Will the font that is used in the invitation be the same as in the finalized version of iOS? Could be a hint there..
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Apple Issues Invitations for September 10 Media Event: 'This Should Brighten Everyone's Day'
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I doubt Apple care if you see no black.
If they want to release black, they will release black.
wahoo!!although im not getting a iPhone because I got the 5 already. Looking forward to iOS 7 and whatever else they release!
no news on the GM seed for iOS7
If there is a hidden meaning to these dots (other than the colors of the 5C that is) I would be amazed.
I'm not arguing that those things don't mean anything, but they are definitely not so important as to cause many customers to switch or to consider other platforms. Whether Apple is behind the market depends on your point of view. To many the functions that you describe are not important at all. The screen is large enough and the camera is excellent. Not everyone needs a Galaxy note with a 24 MP camera.
They haven't had a "Music" event since the wide screen iMacs was announced...
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I hoped for a bit more information on the pic.....it only refers to the dual flash
Only on the surface, if you dig into the symbolism like an archeologist you'll find all teh snappy safari.
I suspect the obvious answer is that these are being released with an eye to the Asian market, where culturally they will probably be better received than in the US / Europe.
I still have a 4, so will be tempted, but would prefer to hold out for a redesign next year along with a more refined iOS8.
I am late to this thread...but here are some thoughts over the past few days of iPhone 5S rumors:
If the rumors are true, the only new "features" the 5s gives is a better camera, a new case color, a fingerprint reader, and a 128GB option. Um....only 1 new "feature" truly exists and that's the fingerprint reader...case colors and a larger, OPTIONAL, storage capacity do not qualify as features.
I really hope there is a lot more to the 5S than this short, short list. I have the 4S and was looking forward to getting a 5S if there was going to be a nice list of new features. Yes, I know the differences of the 5 vs the 4S but the 5S just seems like a lame upgrade. But to be fair, these are all rumors.
I would have loved to ALSO see (yes, some of these are the iOS and some are hardware):
-much faster CPU than the 5
-2x RAM than the 5
-truly jaw-dropping Siri thanks to the years of beta testing and improved CPU technologies
-significantly longer battery life than the 5 and 4S
-USB 3.0 support...seriously, why do I have to wait eons to transfer 16GB+ of content?
-ability to offload/send FULL QUALITY video clips to my machine or Youtube or elsewhere...100% 1080 quality and 100% length. Otherwise, why am I wasting all this space for 1080 quality that gets downconverted to 720 or less when emailing or Youtubing?
-longer call history...it is still a phone, you know. Why can't it store the last 30-60 days of all call history? Currently the history is lame.
-better email attachment support...currently 4 pix max and like a 50 second video clip...each of these limitations is far below the 25MB limit that Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail provide.
-ability to store attachments offline so I don't always have to re-download them/find the email...PDF and Excel docs are what I get a lot in email. Apple, for some reason, believes that only JPG attachments are worthy to be stored locally.
Anyway, that's a small list but I am really hoping the 5S wows me. My 64GB 4S is really nice but would like an improvement...unless it's time to abandon Apple.
If the rumors are true, the only new "features" the 5s gives is a better camera, a new case color, a fingerprint reader, and a 128GB option. Um....only 1 new "feature" truly exists and that's the fingerprint reader...case colors and a larger, OPTIONAL, storage capacity do not qualify as features.
I really hope there is a lot more to the 5S than this short, short list. I have the 4S and was looking forward to getting a 5S if there was going to be a nice list of new features. Yes, I know the differences of the 5 vs the 4S but the 5S just seems like a lame upgrade. But to be fair, these are all rumors.
I would have loved to ALSO see (yes, some of these are the iOS and some are hardware):
-much faster CPU than the 5
-2x RAM than the 5
-truly jaw-dropping Siri thanks to the years of beta testing and improved CPU technologies
-significantly longer battery life than the 5 and 4S
-USB 3.0 support...seriously, why do I have to wait eons to transfer 16GB+ of content?
