Now that the Consumer Electronics Show has packed up and left Las Vegas, attention is shifting to this week's Macworld Expo in San Francisco and Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs' keynote speech on Tuesday morning.
The notoriously secretive Cupertino technology company has kept a tight lid on rumors, but that hasn't stopped the rampant speculation about its anticipated new products and services.
This time last year, Apple introduced the iPhone, a move that reinforced Apple's role as a digital lifestyle trendsetter and still reverberates in the consumer electronics industry. The company's stock climbed furiously through 2007, tipping over $200 per share in late December - though, like the rest of the technology industry, it has dropped in early January.
Now the question for Jobs is: What's Apple going to do for an encore?
"What everyone wants from Steve is, 'What's next?' " said Creative Strategies' principal analyst Tim Bajarin. "You don't have to create a new blockbuster every year. What you have to do is make it better. ... They're looking for Apple to keep the record going."
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