you hear.

Update: MacRumors is reporting that the meeting is a regularly scheduled quarterly meeting for retail employees and should not entail specific details about new products.



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Erik

Is it common for Apple to to have employees sign a NDA before a regularly scheduled quarterly meeting? I would assume that any Apple employee would already be bound by enough legalese to protect against anything that would come up in a typical quarterly meeting for retail employees.

A separate NDA makes me think that there is, in fact, something bigger going on.
Whether it's a new product, product update, or some other large company announcement.

I'm probably wrong, but it just seems odd to have a separate NDA for a regular meeting... Even by Apple standards.

February 22 2011 at 1:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Monkey

This is a quarterly meeting, nothing to freak out about. Apple never tells us anything ahead of time. We literally know nothing until it's posted on the website or publicly announced.

February 22 2011 at 1:35 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
redcard

It's a quarterly meeting. Can TUAW stick this in their calendar to save us a useless blog post every 3 months?

February 22 2011 at 12:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
steve

65 is retirement age, after all... That's my prediction - loads and loads of new products announced - 5 MBP's, an iPad2, Pro Apps (the overdue final cut studio perhaps) and a retirement from Sir Steve. It's the best way to make the smallest dent in the share price...

February 22 2011 at 12:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Buzz

Spoiler alert:

New MacBook Pros will be thinner, have no CD slot, will shoot FaceTime with head-tracking, extra-wide HD (1080p) cameras, doing real-time cropping of your mug no matter where you move (option) and some will shoot forward in HD3D (Apple's iSpex cost extra). All will have 4, 6 or 8 processors.

February 22 2011 at 12:41 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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mailiaftw

Spoiler alert:

Trolling is art and this is not.

February 22 2011 at 12:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Buzz

Right. Not trolling. But one can wish...

February 22 2011 at 3:44 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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