Steve made quite a long visit before he left the Apple expo, which delighted the visitors.
Here's a funny shot taken on the Sony stand.
What he had in his hand is a Sony music player. You might interprete the look of his face the way you wish.
PS: To his left is Pascal Cagni, Apple Europe CEO.
We managed to get some details about the press conference by Steve Jobs and his team. Here are some of those.
Steve was glad the market shares had doubled in Europe, and especially due to the great success met by the brand in Britain. He noticed some mistakes had been made in France, which shall be corrected.
Steve was asked about the majors willing to increase the online music price. He formally rejected this idea, arguing that the music sold online is already more profitable as there was no specific promotion, and that to increase the price would be calling for more piracy.
Steve has indicated that the first MacIntel will not be released before June 2006.
Of course Steve did not want to comment or give any details regarding future MacIntel computers, arguing that Apple had already been copied by Microsoft and SONY, so it was out of question to give any information prior release.
To conclude, mac-dedicated websites, or magazine were NOT invited to this Q&A Conference...
Steve Jobs after his press conference made a quick visit of the Apple Expo.
He was relax and walked such a fast pace, his bodyguards could barely follow him.
In less than one hour, the AppleExpo Paris will start. While some are still preparing their booth, others are more relaxed waiting for the launch of the largest Apple event in Europe.
Hereafter are some photo taken couple of minutes ago :
Visitors entrance before the rush :)
iPod Nano ads :)
Reporters and Journalists already queueing almost 2 hours before the opening
Other photos
And the famous black curtains, hiding a big banner as well as new computers.
The computers currently exposed are PowerBook, iMac and PowerMac.
If we have further information we will immediately let you know.
The European
Apple Stores have just been closed. One can expect to see them back online at the end of Steve Jobs Q&A conference around 11h00 (CET), with maybe some new
PowerBooks...
