Perhaps I misunderstood. Your comment seemed to suggest that the 3D touch might use taps for selections and deep presses for the equivalent of clicks.
I'm more confused than ever. The Verge is saying there are two new kinds of touches coming, and that currently there is only one type. I argued there are two already here (tap and press) and that Force Touch would be the third. Nothing is being shuffled.
If Apple is indeed working on a iCar per say, this would be the time and the place for them to show it off. Of course at the "One more thing" spot.
They just need to show off the vehicle at the moment with videos showing off their intentions with the interior wizardry. (If they use the proving grounds to try out the Car, pictures from others will surely surface).
That would be one reason for the tight security. If anyone would see a ramp being built to place the Car on the stage, the big surprise would be gone.
1) That's a big "one more thing."
2) Would that advisable this early on? I can't imagine they have anything ready for production in the next year. Of course, such an endeavour could require Apple altering it model since you can't hide an iPhone as easily as an entire automobile.
Speaking of Swift, will Swift 2.0 be finalized next week, too?
That's a good question!
The version 2.0 Language Spec almost has to be finalized to meet a fall Open Source release.
The way the game is played, I suspect that an announcement of a Swift 2 release dates and a new Swift 3.0 spec is not far behind (though not at this event).
Swift 3.0 will, likely, have some new APIs for new hardware & features as well as Cloud Services (IBM, Apple, others), gaming engines, etc.
At some point, in the not too distant future, Apple will have completed reimplementing its current APIs for Swift -- and start implementing new APIs in Swift only. That would mean that existing Obj-C apps would (at a minimum) need to include Swift modules to access the latest features.
Now, back to the discussions at hand:
My daughter tells me that Taylor Swift has a concert sheduleded the evening of the 9th:
So, She may perform early in he event to not be rushed for her later show ... sort of an Entr'acte for the tech presos!
So, She may perform early in he event to not be rushed for her later show ... sort of an Entr'acte for the tech presos!
When this obvious rumour first cropped up that was the big reason it couldn't happen, but let's remember that Swift from a close private airport at each location on a private jet, only going from TX to CA is quite doable. Certainly not the most relaxing of options but I'm sure she's done this sort of thing before, and probably with a show the night before, whereas in this case, according to your screenshot, she has a show tonight and then nothing until Wed night. It's not like she'd have to set up the stage and with modern technology she can be both not the phone and on the internet whilst in the air. So it's very doable, but honestly I don't care either way if she performs. Personally I would prefer there was no band (ever!) just more stuff to make like more efficient.
If Apple is indeed working on a iCar per say, this would be the time and the place for them to show it off. Of course at the "One more thing" spot.
They just need to show off the vehicle at the moment with videos showing off their intentions with the interior wizardry. (If they use the proving grounds to try out the Car, pictures from others will surely surface).
That would be one reason for the tight security. If anyone would see a ramp being built to place the Car on the stage, the big surprise would be gone.
The lead time for developing a car is more than two, three years, especially when starting from scratch and/or introducing a lot of new technology. Tesla for example, was founded in 2003 and the roadster saw the light of day in 2008. And that's fast and included support from Daimler and Toyota.
The Beatles had a smaller market and distribution was a lot more difficult, singles needed to be physically shipped to stores and then you still have to ensure they stayed visible as long as possible. New songs tended to physically crowd out older singles right off the more visible shelves as soon as their sales faltered in that store! Those singles because of less visibility tended to have an abrupt fall in sales.
Even hit songs tended to go up and down the chart in 15 weeks or less. Distribution now is cheap and world wide, a massive advantage.
Albums before the 1960s didn't tend to sell that much, except broadway cast albums which stayed on the chart for ages.
The Beatles success exploded the sales of albums.
As you noted, the main issue now is visibility. Since titles are easier to release, and they stay along a very very long time, there is basically a glut of pretty good music at any time that you can buy or listen too.
Today, Beatles could put their whole catalog out, they wouldn't have to pick and choose a few singles.
They probably would have released twice as many singles as they did at that time.
Considering all of this, the Beatles and Elvis's massive sales totals are even more impressive.
