At any trade show featuring Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), hordes of Apple-believers start foaming at the mouth, wondering what magical sentences will float from the tongue of CEO Steve Jobs. More than any CEO in recent business history, Jobs causes an odd panic and a consuming guessing game by ardent Apple followers, with legions of websites and blogs dedicated just to what the man says, let alone what product Apple actually delivers.MacWorld, Apple's own trade show for its developers and customers, is scheduled in a few weeks. As such, the first few weeks in January will be filled with massive buzz on the web about what new products, enhancements, initiatives or other things Jobs will announce or hint at. With the iPhone's release last year, the continuing dominance of the iPod and massive sales increases of Mac PCs from the company, 2007 was a rather ritzy year for the company and its charismatic leader, who commands an almost god-like following in many circles.
What's on tap for MacWorld 2008? Some think it will be much lighter and thinner MacBook laptops. How about an iPhone with 16GB of storage -- twice the amount in today's iPhones? How about an all-new iPhone with 3G wireless built-in? A newer iPhone nano? Perhaps something completely new that no website, fan or company employee even knows about? Jobs has done this before, to the complete surprise and delight of Apple fans, industry analysts and Apple shareholders. If you haven't picked up any Apple shares yet, it may not be too late to see the stock price climb until the first morning keynote of MacWorld by Jobs. In each of the last three years, AAPL shares have spiked from mid-December to the start of MacWorld.
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