Apple to Hold Media Event on September 7th, 2011?

[Luap]

Ack at you guys still rocking iPhone 3G's. I'm surprised the battery isn't **** by now. I hope you guys are all rocking iPhone 5's in a few weeks


...and to think, I thought my 3GS was ancient and slow

Christ, im still using a 1st gen iPhone! Battery is fine

 

[bradkrischel]

iCloud?

Unless you're somewhere (plane) with no service and you decide you want to listen to that song. I'd much rather have all of my music accessible on my device at all times. In other words, give me a large storage device (iPod Classic). Nothing matches the Classic if you are a true music fan with a large library.

 

[cjscribe]

Ack at you guys still rocking iPhone 3G's. I'm surprised the battery isn't **** by now. I hope you guys are all rocking iPhone 5's in a few weeks


...and to think, I thought my 3GS was ancient and slow

I'm still rocking the 2G iphone...

 

[480951]

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I don't think we'll see a 128GB version - at least not this year. I expect to see the 8GB capacity bumped to 16GB, while the other ones stay the same. So it would be 16GB, 32GB, 64GB all at the regular price points. However, I do think we'll see a 64GB iPhone 5.

Three years in a row with the same maximum capacity seems like a long time, however if flash prices are that expensive I guess I can see them keeping it at 64GB.

 

[Apple...]

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Ack at you guys still rocking iPhone 3G's. I'm surprised the battery isn't **** by now. I hope you guys are all rocking iPhone 5's in a few weeks


...and to think, I thought my 3GS was ancient and slow

I'm still rocking the 2G iphone...

You're nuts! But I thinks it's awesome that you haven't upgraded forever too.

 

[Gjwilly]

First of all, it wouldn't be at Moscone. Apple only rents that facility for WWDC.

The media events are just one day, with a 1.5-2 hour stage presentation. However, they require 2-3 days of setup and the day after to teardown. They couldn't just book the Yerba Buena theatre for one day.

When they do a Tuesday event at Yerba Buena, there's activity the Friday before: event contractors (e.g., A/V), wireless access points, etc. They don't come in Monday morning. My guess is they set up Friday and Saturday, take Sunday off, then do a dry run sometime on Monday.

If Apple uses the town hall facility on their campus, all that activity is cloaked from the general public. As someone else mentioned, it's a smaller venue so fewer invitations would go out; the B-Listers would be shut out.

They want a decent sized venue for the iPhone announcement. After all, the iPhone is their cash cow, they want maximum coverage.

So again, where would it be?
I think this rumor is just that.
When the iPad 2 announcement rumors started flying they were all for dates that YB at least showed as available.

 

[Navdakilla]

Please iphone!

 

[AppleMactablet]

Hey how's this thing will go down

August 16-18th Invites
Sept 7th Event

Event
iOS 5 today
iPhone release on Sept 13, Beginning of October for the rest of World
iPod release in Middle of Oct-New iPod touch, nano/shuffle reduced pricing
iTunes 11

 

[Apple...]

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Hey how's this thing will go down

August 16-18th Invites
Sept 7th Event

Event
iOS 5 today
iPhone release on Sept 13, Beginning of October for the rest of World
iPod release in Middle of Oct-New iPod touch, nano/shuffle reduced pricing
iTunes 11

What about iCloud???

 

[jruc4871]

Christ, im still using a 1st gen iPhone! Battery is fine

Last night I finally gave up on the battery of my 3GS (bought on launch day). I was getting maybe 3-4 hours. Truly dreadful.

Switched over to my wife's old 3G until the 5 comes out. It is much slower but the battery is still full this morning after 5 hours.

 

[Shanpdx]

Hey how's this thing will go down

August 16-18th Invites
Sept 7th Event

Event
iOS 5 today
iPhone release on Sept 13, Beginning of October for the rest of World
iPod release in Middle of Oct-New iPod touch, nano/shuffle reduced pricing
iTunes 11

we know the pattern of iPod touch event, do not we?

three more weeks... i am not excited, no more money to spend ...

 

[cvaldes]

So again, where would it be?
I think this rumor is just that.
When the iPad 2 announcement rumors started flying they were all for dates that YB at least showed as available.

In my opinion, it's pointless to speculate.

Yeah, if we could look at the Yerba Buena facility booking calendar, we might be able to take an educated guess, Just look for a week-long booking for a nameless corporate event, there's probably a 50-50 chance it's Apple. Then again Apple has other options for venues, so it's still a silly exercise.

