Apple stocks take short dive after MacWorld keynote
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Usually, during and after the MacWorld keynote, Apple stocks take a slight rise but that did not happen after the MacWorld 2008 keynote speech. Steve Jobs did little more than announce incremental updates to the iPod Touch, iPhone and announced the MacBook Air.
This year’s MacWorld wasn’t the best but it wasn’t the worst, either. However, it was held back by some predictions that Apple and tech fans alike were hoping would come true.
It’s really hard to say what caused the slight dive in MacBook prices but I suppose less than surprising/revolutionary announcements are as good a reason as any.
SkyNews thinks it might be related to sales of the iPhone falling short and of poor performance in the European market and those figures were not revealed.
Hindsight is always 20/20 but here are some things that could have smoothed MacWorld over:
AppleTV with Blu-Ray drive
Laptops with (optional) Blu-Ray drive
13″ MacBook Pro
MacBook revisions (perhaps the aluminum cases)
Mac Tablet with multitouch (instead of the wasteful MacBook Air)
There may not be much to look back at MacWorld 2008 and say “yeah, that was awesome” but Apple, take down some of those suggestions for next year because more people probably want that instead of a feather-weight laptop that doesn’t have an optical drive.
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