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SAN FRANCISCO — You can’t blame Tony Bennett for upstaging a marketing vice president, at the very time for a company like Apple.

When the crooner and his band glided on field at the end of the last keynote address an Apple executive force of will deliver at the annual Macworld Conference and Expo, the electricity wanting during the speech by Apple Vice President Philip Schiller suddenly crackled in the current of air.

Bennett belted “The Best Is Yet To Come” and his signature “I Left My Heart in San Francisco.” The audience hooted, applauded and gave him and his assign places to a standing ovation.

Then the golden-voiced singer floated off, and we were left with the stark reality: Steve Jobs really wasn’t coming, Schiller didn’t have much to say and the relevancy of this pageantry to Apple was at an extreme point.

Even the choices of songs were a bit cruel. Apple already said it wouldn’t be at the trade show in 2010 as each exhibitor (the company left its heart?), and that it would have plenty to converse about at its be in possession of managed announcements in the future (the best is yet to get to).

Apple bowed out with a whimper, not a bang. For a company that opted just pair years past to drop “Computer” from its name of three decades, seemly simply Apple Inc., there was little without interruption flourish not solidly focused on Mac hardware and software. That’s appropriate for Macworld, but unusual.

Schiller delivered a perfectly reasonable address for a Macworld trade show of a decade ago, including emphasizing features in software and online applications that saunter those of Microsoft and Google, and a couple Apple itself pioneered in the 1990s then later dropped.

The privation of Steve Jobs was palpable from discover to finish.

Reporters and attendees weren’t expecting much from the keynote, despite rumors round a revised Apple TV media center, updated iMacs, each overhauled Mac mini (a compact desktop system), or fair an Apple-branded tablet.

Instead, Apple showed off iMovie ‘09, a release clearly designed to apologize to its customers for iMovie ‘08, which baffled existing users and was targeted for a YouTube-uploading auditory.

Most of what was shown in the new iLife ‘09 and iWork ‘09 suites is either even now available from Google or Microsoft online or in desktop software, or embodies ideas that were in currency (and have been in well-considered software) 10 or even 20 years ago.

How did a marketing VP misstep so badly to describe how apathetic outlining in a word processor was in 2009?

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