The San Francisco show is scheduled to take place January 5-9, 2009
[11]. On December 16, 2008, Apple announced that the 2009 conference will be the last in which the company participates.
[4] The conference's keynote address will be delivered by Apple's Senior Vice President of Product Marketing
Philip Schiller, not
Steve Jobs, as has been the custom for the past ten years.
[12] Speculation has arisen as to whether Steve Jobs' health is the primary reason for his withdrawal from his usual Keynote address. Steve Jobs underwent
pancreatic cancer surgery on August 2, 2004, but reports indicate that Jobs has been completely cancer free since July 2008.