In a surprise announcement, Apple said that next month's Macworld Expo will be its last. The company doesn't plan on exhibiting at the event after 2009.

Also, Steve Jobs will not be giving the keynote address, handing that honor to Phil Schiller, senior VP of worldwide product marketing. It will be Apple's final keynote address at the event.

In a press release, Apple said it has scaled back its presence at other trade shows, including NAB, Macworld New York, Macworld Tokyo, and Apple Expo in Paris.

This will be the 25th Macworld Expo. Steve Jobs had given the keynote address since 1997, when he returned to the company as interim CEO.

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Now that the WWDC Keynote has ended and live coverage has ceased, the Apple Stores around the world are returning to normal after an interesting Stevenote. Some of the changes on the store that we've noted are:

• 3G iPhone details, pricing and availability
  
• MobileMe pricing, availability
  

Have you noticed anything new in the Apple Store? Be sure to give us your comments. WWDC coverage here on TUAW is just getting started, join us at 3:30pm EST for a live chat with the bloggers to discuss today's event.

Don't have enough time to watch the whole keynote from the other day? Worry not-- our good friends (including Veronica Belmont) at Mahalo Daily have condensed Steve's whole 90 minute presentation (including the musical stylings of Randy Newman) into this quick sixty second breakdown. Thrill to the announcement of Time Capsule! Gasp at the reveal of the MacBook Air! Wonder idly just who Randy is singing to during that song from Toy Story.

I of course read our liveblog as it happened, and was planning to watch the video separately, but after seeing this, I've seen all I have to. Now if only we could make the wait to the next Stevenote (and the reveal of the iPhone SDK?) go as quickly.

With just over a week to go until the Steve Jobs January Riot Macworld Keynote and mockups of desired Apple products flying at us, Ars Technica's John Siracusa has posted his definitive Macworld Keynote Bingo card. Complete with that immortal Jobs-ian catch-phrase "Boom" and "a few squares for the phone weenies," it's everything you need for the keynote guessing-game.

Be sure to check out the rules and regulations to see what will tick off each square -- we'd hate for any keynote attendees to jump up and shout "Bingo!" only to find that their line isn't really valid. That would be embarrassing, wouldn't it?

It seemed that every other comment on my post about the Keynote QuickTime stream was, 'Why isn't Apple putting this on the iTunes Store?' Well, folks, Apple has heard your pleas and has made the Keynote available from the iTunes Store. At least, they are going to. At the time of this post the Keynote page was set up, but the file itself was not available (soon, I am sure).

It is interesting to note that this Keynote appears under 'podcasts,' which seems to be a trend.

Update: The file is now available.

The Keynote is now available for streaming on Apple's Quicktime site. Interestingly, you can watch either the whole Keynote, or just the iPhone introduction. Apple is really betting the farm on this phone and if a first impression from a distance is any indicator then they have a hit.

I just tried to stream the Keynote, but 'Due to exceptional demand, your request could not be completed at this time. Please try again at a later time.' Try again, Mac faithful, try again.

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The Stevennote finished a little over an hour ago, and Apple already has a placeholder up for the streaming video. Head on over to the iPhone section of Apple's website to see the placeholder. We'll let you know when the video goes live.

Care you feel the excitement in the air? San Francisco is abuzz with Mac users waiting for Steve to dazzle us later today. Since this is one of the rare occasions when more than one TUAW blogger is in the same place, at the same time, we thought we would do a quick (and a little rough around the edges) podcast featuring David Chartier, Scott McNulty, Laurie Duncan, Dan Lurie and Ryan Budke (our video man from Netscape).

We took setup a mic in the middle of my hotel room and covered:

• Our Keynote predictions
• Dress Steve
• Tivo

And that's just the tip of the iceberg, folks.

This time around, the podcast weighs in at just over 17MB and 18 minutes. As always, you can grab it via direct link here, our iTunes Store podcast directory or with our dedicated podcast RSS feed. Enjoy, and be sure to drop us some feedback in the comments!

In years past, Apple streamed the Macworld San Francisco Keynote (aka Stevenote) live for your delectation. Unfortunately, they seemed to have suspended the practice. Well what's a Mac news junkie to do? Of course you'll be able to count on TUAW and others for live text feeds of the event, but World of Apple Live is promising their own grassroots broadcast via an advertising-supported Flash player.

