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Apple Issues Invitations for Media Event on September 12
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LOL you must be oblivious to apple. They will sell gazillions of products no matter what, even if it was the 4SS with nothing but an upgraded chip.
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The Loop reports that Apple has just sent out invitations for a media event scheduled for next week Wednesday, September 12. The event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and is scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM Eastern. The tagline on the invitation is simply "It's almost here."
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Apple is of course expected to introduce the next-generation iPhone and give a final preview of iOS 6 at the event. Apple's "iPad mini" is reportedly also nearing a launch, but sources have indicated that Apple is planning a second media event for October to introduce that product. Apple's iPod lineup is also rumored to be seeing an update at one of the two events, while rumored iMac updates and the launch of a 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro are likely to appear separately.
There's clearly a "5" in the shadow of the invitation, suggesting that Apple's next iPhone will indeed be called the iPhone 5.
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bring it on lets see whats new and cool
I don't get why the 6th iPhone is going to be called the iPhone 5. It's almost like Apple gave into the fact that everyone called it the 5 because the 4S was before it. Either that or they're considering the iPhone 4S nothing special. I'm glad I got the 4 and not the 4S. I'm so ready for this though.
In retrospect, the iPhone gets major redesign every 2 years, while the mid cycle upgrades have been called "S". Had it been called the "new iPhone", then what do you call the mid cycle refreshed product, "new iPhone S"? It doesn't work, but hey it's all hindsight now (almost).
Yes, because nobody but us geeks in these forums count the hardware generations. You really need to grasp that concept and move on.
You said it. Some people are just trying to be smart
There is so little left to say about this new product, that everything becomes a big deal.
It's almost here. Means that it is near... wait, Near? Hmmm.
It's almost here. Just a little longer. Wait, Longer? Hmmm.
5. Shadow. Five o'clock shadow. Need to shave. Shave it thin. Wait, Thinner? Hmmmm.
1, 2, buckle my shoe.
Ok, I've got nothing for that one.
Almost here.....I hope that doesn't mean something like an october release.
As already said, apple (steve jobs said it) is using the intel tick/tock strategy with iphone (major update / refinement update). So it's simply N° / N°S .
There is no generation involved at all. Simply they started with 3 because it was in 3G and they are going up from there. People (hopefully) doesn't count produc t generations neither spend their time arguing about this stuff. Who cares if iPhone5s is the fifth or sixth or seventh iphone, really?
I am also quite sure that if they should jump a tock (let's say next year iphone will be another major upgrade) they would call it iphone6 (correct for the generation obsessed people) but then the 7° iphone will be 6s and the 8th 7.
The confusion arise only if you start counting how many iphone has been released untile that point, but it's really a ridicolous way to spend time, believe me.
It's called marketing, the 'iPhone' is the product, that little number after it should only read 'marketing' to you. Thus you have:
iPhone marketing
iPhone marketing
iPhone marketing
iPhone marketing
iPhone marketing
iPhone marketing < upcoming release.
No. Look at model numbers instead.
iPhone1,1 - original iPhone
iPhone1,2 - iPhone 3G
iPhone2,1 - iPhone 3GS
iPhone3,1 - iPhone 4
iPhone4,1 - iPhone 4S
The iPhone 4S changed enough to warrant a new model number. The iPhone 3G did not.
Hah, Apple trolled us. It'll be just iPhone.
On a different note: she's getting fired.
Hahaha, nice!! So perhaps they call it 5 during the announcement but market it as the "New iPhone"? Or is that just for a Chinese knock-off packaging??
Edit: I'm fairly certain it's the latter.
Haha
absurd because new would never be part of the packaging itself. I like it though.
Yah, I wonder what the 12 signifies? It has to have some meaning. 12th day of September in 2012? Maybe there's 12 announcements?
Hahaha, that just complicates things further. What's the part # for the iPhone 5 is iOS?
Or you could see it as changing the number whenever it's good enough (and looks different enough) to call it something new. Maybe that's the naming scheme? Maybe it has nothing to do with generations or the number of devices before it?
I don't live in the USA. I bought an iPhone 4S unlocked and without a contract therefore I paid the full price. In Brazil, where I live, the iPhone 4S costs around $1000. I will go to the US soon for a long time and I knew it would be a good opportunity for me to sell my "old" iPhone, get a good amount ($800) and wait for the new model. That's the reason I sold my iPhone. I did the same thing with my Macbook Air 13 ($1600).. and that's the reason I want a MacBook Pro 13' Retina.