“When Tim Cook takes to the stage at Cupertino’s Flint Center on 9 September to announce the new iPhone, it will be 30 years since Steve Jobs announced the first Mac at the same venue,” Matt Warman reports for The Telegraph. “Apple is returning to where, folklore claims, their founder started a revolution. It’s a conscious raising of the bar of expectation.”
“As soon as the invite hit inboxes, speculation began to abound on what it meant – zooming in on the Apple logo, some see a sine wave indicating a focus on health,” Warman reports. “Others perceive the tip of a finger pressing a button, emphasising identity, or a sundial indicating a watch. Then there’s the fact that the date, 9/9, is two sixes upside down, indicating two models of the iPhone 6.”
Warman reports, “But the tagline probably says everything Apple is willing to: ‘Wish we could say more.’ There is no teasing this time round, despite a long history of cunning and cryptic invites to previous Apple launches.”
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Warman missed the obvious link of “wish we could say more” to Siri. Will an iWatch include a Bond-esq communicator function?
I was just thinking this! The use of the word “say” surely carries some weight.
It means:
1: iHaters will be in a fever pitch, mouth foaming, blood boiling hate fueled orgasmic throws of online trolling activity.
2: The usual suspect ANALyst that get everything wrong about Apple will capitalize on this event as a quick way to make some big bucks. The STUPIDER the articles, the MO MONEY they get.
3: For Mac users, iOS user, normal human beings that enjoy work, life, family, friends and leisure…it will be an awesome big BOOM BOOM BOOM day! 😉
Throes….
Yes the iHaters will out in force.
They will point out how every new feature in the iPhone 6 was in some android or Windows Phone first, even though that feature was clunky and barely worked.
And even though Apple’s implementation will be clearly different, will actually work, and be much more elegant, in their minds they will believe that Apple copied everything.
The iHaters will also point out feature A from manufacturer A, feature B from manufacturer B and so on, features C, D, E from Android, features F, G, H from Windows phone OS. They will even point to features in other desktop OSs that Apple has has copied.
In their minds a mashup of a half dozen phones and various OSs somehow beat the new iPhone. It happens every time a new model is released, it really is laughable.
The picture is the top of the apple logo. It’s not a finger or a sundial.
Exactly what I was going to say. Sometimes people just HAVE to read something into it that isn’t there.
You’re completely ignorant as to the higher level functioning of signs and language.
Yeah that was a step too far. Sorry dude.
No shit Sherlock!
Yep. And the date is… the date of the event. Idiots.
It’s a three way man which – are you people f-ing blind? Or just that stupid?
Typical analyst…
It’s *OBVIOUS* what it means. Apple will be hosting an event on Sept 9. No need to read any more out of it than that.
The author is a cunning linguist.
I am the walrus…….
……surlaw eht ma I
Shut the f**k up, Donny! V.I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov!
Two down votes? I guess there are no Big Lebowski fans here. Oh well. It was joke.
Best poem/song of all time…IMWO
Things are entirely what they appear to be and behind them….there is nothing.
Sartre
It seems some people have gone off the deep end looking for meanings in things that are exactly as they appear to be with no hidden meanings at all. It just looks like part of an Apple logo to me and the date already speaks for itself. I can wait until the 9th to see what Apple has to offer, so there’s no need for me to guess.
ps – Apple always hides hidden messages in these invitations. In case you weren’t aware.
There’s nothing to see here people move along!
I dunno…it looks like a Zeppelin crashing into the Los Altos Hills.
I got it….I got it.
If you take the first 9 and then add the second 9, that equals 18. You then add the third number (2) to give you 20. Now here is the trick….they threw in the 0 to mess with your head. If you subtract 014 from 20, you actually get the number 6. This is a CLEAR indication that they will introduce some gadget with the number 6.
I wonder what it will be?
…if only I didn’t run out of tin foil for my hat….
Wow nice thinking!
Siri will play a larger part in the new products. Get it?
Got it. Siri will be the MC!
“Hello, I am Siri. It sure is great to get out of that bag.”
Apple has been talking for some time about a far more capable version of Siri.
Two predictions:
• “Say More”: iWatch will let you speak to Siri to control your iPhone
• Light-and-shadow look: represents folding paper. Apple will introduce something with a folding screen
sadly, i think it means the rumour that the iWatch will be delayed is true. not wanting to launch the devise several months before it is available – and give the koreans a big head start on their copying, apple is not going to say more than necessary.
A close up of the Apple logo…
the “say more” reference:
relating to poor battery life on current iPhones.
new iPhone will have much improved battery life
possibly relating the NFC+battery charging patent
It’s a three way man which – are you people f-ing blind? Or just that stupid?
Sometimes a tease is simply a tease.
It’s quite simply a “big apple” and likely to signify the larger iPhone 6…
Or at least that’s what I think!
It’s hinting at the new features for proctologists.
“Some see a sine wave indicating a focus on health…yadda yadda…”
I see dead people.
“Wish we could say more”
It’s about China.
“more” = bigger screen sizes (5.5″ and 4.7″)
“wish” means no iWatch availability at this function, announcement only
“say” = killer app in iOS 8 for iWatch which is ‘voice messaging’
9.9 = new font on iWatch’s time keeping
logo zoom = it’s centered on the apple’s “stem” which would be your wrist
If iWatch is delayed due to mfg yields or hiccups, it’s features aren’t easily copied anyway, so no need to worry about Samsuck copying it quickly, thus announcement before availability (which could be delayed).
Remember: original iPhone was announced half a year before availability.