“With few details available, the validity of this remains uncertain, but Electronista claims that Apple may be holding a special press event on September 12th, 2006 based on an ‘official’ email sent to Your Mac Life,” arn reports for MacRumors.
arn reports, “The date corresponds to the start of Apple Expo Paris which runs from September 12th to 16th. It has already been announced, however, that there will be no Keynote event for the Apple Expo.”
Full article here.
Note: We have no confirmation of this reported event. Note also that the “Buy a Mac, get a free iPod nano” promo for college students ends on September 16th. Any significance to that chosen date?
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I returned to the Mac world two years ago this fall. When I did, I bought a PB G4 12″, with a buy a Mac get an iPod promotion. Although I still enjoy my 20gb iPod – when that promotion ended – Apple introduced a new line of Ipods. Damn.
So now I wait til’ January for the new OS – and a new desktop Mac. Maybe splurge for a new iPod too – if it has some nifty new features.
Just say no…..
Could you please provide a link to some further information on EFI. I don’t know much about it but I have heard that it can restrict what you can and cannot do on your computer.
Apple’s Euro HQ is in Cork, Ireland.
Little Snitch is a OS based outgoing firewall, it does not work in EFI.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Firmware_Interface
anybody else see the connection between the largest OS update in Apple history (10.4.8) that was just seeded to developers AND the sept 12th announcement??
they HAVE to be connected.
discuss.
I was just thinking that, are things not allowed to happen on september 11th anymore? I wonder how long this will continue.
Actually, it’s just that 12 September 2006 is a Tuesday, and Apple usually makes their non-Keynote announcements on Tuesdays.
Like new albums and DVDs are released on Tuesdays. Why, I do not know, but that’s the way it is.
It’s got to be something consumer-related, after all the complaining the talking tech-heads did after WWDC.
With the reports of Australian retailers slashing iPod prices, it looks like new iPods…but what form factor? Touchscreen makes them far less portable for many folks; how do you make adjustments like volume control or song advance? (Unless it includes a Bluetooth remote, which should also mean capability for wireless Bluetooth headphones which I would maim for…) Maybe larger capacity? I know several folks who have their current iPods at max capacity but have tons more stuff on their computer they’d like to bring along. And if iTMS is going to start carrying full-length movies, we’re going to need larger capacity iPods for those file sizes.
Glad they put it off till 9/12, so as not to get lost in all the 9/11 observances…
The UK version of the iPod rebate ends in like October so no, there is probably no significance to September 16.
well Sep 12 is a tuesday. Tuesday is the most frequently used day to release new albums in the U.S. so it must iPod related.
Well I’m glad the 12th is such a well chosen date, I would hate to lose a whole day of the year to terrorists, it seems to me there are only 365 of em, too few. I don’t think it’s good to dwell on the whole thing, there seem to be too many documentaries and tastless movies endlessly running over the same old ground.
Anyway hope Apple release something interesting.
Re: Little Snitch-
I hate getting a spanking -even when I deserve it.