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October 4th Media Event to Be Held at Apple's Headquarters?
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Or if he appeared and made a great keynote it would get twice as much publicity as a regular launch, the iPad 2 launch made front page headlines all over the world in the media, free advertising it would cost hundreds of millions to buy through an agency and if it had been Phil or Tim doing the iPad 2 keynote the launch would not have got half the publicity it did, a mention in tech pages of the odd paper and on online blogs but that's about it.
Is that your prediction? That he will appear and give a great keynote? You believe that? Or is it just wishful thinking?
I'd settle for an increase in screen size. Though you would need to get to 4" just to notice.
I think he will do the main keynote yes, maybe not as much of it as usual and will delegate more but I think he will lead the keynote team yes
Indeed I think a very possible reason for the delay in the launch has been Steve and them waiting for a break in his health to launch the new iPhone (waiting for Steve to finish a round of chemo or whatever)
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I think Tim will make a speech welcoming everyone to the keynote, then Steve will come on stage and give his usual "magical" "revolutionary" hype for the initial keynote then hand over to the rest of the team while he has a breather before doing the closing part of the keynote
I guarantee you Apple will not increase the screen size. After all they're selling 25 million per quarter for just 1 model! It's the rest of the industry that is producing garbage nobody really wants and is filling up landfills.
4" would be interesting, but any larger and it's no longer comfortable in my hand. The current 3.5" is maybe a hair too small, and I'd like a tiny increase [as long as they keep the same pixel density].
But please god, no 4.7" screens. Those giant Android-powered phones are so hard to hold.
Edit: Goodness, people. If you don't like the iPhone's screen size then don't use an iPhone.
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I guess we can revisit this after the keynote to see who was right or wrong.
But if Steve Jobs, as you seem to think, is working at the office, then giving part of the keynote isn't going to be a problem for him and they wouldn't need to delay the launch until he feels better, would they?
Also, even if Jobs would appear, which I don't think he will, he wouldn't be doing the main keynote. Apple has a new CEO, and this is Cook's first major launch as CEO, he will be doing the main keynote. Apple needs to show that Jobs resigning doesn't matter, and they won't do that by having Jobs do the keynote.
I don't think he goes to the office much but when Apple have board meetings (every month in the company I work for) he would have to attend in person as chairman so I am sure he spends some time on campus, not every day, maybe not even every week but I do think he is not on his deathbed etc.
As for the keynote Tim was CEO when iPad 2 was launched and Steve still did the keynote plus also Tim is a dreadful orator it would be car crash tv him trying to use hyperbole, if Steve is not well enough to do the keynote I expect Phil Schiller will take the lead, Cook doing it would be a PR disaster
IT'S CASE OF PREACHING TO THE CONVERTED AT APPLE HQ
...Those on campus will happily feed on any crap they're given, whereas if they launched just an updated 4s in a bigger auditorium they'd have a lot of unhappy faces in the audience...
...They should boo Tim Cook off the stage for letting down their loyal customers...
...Totally unforgivable this time...
...Believe me, I hope I'm wrong...
...Those on campus will happily feed on any crap they're given, whereas if they launched just an updated 4s in a bigger auditorium they'd have a lot of unhappy faces in the audience...
...They should boo Tim Cook off the stage for letting down their loyal customers...
...Totally unforgivable this time...
...Believe me, I hope I'm wrong...
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LOL the audience will be hand picked and will be only loyal apple bloggers and journos, there will be no dissent or booing
Considering Apple sold a record # of iPhones last quarter, I'd say they're giving the customers exactly what they want.
well considering we do not have the last quarter I would not say that.
For the current quarter I expect poor numbers for Apple on the Simple fact that the iPhone 4 is an EOL device and the iPhone 5 is well pass the expect release date. pushing around 4 months late at this point in time and growing. Now I expect Apple 4th Quarter for 2011 to be huge as they will get the pent up demand for 3rd quarter but the 3rd quarter is going to be crap for Apple's iPhone compared to normal.
They can't afford to compromise any further with battery life because it is already rubbish. Apple's quoted figures for battery life are no where near real-world use because the crap antenna sucks out battery life in anything less than full reception...
The multi-award winning Samsung Galaxy S2 has sold 10 million units to date and hasn't even launched in the U.S. yet!
It's true, that bigger isn't always better, the terrible way Apple treats it's loyal customer fanbase as it grows is testament to that!
However, the larger screen on the S2 is just fantastic & anyone who has seen it in real life would agree...
Considering the iPhone 4, and the 3GS are the top 2 selling phones in the US, one could argue that 3.5" is the industry standard. Just sayin'
There's a simple reason for that...People don't have a choice because they've already invested in Apps, iTunes & the whole proprietry eco-system that is Apple & Apple knows this so it can sit on it's hands & drip-feed outta date tech every year. I am from the free-thinking of us that wants them to surprise everyone with leading edge innovation from the next iphone, not just an update.
The masses are mostly dumb & want an OS on their phones that a chimp could use. The fact that "Everyone has one" doesn't make it a great, just great marketeering, whilst trying to stiffle the competition with lawsuits...
lets face it the reported battery life of all phones is pretty much complete crap and only under ideal conditions. That is perfect signal, screen never turns on. Everything possible is off and so on.
Real world well that is another story. Take my Atrix with a reported 10.4 days standby and 9 hours talk. Really that is about 3-4 hours of screen time and about a day worth of juice at my usage levels. I drain pretty much any smart phone pretty quickly.
Sprint's a comparitively smaller carrier right? I don't know, I'm English...
So the masses are dumb because they want a phone that's easy to use vs. a complicated mess like Android? Also what happens if Mango becomes successful? It's a relatively easy OS to use. Your logic makes no sense. No one should want something that's more difficult to use.
You mean Jason Chen from Gizmodo won't be in the front row? The mean-spirited bastards!
