When I read Job's announcement, my jaw hit the floor. This is what I've been hoping for ever since OS X came out. (Hmmm, that must have been, oh, about five years ago...)

Let the pedantic speculation begin about why ASoTV didn't tell us! Could it be that his hints about a movie streaming service over AirPort was a clever red herring?

This is a big shift for the second-largest OS maker in the world; hence, it's probably the biggest news in the last five years. (The Google IPO was only news to Wall Street; clearly, Google Maps was already under development and would have been release with or without the IPO.)

Scenario: Jobs doesn't want to be scooped. So, somebody drops a juicy, but ultimately uninteresing and not-that-earth-shattering tidbit to the geeks over at slashdot. The internet waters boil for a few weeks over whether or not this guy is for real. Meanwhile, backstage....

It makes sense, especially considering all the problems Apple has been having recently.