With another WWDC looming on the horizon and Apple taking the unusual step of pre-announcing things like Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud, speculation turns towards what we haven’t been told. At many Apple events the most exciting announcement is often that feigned afterthought… just One More Thing.
This year, the One More Thing is rumored to be the iPhone 4S, despite the fact that Apple has set the expectation that WWDC will be all about software, not hardware.
We’re skeptical, but to keep you busy speculating over the weekend, we’ve updated Cult of Mac’s “Just One More Thing” interactive timeline to relive the excitement of the last thirteen years of Apple annoucements.
In the last few years we’ve seen new iPhones, sleeker faster MacBooks and of course the iPad join such notables as the iMac, iPod and Mac OS X. Not all Apple keynotes have One More Thing – some have nothing – and not all have been given by Steve Jobs. Phil Schiller covered a few events in 2009 while Jobs was out on medical leave. Can that still be called a Stevenote?
As of 2010 Apple no longer attends MacWorld Expo at all, WWDC has become the new showcase supplemented with occasional Town Meetings and Special Events. Nevertheless the surprises keep coming – what will be the Next One More Thing?
Click on and expand the timeline below to relive some Apple history and view clips of these events.
Adam Rosen is an Apple certified IT consultant specializing in Macintosh systems new and old. He lives in Boston with two cats and too many possessions. In addition to membership in the Cult of Mac, Adam has written for Low End Mac and is curator of the Vintage Mac Museum. He also enjoys a good libation.
36 responses to “Relive 13 Years of Surprise Apple Announcements [One More Thing Retrospective]”
A “One more Thing” retrospective in Flash? What an abomination.
Your posts are really starting to break my habit of reading this website.
Retro computing,the iMac G4 still has the look of a futuristic design..just watched the keynote of the original iphone,you can see why it revolutionized the mobile phone.
I think my favorite “One More Thing” was the AirPort. I don’t remember which laptop had it first, but I remember Steve going over and picking it up to bring it closer to the camera man while it was still loading a page.
one more thing, they get that from jackie chans cartoon
The original iMac is still the best looking computer ever made IMHO. I wish they would ditch the “cool” silver/black/white and bring back some colour options. At the time it was a revelation against the boring beige PC and sparked my love affair with Apple computers. The current iMac is just not the same, it’s dull and serious.
The Dipity service which creates the timeline uses Flash, and this post is an update of a timeline originally created back in 2008.
UPDATE: looks like a combination of HTML5 and Flash. Videos play in Flash on my Mac and via HTML5 on my iPad. Sorry for any playback problems.
Flash?! Is that why its just a blank box?
Check out colorwarepc.com, they have some cool inspiring options for the colour crowd.
Is there a video of that somewhere? Couldn’t find it on youtube
it works great on my ipad….
I miss chubby Steve Jobs. Also, Dipity is HTML5.
whole heartedly agree
down with flash and javascript
up with html5
The Apple of today would shoot themselves for making the original iMac and iBook.
My one more thing Watching Steve introduce the iPhone from the 2007 keynote again. “an iPod, a Phone and an Internet Communicator. Are you getting it?
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colorware is great. i’d love to get my iMac, Mac Pro, and MacBook Pro all in some sort of color combo. too bad after buying all these computers i dont feel like dropping a couple more grand on painting them
Hmm industry first backlit keyboard? Industry first as in ever or as in on laptops? Anyone know?
You’ll have to add the iTunes Match service to that list now… =)