The Really Official Apple Event Thread of Awesome

[Kaido]

New Stuff:

iTunes 10
iOS 4.1
iPod Touch update (Retina display, A4 chip, Gyro, iOS4.1, front & rear cameras, FaceTime, 720p video recording)
iPod Nano update (small square touchscreen)
iPod Shuffle (brought back the buttons)
$99 AppleTV (Netflix, Flickr, Youtube, MobileMe, 99-cent HDTV show rentals, $4.99 HD movies)

275 million iPods sold to date
120 million iOS devices shipped to date
iPad wireless printing
"Airplay" to replace Airtunes (music & video streaming)
HDR photos for iPhone


Original Post:

Starts at 1:00PM EST, livestream from Apple.com!

My predictions:

1. iOS-based AppleTV
2. iOS4 for iPad
3. iTouch Camera with Email Facetime
4. Screen-only iPod Nano
5. Data Center annoucement (they ARE streaming for the first time, after all!)

I'm guessing this is the event where they announce cloud streaming and whatnot (from their Lala pickup).

Every few months, it's like Christmas all over again for Apple fanboys. Yee-haw!

 

[aphex]

Would love to see the new AppleTV announced today.

BTW - Very impressed with the stream on the iPhone, excellent quality

 

[Patranus]

Man, that web stream on the desktop is SOLID.

By SOLID I mean AMAZING.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1009qpeijrfn/event - web stream here

230k activations a day!!!! That totally blows away Android's last figure.

btw do you really need safari to watch? I couldnt get it to work on FF, but it worked on my Safari instantly. I just woke up so im in bed so it's my MBP and not my PC... so I took the easy way out. Hope it works for everyone else.

 

[jalaram]

iOS 4.1. Maybe this is the fix to help the 3g become usable again.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

dude this is pretty amazing.... game center.

ive been ipod free for a year now and i jumped on the ANdroid bandwagon, but I've always been adamant that iOS apps are better... yeah. totally.

 

[TheStu]

http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1009qpeijrfn/event - web stream here

230k activations a day!!!! That totally blows away Android's last figure.

btw do you really need safari to watch? I couldnt get it to work on FF, but it worked on my Safari instantly. I just woke up so im in bed so it's my MBP and not my PC... so I took the easy way out. Hope it works for everyone else.

Safari 4 or 5 on Snow Leopard, iOS 3+

 

[jalaram]

I'm not able to see it on my T-Mo (thus Edge) 3g.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Safari 4 or 5 on Snow Leopard, iOS 3+

so exclusive! lol

but i guess it works so me so it's not too bad.

 

[TheStu]

Big pile of Meh for the new Nano.

 

[mmntech]

iPad supports printing now.It's about time. Too bad it's Wifi only. So now that it's added at least one of the two things I want, it's really tempting. Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your point of view) I don't have $550 lying around! I'm still waiting to see what those Tegra2/Android slates are going to serve up.

Apparently they've fixed the problems with the 3G and iOS4. Anybody want to try it? I don't feel like being guinea pig this time.

 

[jalaram]

Big pile of Meh for the new Nano.

It's not that bad, but without any hardware buttons, it's more like a mini Touch than a Nano.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

YEah but doesn't the Nano lose its camera it once gained?

I guess it goes back to the IPT it was always destined for

big plus on the ipod touch. im buying it... time to return to app store land.

 

[Patranus]

Ya.....
Not really that big on social networking in iTunes. Maybe if it included movies/TV but still.

Looks like it is integrated with FaceBook which should give Apple a big boost in the push to get people to actually use it.

It reminds me of the paper social networking site form the office.

 

[Patranus]

YEah but doesn't the Nano lose its camera it once gained?

I guess it goes back to the IPT it was always destined for

big plus on the ipod touch. im buying it... time to return to app store land.

They are trying to push people onto the iPod touch to take advantage of app revenue.

 

[lokiju]

No word on the classic, guess it's a gonner now

 

[Patranus]

No word on the classic, guess it's a gonner now

Shame. I have one that just sits in the car. Perfect use at the price of a classic.
They are trying to go portable and get app revenue.

 

[Young Grasshopper]

I'm surprised he didn't demo the Touch, also it appears it cannot take photos?

 

[Patranus]

I'm surprised he didn't demo the Touch, also it appears it cannot take photos?

2 cameras.
front facing for face time
rear facging for photos/HD video.

(Wonders if it is the same camera as the one in the iP4)

 

[bigrash]

Man, nothing about ilife

 

[Patranus]

...videos and photos off MobileMe

Interesting

 

[Patranus]

Apple missed it big time with the integration of computers and the AppleTV.
Media browsing should be seamless between your media and iTunes content.

 

[Falloutboy]

new apple tv looks nice and at a decent pricepoint. whats going to make or break it for me is how open it is on formats streamed from a computer. knowning apple it will be pretty restrictive, although the mod community did wounders for the original appletv so we'll see what magic it can work for this one.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

2 cameras.
front facing for face time
rear facging for photos/HD video.

(Wonders if it is the same camera as the one in the iP4)

It seems the new IPT is video only... like the previous generation Nano was. If it's the same camera, he would've mentioned something about a backlit sensor and talked about the HDR that's coming in iOS 4.1. Of course this is the pessimist in me talking, and knowing that this is at least a HD 1280x720 capable camera, I think you can get some decent stills off of it even if it has to be downsampled to say 640x480 to be decent. The stills for the previous Nano were terrible, but that was a VGA camera with probably as bad quality as the original VGA camera phones like on the Moto V300 in 2004.

 

[Patranus]

How did Coldplay win 7 Grammys?