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Apple Store Goes Down Ahead of Today's 'Let Us Loop You In' Event
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Yea, def refresh on the Macbook. Pros/Airs are only discounted slightly (~$60) so maybe they launch around June when new Skylakes come out?
Eh maybe not. Given the price of Apple products I would say there are very few people who are going to simply impulse buy something on the web store without doing at least some research. And if you do at least some research it would not take long to learn they are expect to update product lines today. So I would imagine if they left the store up today sales would be low anyhow
Puzzles me too! Ignore the products (sizes) you don't want, whine about the ones you actually buy and find things not likable in them.
Or 'options' which has served us perfectly well for centuries.
Re-branding of the iPhone 5S ???
DO you already know what the iPhone SE is ?
I know what the rumors have said (just in case you forgot which website you were on), and a 4" iPhone with the internals of the 6 in it is simply a rebranded 5s. But I'm sure people will be happy and it will sell like hotcakes so Apple won't be forced to actually make a design change to radically reduce the overall size of the bigger screen phones.
Why? You can already get it now as beta. And to be honest, there is really nothing in 9.3 either. In a week you will forget that you have it.
I can’t wait to see what you have in store during the “We can’t wait to show you what we have in store” event.
Good post. The Watch was supposed to be the 'next big market'....and so far it's been a swing and miss. It's a niche market that doesn't seem poised to 'grow a new industry' like the smartphone or tablet. (looking back, their insistence on being a player in the fashion world...then botching every aspect of the AW launch was an epic fiasco.) They are fiddling around in the TV market - but there is nothing on the horizon showing they are going to make a splash there either.
So Tim Cook is left to offer size tweaks, internal spec upgrades and trivial gimmicks to the current line and do a quick shuffle on the stage with a fancy presentation to try to drum up excitement. Which wouldn't be bad if they were rock solid updates. What's more concerning is it's compromise updates - stripped down iMac, stripped down Mini, underpowered MB with one port, removing the audio jack from the iPhone 7 (allegedly).
An iPhone 6SE with 6s hardware/features and no compromises would be a hit. A MB with more ports and a better keyboard would be a hit. A Mini with decent out of the box specs would be a hit. An iMac with an improvement on the SSD size of the fusion drive (instead of crippling it like they did the last go around) would be a hit. An MBA with a SkyLake and retina would be a hit. (Heck, replacing the MB with a retina MBA would probably be cool with most Apple fans.)
It's not even that they need to change the world with every announcement. I'd be happy if they just rolled out some quality upgrades that.
Actually rumors are about a 4" smartphone with an A9 inside ... that's not a rebranded 5S
This event is being held on campus so that's a pretty big clue its a minor event. My guess is Apple realizes going 8-9 months without an event is no good so they'll always have a spring event a couple months before WWDC.
Some of the configurations of the 12" Macbook are also sold out over here in the UK (in some stores), including the gold and silver which is sold out at Curry's. I wonder if there will be a Macbook update today, time wise they could fit it in if its just a spec update
Intro/updates - 5 minutes
IOS 9.3 - 10 - 15 minutes
iPhone SE 10 - 15 minutes
iPad Air 3/Pro mini - 10 - 15 minutes
Apple Watch bands - 5 - 10 minutes
= 60 minutes, Apples smaller events usually run around 70- 90 minutes so there could be time to updates the Mac's as well.
There might be some truth to that, but I also think that for those of us who follow the Apple related rumor and info sites, we are simply spoiling any excitement by "knowing" what's coming ahead of time. Yes, there isn't likely to be any ground-breaking / earth shattering new products released, but we shouldn't expect that in a yearly release - let alone every 4-5 years.
They did the same last year with a March event, so it seems like its becoming a regular thing now.
it's you. if you spend your time on rumor sites all day, you'll cease to be surprised.
Depends on which device it's on. I have 9.3 on one of my iPad minis and scheduled Night Shift on it from 9pm to 7am. Woke up this AM and accidentally picked up a different mini w/ 9.2 and nearly burned out my eyeballs. Definitely will not forget that. Night Shift seems like a forgettable but once you get use to its a fantastic feature.
Anyone else notice that Apple stores have been relatively empty lately?
every few weeks I visit the Apple store here in Chicago and lately I have noticed the store seems empty, it used to feel jam packed every time I would visit? Just curious if others have noticed this trend? It may point to a weak quarter.
every few weeks I visit the Apple store here in Chicago and lately I have noticed the store seems empty, it used to feel jam packed every time I would visit? Just curious if others have noticed this trend? It may point to a weak quarter.
"Better"
Gosh.
My 2mm flawless diamond is better than a 50ft sheet of glass (not to mention that it could cut it into pieces, hehe). Yes, a stupid analogy, but to match an equally daft comment.
Reducing the size of the 4.7" and 5.5 devices. Moving to an onscreen home button/behind the glass TouchID, going to an edge to edge display, rearranging the camera/speaker/sensors on the top to bring the height down. I'd rather have that, and a thicker and asymmetrical iPhone to account for the additional space needed, than another 10% drop in thickness, and the loss of the 3.5mm jack.
Jealousy? I don't know if it's because I'm from a different culture but how can anyone be jealous of a phone? Even more a phone itself as a concept, not just having a phone, which is also weird. It seems absurd to me, seriously. Would you like to have a built in wifi ac chip or what?