Visibility: that's what Apple Music is for. I hope it works out.
The lead time for developing a car is more than two, three years, especially when starting from scratch and/or introducing a lot of new technology. Tesla for example, was founded in 2003 and the roadster saw the light of day in 2008. And that's fast and included support from Daimler and Toyota.
I agree it's fast, but I'm curious what took Tesla the most time to figure out, design, build and test. If it's the battery array and other electronics, I would then argue that Apple already has a huge leg up on Tesla in 2003 because of their history of being electronics, advancements in the field, as well as all the patents Tesla gave away.
When this obvious rumour first cropped up that was the big reason it couldn't happen, but let's remember that Swift from a close private airport at each location on a private jet, only going from TX to CA is quite doable. Certainly not the most relaxing of options but I'm sure she's done this sort of thing before, and probably with a show the night before, whereas in this case, according to your screenshot, she has a show tonight and then nothing until Wed night. It's not like she'd have to set up the stage and with modern technology she can be both not the phone and on the internet whilst in the air. So it's very doable, but honestly I don't care either way if she performs. Personally I would prefer there was no band (ever!) just more stuff to make like more efficient.
The more I think of it the more it sounds reasonable.
First of all, because I would expect that somehow it would have leaked that about 5000 more journalists are invited than normal.
Then, for the reasons you have stated.
Thirdly, because I can't think of a release that would be "3.5 times more important" than what's in the pipeline. The most important recently was the watch. And that wasn't revealed to such a huge crowd.
I wonder if that's why they call it a beta? maybe?
A beta doesn't mean "inherently broken", and having something occur more than a month after release means it's likely not an issue with the code, but with a mess up on Apple's end.
In my day, the premier singer, songwriter, lyricist was Johnny Mercer:
[U][B][SIZE=4]Academy Awards[/SIZE][/B][/U]
Mercer won four Academy Awards on eighteen nominations for Best Original Song:
1946: "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (music by Harry Warren) for The Harvey Girls 1951: "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (music by Hoagy Carmichael) for Here Comes the Groom 1961: "Moon River" (music by Henry Mancini) for Breakfast at Tiffany's 1962: "Days of Wine and Roses" (music by Henry Mancini) for Days of Wine and Roses
[B][U][SIZE=4]Songs[/SIZE][/U][/B]
He wrote many other songs, some of which have entered the Great American Songbook:
[U][B][SIZE=4]Lyrics by Mercer, unless noted.[/SIZE][/B][/U]
Date Song title Music by Notes
1933 "Lazy Bones" Hoagy Carmichael 1934 "Moon Dreams" Chummy MacGregor (co-writer) 1934 "P.S. I Love You" Gordon Jenkins 1936 "Goody Goody" Matty Malneck 1936 "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" Johnny Mercer 1937 "Hooray for Hollywood" Richard A. Whiting 1937 "Too Marvelous for Words" Richard A. Whiting 1938 "Jeepers, Creepers!" Harry Warren 1938 "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" Harry Warren 1939 "And the Angels Sing" Ziggy Elman 1939 "Cuckoo in the Clock" Walter Donaldson 1939 "Day In, Day Out" Rube Bloom 1939 "I Thought About You" Jimmy Van Heusen 1939 "Wings Over the Navy" Harry Warren 1940 "Fools Rush In" Rube Bloom 1941 "Blues in the Night" Harold Arlen 1941? "I Had Myself a True Love" Harold Arlen 1941 "I Remember You" Victor Schertzinger 1941 "Tangerine" Victor Schertzinger 1941 "This Time the Dream's on Me" Harold Arlen 1942 "Dearly Beloved" Jerome Kern 1942 "Hit the Road to Dreamland" Harold Arlen 1942 "I'm Old Fashioned" Jerome Kern 1942 "Skylark" Hoagy Carmichael 1942 "That Old Black Magic" Harold Arlen 1942 "Trav'lin' Light" Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young 1943 "Dream" Johnny Mercer 1943 "My Shining Hour" Harold Arlen 1943 "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" Harold Arlen Theme song of the 1957–1958 NBC detective series, Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy 1944 "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" Harold Arlen 1944 "G.I. Jive" Johnny Mercer 1945 "Laura" David Raksin 1945 "Out of This World" Harold Arlen 1946 "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" Harold