so can we expect a rev B in two years since everyone will be getting out of their contracts and att will force another 2 years if you want the rev b version.
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Apple Television Ad Says iPhone "Coming June 29th"
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Finally.
Beautiful ads...
Showing what an Apple product actually does...
Brilliant.
wow...
Now if they'd do this with laptops and imacs (ads)... perhaps there would be a real revolution in the industry.
Finally.
Beautiful ads...
Showing what an Apple product actually does...
Brilliant.
wow...
Now if they'd do this with laptops and imacs (ads)... perhaps there would be a real revolution in the industry.
I think Steve told people to picket AT&T stores just to raise the hype beyond MacFans for more press coverage. I wonder how many more adds we will see hyping things before the 29th - And is this a Midnight opening?
I agree. My parents actually reacted to these commercials, saying things like "OH MY GOD! LOOK AT ALL THE THINGS IT DOES!"
I try to get them into the iMac commercials, but they're just kind of casually like "oh...haha...that's funny" (in the tone of Cleveland Brown from Family Guy)
For example, I think if they started advertising what the iLife suite actually DOES on their computers, instead of just name dropping the programs on every commercial, they could catch the eye of a lot of people. Plus, they could still make fun of PC by showing a side by side view of a person on a mac getting the job done insanely quick with the iLife programs, and then the entire time, show the PC person just searching the internet for programs, desperately hoping to find a free program that will accomplish something somewhat similar (kind of like the old marketing campaign with the kid & dog that set up the entire iMac in 10 minutes or whatever, and the PC person is still unpacking at the end). Then at the end of the commercial, say something like "...and best of all, iLife is free with every Apple-brand computer"
Hey look on the bright side. Under "Australia" it has a release date of, "when hell freezes over or when Steve decides to wear pink fluffy slippers to a keynote - whichever comes first".
This one!
Me Too. I will stay up all night to get my hands on two of these puppies.
If I miss the boat on the first few hours, I may have to wait weeks.
They will run out. I don't think they made 1 million in the last 4 weeks prior to launch.they said uk in the winter right? my 18th birthdays in october..w00t.
PM TO STEVIE: release the phone in the uk before october 9th!The best Apple ad NEVER MADE
These ads are great, but for all of you looking for a great iLife ad, there was an internal Apple ad that was even better than these ads. And yes it is possible. I'll do my best to describe the ad for iMovie.
The ad initially showed two kids, about 4 years old, one boy, one girl. They look to be brother and sister, playing in the fall foliage. after several shots of them playing the movie cuts to a locked down shot (read tripod) of the two of them sitting on a bench in the yard. The audio has a sentimental, simple song. You know the type. Now for the good party.
The shot of the of the two kids on the bench slowly dissolves into the exact same shot, only this time the bench is empty and the sounds of the kids giggling just fades away.
Talk about making a point as to why its important in life to take the time out to record the little moments that make it all worth while.
I'm not sure why Apple doesn't air this ad (internal movie?) That was perfect!
These ads are great, but for all of you looking for a great iLife ad, there was an internal Apple ad that was even better than these ads. And yes it is possible. I'll do my best to describe the ad for iMovie.
The ad initially showed two kids, about 4 years old, one boy, one girl. They look to be brother and sister, playing in the fall foliage. after several shots of them playing the movie cuts to a locked down shot (read tripod) of the two of them sitting on a bench in the yard. The audio has a sentimental, simple song. You know the type. Now for the good party.
The shot of the of the two kids on the bench slowly dissolves into the exact same shot, only this time the bench is empty and the sounds of the kids giggling just fades away.
Talk about making a point as to why its important in life to take the time out to record the little moments that make it all worth while.
I'm not sure why Apple doesn't air this ad (internal movie?) That was perfect!
Is it going to be possible to watch the keynote by a live stream? Or are we going to have to just read a description from what is going on by someone inside?
they said uk in the winter right? my 18th birthdays in october..w00t.
In Apple speak I'm sure "winter" means March 20th
Not the "Pay-as-you-go" ghetto crowd as well!
Is it possible to put certain posters (like the one above) to a killfile? Or how about outright banning them? Tattoo here is getting very, very annoying.
What's the 2/12?
Can't be episodes. No matter how you try to figure it it doesn't really work with "Heroes" have 23 episodes in season 1, and 'Run!' being number 15
1. The date on the calendar icon DOES match. (please oh please let this mean Leopard's iCal icon will display the current date!!!)
2. The time on the clock DOESN'T match. (BUT this could be deceiving because on previous pictures the clock icon displays a different time which could mean that Apple simply edited the time on the top bar but not the clock icon.
3. The temperture on the weather icon DOESN'T match, and both new and old photos display 73? at the temperature. A live updated weather icon with clouds/sun/rain/snow flakes would be a convenient touch but it doesn't look that way for now. (that's not to say that a half-inch icon displaying those pictures would be easy to see anyway and simply touching it to see the full details isn't very hard or time consuming anyway.
UPDATE: 2/12 is the date the episode aired.
Ah HA! I found your hidden text! I have the unfortunate habit of highlighting as I read down a page, else I get lost. I'm not smarter than the average bear!
I'd have it just for the iPod and net stuff! Shame I'll have to wait until next Feb when my contract is up
I do not conclude anything from this. I just noted it and you're right : no black hand and no wedding ring.
"Nothing at all" doesn't exist, especially when it comes about ads
For now I'd just say that the ads focus strictly on the product and not on the "target". This will change in the next campaign I guess...
Nah they already diversified the target audience with the "Hello" ad. Film stars are the only ones that use phones.
have u been in Melbourne in the morning lately...
I'm beginning to think hell has frozen over.
You don't need GPS for the Google map thing to work.
In a GSM Cell (Base Station region), a base station can find how far a mobile is (nominally) by measuring the received signal and determining the drop in its strength. The nominal distance is inversely proportional to the signal strength and can be obtained.
Sending that initial request through Google allows the cell packets to go through the closest GSM cell tower to you. In that packet will have the cell tower ID from where it came from. Google can determine the closest address/location you're looking for based on the closest GSM cell tower in that region.
You don't need GPS for this thing to work.
In a GSM Cell (Base Station region), a base station can find how far a mobile is (nominally) by measuring the received signal and determining the drop in its strength. The nominal distance is inversely proportional to the signal strength and can be obtained.
Sending that initial request through Google allows the cell packets to go through the closest GSM cell tower to you. In that packet will have the cell tower ID from where it came from. Google can determine the closest address/location you're looking for based on the closest GSM cell tower in that region.
You don't need GPS for this thing to work.
I see no way that Google servers could work out where you are, but I agree that the maps don't need GPS.
How does the new cell-phone 911 tracking work in the US? I would assume that the cell network works out your location - in GSM the cell towers can tell how far you are from them based on the timing latency. However, that wouldn't work unless you are on a call, and the cell towers would then have to send the phone its location for maps to function.
However, the phone itself could identify the cell towers it can 'hear' and use the relative strengths to get an approximate location - the more dense the area the finer the tuning. If Google & AT&T co-operated, they could give your suburb pretty easily (give or take half a mile). That'd work for general maps and nearby stores, but not for guidance systems.
I wonder if a signal latency can be used from the cell towers to determine a precise location?
Last choice I can see is the iPhone has GPS built in, or uses an external bluetooth GPS.
edit: There's a lot I dont know
http://www.travelbygps.com/articles/tracking.php