Frankly, I think this September 7 date is a crock. But then again, 98% of Apple rumors end up being false. It doesn't take a gambling man to dismiss any random Apple rumor.

The only two semi-credible sources are AllThingsD/Wall Street Journal and Cnet. Everyone else is blathering.

 

[SamIchi]

Honestly, What about it needs an update? It's a rock-solid 160GB metal beast as it is.

SSD! Faster, thinner, slightly smaller, but still have full size click wheel. Other than that, it's perfect.

I lost mine about a month ago, I need this update. Don't get rid of the click wheel, it wouldn't be a Classic, if it didn't have it. Give it an iPad like bevel and boom, done redesigned for another decade.

 

[Digital Skunk]

SSD! Faster, thinner, slightly smaller, but still have full size click wheel. Other than that, it's perfect.

I lost mine about a month ago, I need this update. Don't get rid of the click wheel, it wouldn't be a Classic, if it didn't have it. Give it an iPad like bevel and boom, done redesigned for another decade.

Agreed but keep the SSD for those with small libraries. I don't have but 16GBs of music but I carry my Classic around for movies . . . over 100GBs of movies.

No need for WiFi or streaming, just plug the connection kit into the TV or watch right on the albeit tiny screen.

 

[cvaldes]

Hey how's this thing will go down

August 16-18th Invites
Sept 7th Event

Event
iOS 5 today
iPhone release on Sept 13, Beginning of October for the rest of World
iPod release in Middle of Oct-New iPod touch, nano/shuffle reduced pricing
iTunes 11

Much of this makes no sense.

The press invitations go out about one week before the media event, not a three-week lead time.

The last four iPhones started selling on a Friday, typically about ten days after a Tuesday unveiling.

The iOS5 and iCloud release would probably fall sometime in between. If there's a new iTunes, it would also be part of this software release.

A separate release for the iPods would make sense, maybe a smaller event at their town hall venue on the Apple campus. Despite the fact that the iPods are a much smaller part of Apple's business, they still contribute a fair amount of revenue, partly in the holiday quarter.

The iPod touch is the number one selling iPod these days, it's important to highlight the iOS capabilities of this device (2 iPod touches are sold for every three iPhones). Steve calls it "training wheels" for the iPhone since the iPod touch demographic is much younger (13-24 vs. 25-49 for the iPhone).

 

[winston1236]

iPhone 5!!!!!! finally I can ditch this 3GS!!!

and i can finally ditch my crapberry dying torch

 

[bettaboy123]

Please let there be a new slightly larger, cheaper nano with wifi sync and the ability to use your own pictures as a background! That would be like the perfect iPod for me!!

iPhone 5/new iPod touch? Excited!

iOS 5/iCloud? MUST HAVE!!

New iPod classic/shuffle? Don't care.

 

[bazaarsoft]

Thursday?

Seriously? When was the last Apple announcement on a Thursday?

 

[gramirez2012]

Please let there be a live video stream of the event!!!

I can't wait for the iPhone 5, I'm still stuck on a barely functional 3G. I also wonder if there will be any mention of the rumored 15" ultra-thin notebook?

 

[nylonsteel]

re iP5 sept 7

"surprise, suprise, suprise..." - gomer pyle

will it be sweet like an aapl pie or sweeter like a -

"cherry pie..." - warrant

 

[skeep5]

metallic sparkly navy blue iPhone 5 FTW

 

[Rocketman]

Apple needs double graphic power/memory and graphic power just to keep the same performance as the Ipad2.

About 10% of PCs have 1080P and now people wants a tablet with higher resolution then almost all PCs.

Correct. We do. A5 about doubles overall performance over A4 and quadruples graphics density. A6 will about double overall performance again. 1080p is a bit light on the expectations, don't you think? 3D (2x1080p), 4K (4096x2160)? It doesn't need to display it at that resolution, only send the stream to a connected display.

Rocketman

 

[DReynolds86]

I stand corrected

(I wish that Apple updated the iPod. Technically they could release a 640 gig iPod classic. Put a wifi on it with Airplay/HDMI and you can carry your video library with you to your friends)

Why not just make it 1TB and use it as an external HDD?

 

[cragmr]

Refreshed MBPs to go along with the announced iPhone 5 and new iPod touches would be cool.

 

[Reach9]

I wonder if it will be big enough of an upgrade to make an iPhone 4 owner want to upgrade.

If the case design leaks and rumours are true, then this upgrade will be bigger than the iPhone 3GS to iPhone 4 upgrade.