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As with Macworld Expo, WWDC keynotes, and other special events in the recent past, Apple will not be providing a real-time webcast or satellite broadcast. It is expected that Apple will post a QuickTime video of the event on their web site later in the day on September 5, 2007 as the company does usually.
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CHORUS:
The beat goes on, the beat goes on
Drums keep pounding a rhythm to the brain
La de da de de, la de da de da
Charleston was once the rage, uh huh
History has turned the page, uh huh
The mini skirts the current thing, uh huh
Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh
Chorus
The grocery store’s the super mart, uh huh
Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh
And men still keep on marching off to war
Electrically they keep a baseball score
Chorus
Grandmas sit in chairs and reminisce
Boys keep chasing girls to get a kiss
The cars keep going faster all the time
Bums still cry “hey buddy, have you got a dime”
Chorus
One of the most advanced technology companies in the world, and they still can’t stream their announcements? Come on, big Steve-o, let us in on the party…
they use to stream their announcements but its such a huge demand on their servers now…
Any word on Leopard? Like when in October?
this website is also doing live coverage
http://www.techztalk.com
Never seen anything like that before
Falling bodies tumble ‘cross the floor [Well I’m a tumbler!]
When you get to where you wanna be [Thank you! Thank you!]
When you get to where you wanna be [Well, Don’t even mention it!]
Oh, Take a look at these hands. They’re passing in-between us.
Take a look at these hands
Take a look at these hands. You don’t have to mention it.
No thanks. I’m a Government Man.
And the heat goes on…And the (Wheeeep!) heat goes on
And the heat goes on [heeh heeh]…And the heat goes on
And the heat goes on [brbbrbbrb]…Where the hand has been [chtktktktk]
And the heat goes on…And the heat goes on [aaaaaiiiigh!]
And the heat goes on… [I got time!] And the heat goes on
And the heat goes on…And the heat goes on
And the heat goes on…Where the hand (Oooip!) has been
And the heat goes on…And the heat (hehuh hehuh hehuh hehuh) goes on..
the name for the mobile version of iTunes could be WifiTunes… ok maybe not but who knows these days.
MDN,
Thanks for the links to all of the other live coverage pages!
The reek of desperation is flowing from the northwest U.S.
“Hours before Apple Inc. is expected to introduce new iPods at a special event in San Francisco, rival Microsoft Corp. has announced that it is dropping the retail price of its 30GB Zune music player to $200.
Electronista points to a posting on Microsoft’s Zune Insider blog making note of the $50 cost reduction:
‘It’s part of the normal product lifecycle, something we’ve had on the books for months,’ wrote Microsoft’s Cesar Menendez. ‘We just got some research back and customer satisfaction with the 30GB device is really high (around 94 percent) and we expect even more consumers will now want to discover the Zune experience at the new lower price.’
The price drop comes shortly after Mindy Mount, the corporate vice president and CFO of Microsoft’s entertainment and device division, said that she grades the Zune a “B-” in its current state, noting that the player is doing well, saleswise, for “a product out in less than a year and a half,” but that the company is still developing the brand and trying to expand its identity.”
(http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/09/05/microsoft_slashes_zune_pricing_ahead_of_apple_ipod_event.html)
I wonder if there are any lines at Apple Stores right now, preceding the event?
AppleStore? Queue?
We should first have some here in Europe…
And I don’t refer to UK and Italy, but Germany, France, Switzerland…
Anyway, let’s get ourselves surprised today
Thanks for putting up the GMT time MDN. That’s a very thoughtful and much appreciated contribution. From past experience, Engadget is the place to be for these events.
The beat goes on – Mac market share continues to increase.
The results of my observational study:
I am currently sitting in Mugshots coffee shop and out of 5 laptops 4 are Macs.
Not randomized and controlled but certainly a HUGE difference from even a year ago!
The beat goes on……..
Correction:
All 5 are Mac laptops. (The dude behind me has some funky skin on a 12 inch PowerBook)
“some funky skin on a 12 inch PowerBook”
Also known as an iRash.
“Be then a stooge.”
I heard that Microsoft wanted to get a step up on Apple
So they are releasing the “Zune-Grateful Dead” version.
It has nothing to do with the band….
I saw the ghost of Al Capone with a MacBook.
“the ghost of Al Capone with a MacBook”
I wonder if he’s bothered upgrading to the latest version of TurboTax?
I heard that the ghost of Frank Nitti uses an Acer Ferrari.
Apple Store is offline!!
These silly live events are getting tiresome, trite, and cliché. Apple should just have Steve Jobs in videos on the website.
Actually they use to stream their events, and scooping the main stream media outlets which complained as to why they would bother covering it when anyone could go watch it as it happened. So they pulled doing live coverage to make sure the media would still bother showing up instead of just watching it streaming
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@ TT
I heard it was The Damned (also nothing to do with the band)
Apple Store is don’t…. go figure….
