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Scenes From the Apple iPad Day: Is It a Thneed or an iPod XL?

Kara Swisher in News on January 28, 2010 at 7:25 am PT

BoomTown captured some bits and pieces of tasty video as I attended the Apple rollout of its newest device, the iPad, yesterday. There are shots of the action in San Francisco outside and inside the launch hall and demo area, as well as interviews with the folks gathered–some of whom liked the iPad and some of whom were dubious.

Memo to All Crepe-Hangers: It Still Ain't Nobody's Business If Jobs Is or Isn’t

Kara Swisher in News on December 31, 2008 at 6:00 am PT

Now, it’s getting flat-out macabre. That would be the continuing swirl of attention the health of Apple icon Steve Jobs has been getting. Rumors of his impending demise have been popping up periodically since the too-thin crisis of the Worldwide Developers Conference in June and look like they won’t stop until it actually comes true. My grandmother used to have a perfect rejoinder for this kind of funeral-chasing behavior, which was prevalent among her gang of Italian sisters, who–whenever anyone caught a cold–predicted the worst outcome: “Don’t be a crepe-hanger.”

AAPL Sauce: Steve's Fine

John Paczkowski in News on December 30, 2008 at 11:36 am PT

Three days of gains gone in just two minutes. That’s what happened to Apple shares today after Gizmodo published a rumor suggesting Steve Jobs’s declining health is the real reason he won’t deliver the keynote at Macworld 2009. Apple hasn’t yet commented on the report, but it doesn’t really need to. According to CNBC, it’s totally bogus.

AAPL Sauce: Steve’s Fine

John Paczkowski in News on December 30, 2008 at 11:36 am PT

Three days of gains gone in just two minutes. That’s what happened to Apple shares today after Gizmodo published a rumor suggesting Steve Jobs’s declining health is the real reason he won’t deliver the keynote at Macworld 2009. Apple hasn’t yet commented on the report, but it doesn’t really need to. According to CNBC, it’s totally bogus.

Apple Investors: "Philnote" Just Doesn't Have the Same Ring to It

John Paczkowski in News on December 16, 2008 at 3:45 pm PT

Told that Macworld Expo 2009 will be Apple’s last, and the first that CEO Steve Jobs does not keynote, investors behaved much as you’d imagine, dragging the company’s shares into the mud in after-hours trading. Fueling the panic: obvious concerns about Jobs’s well-being. And, of course, speculation that Macworld is likely to disappoint devotees hoping for the introduction of some insanely great new product. But would Apple really send Senior VP Phil Schiller out onto the Macworld stage without a cool new product to introduce?

Apple Investors: “Philnote” Just Doesn’t Have the Same Ring to It

John Paczkowski in News on December 16, 2008 at 3:45 pm PT

Told that Macworld Expo 2009 will be Apple’s last, and the first that CEO Steve Jobs does not keynote, investors behaved much as you’d imagine, dragging the company’s shares into the mud in after-hours trading. Fueling the panic: obvious concerns about Jobs’s well-being. And, of course, speculation that Macworld is likely to disappoint devotees hoping for the introduction of some insanely great new product. But would Apple really send Senior VP Phil Schiller out onto the Macworld stage without a cool new product to introduce?