Meet the new Apple, same as the old Apple
Watching Apple through the lens of public perception, it would be easy to buy into the idea that the company has been under siege of late. But even if that were the case, it’s clear that Apple isn’t buying the hype. Each of the executives who took to the stage on Monday conveyed, to a one, both excitement and confidence about the future direction of Apple—and they brought the announcements to prove it.
In 2011, my colleague Jason Snell likened Steve Jobs’s WWDC keynote to The Godfather, with Apple taking care of all old business. This year’s keynote wasn’t perhaps quite so dramatic, but with major revisions of OS X and iOS, a sneak peek at the new Mac Pro, speed-bumped MacBook Airs, a music-streaming service, and the future of iWork—all in a reasonably compact two hours—you’d be excused from a little bit of brain overload.
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All this, too, from an Apple that’s been largely silent since its last event in October. Meanwhile, the company has suffered, largely in silence, the slings and arrows from the public, pundits, Wall Street analysts, and even Congress. The company has been under fire for everything from the performance of its mapping software, to allegations of ebook price-fixing, to scrutiny over its tax practices.
The company’s latest announcements are unlikely to divert attention permanently—after all, the litigation over ebooks is ongoing, and it seems that questions over the tax issues have just gotten started.
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