According to the site, they "will be [in] attendance at the Keynote with a laptop that has a flash encoder which captures sound and uploads it to a streaming server which then delivers it to a client-side player at your computer, delivering you with audio live from the Keynote." However, since they don't have guaranteed bandwidth (I'm guessing they'll be using a "Wireless Broadband" card on one of the cell networks), they can't guarantee success. As some commenters have pointed out, this is of questionable legality (and Apple is certainly not known for being reticent with the lawyers), but if they can pull it off it'll be worth checking out on Jan 9th.

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Go forth and stream the WWDC Stevenote, my good friends. It is now available in glorious QuickTime. Thrill as the Mac Pro is announced. Marvel as Mail is demoed. Swoon as Steven says 'Boom.'

Thanks, Kurt.

So you want to give your very own Stevenote? Do you have a black turleneck and some jeans? Ok, that's the easy part. Carmine Gallo, writing for Businessweek Online, has 5 tips to make your presentations just as good as Steve's.

Here they are in list format:

• Sell the benefit
• Practice (a lot)
• Keep it visual, stupid
• Be passionate
• One more thing...

And that's it! Simple, huh? Read the whole article for more on the tips.

The dust has cleared, Steve's Reality Distortion Field faded away, and the Keynote is a mere memory. Now is the right time to ask you, our dear readers, if you thought this keynote was great or a yawn. On the showfloor reaction seems to be mixed, but I would have to say that more people are excited than now, how about yourself?

Color me a bit disappointed in this year's Stevenote. It's not a surprise that I was hoping for a Mac mini media center, and I know I'm certainly not alone. The new MacBooks (meh...still getting used to the name) and iMacs are interesting and are a nice step for Apple into the Intel world, but neither machine fits my particular needs right now. What I want and need are two things, neither of which were released today by Apple:

1) a tiny, lightweight, subcompact notebook capable of running Mac OS X. Something like the Sony Vaio U3, or one of the Toshiba Libretto models. Or better yet, a tablet PC that'll run something other than Windows Tablet Edition, or whatever they're calling it. The 12" iBook and PowerBooks are too big and too heavy and are the smallest things currently available from Apple. Go ahead and ditch the optical drive but include firewire, USB 2.0, Bluetooth, and Airport. I'm certain there's a market for these. Until Apple ships one, I'll be watching the hackers to see if anyone gets Mac OS X running on an ultralight. It might be a legal grey area, but I'm willing to buy an extra copy of Mac OS X and then install the modified version on the ultralight or tablet that Apple seems destined never to release.

2) a media center computer that doesn't suck. Have you tried to use Windows Media Center? For lack of better language, it sucks. And I refuse to put at the center of my media center a virus and malware magnet. I've looked at MythTV, but don't have the time or Linux knowledge to build one. The Tivo Series 3 is looking promising, but it won't be out until mid-year. A Mac mini with an El Gato EyeTV device running hacked Front Row? That's another legal grey area, but I may find myself going that route.

I suppose, as far as Stevenotes go,  it wasn't too bad, but for me it certainly delivered less than I had hoped for. Current LiveJournal mood is disappointed.

So, I'm switching jobs (you may have heard) and therefore I had to turn in my 15-inch PowerBook (Fare thee well, Kurosawa; you served me well). I've set up a temporary user account on my wife's 12-inch PowerBook, which I have temporarily usurped.

But, I'm very excited, because for the first time in a long time, I'm ready. I'm waiting to buy a new computer and it's falling nicely in time with the Stevenote and possible new hardware announcements. Whatever they announce at the Keynote (btw, we have a whole slew of TUAWers there and will be live chatcasting the event with multiple detailed posts to follow), Intel-chipped PowerBooks, iBooks, Mac mini entertainment centers, an Intel-chipped iTablet, or something entirely new, I'm getting one as fast as I can and reporting all the details back to you all as soon as I get it. If there are multiple options available, I'll post back here and get your input. I'll want to order ASAP, so check back for a poll: what should C.K. order / what do you want reporting on first?

It's like Christmas morning all over again!

So today is the day of the Stevenote and the one question on everyone's mind is: what will Steve be wearing? The smart money is on a jeans/black turtleneck combo with some New Balance kicks (as the kids say), but I think this year will be different.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Steve will be wearing a flannel shirt and some cutoff jean shorts and no shoes. Why? Because he said so.

What do you think Steve will be wearing, and do you really care?

Oh, and just so you know we will be liveblogging the keynote even though we couldn't get a media pass. We will not be silenced!