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News Flash: Apple Special Event Planned 1st Week in July

Yes. To see for yourself, open the iTunes.rsrc file using Themepark and go into the PICT column and then go to ID# 441 :cool:

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edit: A Hugh source Icon found for the Purchased Movies
 
Hmmmm, purchased movies? It's almost 100% certain we won't see that for a good while yet, Apple would need to go through all the legal business with the film studios like they did with the big 5.

Anyway, back to the phone, if it's going to be able to download music, it's going to have to be 3G, and if it's going to be 3G it's going to need to be pretty large and more expensive than your average cellphone.

Saying that, I just remembered you Americans are pretty far behind on the old 3G revolution, so this doesn't bode well for the cellular iTMS theory.

Saying THAT reminds me that there's no sign of Apple striking a deal with any European netwroks, so Ima have to wait for bloody months to get the damn thing anyway...
 
Machead III said:
Anyway, back to the phone, if it's going to be able to download music, it's going to have to be 3G, and if it's going to be 3G it's going to need to be pretty large and more expensive than your average cellphone.
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If an iTunes enabled phone's success is dependent on downloading music instead of uploading via usb, then it's doomed to be extremely niche. The carrier's insistence on getting a piece of the pie by crippling the easiest route to a multi-use device will eventually fall, but at this point we seem to be stuck with a sub-par device/service combination. Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen...
 
Well anyway, I think it's pretty obvious that all we'll get this event is the iPod Phone and a load of fiscal annual business NASDAQ percentage thingies or whatever.
 
mtrctyjoe said:
The media event will be more then a phone... although that will be part of it. I strongly think we will see a new Mac and updates to the Mac Mini and IBook
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Is that just a hunch? I've been waiting for an ibook update (at least a better videocard and more RAM) but Appleinsider has pretty much convinced me that the only mac upgrade will be to the mini.... :( And what do you mean by a "new mac?"
 
Machead III said:
Are you sure those video icons are real? Because if they are this pretty much guarentees a video iPod pretty soon.
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I'm not so sure. You can play quicktime movies in iTunes today and you can see this icon if you drop a .mov file into iTunes. You can obviously play trailers from the iTMS as well. I don't think those icons say anything about a video iPod.
 
Machead III said:
Anyway, back to the phone, if it's going to be able to download music, it's going to have to be 3G, and if it's going to be 3G it's going to need to be pretty large and more expensive than your average cellphone.

Saying that, I just remembered you Americans are pretty far behind on the old 3G revolution, so this doesn't bode well for the cellular iTMS theory.
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I don't know, the Motorola RAZR v3 doesn't strike me as large. There are plenty of 3G phones with EDGE or other highspeed support that aren't clunky. The US is definitely catching up to Europe.
 
weldon said:
I'm not so sure. You can play quicktime movies in iTunes today and you can see this icon if you drop a .mov file into iTunes. You can obviously play trailers from the iTMS as well. I don't think those icons say anything about a video iPod.
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I've tried this and you do not see this exact icon in the source column. This icon is exactly the same as the purchased music icon except this one has a movie icon on it.
 
mtrctyjoe said:
The media event will be more then a phone... although that will be part of it. I strongly think we will see a new Mac and updates to the Mac Mini and IBook
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Just what sort of new Mac would you expect? The bases are pretty well covered for now, so updates are about all I think we will see on the Mac mini and iBook front - everything else has had a refresh already.
 
mtrctyjoe said:
The media event will be more then a phone... although that will be part of it. I strongly think we will see a new Mac and updates to the Mac Mini and IBook
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Maybe it'll be a TV set top box?

Picture this... 6 months ago Apple plans a massive run of their new set top box but find that Motorola (or IBM) can't deliver the expected number of chips.. so they build an Intel set top box. It has no 3rd party software anyway, so why not use Intel? (And it doesn't contradict any announcements they've made.)

edit: Sorry.... my "hopes for Apple" got swapped for my "realistic expectations..."
 
Airport Express?

My order was just delayed until on or before July 13th due to "incredibly high demand". Could the Airport Express with video be coming?
 
afields said:
well, tomorrow is july 7th....
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Given that I just bought an iSight and the 60gb iPod today, you can bet that there will be further updates to these two products tomorrow. :D

Though to be safe, I will be keeping them wrapped, just in case. Well maybe. :D
 
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