my first thoughts on today’s WWDC keynotes

Weird, trivial thought: when Steve gave his keynote at Macworld, it seemed — weird — to not be in the middle of the hype and chaos. The quiet of not being at Apple, of not being involved, felt funny more than anything else.

Today, with the WWDC announcements and keynotes — I actually missed the hype and chaos. I guess I’m just someone who’s going to bleed six colors long after nobody remembers why those colors matter…

As to the details; I found it to be a good, interesting keynote, one that lived up to what Apple promised, but (of course), not the hype and the rumors and all of that crap. Stock fell 3% after, but before folks bitch about the rumor sites driving down the stock, remember that those same rumors tend to drive UP the stock before, and I’ll bet the stock gains more ahead of this kind of thing than it loses when it “disappoints”.

FWIW, it didn’t disappoint me, not a bit, but then, I have a few years of practice at guessing where the rumor hype is, well, hype instead of substance. it was clear the “leak” in germany was a farce, mostly made up, I’d guess, to see how many sites they could embarass for swallowing such a load of obvious crap hook, line and sinker. And, FWIW, far too many sites and pundits that should have known better did; why sites like that get ANY linklove at all these days, I don’t know. hint to the rumor sites: point to them AFTER they prove themselves right, not before. Your reputation will thank you.

More after I have a chance to look at the keynote stream and read some of the analysis — but I am also working on some stuff for our upcoming webinar in London, and so it’s back to Photoshop for me for another evening, or at least parts of it.

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