Gruber reports on WWDC:
My gut feeling is that we’ve seen the last Steve Jobs keynote address. I don’t think he’s leaving the company — and his medical leave has been scheduled to run through the end of June — but I wonder if he’s done as the company’s spokesman.
I have to disagree. Given that the Stevenotes are one of his superpowers, and make full use of the reality distortion field, I think that Gruber is crazy to think he won’t do them anymore. Idiotic, in fact. What I do think is gone are the days when he will run them 75-100% by himself. I think he’ll do the main presentation, emcee as it were, and let the other members of the team take up the rest.
My prediction: Jobs will make a public appearance in July, having added weight since we last saw him, and he will at least introduce the new iPods come September/October.