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Apple Media Event September 7th? iPod Touch, Apple TV, Show Rentals
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Technically, it's not.Apple doesn't have any 'iTouchs' so there is no way there can be 'new' iTouchs.
It's the iPod Touch - not the iTouch
The 't' in touch is not capitalized. You should get your facts straight before you go correcting other people.
It's not exactly a semantic debate. It's far from established that iTV has worldwide rights to it's name -- for example there is an ABC network in the US, and there is an unrelated one in Australia. It's a legit legal question and I'm sure if Apple wants the iTV name it's one they will explore as they have in the past. Cisco is hardly a 100lb weakling. It may end up Apple uses the iTV name in all countries except GB. It wouldn't be the first time a company has varied brand names in different countries for the same product.
True that.
The only reason I have television, besides for Breaking Bad and Dexter, among others, is for Sports. But then, I always ends up purchasing the NFL package, in which case, it's rather pointless to pay a monthly fee.
I am curious how much full seasons will go for. Probably just the sum of all episodes times $0.99. Outrageous.
Actually Labor day is a bigger vacation day then Memorial day in the US but that isn't really the point here. Apple never has events the Tuesday after a US holiday for three main reasons 1) It would be harder to get people to attend (plane fares, hotels, etc are much more expensive) because the attendees actually have to travel on the holiday where airfares are more expensive. 2) Its much more expensive to set up for the show on a holiday (ever paid the teamsters for a holiday setup? I have, I negotiated it down to 2x regular pay) 3) Steve would have to compensate his employees (at least some of them) to set up the show on a holiday. So no, the media event won't be on the 7th. The 8th however is a real possibility.
iPhoto is pretty worthless as is. Could we not have editing options that extend past rudimentary form? But what am I saying, iLife is geared towards the lowest common denominator. It's just not fair.
You'll more than likely get your 128 GB iPod touch.
But yes, 64 GB just doesn't cut it anymore, what with music, videos, books, apps, pictures, etc. I want to utilize the darn thing to its full potential!
September event predictions
I've been tracking Apple news for a couple months now, and I've some of my predictions happened (XCode 4, Safari 5, iBooks with PDF). Not saying I'm good at getting things right but this is just a list.
Please, take this like a grain of salt.
I've been tracking Apple news for a couple months now, and I've some of my predictions happened (XCode 4, Safari 5, iBooks with PDF). Not saying I'm good at getting things right but this is just a list.
Please, take this like a grain of salt.
i just got my blackie iphone 4... if they announce the white one that they are releasing in this couple of weeks... I will be sad...
Because he doesn't know the true benefits of 64 bit, he's just repeating buzzwords he's heard.
I am on a Mac with Snow Leopard. 64 bit is not quicker unless you're running into a circumstances where not having your register space aligned on a 64 bit boundary what is causing your application to wait. In the case of iTunes, disk and memory I/O are much more susceptible to be responsible for slow downs.
2 Cameras
I have a good feeling for a backward-facing camera. Just because facetime is something thats advertised as having forward and backward use, and without a backward-facing one, it would make it difficult to show what you're looking at, as well as yourself.
This has probably been many peoples opinion, but I just want to iterate that I think this is good reason to have one.
I have a good feeling for a backward-facing camera. Just because facetime is something thats advertised as having forward and backward use, and without a backward-facing one, it would make it difficult to show what you're looking at, as well as yourself.
This has probably been many peoples opinion, but I just want to iterate that I think this is good reason to have one.
Maybe it's just wishful thinking, but as I posted on another thread, the 128gb Touch seems likely to me. What will be really interesting will be what, if anything, they do with the Classic.
Also, the whole phone vs. Touch thing is very interesting to me. I'm a middle-aged guy so I probably think differently than some on this, but it seems to me that cell phone subscriptions, and iPhone subscriptions specifically, are outrageously expensive. People pay over $1,000/year. Somehow the industry has managed to sustain this pricing, despite the fact that any computer connected to the Internet can make free calls to any other computer, or cheap calls to any other telephone. It doesn't seem like we're that far away from turning an iPod Touch into a perfectly good $10/month phone.
Also, the whole phone vs. Touch thing is very interesting to me. I'm a middle-aged guy so I probably think differently than some on this, but it seems to me that cell phone subscriptions, and iPhone subscriptions specifically, are outrageously expensive. People pay over $1,000/year. Somehow the industry has managed to sustain this pricing, despite the fact that any computer connected to the Internet can make free calls to any other computer, or cheap calls to any other telephone. It doesn't seem like we're that far away from turning an iPod Touch into a perfectly good $10/month phone.
That's what I did for a while, but always searching for a WiFi hotspot became increasingly annoying.
iPhone plan is the same as all smartphone plans at ATT. ATT doesn't have different plans just for the iPhon.e
iTunes heavily depends on what they're going to do with the Windows version as well.
None. Giving the iPad a 3G modem was completely different, because of the device's form factor. Nobody's gonna hold that thing up to their face to talk on the phone, so AT&T is not potentially losing money on that plan. But an iPod Touch obviously has the same form factor as the iPhone, and AT&T (or whoever) would never go for letting a device identical to the iPhone use their already overloaded network on the cheap. They want you to buy the iPhone and the voice/data/SMS plans that go with it.
64-bits, besides taking advantage of larger memory addresses, helps when the processor can fetch and executes 64-bits of data than at 32-bits. This is good especially if an app does number crunching like encoding and decoding as it requires less time. Imagine an 8-bit arithmetic function fetching a large data set. 8-bits can only process at 8-bits of data at a time and it would take many cycles to complete let say 256kbits of data. Now there are SSE functions that process 64-bit data chunks. It takes less cpu cycles to process the data set.
IMO, 64-bit is beneficiary on processor intensive applications.
Do you think they'd keep an earlier generation and just sell it cheaper? I don't think Apple has ever done that before.
