Apple confirms September 9th special event: "Let's Rock"
Apple has formally issued invitations for a special event that will take place on September 9th -- one week from today -- to usher in a new family of iPod digital music players.
The invites, one of which was obtained by ArsTechnica, feature the iconic iPod silouette along with the tagline "Let's Rock."
Apple has scheduled the event to take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 10:00 a.m. local time next Tuesday.
The invites confirm reports of a September 9th event originally waged by Digg founder Kevin Rose. The appearance and wording of the digital documents also suggest the event will be music focused and not serve as a forum for new Mac notebooks, as was recently suggested by AppleInsider, which will come later.
The invites, one of which was obtained by ArsTechnica, feature the iconic iPod silouette along with the tagline "Let's Rock."
Apple has scheduled the event to take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 10:00 a.m. local time next Tuesday.
The invites confirm reports of a September 9th event originally waged by Digg founder Kevin Rose. The appearance and wording of the digital documents also suggest the event will be music focused and not serve as a forum for new Mac notebooks, as was recently suggested by AppleInsider, which will come later.
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Coming just a couple days before the 11th, the sad anniversary, the iPod and iPhone users of the world would have something to celebrate.
1: Release an iPod nano touch
2: Call this new device the "iPod nano"
3: Drop the word "touch" on their touch nanos, in turn highlighting the product transition of apples portable line up to touch. (This concept to be extended track pad on the new macbooks and macbook pros.) iPod with the click wheel would still hold the suffix: "Classic"
4: Bone that company that made the case for the "false" iPod nano, because of how much info they've leaked in the past.
Don't get me wrong, I love to find out the latest on Apple products just as much as anyone else, but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple dicked this company over due to breaching of confidentiality agreements in the past.
I wonder if they'll try the iPod Touch "Pro" with a massive screen (relatively speaking, something like 4.5 - 5"), GPS with downloadable maps (I know that's basically a pipe dream) in 16, 32 and 64 GB sizes?
Of course, the MP3 player business is calming down and this might be the last year with some moderate growth potential during the holidays. They have to do it.
Well, maybe we Germans will at least finally get some movies or some decent international TV shows (and some back-catalog classics)... the catalog so far is severely limited.
But is anyone else thinking subscription service?
I doubt an invitation looking like that will involve laptops. And if it's just a speed bump, it will just appear in a press release rather than an event.
But is anyone else thinking subscription service?
Both of these are looking more likely.
While the web has seen clues to a tall screen iPod nano, maybe the introduction is the long awaited introduction to the Apple Music Store of The Beatles collection that was said to finalizing when rumors of that last surfaced.
Coming just a couple days before the 11th, the sad anniversary, the iPod and iPhone users of the world would have something to celebrate.
Yeah. Because I read this announcement and think... Beatles. Full disclosure, I want the Beatles added to iTunes too. But personally I think you're projecting.
This announcement will be about Apple products.
Looking at the design clues they've given us on the invitation I think there is going to be something changing with the iPod interface again. Maybe this will be the last time we see this type of screen while music is playing? Perhaps all the iPods (with touch capability added) will now look and behave more like the the iPhone and touch? People certainly seem to love it.
We'll have to wait and see!
New iPod: cool, but could care less, i have the ultimate iPod: iPhone.
Subscription: exciting, I could use this, ESPECIALLY on my Apple TV.
I think this might be a push for the App Store to the smaller iPods. I hope it also extends to Apple TV.
I know it doesn't mean much, but this focus on the iPod causes doubt about new notebook cases. Surely there will be a bump in processor, etc., but this apparent Intel delay of Montevina may be pushing things back. My Mac is 9 months old, it's time for a refresh!
9 months old!
9 months old!
My MB is around 2 years now and I will wait for the BIG change with the MBP... here's hoping that with the redo of the case, they will have room for an option for the Blu-ray. Maybe, they will put that option first with the Mac Pro only, but I can still hope.
My MB is aroud 2 years now and I will wait for the BIG change with the MBP... here's hoping that with the redo of the case, they will have room for an option for the Blu-ray. Maybe, they will put that option first with the Mac Pro only, but I can still hope.
It's hard when you need an Intel machine for iPhone development and you're saving for a wedding. You really don't win that argument. Unless you can develop fast enough and make cash to use toward the wedding. Then, you might win but that'll be based on performance.
Apple does not announce that many things all at once. Their special announcements are always focused.
Do not hold out hope for laptops. You will only be disappointed. It is 100% not going to happen on September 9th.