Apple WWDC 2009 keynote Bingo!
The Apple (AAPL) keynote Bingo game — brilliantly parodied in the famous 2008 IBM buzzword ad (pasted below the fold) — has become a fanboy tradition, although as far as we know nobody has ever interrupted a Steve Jobs presentation to shout "Bingo!"
Marketing senior vice president Phil Schiller, not Jobs, is scheduled to give the keynote at this year's World Wide Developers Conference Monday, but that hasn't stopped the Bingo board makers. We've come across at least two board generators, one from the Netherlands (sample board above), the other from Sweden (sample below).
Here are the links:
This exercise is not entirely frivolous; the game does give developers, reporters and other Apple watchers a chance to consolidate the rumors and share their sense of what Cupertino is cooking up.
The rules are simple: generate a board you like, print it out, mark the squares as phrases are uttered or events occur, and when you complete a row, column or diagonal, call out "Bingo!"
If you dare.
Tune in here at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) for our live coverage of WWDC 2009.
See also:
- What's Steve Jobs got up his sleeve?
- Analyst: Apple’s WWDC likely to ‘disappoint’
- Infographic: Color-coded iPhone rumors
- Rumor roundup: All about the new iPhone
Below the fold: the Buzzword Bingo IBM ad.
I'm pretty sure the buzzword bingo ad doesn't actually refer to Steve Jobs at all…. Management consultants are great at generating this kind of rebellion.
I actually created an iPhone app already, to be used as a replacement for my webapp mentioned above. The app was rejected and I didn't have the time to submit it again with the changes required.
Had something to do with a special steve icon, which was not appreciated