Steve has something "up his sleeve" for this event. They wouldn't push the media to be there unless something bigger were to happen than an iTunes update and refreshed iPod line.
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Let's Rock: Rumor Roundup and Expectations
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I am sure we will, especially with Steve encouraging the press to come and see it. It should be up within 24 hours after the event ends.
Please, monthly/yearly subscriptions to TV shows! What about a "all monthly episodes of 10 TV shows for 10$/month" or even an "all you can watch" package?
I don't see myself paying 2$ for each episode of each TV show I'd want to follow, that's insane. Especially since I only watch them once.
Say there's four episodes per month, and I follow a dozen TV shows. That's 96$ every month! Even the best cable or satellite package is way under that and includes movie channels, news, etc.
I don't see myself paying 2$ for each episode of each TV show I'd want to follow, that's insane. Especially since I only watch them once.
Say there's four episodes per month, and I follow a dozen TV shows. That's 96$ every month! Even the best cable or satellite package is way under that and includes movie channels, news, etc.
ill be listing all live blogging and video streaming websites, so you don't miss anything 
at http://www.livecrunch.com
Also I heard from my sources that ipod touch and iphone today will have copy paste feature which would be neet!
at http://www.livecrunch.comAlso I heard from my sources that ipod touch and iphone today will have copy paste feature which would be neet!
That is the cable killer I keep hoping for.
Depending on the pricing and how Apple handled live sports, news, award shows, etc., I could seriously see dropping Comcast. My wife and I watch only 10-12 networks, we get all of our movies from Netflix or PPV, and we don't subscribe to any premium movie channels.
The only hitch I see to quitting Comcast cold turkey is the live programming, of which we watch a ton -- GMA, Olbermann, CNN, college football, etc. I don't know that cobbling together a package of basic cable and Apple TV/subscription would be all that cost-effective.
Thankgod someone with common sense.
GPS is pointless without an active data connection at all times. Even with downloadable maps, it would simply take up too much precious space.
SSD HD's for the enire line? maybe a little sooner that once thought. Intel is now in the SSD HD game.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080908-intel-tosses-hat-into-ssd-ring-with-80gb-launch.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080908-intel-tosses-hat-into-ssd-ring-with-80gb-launch.html
Three tiers of color?
Monochrome: Silver, black
Color: Orange, etc.
Multi-color: Rainbow
Also, will there be one type of tablet or two? "Or" or "and"?
I'm pretty sure that the rainbow rumor was referring to the nanos being available in the full "rainbow" of colors--red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple and well as silver, black and white (new colors in bold).
Crikey, can we let the Beatles on iTunes thing go, already? I'm pretty sure that by now, pretty much everyone in the world who wants Beatles songs on their iPod has ripped their own CDs (or found, ahem, 'another' way to acquire them).
I don't picture great hordes of unwashed masses clamoring, begging, saying 'oh please...if only there were SOME way for me to listen to these Beatles tunes on my iPod. If only...if only...'
The time when this would have been even remotely interesting or notable news has long passed.
All Apple Stores are down
I just tried to refresh iTunes Store, and iTunes got wobbly and crashed. I was able to reopen, but iTS is moving extremely slow.
I actually sort by artist on my CD racks, and chronologically within each artist, even going so far as to insert singles in the appropriate place after the albums they were drawn from. Compilations are just placed alphabetically, according to the CD name.
I have to agree with this whole heartedly. I recently got my macbook from about 2 years ago stolen from me. But being a student I need a computer pronto and no one wants to buy technology that is going to be replaced with in 6 months. So all I can say is come on apple... help a user out! Update your computers!
when you 'invest' into technology as a user, don't expect your investment to last long. apple should move much faster - just like intel and nvidia - and offer current tech and not the chips from last year.
So you don't want BluRay, lots of ports and 4GB stock.
O.K., your choice.
Sometimes people in Oz tend to be a little aggressive, eh?
And honestly, if the majority of Apple's users is satisfied by the current offerings, then the Mac demographic has dramatically changed since I joined it in 1999.
But yeah, I forgot, you are one of the people loving iPhoto for it's great management of the pictures folder, aren't you?
Uh, let me tell you how it is in the real world where MY business is. Blu-ray has been the delivery format of choice for hi-def music videos and performance videos for more than 18 months now. Ditto film editors and corporate video producers and filmakers.
Can an Apple computer author these without going into Windoze? Can an Apple computer even PLAY the friggin' things?
I know you and Steve live in happy pirate world where everything is ripped and downloaded and free, but the rest of us making a living in that world who need hard delivery find Apple's current level of performance and service to content creators DISGUSTING. Below the bottom of the barrel. And hell yes, we are mad and feel screwed over and ripped off with the promise of cutting edge hard delivery options of which we have NONE.
Where did we get those ideas in the first place? I know you've never cracked the programs open, but go to the Apple webpage and look at the promo for FCP and Logic and tell me the promises there haven't become a bunch of crap over the last eighteen months of utter neglect.
Uh, "With the new Mac Pro you can have yesterday's delivery, DVD and CD, TODAY!"
I've got news for Steve Jobs; he's not going to sell very many $5000 factory tricked out MacPros to gamers at those ridiculous prices, and if the next incarnation can't read, write, and AUTHOR VIDEO blu-ray he might as well just kill the damn line completely and leave the computer business to the grownups. I've got colleagues (myself included) who have been holding off on buying a MacPro for two YEARS. The lag behind the curve is pathetic.
If he thinks "desktop video" and audio production are going the way of "desktop publishing", he's going to find that the only damn thing left is games.
And games won't ever drive a high-end workstation market. Ne-ver.
In the meantime, thanks to the guy who gets it who clued me into Boxx.
And to those who will never get it; by all means, enjoy your iCrap and iCrapple until someone comes along who will do it cheaper and whoops... there went iCrapple down the tubes because WE left a long time ago.
Grinch? No, I'd say it shows something remarkably obvious: Apple isn't going to please everyone. The solution? RUN FOR THE HILLS!