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Apple Schedules Extended Retail Meetings May 22nd

To celebrate our 10th anniversary in retail...

...here is a free copy to all our customers of the revamped mobileme

(boom?)


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I posted this in the iMac section, but for everyone's viewing, here's my take on what's coming.

In keeping with the recent re-release of the Commodore 64 they've decide to release oleMac.
 

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Black curtain so customers can't see something new in the store...

Perhaps a first... Apple first TV...
 
My Speculation

Apple will be announcing the full details on Mac OSX Lion for sure June 6th, so this could be training on how to use and get Lion. Maybe the new MobileMe will be a huge part of Lion that hasn't been revealed. I could imagine Steve Jobs saying at WWDC "so when are we going to release Mac OSX Lion? next month, next week... we are going to release Mac OSX Lion for the first time on the Mac App Store, Today."
NFC has been a big rumor. Maybe there is training on how to use that and it's secretly embedded in the iPhone 4 or iPad 2.
 
Employees have had to download gigabytes of data from Apple corporate labeled, "training" in a password-protected zipped folder that won't accessible to managers or anyone else until Saturday afternoon.


has to be lion. :D
 
New Products: iLeak & iTrap

It is a two fold event the First part iLeak is already out and is what we are all responding to and on sunday iTrap will come out with different zip files so each store and the info that comes out are the ones that fell for iTrap. :-D
 
Pman17 said:
NFC has been a big rumor. Maybe there is training on how to use that and it's secretly embedded in the iPhone 4 or iPad 2.
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If there was a NFC chip in either of those, we would have known it by now. Both devices have been torn down so many times someone would have noticed a stray chip and someone would've been able to identify it.
 
4God said:
How long ago was it that the only way to get Mobile Me was a 60 day free trial?
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I literally just signed up for one (an hour ago) and my god it's a pain! I have to export and reimport all my calendars to my @me account!

(Yes I realise I didn't have to, as something magical may be happening this weekend and i'll probably have to swap them all back... but still!)

Why can't I just sync the ones on my Mac? And no nested calendars! Or subscriptions!
I definitely won't be paying when the trial expires if nothing better/free arrives!

If your wondering, it was more out of interest in seeing if the process for signing up for an account still worked....
 
The new iDesk?

New iDesk the tablet for your desk?

Spec 27 inch screen, 4 core Arm chip? optional keyboard?

Features real multitasking apps, multiple IOS apps running concurrently on the screen at the same time?
 
As someone who worked for Apple (and many other big corporations in retail) It seems to me that what would be likely is some sort of big change in the way they do training and how the store operates. I've been to tons of store meetings where nobody would tell you what it was about, and then they roll out the "gold standard service philosophy" or some such junk that they think will make the way the store works better.

I'd imagine lots of store meetings have had gigabytes of data that was locked down till the day before, so that doesn't seem to out of the ordinary.

The visual stuff being locked down just seems like it's back to school related. Typically visual displays came in the day they were being put up, but sometimes they'd be delayed by a day or so. I'd imagine it might be something a little more special than usual, but they probably just want all the visuals to be up the same day across the board.

EDIT: Also, the speculation on why there are only one back of house, or one genius, etc. That is probably only one store's setup. Often when we'd have these larger visual nights (pre Christmas usually) they were sprung on us quickly, so they needed to find anyone who could work the day, that usually meant people not working the next day (Sunday) and really anyone can do a visual overnight, and they're usually not doing anything related to their normal job.
 
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It's the Long awaited iGame console !!

Has to be the long awaited iGame Console !

The Killer to xBox Connect / PS3 / Wii , et al...

App Store will hit overload with game downloads...

Also, users can stream movies / live TV a la Apple TV..

Who would have guessed !!!
 
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anthonylambert said:
New iDesk the tablet for your desk?

Spec 27 inch screen, 4 core Arm chip? optional keyboard?

Features real multitasking apps, multiple IOS apps running concurrently on the screen at the same time?
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I'll bite:

Quad-core ARMs aren't available yet, not sure the current ARM series would support that even.

Any new iOS devices will be listed and found long before launch. How long has the iPhone 5 been in the registries already? Since 4.2?
 
qzxyu said:
We would have heard something somewhere along the production line. There are too many parts from too many places going into the iPhone for someone not to leak something and give a heads up to a possible new phone. The public has speculated and usually been correct within a few weeks on iPhones up till now, I dont see this changing for the iPhone 5.
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I think with what happened last year, Apple has gotten ridiculously strict about the next iPhone, and it's still on for a June/July launch this year (July most likely). I'm not saying that's what I think this event is for though, I have no idea.
 
vizkiz said:
I think with what happened last year, Apple has gotten ridiculously strict about the next iPhone, and it's still on for a June/July launch this year (July most likely). I'm not saying that's what I think this event is for though, I have no idea.
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I agree, I am sure they are trying everything possible to keep it hush hush. However there have been numerous claims already that Apple is going to push the iPhone 5 or '4S' or whatever they will call it till the Fall. I would love to see a new iPhone since my contract is now up and have been waiting for the next generation for 2 months now, but I don't see it coming till the Fall. I really hope it comes out soon though because the new Droid X2 is sounding like a mighty fine phone and I wont have to wait another 5 or so months. I want to stick with an iPhone, but I dont know if.. I... can... make... it......
 
there is an ice cube in hell chance that a 7am in the morning meeting with black curtains will just be a tmobile iphone.
 
johndallas999 said:
Ok, I love Apple products but this is going a bit far in their quest to have everything top secret, NDA, covered windows, etc.... This is the side of Apple I don't care for, making a huge spectacle over every new/upgraded product that they release....come on....
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I agree. Apple should get over themselves.
 
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