Backstage Pass

MacRumors · Jan 3, 2002, 02:55 AM

It's like a backstage pass to the future.

On Apple.com

[Edited by Macrumors on 01-03-2002 at 02:58 AM]

dricci · Jan 3, 2002, 02:57 AM

This is telling us something now. We need to think BEYOND speed bumps and LCDs and PDAs. A backstage pass to the future. What type of future product could Apple have? It's something we've never seen before, probably. I'm clueless.

samy85114 · Jan 3, 2002, 02:58 AM

that's a marketing trick and it works!!!!!!!
we are so excited by their countdown!

sweetaction · Jan 3, 2002, 02:59 AM

aheheah how cheesy, I am stoked, but thought we would see somethign more cryptic. oh well.

Jan 3, 2002, 02:59 AM

This is getting weirder and weirder. I've stopped guessing today.

/Jens

buffsldr · Jan 3, 2002, 03:03 AM

My 2cents....
I am guessing this is going to be something along the lines of BlueTooth (voice recognition software). Perhaps the computer will act as the hub and control various remotes to your current home electronics using an airport like station.

Hmmmm.

macboy · Jan 3, 2002, 03:03 AM

Notice how we are all too hyped over this... we stay up late to crash apple's site to see what the new comment is... What are we?? A bunch of monkies. We are almost excited as monkies over bananas.

Yuk-Monkey · Jan 3, 2002, 03:09 AM

Okay, so it would be really cool to have a "ticket" to the future right? So if you only had a ticket to the future you'd probably enounter a lot of cool stuff right? However with Apple we are aquiring even more "intense" version of the future as likened to a heightened level of experience afforded those who posses a backstage pass to a concert relative to those only having mere tickets?

I am now officially insane. It is 2:15 AM and I'm dissecting cryptic messages from a computer company. ARRGGH What is Apple doing to us????

chewbaccapits · Jan 3, 2002, 03:14 AM

Yuk-Monkey

"I am now officially insane. It is 2:15 AM and I'm dissecting cryptic messages from a computer company. ARRGGH What is Apple doing to us????"

Apple isn't doing anything to you, goober!...Why are you dissecting an advertisement in the first place?

Crotalus · Jan 3, 2002, 03:17 AM

All this anticipation and speculation is like gravy to me baby! Even if all Steve does is announce that a new line of Charmin toilet paper with the Apple logo quilted into it, I'll still say that I had fun with the hype-up. We are mac users. Damn near a cult by nature anyway. Do you think the PC folks start slobbering at the bit a week before Intel announces that they got another 100mhz outta the P4? NOPE! We are the folks that follow Steve Jobs like a guru if not a messiah. I used to be a PCer but left because I can't handle sudden and sustained spikes in my blood pressure, lol. I love my macs like no other inanimate object I have ever owned. I guess it just boils down to I love being a Mac user. All this hype-ep is part of that. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

donshank · Jan 3, 2002, 03:20 AM

MacWorld
3 Days Left
"It Leaps Tall Buildings in a Single Bound"

.......

MacWorld
2 Days Left
"It's Gold, It Has Elvish Writing, It Makes You Turn Invisible, Bill Gates Can See You When You Put It On"

.......

MacWorld
1 Day Left
"Nope, Not Anti-Gravity... But Close! Real Close!"

......

MacWorld
Today!
"Psych!!!!"

BurntCalc · Jan 3, 2002, 03:21 AM

A backstage pass to the future...

Is Apple trying to tone things down a bit? Whatever they're doing, it's very clever. This message isn't as inflammatory, but I bet they're just trying to reel us in a bit so that they can do it all over again!! heheheh

Well, I have my Apple stock secure. Gonna wait and see. My stock can only go up!! Woohoo!

bug2k · Jan 3, 2002, 03:33 AM

This is really making me go insane, what is this???
I'm really trying to earn my keep here, but I end up checking this site among others... Argh... I just can't wait anymore...

