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iPad 3 Event in March, An 'Unusual' Apple Event in February?
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Its an event to tell us all how Apple Stores will now be selling complete garbage alongside Macs and that super John Browett will be unleashing his ultra cool sales tactic that worked so well when he was at Dixons and will be rolled out across the board. Its worked so well in fact that Dixons was unable to get of the bottom of any customer satisfaction survey in the whole time he was in charge. 
So… for this year, a new, heavily upgraded iPad3 (quad-core, Retina display), the new iPhone5. Then looking over at the Buyer’s guide, not a single green, 'buy now’ recommendation. Which means we can expect new iMacs, new MBPs, new MBAs, possibly new Mac Pros and Minis in 2012. With their most recent record breaking earnings call fresh in memory, I think it’s safe to say that this is going to be a monster year for Apple.
Perhaps a software announcement, perhaps an iWork / iLife refresh taking into account iBook Author app recently released.
iWork 09 on Lion is an exercise in spinning ball frustration.....
iWork 09 on Lion is an exercise in spinning ball frustration.....
No, stop the press.
I have an even better rumor: Apple is ditching all activities but iTV (the new apple television set). iTV will change the world we live in and eliminate the need of a Macbook or iPad or iMac.
Game changer.
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They r going to announce that they are going to buy dell and give all they money back to their investors on steve jobs birthday
They r going to announce that they are going to buy dell and give all they money back to their investors on steve jobs birthday
Quite a treasure, that blog.
I prefer a "strange" event to an "unusual" event.
Without pinning anything more definitive on the calendar, this is the kind of analysis anyone can create for entertainment.
I prefer a "strange" event to an "unusual" event.
Without pinning anything more definitive on the calendar, this is the kind of analysis anyone can create for entertainment.
Because Tim Cook is changing a lot at Apple (matching program, sending company wide e-mails, hiring from the outside) he will probably give us a look at the complete Apple pipeline for the coming year!
MacRumors will be left useless...
MacRumors will be left useless...
It's Foxconngate.
Like the antennagate, where Apple held a special/strange meeting to address concerns with the iPhone's 4 deathgrip, this could be something to do with the recent press in the NYT, Apple's audit of suppliers results? What they found, what was fixed maybe
Like the antennagate, where Apple held a special/strange meeting to address concerns with the iPhone's 4 deathgrip, this could be something to do with the recent press in the NYT, Apple's audit of suppliers results? What they found, what was fixed maybe
I'm really excited about the iPad 3, and the possibility of new MacBook Pros, which I hope will be released by April.
Do a google-image search with upload of that image (little cam icon) to get a hint.
Found it - and many more
Thanks gplr!
So for this year, a new, heavily upgraded iPad3 (quad-core, Retina display), the new iPhone5. Then looking over at the Buyers guide, not a single green, 'buy now recommendation. Which means we can expect new iMacs, new MBPs, new MBAs, possibly new Mac Pros and Minis in 2012. With their most recent record breaking earnings call fresh in memory, I think its safe to say that this is going to be a monster year for Apple.
All these are good guesses. But they don't justify the "Unusual" term. It must be something else, additionally.
Because Tim Cook is changing a lot at Apple (matching program, sending company wide e-mails, hiring from the outside) he will probably give us a look at the complete Apple pipeline for the coming year!
MacRumors will be left useless...
You mean Apple Inc. will finally grow up and act like a serious IT company, a company and business partner enterprises would trust with their IT strategies? Hard to believe. But since there is a new CEO at the helm, it's no longer impossible.
Personally, I doubt that there is anything good coming for Mac users. We will see an iTV this year and we will see even more iOSification of the Mac. After this year's WWDC we will know if the Mac and Mac OS X still have some future left or if the Mac will turn into an over-sized iPad that has a compatibility layer for legacy OS X software -- or if the Mac will still be a real computer in the years to come. Or if you will be needing a developer account to still buy one; after all, in this brave new post PC era world, developers are the only ones left that still need a PC, aren't they?
And sometimes I wonder what it really matters what Apple does or not. At the end of the day, they just sell gadgets that run web browsers and toy apps for consumers. Real IT is done at other companies.