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iPad 3 Event in March, An 'Unusual' Apple Event in February?

who needs a TV?

ombrenelcielo said:
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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The real game changer is no big LCD display, just pipe 3D images directly to the brain stem a la The Matrix.
 
MacRumors said:
the author for clarification but was only told that the February event would not be a product event.
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It would not be all that strange if this even was a "iOS 6 Developers Beta" event with the target general release date being July-August (a month or so after WWDC ). Or perhaps a iOS 5.5 beta even where let loose some more of the high resolution foundation.

If the iPad 3 really is going to have a "Retina Display" there is going to have to be a bit more than a few HiRes API stubs stuck into iOS to support the new set of apps. Apple may need to bump the iPad with a '5.x' update or at least start to give developers an enriched set of stuff to work with.

If go back over the years since iPhone came out it was not unusual for Apple to have a iOS "preview" event in the Feb/March time frame as a prelude to WWDC.

This fits the context of it not being a product announcement. It is more so an announcement so that developers can work on new stuff without easily tripping over NDA restrictions (e.g., can acknowledge the new feature exists, but hasn't been released yet to customers and other developers. )
Even if Apple tries to cover that with an NDA, after giving the beta to 20-50K people the "secret" is going to leak out. In a population of 10's of thousands of people someone is going to talk. It is almost foolish to think some small few won't. [ Apple doesn't even tell all of its employees everything. So I doubt they will "bet" on non-employees being even more trustworthy. ]
 
Winni said:
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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.
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I design some of the most advanced network processors in the world using a Mac. You haven't got a clue what you're talking about.

I will say this iOS feel of OS X is a bit off putting. At least you can hide it and still use the dock.
 
arn said:
http://twitter.com/#!/Dmitri46/status/165014362422116352

apparently, a better translation is "unusual" or "out of the ordinary" rather than strange.

arn
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Given that the shareholders meeting is coming up perhaps Apple is going to pay out a dividend and/or split shares

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Snips said:
iOS6 event must be due in this timeframe?
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Nope. iOS 6 will be at WWDC (being the developers conference)

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Lone Deranger said:
iPad socks? XXL size….
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Well a friend of a friend that knows a guy that once went out with a girl whose cousin overheard someone claiming to know something, says that in fact it is about the iPad and there is a sock involved. But it doesn't go on the iPad. It goes somewhere else.

Where does it go you ask. Well if I tell you that Apple is releasing an adult only iPad (called the tripx) can you take it from there.

Seriously it was so strange and shocking that Ferris passed out. Right in the middle of 31 flavors.
 
Winni said:
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.
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iOS will eventually replace OSX on Macs. There is no doubt about it. It makes way more sense than juggling two OS's and iOS is clearly the more important (I'd place money on ARM replacing Intel on the Mac line down the line as well). But it's not like your Mac will just be a giant iPad. Remember Apple TV runs on iOS as does iPod Nano and those are completely different in scope than something like iPad.
 
ericinboston said:
Considering Apple keeps emailing me about Valentines Day (Feb 14) iPad 2.0 promos, there CERTAINLY WILL NOT be any mention in Feb about an iPad 3.0 from Apple. :) Everyone would return there iPad 2.0 and wait a few weeks for the 3.0.

My guess is Apple will wait till late March to announce iPad 3.0 and then ship late April. I would be a REALLY mad customer if I bought an iPad in Feb thanks to all the Apple iPad 2.0 advertising and then hear about an exciting new 3.0 just a few weeks away.
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They're clearing the channel of inventory, a typical lead-up to the announcement of an upgraded product.
 
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I just hope we see thunderbolt integration....
 
MacinDoc said:
They're clearing the channel of inventory, a typical lead-up to the announcement of an upgraded product.
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Nonsense, if the iPad was only available in the US that would be a valid point, however that is not the case.
There are plenty of countries which have to wait months before the new iPad is available to them so easy to sell their stock there.
 
Why would Apple hold an event to announce a dividend ? That seems something more on the lines of a PR release.


If this "unusual" event does take place it will be for some kind of hardware.
 
Winni said:
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.
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How well are these other companies that are doing this real IT? Please show me one of them that jumped 50 points this past January or had a revenue of $46.33Billion in the past quarter. Don't be a hater :) At the end of the day the only thing that matters is a companies balance sheet, and not so much how it got there.
 
"Strange Apple event" makes me think of the funeral service for old Mac OS.

Maybe a similar event for Pro hardware?
 
ABG said:
Hmmm - 10.8 announcement out of the blue? I think that counts as an unusual event.
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I'd have to agree. Private previews for top tech journalists is certainly unusual for Apple.
 
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