Thanks for posting the other available sources of the feed, MDN simply is not up to the task for this, and don’t blame it on server traffic either, you should have known better.
“MDN Magic Word”, TRYING. Coincidence? I don’t think so.
Ringtones cost just as much as the song? LAME. The friggin’ new iPod better be platinum plated after that turd…
lightwave wrote: “this website is also doing live coverage http://www.techztalk.com“
It appears that your site has been suspended at the moment.
Haha.
Pay extra for ringtones. Pfffft. I’d rather pay Ambrosia $15.
How lame is all this? 16 Gigs? I’m so not impressed.
I hear ya Riff, I was really looking forward to a multi-touch ipod… I guess I’ll be waiting another year…
MW = “rate” as in, I don’t.
Jeeze, 8gb iPhone for $399 ? Now We are really talking
I want $200 back
Damn screw the early buyers over, great job steve
I’m wearing my “oh” face……
MW:products HAH!!
Us early buyers are why he got such profitable deals in Europe. FU Steve.
@wtf
That’s always the way it is, though this is unexpected as to how quickly they’ve dropped in price it’s still standard fare.
so who do I see about the $400 credit I should be getting for buying two 8GB iPhones two months ago at $599?
MW: “WEEK”, that’s pretty freakin ironic!
You guys really did a great job!
C1
They now have a Zune Wi-Fi Edition!!!
It’s Called “The Butthole Surfers”
No Beatles (or any other musicians for that matter?). All we get is McCartney announcing BBC Radio One time shifted 5 hours on Sirius?
Clunk. Thats the sound of Apple’s stock price dropping. 6th gen iPod? Gimme a break. Its 5th Gen Version 3.
Stevie is so afraid that no one will buy an iphone if the iPod has the same interface. He’s probably right though.
And I doubt Apple can really make an iPod with the full screen. Why? Because Flash drives just don’t go above 16GB and if you used a hard drive, the battery would probably be drained in 20 minutes if you were watching a movie.
If it was 6 months… OK.
68 Days… WTF!!!
At least I got my full 68 days for that $200. Imagine if someone bought it last week.
The Starbuck deal leaves me cold – support local coffee shops or brew yer own. No Beatles, but it doesn’t seem like many in these parts care about that one way or the other.
Kind of weird watching the stock drop, though.
@ Jeff
Did you not see the iPod Touch? The one with the touchscreen and same interface as the iPhone? You know, the one that practically the entire event revolved around? THAT’s the 6th gen iPod. Yes, it does use flash memory, but in time the storage capacity will increase. The price drop on the iPhone was made so that the new iPod wouldn’t cannibalize iPhone sales.
Actually the entire stock market is down today, so I don’t think it has anything to do with Apple’s announcements and Apple’s stock drop.
Steven Birch: “Actually the entire stock market is down today, so I don’t think it has anything to do with Apple’s announcements and Apple’s stock drop.”
Perhaps, but the stock began its fall the same hour as the presentation:
http://finance.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=AAPL
My observations:
The iPod Touch in the 6th Gen iPod, it is the future of the stand alone media player.
Classic is just that… Classic. It is geared toward those who want/need a lot more storage capacity.
The ringtone feature is not for those of us “in the know” with the knowledge and ability to make our own. This is for those who are more convienence oriented. It is no different than paying an extra dollar for a gallon of milk from the corner store when you could go the extra few blocks to the grocery store and get it cheaper.
Anyone who complains about the price drop needs to remember that early adopters *always* pay a premium for new things.
I believe having the product expansion and the price cut so early is an indicator of good sales numbers. No one would even contemplate price cuts this early on (according to almost all reports) a wildly popular product unless they had made back R&D;costs and are ahead of schedule on sales/profit numbers.
Do not worry about the drop in AAPL’s stock price. This happens with every major Apple product announcement. It’s call “selling the news,” and all it amounts to is a buy opportunity for the investor.
I agree with Tremor’s post. I, for one, am “in the know” about a good number of things, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned about new technology, is that I never buy it in it’s first 6-12 months of existence, because of 2 things. 1) Potential drops in prices, and 2) Work out the bugs.
These are all great products, including the iPod Touch. Yeah, it only holds 16GB. You can’t blame Steve Jobs or Apple for that, that’s imply the limitation that Flash memory has imposed on these kinds of companies.
As for Ringtones costing another 99 cents, why are you people complaining about that? Every cellular service provider out there charges money for ringtones (which all sound like something out of an 8-bit video game system from the 1980’s to begin with) so what’s the difference with this one? Oh I know, the fact you’re paying 99 cents for the full song to listen to on your iPod, and an additional 99 cents for it to be exclusive to your phone, and NOT sound like utter horse-patootey. (wait, is that even a word?)