Apple confirms "Special Event" on September 5th
Apple Inc. will use a special media event on September 5th to introduce a new array of digital media offerings, according to digital invitations issued to analysts and members of the media Tuesday afternoon.
The invites, which arrived by e-mail, depict an enlarged CoverFlow interface with the caption, "The beat goes on." The wording appears to have been borrowed from the trailing line of The Beatles' final press release, which was issued by Apple Records on April 10, 1970, following the band's split.
"Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow and Ringo and John and George and Paul are alive and well and full of hope. The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you," read the 1970 Beatles release. "When the spinning stops -- that'll be the time to worry, not before. Until then, the Beatles are alive and well and the beat goes on, the beat goes on."
Apple's event is scheduled to take place at the Moscone West in San Francisco on September 5 at 10:00 a.m.
Apple is widely expected to use the gathering to usher in a new breed of Mac OS X-based iPods. Additional announcements relating to the company's iTunes software and digital media download service are also expected.
The invites, which arrived by e-mail, depict an enlarged CoverFlow interface with the caption, "The beat goes on." The wording appears to have been borrowed from the trailing line of The Beatles' final press release, which was issued by Apple Records on April 10, 1970, following the band's split.
"Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow and Ringo and John and George and Paul are alive and well and full of hope. The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you," read the 1970 Beatles release. "When the spinning stops -- that'll be the time to worry, not before. Until then, the Beatles are alive and well and the beat goes on, the beat goes on."
Apple's event is scheduled to take place at the Moscone West in San Francisco on September 5 at 10:00 a.m.
Apple is widely expected to use the gathering to usher in a new breed of Mac OS X-based iPods. Additional announcements relating to the company's iTunes software and digital media download service are also expected.
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It's either that or a G5 Powerbook
Only touch screen ipods running OS X (and not only the 2nd will suffice) can appease me. If they bring out stupid wide ipod nanos and old-style but flash-based video ipods, I'll chalk it up as yet another lame event - not sure if I'll fit another one on the board, it's getting so full.
2. AppleTV with HDTuner and DVR software
3. iTunes Movie Rental Service, TV subscription Service
4. I buy everything they sell!!!
But will Apple be bold or conservative? Bold like with the mini, nano, and shuffle intros. Or conservative like last year's small iPod upgrades. Will they be bold and release a widescreen OS X-based touchscreen iPod with WiFi, on the hopes that they can upsell such a user to a future 3G iPhone (since WiFi isn't everywhere), instead of worrying that they are cannibalizing today's iPhone sale? Will they be bold and move to the head of class on flash memory capacities for the iPod nano and shuffle, using their bulk in the flash market to keep competitors starved? If they do so, this would account again for the "product transition" mentioned by Apple previously as impacting this quarter's margins.
Will there be an AppleTV upgrade? To go along with a bold iTunes movie/TV subscription service? (At the iMac intro, Jobs implied he would talk about AppleTV at another event soon.)
Excellent questions. We'll know soon enough. I vote for bold. No fat iPod Nano like the rumors at Gizmondo.
:the beat goes on:
Apple records released the following statement on behalf of the Beatles on April 10, 1970.
Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow and Ringo and John and George and Paul are alive and well and full of hope.
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you.
When the spinning stops ? that'll be the time to worry, not before.
Until then, the Beatles are alive and well and the beat goes on, the beat goes on.
? Final Beatles press release, April 10, 1970
Keane, ?, Beastie Boys, Mika, Jack Johnson, ?
The Flaming Lips, and I don't know the last one.
You are missing the (not so) hidden message in the invitation...
:the beat goes on:
Apple records released the following statement on behalf of the Beatles on April 10, 1970.
Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow and Ringo and John and George and Paul are alive and well and full of hope.
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you.
When the spinning stops ? that'll be the time to worry, not before.
Until then, the Beatles are alive and well and the beat goes on, the beat goes on.
? Final Beatles press release, April 10, 1970
love it!
You are missing the (not so) hidden message in the invitation...
:the beat goes on:
Apple records released the following statement on behalf of the Beatles on April 10, 1970.
Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow and Ringo and John and George and Paul are alive and well and full of hope.
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you.
When the spinning stops ? that'll be the time to worry, not before.
Until then, the Beatles are alive and well and the beat goes on, the beat goes on.
? Final Beatles press release, April 10, 1970
Woah, DUDE!! is it like April already? man I musta mist christmas WOAH! check it out theres like a fly in the room.
You are missing the (not so) hidden message in the invitation...
:the beat goes on:
Apple records released the following statement on behalf of the Beatles on April 10, 1970.
Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow and Ringo and John and George and Paul are alive and well and full of hope.
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you.
When the spinning stops ? that'll be the time to worry, not before.
Until then, the Beatles are alive and well and the beat goes on, the beat goes on.
? Final Beatles press release, April 10, 1970