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Apple UK Special Event: September 18th 2007
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SlashGear is invited again and will be doing livecast at http://live.slashgear.com
We never been to London, so if anyone in that area wants to show us around or guide us or just to hang out and get some drinks
please PM me
If it's 3G iphone i want one!!!!
We never been to London, so if anyone in that area wants to show us around or guide us or just to hang out and get some drinks
please PM me If it's 3G iphone i want one!!!!
New Music Tuesday + UK = The Beatles
I expect to see Jobs fly in on his plane and have a joint press release with Sir Paul McCartney and perhaps Yoko and Ringo will be there as well to officially announce release of The Beatles catalog on iTunes!
I highly doubt Sir Richard Branson of Virgin- Music-, Mobile-, Airlines will be attending the event. Branson is perhaps the only other person who has the Jobsonian charisma to run Apple!
Eric Pollitt
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I expect to see Jobs fly in on his plane and have a joint press release with Sir Paul McCartney and perhaps Yoko and Ringo will be there as well to officially announce release of The Beatles catalog on iTunes!
I highly doubt Sir Richard Branson of Virgin- Music-, Mobile-, Airlines will be attending the event. Branson is perhaps the only other person who has the Jobsonian charisma to run Apple!
Eric Pollitt
Global Hemp, Inc
Global Hemp Store
i was serious
international stuff
like rogers in canada
and UK
and germany
and france
and thats it
one more thing
beatles
and
new ipod socks
Well I did put my foot in my mouth when I used the term "legal tender" (I meant only to refer to the fact that you can pay for things in Euros in England), but saying that England will only be great again when it shucks off the illusion that it still has an Empire is spot on actually.
If we go back to the very beginning of this (off-topic!) rant, the example of Ireland being so much better off, and so much further ahead by enthusiastically embracing the European future is still a perfect example.
Besides which, you know England in particular will have to drop the parochialism and the "we used to rule the world" stuff and join eventually, and then everyone will just be wishing it happened sooner.
It's all just based on a ridiculous faded dream of glory and the (unspoken) idea that "Pounds Sterling" will eventually be the worlds number one currency again. The Euro is much better positioned to be the "World's Currency" than the Pound or the US Dollar.
Small point of order: it was the British Empire and not the English Empire - and we use the same currency all over the United Kingdom. England is not the same as Britain.
Off-topic
re the iphone, I'm hoping for the 3G one, but I'm sure we'll get the Edge version. Next year perhaps.
Please stop using the word England when you mean the UK. If you're trying to convince people you know the country and can argue cogently about it it doesn't help.
There are economic and political arguments for not joining (The ECB has the interests of France and Germany at heart, not the UK and is subject to more political pressure than the central banks in the UK). Really it has nothing to do with any perceived pride in empire (the UK has for some time not had an empire). Brown has been sceptical of the Euro as chancellor (for reasons nothing to do with empire and everything to do with losing control over economic management).
However I suspect Brown will join in his own time, if he wins the next election and the economic forecast is good for a time. He'd probably like to be remembered as the one who joined the Euro at the right time, in a measured fashion.
re the iphone, I'm hoping for the 3G one, but I'm sure we'll get the Edge version. Next year perhaps.
Besides which, you know England in particular will have to drop the parochialism and the "we used to rule the world" stuff and join eventually, and then everyone will just be wishing it happened sooner.
Please stop using the word England when you mean the UK. If you're trying to convince people you know the country and can argue cogently about it it doesn't help.
There are economic and political arguments for not joining (The ECB has the interests of France and Germany at heart, not the UK and is subject to more political pressure than the central banks in the UK). Really it has nothing to do with any perceived pride in empire (the UK has for some time not had an empire). Brown has been sceptical of the Euro as chancellor (for reasons nothing to do with empire and everything to do with losing control over economic management).
However I suspect Brown will join in his own time, if he wins the next election and the economic forecast is good for a time. He'd probably like to be remembered as the one who joined the Euro at the right time, in a measured fashion.
Too much hacking, not enough using...
I have been using (kind of) my bosses US iPhone over the past few days, and have spent most of my time, restoring, updating, installing, flashing and so on and so on.... Just trying to get it to work for him on a UK network...
I have to say that I can't wait until I can get a UK one, as I have had it with all the hacks, and frustrations... Just want to be able to update and use it normally...!
(Off Topic - other thread I know) - Anyone who got it working in the UK (and using a Mac and the GUI unlock), I would be interested to know if they could help...
I have been using (kind of) my bosses US iPhone over the past few days, and have spent most of my time, restoring, updating, installing, flashing and so on and so on.... Just trying to get it to work for him on a UK network...
I have to say that I can't wait until I can get a UK one, as I have had it with all the hacks, and frustrations... Just want to be able to update and use it normally...!
(Off Topic - other thread I know) - Anyone who got it working in the UK (and using a Mac and the GUI unlock), I would be interested to know if they could help...
Only some large UK Store's would accept the Euro as payment, and then you would find it very hard work, so no one should think it was easy to pay in Euros in the UK.
The UK does not need the Euro, you only need to look at how strong the Pound is £1 = US$2.01, 1.45, so why would we join the Euro? and how have we as a country got it so wrong?
As for your point about Ireland enthusiastically embracing the EU is correct, but you must remember that the EU has pumped in millions in to that country, which before the needed investment it could be technically classed as a third world country. So you can place a monetary value on their enthusiasm.
