Word: schiller
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these were not normal circumstances. And Philip W. Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, is no Steven P. Jobs...
That question is why the rumor mill, whose r.p.m.s intensify in advance of any possible news coming out of 1 Infinite Loop, shifted into turbodrive. On the eve of Macworld, it was announced that Jobs would not be making the keynote speech. Instead, Schiller, who often helps Jobs demo new toys at events, would be running the show...
...here comes poor Schiller onto the brilliant stage of San Francisco's Moscone Center. Whereas Jobs is known for his handmade St. Croix black mock turtleneck and jeans, Schiller looks defiantly nerdy, sporting the kind of engineer blue button-down shirt popularized by the dotcom crowd in 1997. Whereas Jobs electrifies a room like some superhero from the X-Men, Schiller saps energy from the hall like an Everyman. You sympathize. He is a good dude. And this has gotta suck...
Apple's true believers are being put to the test. Late Tuesday the company announced that Steve Jobs will not be giving the keynote address at the annual Macworld Conference and Expo. Apple also said that Phil Schiller, its top marketing guy, will be giving the keynote this coming year, and that this will be the last Macworld in which Apple will participate...
...Unfortunately for Daniel Hoevels, a 30-year-old actor from Hamburg, those pages from a murder-mystery came to life last Saturday night during a performance at the Burgtheater of Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller's play about the wretched life of Mary Queen of Scots. Rushed to the nearby Lorenz Bohler hospital having sliced through skin and fat tissue but thankfully not his main artery, Hoevels was fortunate to survive. "Just a little deeper," said Wolfgang Lenz, a doctor who treated him, "and he would have been drowning in his own blood." (See the Top 10 oddball news stories...