It's just a decoy!<p>That way, when Ballmer does show up and announce that Apple is ditching OS X, Cocoa, and XCode for Windows 7, .NET, and Visual Studio, you'll all be <i>really</i> surprised.
Maybe my all-time favorite tweet; I bet the MS PR folks are having a good laugh today as well.<p>Is nobody else wondering at how news stories can dissect, at great length whether code-creation companies still have a business with the iPad but also Apple will suddenly allow MS to use its dev tools on their platform? Confusing.
What a great way to deliver this news! I would have thought that they'd want to let the expectations build more, but if they're going to announce, they couldn't have chosen a more direct, humorous way of doing it.
wait so you mean apple ISN'T going to let ballmer present and go against everything they've done in the last 2 months by allowing their top competitor to exactly what they've just taken a ton of shit from the dev community by not allowing? how shocking...
<p><pre><code> > Steve Ballmer not speaking at Apple Dev Conf. Nor
> appearing on Dancing with the Stars. Nor riding
> in the Belmont. Just FYI.
</code></pre>
That's just what 'they' <i>want</i> you to think! Steve Ballmer is going to do his entire speech while demonstration the iPad's new text-to-voice feature! So he won't be <i>speaking</i> at all!
Highest rated comment on other post:<p>"Even if the rumour is false (I don't know) I don't find it unbelievable at all, because (a) it makes sense (b) this move would be both typically "Apple" and typically "Microsoft", if you look at the history of these companies. Hell, Microsoft started as a programming tool company."<p>Hate to say, "I told you so..."