Arlen 1946 "Come Rain or Come Shine" Harold Arlen 1946 "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" Harry Warren For the film The Harvey Girls 1947 "Autumn Leaves" Joseph Kosma, orig. French lyrics by Jacques Prévert 1951 "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" Hoagy Carmichael For the film Here Comes the Groom 1952 "I Wanna Be a Dancing Man" Harry Warren 1952 "The Glow-Worm" Paul Lincke 1953 "Satin Doll" Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn 1954 "Midnight Sun" Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke 1954 "Something's Gotta Give" Johnny Mercer 1956 "I'm Past My Prime" Gene de Paul 1956 "Jubilation T. Cornpone" Gene de Paul 1959 "I Wanna Be Around" Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt 1961 "Moon River" Henry Mancini For the film Breakfast at Tiffany's 1962 "Days of Wine and Roses" Henry Mancini For the film Days of Wine and Roses 1962 "Drinking Again" Doris Tauber 1963 "Charade" Henry Mancini 1964 "Emily" Johnny Mandel 1964 "Lorna" Mort Lindsey 1965 "Summer Wind" Henry Mayer 1970 "Whistling Away the Dark" Henry Mancini For the film Darling Lili 1973 "The Phony King of England" For the Disney film Robin Hood 1984 "When October Goes" Barry Manilow
They didn't do covers in those days -- but many artists would take a song and make it their own (songwriters and lyricists were compensated based on sales).
Here's on example of a Mercer song that was recorded by everybody:
(Taylor Swift) She's sold 170M+ album and singles in 9 years, so I'm guessing it is not just 13 years old buying them.... She's filled the staple center in LA 17 times in a row (a record), that's a lot (350K) of paying fans in a few weeks. Even though her concerts do skew young and female (tweens, teens, young adults and their mother); those that buy her music though are a much more varied bunch.
Only Rihanna's in the same league as her in that period. Rihanna has sold 190M records in the 10 years since she's started her career.
#3 during that period is Katy Perry (90M), 100M records away from Rihanna and 80M away from Swift.
Neither of them hold a candle to how many albums iTunes shipped of U2's last album... like half a billion! U2 also holds the record for, most free albums returned. The girls can't compete with a group of old guys!
(Taylor Swift) She's sold 170M+ album and singles in 9 years, so I'm guessing it is not just 13 years old buying them.... She's filled the staple center in LA 17 times in a row (a record), that's a lot (350K) of paying fans in a few weeks. Even though her concerts do skew young and female (tweens, teens, young adults and their mother); those that buy her music though are a much more varied bunch.
Only Rihanna's in the same league as her in that period. Rihanna has sold 190M records in the 10 years since she's started her career.
#3 during that period is Katy Perry (90M), 100M records away from Rihanna and 80M away from Swift.
Neither of them hold a candle to how many albums iTunes shipped of U2's last album... like half a billion! U2 also holds the record for, most free albums returned. The girls can't compete with a group of old guys!
LOL!
According to Sammy, returns count as shipments -- only the destination is different!
I agree it's fast, but I'm curious what took Tesla the most time to figure out, design, build and test. If it's the battery array and other electronics, I would then argue that Apple already has a huge leg up on Tesla in 2003 because of their history of being electronics, advancements in the field, as well as all the patents Tesla gave away.
On the technology side, cooling the batteries, and power management software. On the the business side, mass production and building a car company from scratch. The tech for AC motors and batteries is fundamentally simple and well understood. There's also a minefield of auto safety regulations and testing, but you can hire people to crank through that paperwork. What Tesla did was amazing, given that the auto industry was pretty staid and slow to change, aka "mature."
On the technology side, cooling the batteries, and power management software. On the the business side, mass production and building a car company from scratch. The tech for AC motors and batteries is fundamentally simple and well understood. There's also a minefield of auto safety regulations and testing, but you can hire people to crank through that paperwork. What Tesla did was amazing, given that the auto industry was pretty staid and slow to change, aka "mature."
