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Apple Media Event Near April First?

Holey Crapple!!! :eek:

NOTHING... and the Music tab is gone! :confused:

The iTunes + iPod tab is back in it's place now. :mad:

We have just witnessed a leak people. Probably intentional to downplay Creative's announcement and to make them huddle and start crying in their corner.

Oh Apple, you're so sneaky. :cool:
 
InTheBand said:
Holey Crapple!!! :eek:

NOTHING. :confused:

The iTunes + iPod tab is back. :mad:

We have just witnessed a leak people. Probably intentional to downplay Creative's announcement and to make them huddle and start crying in their corner.

Oh Apple, you're so sneaky. :cool:
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You got a picture of it, right? :confused:

BTW: to answer your other post, yes, I did empty cache, tried another browser, etc. - still never saw it. :(
 
EricNau said:
You got a picture of it, right? :confused:

BTW: to answer your other post, yes, I did empty cache, tried another browser, etc. - still never saw it. :(
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We must've been typing at the same time. No I didn't get a picture but:
"I SWEAR ON EVERYTHING THAT I HOLD DEAR"
that the "iPod + iTunes" tab just said "Musc" for around 30 minutes.

"philipcolett" first reported it, and "iProd" said he saw it too.
 
EricNau said:
Do you know about Command+Shift+3, Command+Shift+4, and Command+Shift+4+Spacebar ?
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No I didn't... but I do now. :eek:

Well I'll be damned. I got little pdf's on my desktop. That info would've been very useful about 15 minutes ago. :D

Did you want me to attach one with the iPod+iTunes tab for you? :eek:
 
The music tab is just a ghost from 2003. It sometimes appears when they switch to the dummy maintenance pages. Sorry that it's not much cooler than that :eek:
 
EricNau said:
Well, that's too bad. At least it solves the mystery though.

:(
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I still choose to believe that it was an intentional leak on Apple's part. Just to rock Creative's sinking boat.

It's just funner that way. :)

I mean, with the iTMS's established market dominance for legal online downloads, what "competitor" wouldn't be worried about another successful Apple online store and it's penetration into another market?

I can't help but think that NetFlix has gotta be a little worried as well. Apple can do what they're doing with no postal charges overhead, right?

I know a lot of people don't have broadband and won't be able to take advantage of Apple's iMovie Video Store / iDVD Movie Store, but Apple can probably snatch a good part of NetFlix's customers who do have broadband.

And then what's to keep Apple from taking even more of NetFlix's customer's by adding a physical delivery service like theirs?

EDIT: UPDATE!

I just saw a BRAND NEW [new to me, and I have my EyeTV on all the time] NetFlix mini "infomercial" about 3-5 minutes in length. The iMac is the only computer used in several shots throughout the commercial. :)

I just found it extremely amusing that I happened to see this NEW [to me] NetFlix commercial and the only one I know of that shows the iMac [I know the other one's used iBooks] right after i finished talking about Apple taking them "out" in the movie delivery/subscription[?] service industry.
 
shuffle

Anyone else notice the shuffle is completely gone from the refurb store? I thought they listed everything, even if they only have the applecare to sell.
 
iProd said:
Wait, are these new?

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APP...J2F9Ps9Xg/0.PSLID?mco=271F9386&nplm=TH499LL/A
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Yeah. I'm sure that those are what Apple just had to shut it's store down for. ;)

itcheroni said:
Anyone else notice the shuffle is completely gone from the refurb store? I thought they listed everything, even if they only have the applecare to sell.
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How long has it been since you noticed that it was listed on the refurb store? Just curious.

Silver 4Gb iPod Mini for $149 is kinda tempting though.

