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| Maczealots, Moses and the Resurrection: What do they have in common? Uncle Steve reveals all next Tuesday | | Date Created: 07 Jan, 2007, 04:55 PM |
 One of my more spoken-word challenged commenters in my previous blog article on the Perfect Storm Keynote next week had this to say about the column:
""We Mac users who've been around through the beleaguered years, wandering through the desert while Jobs played Moses leading us to a promised land...."
Moses???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Oh Dear!"
Perhaps some people aren't into biblical allegories, but there are times when the description by such people of others as MacZealots shows they have a poor understanding of history and its modern day utility.
From Wikipedia: "The Zealots were a Jewish political movement in the 1st century AD which sought to incite the people of Iudaea Province to rebel against the Roman Empire and expel it from the country by force of arms during the Great Jewish Revolt (AD 66-70). When the Romans introduced the imperial cult, the Jews had rebelled and been put down. The Zealots continued to oppose the Romans, on the grounds that Israel belonged only to a Jewish king descended from David, see Jewish Messiah."
So it amused me no end when in surfing around my news aggregator between visits to ill and hospitalised friends, to find this link over on Valleywag by Paul Boutin, sharing views of Tuesday's Keynote.
Boutin speaks of past lacklustre Keynotes, and then discusses how all the iPodPhone hype may a major Jobsian misdirection, as I am fond of calling those times when Jobs implores us to look stage-left, while the Next Big Thing is being wheeled onto stage-right outside our awareness. Boutin recognises this too:
"The iPhone rumor is almost too ubiquitous, too unchallenged. Apple PR elves calling tech reporters sound higher-pitched, more urgent than usual. Check out the He-Is-Risen imagery splashed across Apple's home page this week. Get the message? Tuesday isn't Christmas, it's Easter. Fifteen months ago, Apple packed reporters into a room to show them an iTunes phone -- and launched the Nano instead. After two years of iPhone hype, it'll be lame next week if Steve only whips out what everyone expects. More likely, he's got "One more thing..." "
Ah, from Moses in the desert to the Resurrection. Don't you kinda pity poor Michael Dell who is scheduled to speak at CES at exactly the same time as the Jobs' Keynote? Every tech journalist and geek in his audience will have their soon to be out-of-date cellphone to their ear listening to a friend bringing them live updates from Moscone, ooh'ing and ah'ing every few minutes, disrupting Dell's never-that-good-at-presenting style.
Definitely a fun few days ahead of us, folks. Seatbacks upright, tray tables up, seatbelts firmly fastened across your lap - we're getting ready for take-off. Cabin crew, arm doors and cross-check! |
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