Here at Cult of Mac we’re not content just to report other people’s rumors we occasionally start our own. Hence this post’s title (The question mark makes it A-Okay, right?).
To be clear, we have no specific information that suggests this might be true. No rough voiced informant leaking this news to us from the bowels of some dungeon in Cupertino. No circumstantial evidence (like a Chiat/Day media buy) dug up through hard-nosed investigative reporting.
Nothing, Nada, Zip, Zilch, Zune.*
Yet here’s the post anyway, what gives?
First, I’m making up this rumor because I really, really want it to be true. Not only does it have a certain symmetry to it that OCD dictators like Steve would gravitate to, but it would be the perfect forum to unleash something truly game-changing on us. Something that would upset an entire industry, something as profoundly impacting as the original Macintosh.
Secondly, because it is exactly 25 weeks until Superbowl Sunday, and while this year’s Superbowl doesn’t fall on the same date as the airing of the original “1984 commercial”, it marks a symbolic milestone for that Anniversary. To that end we’re going to use the next 25 weeks to count down the Greatest Moments in Mac History. Culminating (I hope) in an announcement from Cupertino that will change everything forever, just like the last one 25 years ago.
(*Thanks to Rip Ragged for letting me borrow that line).
2 responses to “25th Anniversary Mac to be Announced During Superbowl XLIII?”
Sounds good to me!