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I'm more confused than ever. The Verge is saying there are two new kinds of touches coming, and that currently there is only one type. I argued there are two already here (tap and press) and that Force Touch would be the third. Nothing is being shuffled.
I give it a greater than 50-50 chance that if they raise the price, they will rename the product.
1) That's a big "one more thing."
2) Would that advisable this early on? I can't imagine they have anything ready for production in the next year. Of course, such an endeavour could require Apple altering it model since you can't hide an iPhone as easily as an entire automobile.
That's a good question!
The version 2.0 Language Spec almost has to be finalized to meet a fall Open Source release.
The way the game is played, I suspect that an announcement of a Swift 2 release dates and a new Swift 3.0 spec is not far behind (though not at this event).
Swift 3.0 will, likely, have some new APIs for new hardware & features as well as Cloud Services (IBM, Apple, others), gaming engines, etc.
At some point, in the not too distant future, Apple will have completed reimplementing its current APIs for Swift -- and start implementing new APIs in Swift only. That would mean that existing Obj-C apps would (at a minimum) need to include Swift modules to access the latest features.
Now, back to the discussions at hand:
My daughter tells me that Taylor Swift has a concert sheduleded the evening of the 9th:
So, She may perform early in he event to not be rushed for her later show ... sort of an Entr'acte for the tech presos!
Boom ... Boom ... Boom!
Mmmm ... A sweaty, balding Taylor Swift bouncing around the stage ...
The mind conjure and the stomach turns!
When this obvious rumour first cropped up that was the big reason it couldn't happen, but let's remember that Swift from a close private airport at each location on a private jet, only going from TX to CA is quite doable. Certainly not the most relaxing of options but I'm sure she's done this sort of thing before, and probably with a show the night before, whereas in this case, according to your screenshot, she has a show tonight and then nothing until Wed night. It's not like she'd have to set up the stage and with modern technology she can be both not the phone and on the internet whilst in the air. So it's very doable, but honestly I don't care either way if she performs. Personally I would prefer there was no band (ever!) just more stuff to make like more efficient.
The lead time for developing a car is more than two, three years, especially when starting from scratch and/or introducing a lot of new technology. Tesla for example, was founded in 2003 and the roadster saw the light of day in 2008. And that's fast and included support from Daimler and Toyota.
Visibility: that's what Apple Music is for. I hope it works out.
I agree it's fast, but I'm curious what took Tesla the most time to figure out, design, build and test. If it's the battery array and other electronics, I would then argue that Apple already has a huge leg up on Tesla in 2003 because of their history of being electronics, advancements in the field, as well as all the patents Tesla gave away.
The more I think of it the more it sounds reasonable.
First of all, because I would expect that somehow it would have leaked that about 5000 more journalists are invited than normal.
Then, for the reasons you have stated.
Thirdly, because I can't think of a release that would be "3.5 times more important" than what's in the pipeline. The most important recently was the watch. And that wasn't revealed to such a huge crowd.
A beta doesn't mean "inherently broken", and having something occur more than a month after release means it's likely not an issue with the code, but with a mess up on Apple's end.
