A New Year

It is a new year. This blog shall live and be reborn someday, if it can find its alignment.

I can't wait for the Macworld 2009. It will the be last Macworld with Apple presenting a Keynote. Maybe someday, Apple will stop by when it has something to announce, but I'm betting it's abandoning Macworld because it can't hew to IDG's fixed schedule.

It has little to do with Steve Jobs' health because Jobs is alive, and the company he runs is moving smoothly, but that can't ever be ruled out. I wonder why Apple is doing this, unless it is intentional--it wants uncertainty. In an era when rumors go out so quickly, and when a site like ThinkSecret (now defunct by agreement) can announce a rumor that is true, taking away the element of surprise--Apple may be using this health issue as a fog to keep the rumormongers jittery.

It's not good for the shareholders, but I suppose Apple only wants the most loyal shareholders that are willing to stick with Apple, not those that are simply speculating and hoping for the stock to go up.