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Apple Invites Media to September 9 Event: 'Hey Siri, Give Us a Hint'

Lankyman said:
All those mediums have one thing in common - a degree of personal privacy. Why I would want to put my life online via so-called social media for lots of people to cogitate over, is something that to date no one has been able to provide a cogent explanation for.
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You sound like someone who hasn't spent enough time with the medium and took a look to form your own opinion. How much you share and with whom is entirely up to yourself. Facebook can actually be a very nice way to stay in touch with people that live far away, and it can be a really nice addition to everything you do on the phone or by email. It's not all "look I'm on vacation in Florida and having a 1 litre mai tai!" kind of thing.

I use it to stay in touch with study friends who by now live all over the planet, and my wife is member of a group of mothers in Amsterdam that exchange very worthwhile tips about parenting etc.

So, again not trying to convert you to a Facebook user, but the way you approach this is a bit in the "get off my lawn" league.
 
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Keirasplace said:
Or maybe they got the press release from the biggest company of which 45% of their viewers own and decided those viewers would be interested. But, hey, conspiracies are more interesting... (sic)
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And how does that in any way void my point? However they're in cahoots together, they are. Pick your poison and move on.
 
brinary001 said:
And how does that in any way void my point? However they're in cahoots together, they are. Pick your poison and move on.
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Give me a break! Man, you you sure have a big opinion of yourself for someone with such a thin line of reasoning.

Cahoot means:

  1. in partnership; in league.
  2. in conspiracy:
There needs to be a very close active collaboration for this to occur.

So, no you don't have a point and certainly have not proven that because what occurred can be explained by how information normally is released to the media by companies. For extraordinary conclusions, you need extraordinary proofs.

I've been involved in PR releases (and followups by phone) that got in the local media in the past.

Companies, institutions, NGOs, activists, etc send PR release to the media (often with followup calls/emails), which then releases them if they can boost their viewership (like clickbait). The key is to taylor your release so it becomes a no brainer for the media to put it on air (or print it); you make their life easier.

Of course, something from Apple has a much better chance of interesting a media than a small group (except if its local interest news); everything Apple gets the public's attention regardless if Apple is involved or not.
 
"This new Rose Gold color ... Like the standard gold iPhone, the front glass will be white, unlike the black front found on Space Gray models." (Source: 9to5Mac).

Oh well, no rose gold for me. I told myself I would replace the front glass with black glass so that it has the downright beauty of the rose gold Apple Watch (Black on pinkish copper is incredible). Looks like it'll be Space Grey Silver for me this year... again...

Speaking of, who's praying for darker Space Grey and antenna lines this year?
 
Keirasplace said:
Give me a break! Man, you you sure have a big opinion of yourself for someone with such a thin line of reasoning.

Cahoot means:

  1. in partnership; in league.
  2. in conspiracy:
There needs to be a very close active collaboration for this to occur.

So, no you don't have a point and certainly have not proven that because what occurred can be explained by how information normally is released to the media by companies. For extraordinary conclusions, you need extraordinary proofs.

I've been involved in PR releases (and followups by phone) that got in the local media in the past.

Companies, institutions, NGOs, activists, etc send PR release to the media (often with followup calls/emails), which then releases them if they can boost their viewership (like clickbait). The key is to taylor your release so it becomes a no brainer for the media to put it on air (or print it); you make their life easier.

Of course, something from Apple has a much better chance of interesting a media than a small group (except if its local interest news); everything Apple gets the public's attention regardless if Apple is involved or not.
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I already confirmed my suspicions of their involvement together in my original post, and my follow up post's language did not obfuscate this in any way. My evidence supporting this was that of all my news apps with breaking notifications, CNN was the first and only one to do so as originally stated. So I'm not sure where you're seeing any lack of reasoning on my end...
 
Do they stream the Event at local Apple Stores? I will be on vacation in Vegas next week. I guess I could watch on my iPhone but a TV screen is better.
 
AbSoluTc said:
Only thing I despise about the iPhone events are the 30 minutes of crap nobody cares about in the beginning. How many sold, how many apps they now have, how much this, how much that and the best this. Blah blah. Just get to the good stuff!!!
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Here's hoping that some of those 30 minutes of crap are used to confirm Apple Pay in Canada. Been long enough already, considering wide adoption of NFC!
 
lw9090 said:
Do they stream the Event at local Apple Stores? I will be on vacation in Vegas next week. I guess I could watch on my iPhone but a TV screen is better.
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They used to stream all major events live in the stores but it was back early 2000's ... You could always ask if they could stream the event in store.... Never hurts to ask -- all they could say no ...
 
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Ryanclbryant said:
Here's hoping that some of those 30 minutes of crap are used to confirm Apple Pay in Canada. Been long enough already, considering wide adoption of NFC!
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seriously. We have NFC terminals in virtually every major vendor now. Very few places don't have terminals to support it.

And yet, not a single banking app / pay app uses it.

Heck, I've already paid via NFC / tap today on my credit card twice. for a guilty breakfast and McDonalds and for groceries and lunch at Metro.

Tap my wallet. Paid! 3 second payments are awesome
 
Just looking over the past threads and videos on Youtube with the past events, something tells me this is going to be HUGE They are using that big of a venue, something is up...I honestly feel like this could be one of the biggest announcements in history! My guess*** would be we see iphones, a revamped Apple TV box and with the Cisco deal...iPad Pro (or something named like that)
 
He's on to us...
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It has something to do with twitter. I'm from Colombia and Siri told me in Spanish something like "Something big is happening a blue bird told me in less than 140 characters"

Maybe Apple will buy Twitter which is not a crazy thing to do.
 
The colors are the same colors that the Siri wavebar changes to when using Siri in iOS9. My speculation is that like the watch bands, cases, and other features of iOS are becoming much more "colorful", one could assume that the devices themselves could become just the same. Am I specifically talking about another 5c remake in the form of the 6? Not specifically. A phone that incorporates force touch (like your apple watch) and is color customizable (like your apple watch) and could be more up to date (hence faster processor, new OS, etc, like your other iphone re-releases) it's all trends.

So... What do I think? I think that there's currently some clear differences between the current line of apple watches, apple phones, and apple computers. Apple's always been one to keep their line as interoperable and similarly styled as possible, right? Time to shorten the gaps!

(I'd like to see force touch, an "S" version of phones, iOS9, an appleTV reboot, and colored ipads! lol guess we'll find out!)
 
dumastudetto said:
This is big. This is huge. There is nothing bigger or huger in the world than Apple event. Literally the whole world will stop to see these announcements, and I can't wait.

I just hope the streams will be able to cope with what will be unprecedented demand from the eager public. There's literally going to be something for everyone at this event. Let's go!!!!
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You got a slight "lazy one"on there old boy..
 
I'm thinking appletv with homekit integration...hey siri, turn off the lights and lock the door. we're at defcon 2.
 
Maybe it's not about iPhone, but AppleTV! It can listen all the time for sure... Maybe it can even send responses to Your iOS device?
 
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