Confirmed: MacWorld Expo Will Miss Steve Jobs And Big Product Launch

• As Apple builds for the annual MacWorld Expo on Jan.5th, rumors (now confirmed) are circulating that not only will Steve Jobs be a no-show, but there will be no new major product announcement. With only three weeks to go, Jobs is not confirmed as giving his annual keynote, Adobe is scaling back its presence at the show, and Belkin has pulled out all together. As of right now, the MacExpo site mentions nothing of a keynote speech, which has been included in previous schedule announcements prior to the expo. Jobs missing Macworld would be a terrible thing, especially in this market state. Although prior accusations of a heart attack turned out to be false, it is widely known that Steve has been sick with cancer in the past and has been seen in photos skinnier than ever.
• Moreover, aside from Jobs’ health, David Bailey, an analyst at Goldman Sachs downgraded his rating on Apple (Business Week) He says weaker consumer spending will force Apple to hold back on launching a new product to try and keep demand high for their current offerings. With such uncertainty in the markets, a product launch could be the last thing Apple wants to mess around with, even if it is potentially ground breaking. Speculation of no product announcements is further magnified by the poor efforts of false citizen journalists to come up with potential product rumors like the iPhone Nano as the announcement at MacWorld. There will be no iPhone Nano or Mac Tablet touch-screen computer announcements at this expo.
• What can we expect? Well, Adobe pulling out means that we certainly won’t be seeing any flash demonstrations on the iPhone. On stage demos sure to take place include a run through of the new app store that will have a better user experience for finding the right app in a sea of now 10,000. The real winner at the show would be to finally get out the real ‘copy and paste’ update along with a mail search function. Talk about a couple crowd pleasers with that will take a strip of code and certainly boost sales. More to come later…

CONFIRMED: Apple today announced that this year is the last year the company will exhibit at Macworld Expo. Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, will deliver the opening keynote for this year’s Macworld Conference & Expo,

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