I'm just another pc admin... with a few mac's under my wings... Damn I'd like to see this word with only mac's. Windows is crap, 95, 98, 2000, xp... argh... they are all crap.

latalian · Jan 3, 2002, 03:38 AM

Think big. Real big. Like 100 GB removable storage with a 10GB/Sec bandwidth. Or a new type of cable, possibly an optical cable (hundreds times faster then firewire). Or a computer that uses light and optics instead of electricity to store and transport data. What about other companies. I've heard about Apple buying Avid, Motorola, and even IBM in these rumor sites.

What ever it is, it will change the world, as nearly every apple product has done.

Heh, how about this for a message from the apple site for tomarrow, steve: "Oh my god, my stock is skyrocketing"

-Latalian Caudilius

GigaWire · Jan 3, 2002, 03:42 AM

It's a computer controlled by your mind. Or vice versa.

Crotalus · Jan 3, 2002, 03:46 AM

All this anticipation and speculation is like gravy to me baby! Even if all Steve does is announce that a new line of Charmin toilet paper with the Apple logo quilted into it, I'll still say that I had fun with the hype-up. We are mac users. Damn near a cult by nature anyway. Do you think the PC folks start slobbering at the bit a week before Intel announces that they got another 100mhz outta the P4? NOPE! We are the folks that follow Steve Jobs like a guru if not a messiah. I used to be a PCer but left because I can't handle sudden and sustained spikes in my blood pressure, lol. I love my macs like no other inanimate object I have ever owned. I guess it just boils down to I love being a Mac user. All this hype-ep is part of that. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

j763 · Jan 3, 2002, 03:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by buffsldr
My 2cents....
I am guessing this is going to be something along the lines of BlueTooth (voice recognition software). Perhaps the computer will act as the hub and control various remotes to your current home electronics using an airport like station.

Hmmmm.

buffsldr,
Apple Computer is still not a member of the Bluetooth consortium (check http://www.bluetooth.com) . Also, Bluetooth is *not* voice recognition software. It is a technology used to communicate between devices, especially Internet connectivity. You can see this in the HBH10 + the T29m released by www.sonyericssonmobile.com. Bluetooth does compete with apple airport.

Just to clear that up.

I probably think that we'll see something at mwsf02 that no one has thought of before. Plus speedbumps and lcd etc. as well as a sony/apple initiative... <-only speculation

And the iWalk is definently a fake for these reasons: a) the design is horrible b)the look of the OS is very non-apple c)the name "iWalk" would never be chosen by apple for such a product and d)the product is so heavily overbranded unlike any other apple product.

macboy · Jan 3, 2002, 03:57 AM

there is an older article here about bluetooth from the last expo... I'll find it and bring it to the top...

macboy · Jan 3, 2002, 04:00 AM

ok i bumped it up... it is in the hardware section

iwantanewmac · Jan 3, 2002, 05:04 AM

Maybe they invented the time machine

Jan 3, 2002, 06:28 AM

They licesened HyperTransport from AMD didn't they? That's suppose to be really effing amazing... in conjunction with a new processor?

Ensign Paris · Jan 3, 2002, 06:43 AM

They might not be trying to tell us anything!

T42inPARIS · Jan 3, 2002, 07:51 AM

for on time we can lesson to Bill Gates : the thing he promises for the wintel plateform in 2 years will be ours in 4 days : a flat mac, only a screen whith typing possibility or natural writing whit a pen. no more cables, or mice. Just imagine a big PALM TI with a 15 or 17" color screen... airport and card bus connection on board

let's bet for something like that !

Ensign Paris · Jan 3, 2002, 08:00 AM

I would miss getting all the wires tangled about and not being able to do something cause I didn't or had lost the cable!

COME ON WIRELESS EVERYTHING!

Maybe not!

marco114 · Jan 3, 2002, 09:08 AM

This last message from Apple has got me kinda down because it's much less agressive than previous posts.

"A backstage pass to the future" could really mean anything. I mean like anything coming out tommorrow would be the future, so how innovative is that really? But, the word Backstage Pass sounds a little more exciting because when you have one, you generally are a little more excited than just the other regular fans.

I dunno. I was expecting:

"No Jim, that's no even close."

So we'd have to go searching all the message boards to find what the hell they are referring to.

I think we need some hints now!

Jan 3, 2002, 02:57 AM	#2
dricci macrumors 6502a Join Date: Dec 2001	What is this telling us? This is telling us something now. We need to think BEYOND speed bumps and LCDs and PDAs. A backstage pass to the future. What type of future product could Apple have? It's something we've never seen before, probably. I'm clueless.

