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Apple Sends Invites for 'Spring Forward' Media Event on March 9
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Rogifan
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thekev
macrumors 604
Your watch pricing is unlikely. Apple is very much a mass market brand. I would be shocked if they priced the entry that high. I also wouldn't think of this in regular watch terms. As a piece of tech that is likely to have a much shorter repurchasing cycle, I am almost positive it will start under $500, especially as it's unlikely to displace other purchases. The iphone and other recent phones displaced point and shoot cameras, and probably lowered the frequency of new laptop purchases. This is more likely to be used in addition to current tech items.
I could actually see them trying to make it thin, if it keeps a watch from catching on shirt sleeves or other things.
Tyler23
macrumors 603
Mattsasa
macrumors 68020
thekev
macrumors 604
Why Q4? Broadwell options should be out shortly, and the macbook pro hasn't seen any significant changes since 2013. It's unlikely that Skylake cpus appropriate to the macbook pro will be available this year. It doesn't mean we won't see anything from Skylake. I just doubt we'll see them in a macbook pro when appropriate Broadwell processors are slated for Q2.
I think so. That's the most commonly quoted figure on here. Even if they didn't, his speculation was kind of high.
doelcm82
macrumors 68040
dylin
macrumors 6502a
Didn't they mention at the last keynote in September that the watch would start at $350?
steve-p
macrumors 68000
Yeah. I remember the battery life between charges being weeks, too. Those were the days 🙂
Newtons Apple
Suspended
That's from the movie "keeping the faith", love that movie. Those micro cells phones were utterly ridiculous though 🙂, unless your a spy...
AppleScruff1
macrumors G4
The Razr was pretty thin and so was the Star Tac in it's day. IMO, the original Star Tac had the most wow factor of any cell phone, including the original iPhone. It was marketed as the first wearable cell phone.
navier
macrumors regular
splogue
macrumors 6502
The watch will be the main event, but perhaps we'll finally find out what is going on with the rumored retina version of the MacBook Air. Perhaps the iPad Pro, too.
We'll find out soon enough, and finally get the answers we've been waiting for.
Sean
LordVic
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Miniaturization of technology, especially mobile phones has always been at the forefront of technological innovation:
Some phones pre-dating the iPhone that constantly tried to push the boundaries for "thin" and "small" at the time.
Motorolla StarTac, at the time of launch, worlds smallest commercial cell phone. With Approximately 60 Million editions sold. circa 1996
Or the ultra thin RAZR from motorolla, released in 2004, by 2006 sold and estimated 60 million, and Version 3 sold an estimated 130+ Million.
doelcm82
macrumors 68040
Correct. It was a sight gag based on the trend in those pre-iPhone days toward ever smaller and thinner mobile phones.
Night Spring
macrumors P6
As I recall, right before the iPhone came out, cell phones were getting ridiculously small. Not just thinner, but smaller. Older people were complaining that the buttons were too small to see and press easily, and comedians such as Jay Leno, Letterman, Conan O'Brien, etc, were making jokes about phones being so small that people might mistakenly inhale them while trying to talk on them.
bobob
macrumors 68040
Shanghaichica
macrumors G5
I think we will see the Apple watch and maybe a minor refresh to the macs or a new iPod touch. I don't think they will launch the iPad pro or a retina MacBook air as they will want the Apple watch to be the main event.