Four years ago Jobs was cheered within seconds of coming on stage to unveil the first iPhone; the crowd reaction for Cook's unveiling of the iPhone 4S Tuesday was mostly tepid.
Today, at Oracle's OpenWorld Conference in San Francisco, an animated Larry Ellison took to the stage to unveil an assortment of cloud computing services, which will run the company's long-time-in-coming (six years, in fact), Fusion Applications — most notably the "Oracle Public Cloud".
Today at Facebook's f8 conference in San Francisco, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to unveil the next evolution of the service.
Water charges protesters have disrupted an Irish government event staged to unveil plans for state commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising centenary.
In a TV commercial for the Evo, famous firsts like the wheel, the Model T, the Wright Brothers' plane and the typewriter set the stage for the unveiling of the phone.
In the last stage of the exhibit, Lincoln unveils its newest vehicle, a sporty truck called the Blackwood.
Councillor John Kaiser, who is responsible for highways and planning at Wokingham Borough Council, said: "This is an exciting stage of this project - the unveiling of this much-awaited and important new road, and the start of the process to remodel traffic flow in and around the station to ultimately ease congestion".
The fact that Steve Jobs will be on stage for the unveiling seems to speak well for the state of iCloud.
A phased reopening began in 2009 and in January this year, the final stage of the extensive refurbishment was unveiled, leaving only the finishing touch – the Mayan Luxury Spa – which was completed and launched in June.
About to unveil the first stage of extension to Tate Modern.
But first, Japan's prime minister has unveiled the next stage of his economic recovery plan - to an underwhelmed reception.