And before anyone says anything, I am English/Irish - so I can put my hat on both sides of the Irish sea.
<Edit> Guardian article has an update:
"Update: A source has mailed me to say that the operator announcements (already not exactly secret) aren't likely to happen on Tuesday. "There may well be an Apple thing next Tuesday but that is to announce its Euro stuff... The UK operator is slated to be announced on the 24th". That might indicate that we're just going to get some sort of launch date confirmed."
I heard O2 were bringing out their data packages, or announcing them at least on ~25/26th, so a week after the event on the 18th. So we could see iPhones being announced on the 18th, and in stores by the 25th? Or another conference on the 25th/26th at the expo?
I imagine Apple won't go to every different country just to announce who's got the rights for the iPhone, so they might announce them all at some point.
Not sure now about a 3G model - they could, but is it too close to the price drops and Touch model? Though, as the article says, we've got bona fide unlocked phones, with price drops, so why not roll out the 3G - (they've been making them alongside the EDGE version I belive to get 3 million out of the door if i remember rightly).
"Update: A source has mailed me to say that the operator announcements (already not exactly secret) aren't likely to happen on Tuesday. "There may well be an Apple thing next Tuesday but that is to announce its Euro stuff... The UK operator is slated to be announced on the 24th". That might indicate that we're just going to get some sort of launch date confirmed."
I heard O2 were bringing out their data packages, or announcing them at least on ~25/26th, so a week after the event on the 18th. So we could see iPhones being announced on the 18th, and in stores by the 25th? Or another conference on the 25th/26th at the expo?
I imagine Apple won't go to every different country just to announce who's got the rights for the iPhone, so they might announce them all at some point.
Not sure now about a 3G model - they could, but is it too close to the price drops and Touch model? Though, as the article says, we've got bona fide unlocked phones, with price drops, so why not roll out the 3G - (they've been making them alongside the EDGE version I belive to get 3 million out of the door if i remember rightly).
I also doubt a 3G model, but I think a 16Gb model will almost certainly be announced. Apple would rather you buy an iPhone than an iPod Touch, so they're not going to give the iPod Touch any technical advantage over the iPhone (at least not for long).
I expect a UK iPhone release, both 8 and 16Gb models (£269 and £319) with the 16Gb model available in America as well. We'll see if the US Apple Store goes down as well.
16Gb iPhone here I come!
I expect a UK iPhone release, both 8 and 16Gb models (£269 and £319) with the 16Gb model available in America as well. We'll see if the US Apple Store goes down as well.
16Gb iPhone here I come!
I agree on the 3G. Apple has never really been about giving everyone what they want.
Also about the 16GB model. I'd say that will come out at the original price of the 8GB. If they didn't then all the current owners of the 8GB will have another panic attack!
Yeah, I'd equate $600 to about £320 in the UK which would suit me down to the ground. I was a little wary about downgrading my storage from an 80Gb iPod to an 8Gb iPhone, but a 16Gb version would be dandy.
The UK finally has video content on the ITMS too, but it's REALLY expensive. Series one of "That 70's Show" is £36 ($72) which for a 25 minute show is just ridiculous. I bought series one and two on DVD for £13 instead, I can always use handbrake to put them in iTunes so I get the best of both worlds for less than half the price.
Don't Apple release that videos on the ITMS have to be MORE than competitively priced compared to DVDs?
"Realize" nor release... and remember apple doesn't dictate the price, the content provider does. Apple have to charge what they want or not sell. As the ITMS store gets bigger in the U.S. they can put more pressure on the UK providers. Especially if the UK store sales are languishing in low figures due to the high prices.
OMGS I can't believe you are spell checking my spell check!
Realise, realize. Stupid american spell checker in firefox!
And about NBC, that's basically what i was saying. Apple said 1.99 or not sell. So NBC said no. Apple have more say in prices over in america for various reasons. Maybe it was harder for them to negotiate in the UK because the ITMS store isn't as big a success.
Stupid thought - or is it?
I was wondering... If I wandered into a US Apple store and said "I want an iPhone, here's my $400+tax", would they hand one over to me or would I have to sign up for a contract with AT&T?
If this were the case, I could then just run one of the unlocking methods, shove in my SIM, and use the phone.
The only drawbacks I can see are that I won't have visual voicemail and that a future update may re-lock the phone.
Given that this is the case, I wonder if Apple have tacitly accepted the unlockers knowing that Apple will sell a lot more iPhones to those "willing to risk it" and to those in markets that won't be selling iPhones in any case.
Just a thought - sorry if it's been said before.
I was wondering... If I wandered into a US Apple store and said "I want an iPhone, here's my $400+tax", would they hand one over to me or would I have to sign up for a contract with AT&T?
If this were the case, I could then just run one of the unlocking methods, shove in my SIM, and use the phone.
The only drawbacks I can see are that I won't have visual voicemail and that a future update may re-lock the phone.
Given that this is the case, I wonder if Apple have tacitly accepted the unlockers knowing that Apple will sell a lot more iPhones to those "willing to risk it" and to those in markets that won't be selling iPhones in any case.
Just a thought - sorry if it's been said before.
that might might not be the case over here though.
who knows what they will do, but then if you can buy them in the apple stores then it should work the same way unless they have o2 stalls to set up the contracts.