This is a live blog of the valedictory keynote Steve Jobs decided not to give -- sending Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller to Macworld 2009 in his place.
Schiller's remarks began shortly after 9 a.m PST (12 noon EST),
Posts are listed in reverse order, with the latest posts on top. All times are a.m. PST.
The headlines: Expectations were low, but even those were largely unmet. There was no Steve Jobs MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 6, 2009 11:00 AM ET
Oppenheimer & Co.'s Yair Reiner turned heads on Wall Street three weeks ago -- in the wake of Apple's surprise announcement that Steve Jobs would be skipping Macworld 2009 -- when the analyst downgraded the company and refused to set a price target for its shares until he got some answers. (See Analyst sounds warning.)
On Tuesday, Reiner reinstated Apple (AAPL), upgrading the stock to "outperform" and setting a 12 - MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 6, 2009 10:32 AM ET
At last year's Macworld, Jobs introduced the Macbook Air – and speculation about his health intensified. Photo: Jon Fortt
Under Steve Jobs, ninja-like discipline has been the hallmark of Apple's communication strategy. He has guarded the details of the company's product launches so jealously that even some Apple executives don't know exactly what he will unveil next. So with Macworld just hours away, it is just plain weird to see the MORE
Jon Fortt - Jan 6, 2009 6:00 AM ET
Steve Jobs' letter to the Apple community about his health problems seems to have reassured investors -- the stock closed up 4.22% in Monday trading.
But medically, Apple's (AAPL) CEO raised more questions than he answered.
His eight paragraph message contains remarkably few health-related facts. They're all contained in these three graphs:
"As many of you know, I have been losing weight throughout 2008. The reason has been a mystery to me and MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 5, 2009 6:08 PM ET
What's up with the MacBook Air?
The road warrior's favorite Apple (AAPL) notebook, pulled with great fanfare from an interoffice envelope by Steve Jobs at Macworld 2008, is being steeply discounted this weekend, on the eve of Macworld 2009.
The entry level machine (1.6 GHz, 2GB) is still listed on the Apple Store at its original price -- albeit with a 50% larger hard drive and a new graphics chipset. But if MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 4, 2009 11:14 AM ET
Apple's (AAPL) last Macworld Conference and Expo opens Monday at San Francisco's Moscone Center, but the real action starts Tuesday at 9 a.m. PT (12 noon ET) with senior vice president Phil Schiller's opening remarks -- the first Macworld keynote not delivered by Steve Jobs since 1997.
Nobody's expecting breakthrough products that rise to the level of the iMac (Macworld 1998), the iBook (1999), iTunes (2001) or the iPhone (2007), but MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 3, 2009 2:14 PM ET
One of Steve Jobs' strengths as a public speaker is his showman's sense of timing.
Like a magician who knows he has one last rabbit up his sleeve, he delivers his famous keynotes with a twinkle in his eye. Even if you are pretty sure what his "one more thing" is going to be -- and you are never 100% certain -- he makes you wait for it.
Which is why the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 2, 2009 11:04 AM ET
Apple's (AAPL) presence on the Web expanded to record levels in December, according to preliminary data released early New Year's day by Net Applications.
Mac OS X's percentage of Web hits reached a record 9.63%, up more than 9% since November and nearly 32% from Dec. 2007.
Gains for the iPhone were even more impressive. Its share of the Web traffic grew nearly 19% to hit a record 0.44%. That's more than MORE
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