Luckily, I can talk myself out of it by convincing myself that that's $149 that will be going to my vPod/iPod AV later this month! :D
 
The applecare was there about two days ago, no shuffle though. And I noticed last night there was nothing because I put an order for a shuffle in at Amazon and just wanted to double check if they had any at the refurb store.
 
itcheroni said:
The applecare was there about two days ago, no shuffle though. And I noticed last night there was nothing because I put an order for a shuffle in at Amazon and just wanted to double check if they have any at the refurb store.
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Interesting, but I don't know what to make of it. :confused:
 
I'm hoping for a new shuffle that won't block neighboring usb ports. If they do it, it'll probably be announced at the event, you know, right after he mentions how many ipods they've sold in the past quarter and before the major announcement.
 
Plecky said:
- I feel that it may be a "iPod AV" as many have called it with 3.5"-4" screen.
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I've been trying to think about what I haven't thought about... come up with something new :)

One thought that struck me - the current iPod has a low battery life when playing video because it has to power-up the hard disk every 6 or 7 minutes for a TV episode. Normally it only has to do that every 30 mins or so for music. So one solution is upping the 32MB cache. Or adding a 512MB ram chip like the shuffle has... OR....

When we talk about a 4" iPod screen, I think most people think of the existing iPod's thickness. What about if it was a 4" screen with the iPod Nano's thickness (or slightly thicker) and only 8GB? (no hard disk) Is that feasible? It'd sure look cool and hold enough video to make me happy :)
 
Janneman said:
I’m also hoping for a new iBook/MacBook. Now the recent news of Apple investigating touch screen technology which can register multiple contact signals got me thinking… Sure a “tablet Mac” or large touch screen video iPod would be nice, but haven’t the last couple of years shown us that tablet pc’s aren’t as popular as the industry would have wanted them to be? And a touch screen iPod could have surely been developed and deployed long before the new multi-touch sensing technology, no? Now we also control our pods with just one finger movement or click.

A revolutional product I’d like to see being developed by Apple would be a new keyboard!
I know, might sound dull. But imagine a touch screen keyboard (that of course would benefit from the multi-touch sensing technology), without physical buttons. Your keyboard could be customized to your own liking, different settings for each program you use. It could serve as a next generation ‘joystick’ for gaming, or imagine adjusting your photos in Photoshop with a keyboard that actually let’s you move the colour sliders with your fingers … Granny wants to use the computer and switches to her own account, the keyboard now enlarges the buttons for her viewing pleasure. Or maybe your mother prefers an “AZERTY” keyboard layout to your preferred “QWERTY”. Pressing one button could open up a miniature set of other buttons. Keyboard backlighting would get a new meaning, heck, Apply could even build in a mini speaker that would make a ‘click’ sound to acknowledge that you pressed a ‘key’.

An input device like this would surely redefine ‘interface customisation’. And seeing as it would sit on your desktop, you needn’t worry about getting it scratched in your pants. :p
Nor would finger smudges be that annoying since this is your input device, and not the output device (computer screen) that you stare at all the time.

Now that’s a product I’d call 30th anniversary worthy!

*dreams on* >.<
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Coolest idea I've heard so far for the 30th anniv. iPod AV is lost on me, this, on the other hand... Would make for a drastic blow to every other company in the laptop market, I'd say. Imagine how thin the Apple laptop line could be...
 
GregA said:
I've been trying to think about what I haven't thought about... come up with something new :)

One thought that struck me - the current iPod has a low battery life when playing video because it has to power-up the hard disk every 6 or 7 minutes for a TV episode. Normally it only has to do that every 30 mins or so for music. So one solution is upping the 32MB cache. Or adding a 512MB ram chip like the shuffle has... OR....

When we talk about a 4" iPod screen, I think most people think of the existing iPod's thickness. What about if it was a 4" screen with the iPod Nano's thickness (or slightly thicker) and only 8GB? (no hard disk) Is that feasible? It'd sure look cool and hold enough video to make me happy :)
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That's a nice idea, but 8gb's is far too small, even if it does make it ridiculously thin, but i think it needs an 80gb hdd. Some ppl have even said up to 100gb.


All i want is a real video ipod to be released, and i'm 80% sure it will be.
 
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