Phil is on stage right now at the Apple “Let’s Rock” event demoing some games for the iPhone and iPod Touch, including the just released Spore. I guess when Phil’s not thinking about Worldwide Product Marketing and hockey he has time for a little casual gaming and biology.
Phil came on stage during the WWDC Keynote last Monday to show off the new features of MobileMe, Apple rebranding and enhancement of the .Mac suite.
Phil described MobileMe as Exchange for the rest of us, showed how events can be pushed to an iPhone, and demonstrated new web based versions of Mail, Address Book, and iCal. Additional coverage coming soon.
At yesterday’s iPhone Roadmap event held in Apple’s Town Hall on Campus, Phil Schiller delivered the goods on the future of the iPhone in business. Steve started and bookended the event, but left Phil and Scott Forstall to deliver the majority of the goods.
A closer look at Phil’s iPhone Calendar shown during the presentation also reveals that he routinely schedules time to think up new Apple rumors. Clearly there are no limits to the wizardry of his marketing strategies and even Apple fanboy bloggers are merely pawns in his game of puppetry. How’s that for a mixed-metaphor?
In reference to yesterday’s discussion of future Apple leadership, Phil once again demonstrated his competency and comfort announcing new products. No need to worry about the other guest host; Scott Forstall is only ever brought out in front of the juego 7 card studjuego poker omaha gratislos mejores cuartos del pokercaribbean poker portales webpoker 5 cartaspai gow poker portales webdescarga de juego de pokerprograma pokerpoker multijugador gratisjugadas pokerjuegos de poker gratis,poker gratis pc,poker gratisjuegos poli pokerplay poker texas,play poker,play poker onlinejugar poker,jugar poker online gratis,jugar poker internetreglas poker juegojugar seven card stud gratisjuegos de poker para descargarfichas poquereuropean pokerdescargar juegos pokerjuegos dados poker7 card stud gratisjuegos polly pokerfull tilt pokerstip pokeraprender a jugar poker????????aprender jugar pokerjuegos de poker onlinepoquer pcjuegos de cartas pokermaquinas pokerparadisepoker.com,paradise poker,paradisepokerpoker portales internetpai gow poker pagina webjuegos de poquerprogama codigo pokerpoquer gratispoker portal internetjuego poker eroticodescargas de juegos de pokerjugar poquer webpoker freejuego al instante paginas webstud pokerjuego poker pcomaha high pokerpoker gratis para pcjuego texas holdemjuego de poker onlinereglas juego poker geeky developer crowd and just doesn’t have the laugh to be the top dog. We’re all better off with him working with the smart people anyhow.
Phil’s sense of humor was sprinkled liberally throughout his piece: he cracked jokes about older generation phones in reference to BlackBerries, amongst other quips. His best joke was when he dead-panned to that everyone should just “take our word for it, it works” before actually demoing Exchange syncing. What a ham.
In a great interview at Engadget, Phil goes on the record about this very site … and um how, um … effortlessly it’s run?
Pretty awesome that the first thing out of interviewer Ryan Block’s mouth when he got the chance to speak to Phil was to ask about Schiller-mania. Maybe not the best journalistic move to creep out the interview subject right off the bat, but flattering to us. Phil went on to downplay his fame and give a good personal interview while of course staying on message about the awesome new iPods, iTunes, and the like. I recommend Schiller fans and everyone else take a look.
Daringfireball immediately trashed Engadget of course. Something about a history of bad reporting?
Here’s a couple more clutch screen caps from the streaming video of Phil at the Special Event:
Phil was in the audience with his iPhone submitting photos to the .Mac Web Gallery Steve had just built with iPhoto.
Here’s the wacky photo Phil uploaded!
There’s been much brouhaha over the guy (Bob Keefe) who asked Steve Jobs why Apple doesn’t put Intel Inside stickers on Macs, but here’s what Phil had to say on the matter:
“It’s not just about Intel Inside. When you buy any off the shelf PCs, the boxes are covered with confusing logos, and messages, and icons. You open it up: there’s stickers to peel off displays and keyboards; they’re all over the place. And then you start it up and you find junkware all over your desktop and in your menus that they’ve littered with it trying to up sell you on junk and that whole philosphy: we try to just give you a great product that you’ll love and you don’t have to peel stuff off to make it look better.”
Link to audio of the question and answer on MacWorld.
Here’s a pic of Phil talking to the Press outside of Apple’s Chicago store on North Michigan Avenue. Can any Chicagoans provide links to what those cameras recorded? I would love to see that piece from the local news.
Dude, Phil was on fire yesterday at the WWDC Keynote! While the Keynote itself may have been a little tame, I knew we were in store for a great Schiller show when John Hodgman’s PC character claimed to be Phil.
In the humorous opening video in the style of the rest of the “I’m a Mac” ads, PC Guy at first posed as Steve Jobs but then thought better of it when confronted and claimed to be Phil Schiller. I don’t know, it was funny when they did it.
But the real meat came 54 minutes later. After the Keynote had been rolling along without much life or energy, Phil popped on iChat AV as Steve’s only buddy. For the next several minutes it was pure Schiller hi-jinx as Phil demoed the many cool new features coming soon to Leopard’s video chat. First he showed the new iChat Theater, but he really hammed it up for the fun special effects. Schiller hanging upside down arms waving and then sipping coffee! Star Wars hologram Phil! But he saved the best for last, pulling a Conan O’Brien mouth cutout, first with George Washington and then with Steve Ballmer. It killed, plus it brought a lot of energy back to the Keynote.
Go Phil!
Schiller-maniacs, check out the new Fake Phil blog. Could go somewhere, though it hasn’t yet: Fake Phil Blog
Also, breaking up to the minute coverage at CARS of course: Crazy Apple Rumors covers Fake Phil Blog
This is what I’m talking about: Phil Schiller getting some major air time … well at least his fingers and velvety voice get some air, check it out: