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What, a mention of Apple TV advertising and MDN makes no mention of it?

So what does the "we hear you loud and clear" statement mean when Jobs replies to the Windows Media Center? What was the original question? Does anyone know???

I don't know what was a reference to but it sounded like there's something in the pipeline.

"Apple CEO Steve Jobs did mention that an "exciting" television ad campaign would launch next week."

OMG... Hell has frozen over AGAIN.

After reading the minutes, Jobs sounds like a real prick. Where does he get off talking to share holders like that? Or worst yet, why do the shareholders let him treat them like that?

because his vision has made them all rich

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Woodcrest to be used in Apple powermac (replacement) and server line.

Dual core 2.6 Ghz 2x and 4x, each processor draws 80 watts.

Jobs is good at discerning who is a major shareholder and who is a pion. That's why Daddy.

If the television ad is about OS X Leopard, I will sh*t my pants.

As far as the media center goes, this is all you need to know:

http://66.134.41.67/~ron/apple/index4.html

Andrew, won't this be useless with a single bus? All that processing power and nowhere to go.

So what does the "we hear you loud and clear" statement mean when Jobs replies to the Windows Media Center? What was the original question? Does anyone know???

The only thing I can tell you for sure is that unless the question was Is it possible to design something that sucks and blows at the same time?, Windows Media Center wasn't the answer.

pion |ˈpīˌän| noun Physics a meson having a mass approximately 270 times that of an electron. Also called pi meson.

I think you mean "pee-on," as in, a nobody. Or, one who the "sombodies" pee on.

Dictionary
peon |ˈpēˌän; ˈpēən| noun
1 a Spanish-American day laborer or unskilled farm worker.
• historical a debtor held in servitude by a creditor, esp. in the southern U.S. and Mexico.
• a person who does menial work; a drudge : racing drivers aren't exactly normal nine-to-five peons.

2 (in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia) someone of low rank.
• a foot soldier.
• an attendant or messenger.
• a person who does minor jobs in an office.

DERIVATIVES peonage |ˈpēənij| noun ORIGIN from Portuguese peão and Spanish peón, from medieval Latin pedo, pedon- ‘walker, foot soldier,’ from Latin pes, ped- ‘foot.’ Compare with pawn 1

And you wonder where Apple's arrogance comes from? Look no further than the offensive mogul in the black tee shirt.

Think he cares about the faithful? Think again.

The big ad roll out will be all about the $$$ machine know as iPod.

Interesting, although if the new TV campaign features Kiefer Sutherland talking about an iMac in a chip making plant where silhouettes dance, I'm switching to Windows.

Where did that image come from? Is it someone's concept or is it from Apple?

http://66.134.41.67/~ron/apple/maxi.jpg

Andrew, won't this be useless with a single bus? All that processing power and nowhere to go.

two and four dual-core configurations.

one bus per dual core

short bus 4 u

"Daddy",

I'm an Apple shareholder and I could care less if Steve Jobs spits on me as long as they keep making great products and keep making me money. Unfortunately, Steve Jobs' less than perfect personality is one of the reasons Apple makes such awesome products.

Thank God Jobs is a discerning prick. He knows who is asking questions as opposed to whiny jack-offs making political statements.

Daddy & Billy Bob;

You both sound as if you've never actually attended a stockholder's meeting. Seriously. Having worked at Apple for five year in an earlier incarnation, and having attended a half-dozen or so shareholder's meetings since then, I don't think you have a very good take on what went on.

The description of this one sounds like Jobs handled a couple of the less-graceful politely and with dispatch. He could have been hard on them.

What he did was allow the Q&A;to procede with some dispatch and let actual questions get asked and answered.

Some of the people who rise to "ask a question" would, if allowed, spend hours going on about the oddest things; usually things that have nothing to do with shareholder concerns. And I'm not exaggerating. Sometimes they're entertaining, usually merely dismal.

Jobs is an effective CEO because he understands when to ignore irrelevent nonsense. Environmental extremist pressure groups would have much less power if people in authority had the good sense to tell them to shut up and go away.

Freehand Sucks

http://www.macworld.com/news/2006/04/27/sharehldrmtg/index.php

It's already over. Media Center ships inside of Vista, no separate edition required. Vista with Media center will be on millions of PCs. Vista alone will surpass OS X marketshare in a matter of months. YOU do the math.

If the television ad is about OS X Leopard, I will sh*t my pants.

The ad had better NOT be about Leopard.

Advertising an OS that's not even out yet is so... MSFT.
If we can't buy it today at the Apple Store, it shouldn't be advertised.

As for the commercial itself, it's sadly telling when news of A new commercial makes headlines. When was the last time you saw any buzz for, say, a new Wal-Mart commercial?

Or are we being played by a new kind of marketing, and just don't know it yet?

Cold Hard Troll,

Vista has to ship first. Vapor does not earn market share.

And nobody's seriously expecting Vista to make it's "early 2007" ship date anyway.

VAPOR? OK, where is the Apple Media Center? Front Row is nothing but a bunch of fancy rotating shortcuts.

Front Row is better than the ticket counter

Just because Windows Media Center ships with Vista doesn't mean people are going to find it any more useful. That's like saying people "choose" Windows just because it happens to come pre-installed on most PCs.

"Jobs' primary argument centered around Apple's elimination of CRT monitors which contain heavy metals and how that move goes further to help the environment...."

Recycling computers = GOOD.............BUT:

ALL LCD monitors contain mercury for use in the back-lighting. I suppose CRTs just have more "toxic waste" than LCDs. Anyway.........

This is all warm and fuzzy, but it's no good if Apple will be advertising in America only. Remember we use Macs in other parts of the world too.

Let's hope the ad doesn't show a computer crashing through a house, or some maroon flailing around in silhouette with white strings hanging from his/her head.

Another shareholder requested that the company make “the ultimate media center,” a personal video recorder that could record television programs and share media on his computer.

“We hear you loud and clear,” Jobs responded


For those of you who are too lazy to click macnut's link. Enjoy.

The Elgato EyeTV allows your computer to become a hard disc tv recorder. You can plug in active speakers and hey presto, the ultimate media center. Stop bitchin'

Rasterbator: "As far as the media center goes, this is all you need to know:

http://66.134.41.67/~ron/apple/index4.html"

Well, I already know how to use Photoshop, thank you. What would an Xserve do on top of my TV?