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vukasika said:

Nah this will face too much opposition to be passed besides, AT&T only has a cash reserve of $7billion and would need financing for the remaining cash portion of the deal. However, they are already carrying $120 Billion (yes Billion) in Debt. Also don't forget AT&T just acquired Direct TV in 2013 and already owns the U-Verse cable brand. I seriously doubt this makes it pass the antitrust regulations even if AT&T manages to come up with the financing it would need to close the deal.

I believe Time Warner sold their cable business to Charter. It is now called Spectrum. They just license the Time Warner Name and the Eye logo, but that is already being phased out now with the new Spectrum branding. Now that they don't have distribution, I'm not so sure this will be blocked.

sog35 said:

melgross said:

I'm not so sure this event is going to introduce anything groundbreaking. An OLED keystrip is a nice advance, but groundbreaking? Not really. What else? This isn't going to be like the Mac introduction, or the iPhone, or iPad. It's will be several, I hope, upgraded machines, and maybe the discontinuation of another.

nice, but not groundbreaking. Groundbreaking would be an ARM MacBook. I don't see that happening this year.

what else ground breaking could they REALISTICALLY introduce now?

iOS desktop with Touch Pad + keyboard input
A10X
256 GB flash
$299

A competent Apple desktop computer for that price would be REVOLUTIONARY

Why iOS? They could stick macOS on there and not cripple the device as much.

tallest skil said:

ronn said:

"hello" used for intro of Macintosh. And iMac. Hmmm....

Desktop multitouch.

Maybe they decided to build a real Pro machine. (ducks)

anantksundaram said:

The more important question: what's up with that smoky, deep pink, partially obscured Apple?

Looks like a moon with silhouette trees in front of it due to the proximity of the event to Halloween.

I work for a very large tech company that has been allowing and supporting Macs for a while now. One of the biggest changes I have seen personally is how responsive IT is becoming for Mac support. They are already officially supporting Sierra. That means that they have tested all of our internal solutions are working fine or with acceptable caveats. They start with the betas and work with vendors on found issues, etc. Hard for me to believe they got it done this fast. I have never seen them move that fast to a new Windows release.