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It's Official: Count Steve In (6/27/01)
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T minus three weeks and counting before the official kick-off to this summer's Macworld Expo-- and we, for one (er, two), are getting antsy. Everyone knows that in the weeks leading up to a big event like this one, most real activity in the Apple world drops off to a near coma state as we sail into the calm before the storm. Actual news gets scarce, while speculation mounts on all sorts of topics and the questions fly fast and furious: "What will the new iMac look like?" "Will there be a larger-screen iBook?" "Is this finally the year for an Apple handheld or a buyout by Disney?" And, most importantly of all, "Who will deliver the opening keynote?"
Oh, you thought the answer to that last one was a given, huh? Not so, grasshopper-- at least, not to those of us with generally nervous constitutions. Why, it was only a few years ago that Steve pulled out of his originally scheduled live New York Expo keynote appearance, instead opting to do his thang via satellite. As it turned out, he showed up live and in person anyway, much to the delight of everyone present, but still, that was enough of a close call that we don't take these things for granted anymore. And we had become increasingly nervous over the course of the past few weeks when the official Macworld Expo site continued to omit any mention of His Steveness from the keynote page, instead listing only some Microsoft "feature presentation" in which we have zero interest whatsoever.
However, now we can finally exhale; as reported by MacCentral, Steve is now officially in the lineup, and barring a zany madcap mixup at the airport the night before the gig involving Steve's possession of a suspicious white powder and culminating in a high-speed police chase across state lines complete with deadly gunplay, he should show up as scheduled to wow us with shiny new gear. Color us relieved that we'll get to perform our standard Expo ritual in three weeks: we'll get up obscenely early, wait in line at the Javits Center for three hours, file into the conference hall, grab a couple of seats as close to the front as possible, and then bask in the life-giving glow of Reality Distortion Field energy flowing undiminished from its cosmic source. Tastes just like Kool-Aid!
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 6/27/01 episode: June 27, 2001: Yes, this is almost news: Steve Jobs will be delivering the upcoming Macworld Expo keynote. Meanwhile, the AtAT staff takes a crack at foretelling the future of the Power Mac (1 GHz, anyone?), and Apple hires one of the biggest FreeBSD bigwigs to work on Mac OS X...
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