A quote from the Cult of Mac tonight caught my eye. I think, only think mind you, I can’t be sure but…

So tonight I’m sitting in a bar when I run into an old friend, who is very highly placed in the Apple world. I hate to cite an anonymous source, but trust me, he knows.
And he tells me the keynote that Jobs gave was not the keynote he had planned. Some of the speech had been cut out. Key products were missing.

My source said there was some stuff, “some very, very cool stuff,” that Jobs couldn’t unveil because of “supply issues.”

“They can’t get enough Core Duo (chips),” said my source.

He also said that if he were me, he probably wouldn’t order one of the new MacBook Pros.

I asked if there would be MacBook replacements for the 17-inch and 12-inch PowerBooks, but he said, “Oh, it’s much cooler than that. Much cooler.

Hey, didn’t I said on day one, during the keynote, that this is only a temporary thing? Releasing an iBook with that kind of power would blow us all away too much, too soon. Frankly, the MacBook Pro is not a good release and I think the name is a refelction on that. It looks unfinished, it’s a test subject, Alpha work. I don’t believe that these models will stick around. Steve must have something else planned.

Additionally, I also thought that Steve was simply slightly ill to begin with, but the more I look at it, the more obvious it becomes that all was not as planned.