Apple CEO Tim Cook and a team of Apple executives will be holding their much-anticipated “iPad mini” special media event today, October 23rd, at 10am PDT/ 1pm EDT (more dates and times below).
The special event will take place at the California Theatre in San Jose, California.
It is widely expected that the “iPad mini” will be unveiled today, possibly accompanied by a 13-inch MacBook pro with Retina display, iTunes 11 (built from the ground up), Mac mini, iBooks 3, and even the new iMac!
Apple is live streaming the event (see related articles below). MacDailyNews will offer live notes during Tim Cook and company’s special media event presentation right here on this page. So, just bookmark this page and we’ll see you here!
Live notes from Apple’s special media event in reverse chronological order:
• Cook: Thanks for joining us. End of event.
• Cook thanks teams at Apple for working so hard to create all of Apple’s products (except, maybe, for the Maps team; whereabouts unknown)
• Cook retakes stage, recaps Apple’s 2012: “Yes, it has been a truly prolific year of innovation for Apple.”
• 2:10PM EDT: AAPL, -$10.10 (1.59%) to $623.93
• iPad mini and 4th gen iPad: Pre order this Friday, ships Nov. 2; iPad mini and iPad (4th gen) cellular versions ship about 2 weeks later.
• iPad (4th gen) starts at $499
• iPad 2 starts at $399
• iPad mini 16GB, Wi-Fi: US$329.
• iPad mini: “Every inch an iPad.”
• iPad mini video now being show: Jonathan Ive’s own version of RDF (this one works) now on display: “Al-u-minimum.”
• iPad mini: Dual-core A5 processor, FaceTime HD front-side camera, 5MP iSight camera on rear, 4G LTE, 2X faster Wi-Fi, Lightning connector, 10-hour battery life
• iPad mini: 257,000 apps designed for iPad and iPad mini vs. scaled up phone apps for Android tabelts
• iPad mini is 50% larger for surfing the Web in portrait; 67% larger to surf the Web in landscape
• iPad mini vs. 7-inch Android tablet: 21.9 sq. in. for Android, 29.6 sq. in. for iPad mini is over 35% larger screen area
• Thin and light and over 275,000 apps
• iPad mini is not a dumbed-down, tiny screen, consumption-only tablet;
• 7.9-inch screen (diagonal), 1024×768 – no apps need to be rewritten; everything works unchanged
• Screen size is very important
• comes in black or white
• thin as a pencil, light as a pad of paper
• 7.2 mm thin, 0.68 lbs.
• Apple unveils iPad mini:
• 4th gen iPad 16GB, Wi-Fi still US$499 – twice the performance at the same price
• 10-hour battery life; 2X faster Wi-Fi; FaceTime HD camera upgrade; Lightning connector; new cables Lightning to HDMI, to VGA, to SD Card
• Schiller: We’re so far ahead, I can’t even see the competition in the rearview mirror.
• Apple unveils the iPad (4th gen) with A6X processor.
• Phil Schiller retakes stage
• New iPad is the fastest-selling iPad of all time and the best-selling tablet in the world
• Cook: With iPad, “we are just getting started.”
• 94% of Fortune 500 companies are testing or deploying iPad
• iBooks Author available today: free download via App Store
• New iBooks Author version: Can use your own fonts; can insert mathematical expressions into books; multi-touch widgets, new templates; easy to update books
• Over 2500 U.S. schools now use iBooks textbooks
• Cook: These [iBooks textbooks] are enough to make you be a kid again
• iBooks textbooks are now available for 80% of the U.S. high school core curriculum
• iBook Author makes it easy to create textbooks
• Cook: People love their iPads.
• 2 weeks ago, Apple sold their 100 millionth iPad; 100 million in 2.5 years (unprecedented for a new product in a new category)
• Cook takes stage: “I’d like to talk about iPad.”
• 27-inch iMacs ship in December
• 21.5-inch, 2.7GHz i5 starts at $1299; ships in November
• OS resides on Flash and your Mac notes your often-used software and places it on the Flash drive; makes use up to 4X faster in practice
• Apple Fusion Drive: 128GB Flash storage plus a 1-3 TB hard drive – “fused” into one logical volume via software
• Intel Core i5 or i7, NVIDIA Kepler graphics, up to 32GB RAM
• New iMac (8th gen)c: 5mm thin at edge:
• $999 for Mac mini Server; all models ship today
• New Mac mini: Intel Core i5 or i7 – starts at US$599
• Mac mini: same case, upgraded inside
• Old MacBook Pro still being sold – starts at $1199
• New television ad for the 13-inch MacBook Pro being shown
• Starts at US$1699, shipping today
• Up to 7 hours battery life
• Intel Core i5 or i7
• Assymetric Lithium Battery technology
• Dual microphones, backlit keyboard, even better stereo speakers
• Pixelmator gets shout out from Schiller!
• 2560×1600 resolution, over 4 million pixels: The worlds 2nd highest resolution notebook ever (next to Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro)
• 20% thinner, 4X number of pixels, just 3.57 pounds; the lightest MacBook Pro ever
• Apple unveils new 13-inch (13.3″ diagonal) MacBook Pro with Retina display
• Apple’s #1 selling Mac is the 13-inch MacBook Pro
• Schiller: Very big day for the Mac
• Phil Schiller takes stage
• Cook: We are not standing still. We will continue innovating with the Mac.
• Mac is #1 desktop and #1 notebook in the U.S.
• Mac consistently named #1 in customer satisfaction and reliability
• Macintosh outgrew PC market for the last 6 years straight
• New iBooks is available today – free download in App Store
• Support for Korean, Chinese, Japanese
• Integrated Twitter, Facebook sharing of passages from books
• Apple announces new version on iBooks with continuous scrolling
• iBooks: Over 1.5 million books now on iBookstore; over 400 million books downloaded
• Apple has paid over $6.5 billion to developers
• 35 billion apps now downloaded from App Store
• 275,000 iPad apps in App Store now
• Shared Photo Stream: Over 70 million photos shared already
• 160 million Game Center accounts
• iMessage passes 300 billion messages int he last year; 28,000 messages sent per second
• Cook reviews Documents in the Cloud: 125 million documents used by customers in the Cloud
• Cook: iOS 6 now on 200 million in just first month
• Cook really loves the world “incredible,” but wildly over-emphasizing/half-whispering the word isn’t some magic way to invoke Steve’s RDF
• Video of iPhone 5 launch excitement from Apple retail Stores around the world
• Recap of iPhone 5 success: Over 5 million units sold in first weekend
• It’s great to be back in the California Theatre
• Apple CEO Tim Cook takes the stage…
• 09:51AM PDT: Apple’s online/Apple TV multi-camera live stream has begun:
• 12:51PM EDT: AAPL: -$4.90 (0.77%) to $629.13
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Apple to stream special event online via Safari for Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and via Apple TV starting at 10am PDT – October 23, 2012
Apple to stream today’s ‘iPad mini’ event live to Apple TV – October 23, 2012