Jan 3, 2002, 02:59 AM	#4
sweetaction macrumors regular Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: seattle, wa	marketing aheheah how cheesy, I am stoked, but thought we would see somethign more cryptic. oh well.

Jan 3, 2002, 02:59 AM	#5
Jens Guest	I've stopped guessing This is getting weirder and weirder. I've stopped guessing today. /Jens

Jan 3, 2002, 03:09 AM	#8
Yuk-Monkey macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2002	backstage pass Okay, so it would be really cool to have a "ticket" to the future right? So if you only had a ticket to the future you'd probably enounter a lot of cool stuff right? However with Apple we are aquiring even more "intense" version of the future as likened to a heightened level of experience afforded those who posses a backstage pass to a concert relative to those only having mere tickets? I am now officially insane. It is 2:15 AM and I'm dissecting cryptic messages from a computer company. ARRGGH What is Apple doing to us????

Jan 3, 2002, 03:14 AM	#9
chewbaccapits macrumors 6502a Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Torrance, Californizzel	Yuk-Monkey "I am now officially insane. It is 2:15 AM and I'm dissecting cryptic messages from a computer company. ARRGGH What is Apple doing to us????" Apple isn't doing anything to you, goober!...Why are you dissecting an advertisement in the first place? __________________ RAHHHHHHHH

Jan 3, 2002, 02:55 AM	#1
MacRumors macrumors bot Join Date: Apr 2001	It's like a backstage pass to the future. On Apple.com [Edited by Macrumors on 01-03-2002 at 02:58 AM]

Jan 3, 2002, 02:58 AM	#3
samy85114 macrumors regular Join Date: Dec 2001	that's a marketing trick and it works!!!!!!! we are so excited by their countdown!

Jan 3, 2002, 03:03 AM	#6
buffsldr macrumors 6502a Join Date: May 2001	My 2cents.... I am guessing this is going to be something along the lines of BlueTooth (voice recognition software). Perhaps the computer will act as the hub and control various remotes to your current home electronics using an airport like station. Hmmmm.

Jan 3, 2002, 03:03 AM	#7
macboy macrumors regular Join Date: Apr 2001	Notice how we are all too hyped over this... we stay up late to crash apple's site to see what the new comment is... What are we?? A bunch of monkies. We are almost excited as monkies over bananas.

Jan 3, 2002, 03:17 AM	#10
Crotalus macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2002	I Love It All this anticipation and speculation is like gravy to me baby! Even if all Steve does is announce that a new line of Charmin toilet paper with the Apple logo quilted into it, I'll still say that I had fun with the hype-up. We are mac users. Damn near a cult by nature anyway. Do you think the PC folks start slobbering at the bit a week before Intel announces that they got another 100mhz outta the P4? NOPE! We are the folks that follow Steve Jobs like a guru if not a messiah. I used to be a PCer but left because I can't handle sudden and sustained spikes in my blood pressure, lol. I love my macs like no other inanimate object I have ever owned. I guess it just boils down to I love being a Mac user. All this hype-ep is part of that. And I wouldn't have it any other way. __________________ I make good grades and bad decisions.

Jan 3, 2002, 03:20 AM	#11
donshank macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Los Angeles	3 days left... MacWorld 3 Days Left "It Leaps Tall Buildings in a Single Bound" ....... MacWorld 2 Days Left "It's Gold, It Has Elvish Writing, It Makes You Turn Invisible, Bill Gates Can See You When You Put It On" ....... MacWorld 1 Day Left "Nope, Not Anti-Gravity... But Close! Real Close!" ...... MacWorld Today! "Psych!!!!"

Jan 3, 2002, 03:21 AM	#12
BurntCalc macrumors member Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Tucson	A backstage pass to the future... Is Apple trying to tone things down a bit? Whatever they're doing, it's very clever. This message isn't as inflammatory, but I bet they're just trying to reel us in a bit so that they can do it all over again!! heheheh Well, I have my Apple stock secure. Gonna wait and see. My stock can only go up!! Woohoo!

