Silicon Alley Insider not only says Steve Jobs showed up to show off his new iPad in a secret set of meetings in New York with New York Times and Wall Street Journal bosses, but he topped it off by wearing a top hat. Yeabuwhat?!
More intriguing: Jobs showed up wearing "a very funny hat - a big top hat kind of thing," said Daily Intel's source. So apparently the obsessively secretive Apple chief was disguised as the Planter's Peanut guy for his trip to Gotham, with his John Lennon spectacles replacing the Peanut's usual monocle. We're told, however, that Jobs was wearing no plutocratic hat or other headgear for his visit to the Times newsroom, which, given his already all-too-imperious image, is probably for the best.
Just. Wow.
More importantly, Jobs was apparently there to discuss adding magazines and newspapers to the new iBook service announced last week along with the iPad.
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Steve Jobs Shows Up in Top Hat to Show off iPad to New York Media Bosses?
First!!! and Steve Jobs is my hero!!
If they strike a magazine deal in the UK I'll definitely buy an iPad. I'm on the fence at the moment. Holding my breath on that all-important UK pricing.
I want my digital copies of T3 and Stuff NOW! ;)
Couldn't agree more Shaun!
Here is a money saving tip for T3 and Stuff buyers. Buy one issue. Cut out all pages. Rearrange once per month in any order. Change Preview to Review and then to Best Of. Then to Round Up. Then 10 gadgets you must own. Repeat as required.
I lol'd IRL @ Kevin :-D
Fanboys grow up!! Don't you see apple's pattern of not giving you the best potential product out there. How is it that an iPod nano has a camera yet this imaxipad doesn't. Next year apple will give it twice the gb's add a camera n sell it for cheaper. Don't get me wrong I lov my jb iPhone 3gs but apple hasn't changed the os since the 1st iPhone. It's kinda sad, I for one am tired of living in the past. The iPhone was a revolution phone in 2007 but is quickly falling behind to other smart phones out their.
@Erick don't you get it? Maybe fan boys like the way Apple's first offering is limited and overpriced. If they desire to be foolish, why do you care? And who's to say they are foolish if it makes them happy, I say God bless them. Until someone puts a gun to your head and forces you to buy 1st gen Apple hype junk, live and let live. And don't be a damn fool, grow up.
Yep jobs lost his damn mind. Showing off the maxipad with a top hat.
U can't believe Everything u hear!!!
I can totally understand those who aren't happy about the iPad not having a webcam, I with those people. But not having a rear-facing camera doesn't bother me at all, the iPad isn't the kinda thing I'd pull out in the street to take photos with. And I don't need it to have a camera to take photos of my fiancée snoring on the sofa... I just don't understand the madness about it not having a digicam, I can't see it being that useful!! :)
He didnt want to be caught saying "hello...,hello...,HELLO!!!...,damn ANOTHER dropped call" LOL