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Apple Webcast?

Originally posted by MrMacman
I really wanna see this webcast...

Of Coarse no one posted an image of what this webcast page LOOKED like because it is EMPTY now...
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I clicked on an old bookmark for the Macworld SanFran 03 Keynote, and when I say the page, I quickley copied and pasted the note and sent it to arn.

I also clicked on the 'Watch Now' of which was the Macworld SanFran 03 keynote.

Though I closed it and when I tried to go back to it, it come up blank.

This page have always been used for streams in the past, and generally they keep the previous keynote link on it.

I wished I had taken a screen shot, at least I did a copy/paste of the text. I'd care to bet that they were testing the page and equiptment ready for the announcement on Monday - not realising it was live and took it down immediately when they realised. So I reckon it will be back up very soon. Hears hoping anyway!


James.
 
Re: Quality nice!

Originally posted by silvergunuk
Let's hope they have a few live bands to perform on stage for the keynote...would be pretty cool and maybe steve jobs doing a beatles cover for a few good laughs.QUOTE]

It wouldn't surprise me if Steve brougt in some high-profile musician to help make the pitch. The new music service is supposed to have some heavy marketing punch behind it. Maybe we'll see the Eagles and No Doubt in the commercials. Or the usual Apple spokemen Seal and Moby.
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music service

so what's the music service gonna be called? I can imaging sony or whoever calling it something like "MusicDirect", but apple would never be that anal. Maybe it won't have a name, just be part of iTunes 4?
 
Something interesting...

While talking with my local Apple dealer they mentioned that the Apple Rep said to make sure they were in on the 28th (not out doing sales etc), becuase he was going to call with news. They told me this is the first time the Apple Rep will call, usually an email is sent, no matter what new goodies are released. So the call is a major change form the norm and has they wondering.

I think we are all going to be suprised.

My prediction is new iMac (significant changes, including form?)

iPod redesigned.

Other hints they have given to me have come true, but were to vauge to waste space here. Such as the iBook update, I knew something was coming, but no clue as to what. Both iPod and iMac were mentioned recently by the Rep

Most of the hints come from the rep as "I woundn't order and more of those until after .." and gives a rough date.

Sorry to be secretive, but I do not want to get my Apple dealer in any hot water :\
 
I'm guessing no live QT feed

I'm beginning to think we're not going to see the stream live, it's only a day away and they haven't hyped it at all. My guess is that once it's over they'll throw up a new splash page, edit the store and then on the product information page post a link to the QT steam of the event AFTER the fact.

This would also explain the "test page" joed says he saw.

Damn, I had a 2 hour chunk of time right at the time it would hvae been live, depending on how long the broadcast is I probably won't get to see what the new products are till later in the evening.
 
I'm going to have to play the disagree card...

Originally posted by daRAT
Something interesting...
I think we are all going to be suprised.

My prediction is new iMac (significant changes, including form?)

iPod redesigned.
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Look at the Apple Store. New iBooks, new PowerBooks, new PowerMacs, new iMacs, new pro and consumer Software (by iApps standards iLife is very new). With the eMac just traling the new iMacs (the 1ghz Airport Extreme ones) I doubt they'll see an update soon either.

What I'm getting at is that Apple has made it pretty darn obvious that we're not seeing a computer tomorrow. iTunes is the only "old" iLife software, iPods are the only "old" hardware. Hell we're more likely to see Panther than a new Powermac/iMac/etc. Don't get excited, we know Panther will be pro WWDC ;-).

To me it seems clear that the announcement has to be one of the following:
1) A new piece of hardware/software
2) An update to the iPod/iTUnes
3) A new service

Add the piles of rumors pointing to Apple's online $1/song system and the need for MPEG-4 for this system to run i'll place my chips on iPod software 1.3 with AAC, iTunes4 with AAC, rendezvous, 1-Click music system, and whatever else Apple puts in, and ideally a new iPod with 30Gb HDs, maybe a simple color screen for iPhoto (MAYBE). It'd be cool to see MPEG-4 audio/video off the HD, streaming off the internet via a Bluetooth enabled cell phone dial out and OSX-enabled Wacom screen, but I doubt it.
 
The annoucement tomorrow is ONLY about the music service and a new line of iPods plus the necessary free updates to iTunes and current iPods. No new iMacs or any other hardware. The invitation to the press said "..music to your ears". May is going to be music month for Apple. On the stage tomorrow will be reps from the big 5 labels. On Friday May 2nd all Apple stores will have open house and enable people to play with the new iPods and download tunes. I suspect that .Mac subscribers will possibly get 5 or 6 free downloads. Everybody else will pay from the git go. We will all know soon enuf.

And, yes, don't skip school.
 
New York Times

Tomorrow's initial lead articles were posted to the NYT web site. The 4th headline is about Apple's expected music streaming rollout.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/28/technology/28APPL.html

The NYT doesn't generally report things without a couple of solid sources, so they're probably pretty accurate. I haven't been following the story closely enough to know how much of it is new information, but there are a couple details in the article I don't remember seeing mentioned elsewhere.
 
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