Jan 3, 2002, 03:33 AM	#13
bug2k macrumors newbie Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Above the arctic circle	Going insane! This is really making me go insane, what is this??? I'm really trying to earn my keep here, but I end up checking this site among others... Argh... I just can't wait anymore... I'm just another pc admin... with a few mac's under my wings... Damn I'd like to see this word with only mac's. Windows is crap, 95, 98, 2000, xp... argh... they are all crap. __________________ - bug2k is back! And this time no one will escape… -

Jan 3, 2002, 03:38 AM	#14
latalian macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2002	Think Big Think big. Real big. Like 100 GB removable storage with a 10GB/Sec bandwidth. Or a new type of cable, possibly an optical cable (hundreds times faster then firewire). Or a computer that uses light and optics instead of electricity to store and transport data. What about other companies. I've heard about Apple buying Avid, Motorola, and even IBM in these rumor sites. What ever it is, it will change the world, as nearly every apple product has done. Heh, how about this for a message from the apple site for tomarrow, steve: "Oh my god, my stock is skyrocketing" -Latalian Caudilius

Jan 3, 2002, 03:42 AM	#15
GigaWire macrumors 6502 Join Date: Dec 2001	It's a computer controlled by your mind. Or vice versa.

Jan 3, 2002, 03:46 AM	#16
Crotalus macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2002	I Love It All this anticipation and speculation is like gravy to me baby! Even if all Steve does is announce that a new line of Charmin toilet paper with the Apple logo quilted into it, I'll still say that I had fun with the hype-up. We are mac users. Damn near a cult by nature anyway. Do you think the PC folks start slobbering at the bit a week before Intel announces that they got another 100mhz outta the P4? NOPE! We are the folks that follow Steve Jobs like a guru if not a messiah. I used to be a PCer but left because I can't handle sudden and sustained spikes in my blood pressure, lol. I love my macs like no other inanimate object I have ever owned. I guess it just boils down to I love being a Mac user. All this hype-ep is part of that. And I wouldn't have it any other way. __________________ I make good grades and bad decisions.

Jan 3, 2002, 03:57 AM	#18
macboy macrumors regular Join Date: Apr 2001	there is an older article here about bluetooth from the last expo... I'll find it and bring it to the top...

Jan 3, 2002, 04:00 AM	#19
macboy macrumors regular Join Date: Apr 2001	ok i bumped it up... it is in the hardware section

Jan 3, 2002, 05:04 AM	#20
iwantanewmac macrumors 6502 Join Date: Oct 2001	mmmmmmmm Maybe they invented the time machine

Jan 3, 2002, 06:28 AM	#21
nahaliel Guest	They licesened HyperTransport from AMD didn't they? That's suppose to be really effing amazing... in conjunction with a new processor?

Jan 3, 2002, 06:43 AM	#22
Ensign Paris macrumors 68000 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Huddersfield, UK	Tell They might not be trying to tell us anything! __________________ Click here for my website.

Jan 3, 2002, 07:51 AM	#23
T42inPARIS macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2002	you bet ? for on time we can lesson to Bill Gates : the thing he promises for the wintel plateform in 2 years will be ours in 4 days : a flat mac, only a screen whith typing possibility or natural writing whit a pen. no more cables, or mice. Just imagine a big PALM TI with a 15 or 17" color screen... airport and card bus connection on board let's bet for something like that !

Jan 3, 2002, 08:00 AM	#24
Ensign Paris macrumors 68000 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Huddersfield, UK	:( I would miss getting all the wires tangled about and not being able to do something cause I didn't or had lost the cable! COME ON WIRELESS EVERYTHING! Maybe not! __________________ Click here for my website.

Jan 3, 2002, 09:08 AM	#25
marco114 macrumors regular Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: North Carolina	Hmm This last message from Apple has got me kinda down because it's much less agressive than previous posts. "A backstage pass to the future" could really mean anything. I mean like anything coming out tommorrow would be the future, so how innovative is that really? But, the word Backstage Pass sounds a little more exciting because when you have one, you generally are a little more excited than just the other regular fans. I dunno. I was expecting: "No Jim, that's no even close." So we'd have to go searching all the message boards to find what the hell they are referring to. I think we need some hints now!

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