-ability to offload/send FULL QUALITY video clips to my machine or Youtube or elsewhere...100% 1080 quality and 100% length. Otherwise, why am I wasting all this space for 1080 quality that gets downconverted to 720 or less when emailing or Youtubing?
-longer call history...it is still a phone, you know. Why can't it store the last 30-60 days of all call history? Currently the history is lame.
-better email attachment support...currently 4 pix max and like a 50 second video clip...each of these limitations is far below the 25MB limit that Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, and Hotmail provide.
-ability to store attachments offline so I don't always have to re-download them/find the email...PDF and Excel docs are what I get a lot in email. Apple, for some reason, believes that only JPG attachments are worthy to be stored locally.
Anyway, that's a small list but I am really hoping the 5S wows me. My 64GB 4S is really nice but would like an improvement...unless it's time to abandon Apple.
then why do you continue to visit a rumors site? what did you think would happen?
take responsibility for yourself, son.
Yeah, I'm gonna have to say pix or gtfo.omg omg omg, i figured it out.
the dots are the colors of the 5C!
on a serious note, if you take apples love of the "grid" for their ios7 icons and use that on these dots, you get 1 more big hint... i'll let the other nerds (like me) figure it out though
The critical path for Apple is to grow its installed base to leverage control on the 'services' side. If you think HW is the only way Apple can profit... those data centers are being built to offer services for sale. And if you have 80% of the top 20% of US spending demographic (or Chinese spending demographic), you start to drive the market for acting as a 'storefront' using the AppleID, and trusting it by using an at PoS proof of Identity (3D fingerprint against your registered phone).
Apple right now provides the link between identity and credit card (passport data) on file, and can identify a device to a person. The device (something have) and the password to log into the phone (something you know), and the fingerprint (something you are), gets to a much higher level of trust.
All of a sudden...the current versions of plastic credit cards are 'less secure' than an Apple Vetted Identity...
How much so... I would think that The concept of a plastic credit card, Chip/Pin or otherwise, will evaporate in 10 years.
If next year (iOS8)
If apple offers a Verified by Apple App to an iPad Bluetooth/Passport PoS interface.... such that they can prove (using Apple sales), that fraudulent transactions have dropped to 1/10th of prior to this triple factor Authentication, with no loss of PoS productivity (time per sale is constant, and my guess would go down), my guess is retailers will flock to it. Large vendors will have corporate versions, and if you can link it to payment processors, or merchant banks, individuals can request it (no CC charge is approved until I push present my fingerprint on my iPhone 5s(c?)/Ipad 5.
Or Apple offers up a Credit Card (what to do with all that cash... oh, establish a bank in every country that's sole purpose is to make loans to people to buy stuff via their iDevices;-)) partnering with a Visa or Amex to get a card that works everywhere. Or become a payment processing system under all credit cards (Apple has to have a major pipe into all the card processing systems now... they just buy one or 20[per country]) and offer up the lowest fraud loss costs in the industry. That is a major sale, and worth a 5-10% per transaction fee.
My guess is Apple can partner with a FICO or a 41st parameter, and build out a great fraud prevention engine behind their Payment systems...
So... in 2008 Apple starts out targeting 1% of phone sales
Let's predict: In 2014... they target servicing 1% of US Gross Retail (~350B), $175M in Profit (a break even service, for the benefit of their iOS users)...
But... grow that to servicing 20% of the G10 Retail Sales (using 2009 numbers) with the same profits per transaction: $48Billion.
That's not a hobby;-)
That's why the Authentec technology is so important. It establishes a smart 'delegated trust' from Retailer, to Apple(and the underlying cardholder), to device, to the holder of the device.
And why the 5s is a big deal, if it does have said technology
I feel the exact same way. I think iOS 7 looks like absolute crap. I like the new features, but I hate the look. It's almost as if Apple is trying to make everything look ugly now.
I've never had problems with attachments - so long as you've got iWork or some office type suite. You can also save video attachments, PDFs, locally from emails.