In my day, the premier singer, songwriter, lyricist was Johnny Mercer:
[U][B][SIZE=4]Academy Awards[/SIZE][/B][/U]
Mercer won four Academy Awards on eighteen nominations for Best Original Song:
1946: "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" (music by Harry Warren) for The Harvey Girls
1951: "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" (music by Hoagy Carmichael) for Here Comes the Groom
1961: "Moon River" (music by Henry Mancini) for Breakfast at Tiffany's
1962: "Days of Wine and Roses" (music by Henry Mancini) for Days of Wine and Roses
[B][U][SIZE=4]Songs[/SIZE][/U][/B]
He wrote many other songs, some of which have entered the Great American Songbook:
[U][B][SIZE=4]Lyrics by Mercer, unless noted.[/SIZE][/B][/U]
Date Song title Music by Notes
1933 "Lazy Bones" Hoagy Carmichael
1934 "Moon Dreams" Chummy MacGregor (co-writer)
1934 "P.S. I Love You" Gordon Jenkins
1936 "Goody Goody" Matty Malneck
1936 "I'm an Old Cowhand from the Rio Grande" Johnny Mercer
1937 "Hooray for Hollywood" Richard A. Whiting
1937 "Too Marvelous for Words" Richard A. Whiting
1938 "Jeepers, Creepers!" Harry Warren
1938 "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby" Harry Warren
1939 "And the Angels Sing" Ziggy Elman
1939 "Cuckoo in the Clock" Walter Donaldson
1939 "Day In, Day Out" Rube Bloom
1939 "I Thought About You" Jimmy Van Heusen
1939 "Wings Over the Navy" Harry Warren
1940 "Fools Rush In" Rube Bloom
1941 "Blues in the Night" Harold Arlen
1941? "I Had Myself a True Love" Harold Arlen
1941 "I Remember You" Victor Schertzinger
1941 "Tangerine" Victor Schertzinger
1941 "This Time the Dream's on Me" Harold Arlen
1942 "Dearly Beloved" Jerome Kern
1942 "Hit the Road to Dreamland" Harold Arlen
1942 "I'm Old Fashioned" Jerome Kern
1942 "Skylark" Hoagy Carmichael
1942 "That Old Black Magic" Harold Arlen
1942 "Trav'lin' Light" Jimmy Mundy, Trummy Young
1943 "Dream" Johnny Mercer
1943 "My Shining Hour" Harold Arlen
1943 "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" Harold Arlen Theme song of the 1957–1958 NBC detective series, Meet McGraw, starring Frank Lovejoy
1944 "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" Harold Arlen
1944 "G.I. Jive" Johnny Mercer
1945 "Laura" David Raksin
1945 "Out of This World" Harold Arlen
1946 "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home" Harold Arlen
1946 "Come Rain or Come Shine" Harold Arlen
1946 "On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" Harry Warren For the film The Harvey Girls
1947 "Autumn Leaves" Joseph Kosma, orig. French lyrics by Jacques Prévert
1951 "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" Hoagy Carmichael For the film Here Comes the Groom
1952 "I Wanna Be a Dancing Man" Harry Warren
1952 "The Glow-Worm" Paul Lincke
1953 "Satin Doll" Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn
1954 "Midnight Sun" Lionel Hampton, Sonny Burke
1954 "Something's Gotta Give" Johnny Mercer
1956 "I'm Past My Prime" Gene de Paul
1956 "Jubilation T. Cornpone" Gene de Paul
1959 "I Wanna Be Around" Johnny Mercer, Sadie Vimmerstedt
1961 "Moon River" Henry Mancini For the film Breakfast at Tiffany's
1962 "Days of Wine and Roses" Henry Mancini For the film Days of Wine and Roses
1962 "Drinking Again" Doris Tauber
1963 "Charade" Henry Mancini
1964 "Emily" Johnny Mandel
1964 "Lorna" Mort Lindsey
1965 "Summer Wind" Henry Mayer
1970 "Whistling Away the Dark" Henry Mancini For the film Darling Lili
1973 "The Phony King of England" For the Disney film Robin Hood
1984 "When October Goes" Barry Manilow
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Mercer
Not bad for 5 decades spanning many genres!
They didn't do covers in those days -- but many artists would take a song and make it their own (songwriters and lyricists were compensated based on sales).
Here's on example of a Mercer song that was recorded by everybody:
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Ha!
Then, of course you'll remember the cannibal song by Hank Williams, Sr.
[VIDEO]
Neither of them hold a candle to how many albums iTunes shipped of U2's last album... like half a billion! U2 also holds the record for, most free albums returned. The girls can't compete with a group of old guys!
LOL!
According to Sammy, returns count as shipments -- only the destination is different!
So, Miley Cyrus.
On the technology side, cooling the batteries, and power management software. On the the business side, mass production and building a car company from scratch. The tech for AC motors and batteries is fundamentally simple and well understood. There's also a minefield of auto safety regulations and testing, but you can hire people to crank through that paperwork. What Tesla did was amazing, given that the auto industry was pretty staid and slow to change, aka "mature."
I agree.