Live: Phil Schiller’s MacWorld 2009 keynote

Ed:
Themes seem clear. 

1. Apple is more than Steve Jobs. 
   
2. The Mac dominates the creative community - the 1984 crowd and core of 2009. 
   
3. Music, photo, video, and gaming fans are moving to Apple. 
   
4. It's a bad economy - wrong time to introduce radical changes. 
   

The Apple ship is steady and coming on strong with their core strategy.

Live blog: Macworld 2009 keynote

Posted by Tom Krazit

We're posting live updates from Macworld 2009 at San Francisco's Moscone Center, where Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, Phil Schiller, is delivering the keynote speech.

Live: Phil Schiller’s MacWorld 2009 keynote

by Peter Ha on January 6, 2009

Welcome to our live coverage of Phil Schiller’s MacWorld 2009 keynote. We are hoping and praying that the server holds out so we’re not trying any special tricks this time - just good old fashioned blog posting. To see updates, please hit F5 or Command-R to refresh.

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