The RD2 team was just as obsessed with the Macworld keynote speech today as you would have guessed us to be.
Even me, the notoriously anti-Mac intern (who currently sports an aqua 4 gig iPod nano AND a 13″ Macbook), can get excited about this stuff. Apple is community branding at its best. All of the hype and secrecy all building to one event… this is the stuff legends are made of.
This morning: Griego compiled a list of what products(s) we guessed Jobs would announce.
Brandon called the wide screen iPod. Griego (he is right about most things) called iTV, the iPhone, and more than a few specifics on the features. Blake was (unfortunately) incorrect in his guess that the phone would have rocket boosters and would cook dinner.
Right before Jobs went on, and during the announcement: Thanks, Mac Rumors Live for the constant updates.
Huddled over respective computer screens, waiting for features and (mostly) pictures.
An iPhone… with web surfing and a widescreen iPod and phone feautures and… one. button.
During the keynote: A “Price is Right” style guess of how much this thing will cost.
Still watching Macworld. Blake tweaks the javascript and gets his to refresh every 15 seconds (the rest of us have to wait 30).
In case you can’t read my high-res phone camera shot of the chalk board, it reads “iPhone Price Estimates … (phone plan not included) … Price is Right rules apply.”
Griego gets closest to the price without going over. (I told you he’s right about most everything).
After the keynote, when everyone gets back from lunch and the product page is up on Apple’s website.
The features continue to astound us. We all want one immediately… and June (the earliest any one of us can hope to get our hands on one) seems so far away.
Please let the record show that while we were also very excited about the new Apple products, the RD2 design team was in a very important meeting during the keynote. There was no nerdy price is right games played by this elite group of creative professionals.
After all, we have clients to please!
You can’t say our game was ‘nerdy’… you’re the one who wanted to rewatch it during lunch on your BIRTHDAY.
Adfreak’s take on the iPhone buzz made me chuckle: http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2007/01/i_want_an_apple.html