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For most developer that is chump change and tax deductible.

I know demand for these events is enormous but $1,599 for a ticket? How is that at all realistic or acceptable? I feel like it would be better if the tickets were free and randomly allocated to people. Or just more realistically priced.

Beyond that insight and knowledge are worth the money.
 
The earthquake they're talking about is clearly the unification of OSX and iOS
Also, probably a new Apple TV

Ah - Earthquake. Epicenter. So maybe we are looking at the "San Andreas" release of everything. iOS 9 / OS X on the same update schedule simply called "Apple OS San Andreas". Shattering the foundations as we know it.

Or just iOS9 and OS X 10.11 San Andreas.
 
To each their own.. I like numbers. And in many ways they are easier marketing to the masses. (a customer can clearly see that they want an upgrade if they are using an iPhone 4s and the 6 is out) I sure like the numbers better than the mess Intel has with processor generations, how does an average consumer differentiate from an i3 from 5 years ago and a "broadwell" i3?

Hi,

I think I am not the average consumer and I cannot tell the Intel chips apart. Simply not possible.
 
New hardware for sure.

It will sit with your TV, possibly with upgraded :apple:TV capabilities.

The real killer feature will be the inclusion of HomeKit. This will act as the gateway for all of your connected home devices; CCTV cameras, lighting, security etc.

The unknowns:

Will it include HealthKit (for connecting to scales, digital BP monitors etc) for collating and reporting back to your Doctor?

Will it include a built-in Wireless Base Station?

Almost certain:

An all-in-one package to drive the paradigm shift into smart living for the masses.

It's going to blow everyone away.
 
I think people are reading way too much into this artwork (as usual). The rounded-squares represent iOS app icons. The circles represent Watch app icons. Nothing more to it than that. We already know that a more robust Watch SDK is coming "later this year" (which probably means WWDC).

Wow I already had that day scheduled off. That worked out!

What day?

I'm surprised the macrumor title didn't mention AppleTV since the invite clearly shows it will center around the AppleTV which is exciting.

Uh, what?

I know demand for these events is enormous but $1,599 for a ticket? How is that at all realistic or acceptable? I feel like it would be better if the tickets were free and randomly allocated to people. Or just more realistically priced.

Actually the argument could be made that $1599 is too low, since demand clearly exceeds supply. They could probably charge twice as much and still sell out.
 
By the way, this random selection makes me feel uneasy for some reason.

I doubt very seriously that there is "random selection" -- at least not for all tickets. Apple doesn't have a history of doing anything at random. If there are any tickets given at random, it is likely a small subset of the overall tickets available.
 
I know demand for these events is enormous but $1,599 for a ticket? How is that at all realistic or acceptable? I feel like it would be better if the tickets were free and randomly allocated to people. Or just more realistically priced.

1,599 is for the whole event. It basically 30$ for an hour of training you receive by a very capable Apple engineer so its damn cheap.
 
Based on past years, iOS 9 will 100% certainly be making an appearance on June 8th. I will bet money on this.

I just don't see why they would deliver a UI upgrade when they are 'supposedly' going to unveil a new iOS. This is just seems very much out of the ordinary for Apple.

Things change... This may be Apple creating more space between iOS releases as mentioned previously by MR.
 
Bookings.com just went from 25% booked to 45% in a hour.

Interesting that people are making bookings so long before they find out if they'll be randomly selected to receive tickets.

...I guess people that aren't selected can just cancel their bookings. What a pain for the hotels.
 
The dimensions fit perfectly to appleTV and Time Capsule --- not quite the MacMini.
 

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"The epicentre of change"

Sure thing. :rolleyes:


Love the two possibilities here:

Apple changes nothing - "omg Apple is doomed. Android and Windows are so far ahead"

Apple changes a lot - " omg it's doesn't feel like the old Steve Jobs times. Apple is doomed"
 
The overlapping edges of the circles in the center resemble the icon of the Photos app.
 
Random Corruption?

I doubt very seriously that there is "random selection" -- at least not for all tickets. Apple doesn't have a history of doing anything at random. If there are any tickets given at random, it is likely a small subset of the overall tickets available.

So maybe it's more like a hybrid of deliberate omission, random selection, and deliberate selection.

I feel even more uneasy about that.
 
I will switch to Linux if this happens. A-class chips belong on mobile devices, NOT desktops.

Baloney, they are just as powerful as the chip shipping in the new Mac Book. Beyond that I wouldn't expect Apple to drop Intel completely. The other thing Is that Apple could dramatically increase the performance of A9 by splitting the design across two different processes. Currently the A series are built on low power processes not processes designed for building performance machines. An A series chip running at 3 GHz would make for a nice Mac Book chip for Air like machines.
 
Circular icons in ios9?

AppleWatch

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I will switch to Linux if this happens. A-class chips belong on mobile devices, NOT desktops.

What makes you say that?

There is a big push for custom CPUs based on ARM for datacenters and database servers. Why do you think that a custom chip designed to run/accelerate Objective C, Cocoa, Swift, ect wouldn't be powerful enough for 90% of Apples user base?
 
Interesting that people are making bookings so long before they find out if they'll be randomly selected to receive tickets.

...I guess people that aren't selected can just cancel their bookings. What a pain for the hotels.

Not really. It's not like you phone up and book wasting people's time. It's just a tick in a database. And I am sure most of the room are re-booked anyway.
 
Baloney, they are just as powerful as the chip shipping in the new Mac Book. Beyond that I wouldn't expect Apple to drop Intel completely. The other thing Is that Apple could dramatically increase the performance of A9 by splitting the design across two different processes. Currently the A series are built on low power processes not processes designed for building performance machines. An A series chip running at 3 GHz would make for a nice Mac Book chip for Air like machines.

You do understand the difference between an ARM RISC processor and x64 right? They are nowhere near as powerful at the same wattage etc. Let alone the fact every App would have to be recompiled ( if it even could be ) to OSX ARM... and then what do you have....

Windows RT.
 
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