“The invitation he refers to is the one beckoning the press to an Apple special event in San Francisco next Wednesday, Sept. 1,” P.E.D. reports. “The ‘TV gadget’ is the lower-cost ($99 versus $229) version of the Apple TV set-top box widely rumored to be in the works.”
P.E.D. reports, “In this context, the chronology of Apple invitations dating back to 2001 compiled by AAPLinvestors’ Terry Gregory is instructive. If you match the wording and imagery with the products and services that were actually announced, it’s clear that Apple’s marketing department gives itself a lot of leeway in these things.”
Full article here.
AAPLInvestors’ Apple special event chronology (Apple’s press invitation vs. what was announced) here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn W.” for the heads up.]
MDN – your app needs improvement. It is constantly locking up from my iPhone 4 and iPhone 1st gen. I have been shutting it down and relaunching but I’m about to stop using it.
This sept 1 invite is the most ambiguous yet. Does half a guitar mean that music is only half the story?
Maybe Apple is getting tired of dealing with the bozos that are the Record Industry and is branching off by creating it’s own record label for music ‘artists’…
I know… I’m full of crap, let the flaming begin…
It’s a Mac, it’s an iPod, it’s a guitar! It’s a Mac, it’s an iPod it’s a guitar! ……..
This is how it goes.
Steve comes on stage, flashes a few numbers on good apple is doing like a proud father.
Steve intros new product(s). He and others show a few demos
Show ends music guest does a number.
We all get on our favorite Mac site blog site praise and bitch about everything we wanted and what apple should have done.
We go on merry way and apple makes billions as we still get suckered into buying the new product because “(insert excuse here)”
One guarantee for that special event, Apple releases the next generation iPod touch.
Rumors for that event:
– Minor incremental updates to the other iPods
– Killing off the other iPods
– Leaving the other iPods the hell alone
– iTv based on iOS
– iTV integrated into an actual TV
– New iTunes TV show rentals
– The Beatles on iTunes (has Yoko died yet?)
– CDMA iPhone
– Small form factor iPad
– Some other new fabulous earth shaking device no one has guessed at yet, like an iGuitar
On September 1st Apple will complete it’s product line refresh with new features and offerings for the holiday 2010 season..
Yo…, you don’t have to make it sound like a bad thing! Except for the last line. That was uncalled for. There have been few products, this decade, that justify such a comment. And few of us bought those products. You can complain about the high prices, which match a high functionality we might not need. You can complain about the styles, which are a matter of taste. Or you can complain about the occasional fault requiring, and getting, a recall. But the vast majority of the products have done well because they are good products which find a niche in the market.
A much better record than any of the competition can claim.
To all who are having trouble with the MDN app:
Just save MDN as an icon to the iOS home page and voilà! you’ve got
a stable MDN “app.”
MDN’s App Store app is just a port of the mobile website anyway.
“One more thing, iWhine, a new cloud based service where all you sniveling bastards can bitch and moan to your hearts content”.
There Yo, just for you.
The list of the September events for the past 4 years is a clear indication that this event will be an iPod refresh event. We’ll get new generations of shuffle, nano and touch. We’ll likely also see classic finally discontinued (does anyone actually still buy that one?). We may see some changes to iTunes (perhaps the TV show rental thing).
We will NOT see anything Mac-related, or iPhone-related. This is the usual event that follows the educational iPod giveway (‘Perfect Companion’ promotion, where they give you an iPod touch with every new Mac), when old stock is cleared away for the new models.
With MS its easy. A picture of a pile of dog poop = Zune. A picture of a pile of dog poop = Windows Mobile whatever they want to call it the next day. A picture of a pile of poop is Windows whatever version and subversions they want to call it on every release.
Perhaps the guitar indicates an iPad version of Garage Band?
Sweet!
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The guitar indicates a performance by Pete Townsend.