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http://www.macdailynews.com/070905_special_event.html
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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.
See you Wednesday, September 5th at 10:00am PDT / 1:00pm EDT / 5:00pm GMT.
Live coverage of Apple’s “The Beat Goes On” special event is also being offered at the following locations:
• Apfeltalk (German)
• Apple Gazette
• Ars Technica
• Business 2.0
• CNBC – Tech Check
• CNET
• Engadget
• Gizmodo
• MacTechNews (German)
• Macworld
• The Mac Observer
• SlashGear
Please email webmaster@macdailynews.com with other links of live coverage to be added to the list above.
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?)