Apple's Oct 22 WORLD-SHAKING San Fran party: New iPads or what? Apple has confirmed rumours of a product rollout event on October 22 in San Francisco, sending invites to lucky journalists this Tuesday morning. Invitation for Apple's October 22, 2013 product-rollout event And exactly how many new products add up to 'a lot', Mr Cook? As is always the case in such invitations, Apple is …
Again it's all pure speculation with a dose of guesswork but in a week we'll know.
New iPad and iPad mini seems almost certain. Updated MacBooks and Mac Minis also very likely. Maverics at the same time - no brainer since it went final just the other day. Mac Pro has been announced so could move to release.
Suspect a new Apple TV set-top box could be on the cards.
I'd like to see them voice enable iPads so if someone wants a phablet they can at least have a decent one.
Mavericks is a no-brainer only if you assume Apple still has any interest in showcasing it. Mountain Lion was announced via their web site, and its release date was unveiled as part of the Q3 earnings call. Mavericks managed to ascend to the WWDC keynote for its announcement but the Q4 earnings call is on Monday the 28th so they might easily just upload it to the App Store and not comment until then.
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And exactly how many new products add up to 'a lot', Mr Cook?
These do not alway mean the same thing. Being slightly pedantic, Tim Cook sould mean that he has a lot of things to talk about with some of them being product announcemets yet the El Reg title seems to imply that unless there as a huge number of product announements it will be a failure.
We shall just have to sit back and wait and see what happens won't we? Or are the Apple haters so impatient that anything less than the 20+ product announcements they expect they will all end up saying that apple is about to file for Chapter 11 with a week.
Thinking a little more literally ....
Only one Apple product needs a "cover"... the iPad.
Needing to cover "a lot" could be a clue at a bigger iPad - a rumour recently scotched, but perhaps Apple have managed to keep a larger iPad successfully under the radar. Highly unlikely, but possible.
Or it could just be a significant number of iPad announcements.
Could be anything but why bother running around in circles trying to second-guess. The 22nd isn't so far away that just waiting won't kill anyone. :)
>Only one Apple product needs a "cover"... the iPad.
I like your lateral thinking... maybe an iPad cover that offers functionality in some way (Thinking of MS's new Surface cover that has audio mixer controls instead of qwerty keys [reminds me of concept keyboards]... pity Window's audio subsystem is a mess, though; for plinky-plonky things best off with OSX/iOS, it will save some headaches)
Jealous? Sometimes (availability of third party peripherals especially), but I paid my money and made my choice. Some things Android does better, often due to there being more involved parties, and some things iOS does better - for much the same reason.
Shit, I haven't been a 'fanboy' for one thing over another since I had a Gravis Ultrasound card (and then for good reason: a larger user base might lead to more software developer support)
Having now been able to try them both, Apple's fingerprint sensor is the same sort of thing as Motorola's in the same sense that a modern scanner is the same sort of thing as a fax machine. This is a case of Apple waiting for the technology to be made sufficiently useful by external forces before implementing it.
Expect to see an updated version of the Mac Mini. A decent little Mac if you don't want to spend too much and don't need something too powerful.
Buy the entry level model for £499 and get a separate Monitor, Keyboard and Mouse and you've got a cheap little Mac, perfect for surfing, XCode'ing etc...
Usually these invites have a subtle hint in them ?
Here we have a bunch of colours (ios7 shades) and 'alot to cover'
I'd have thought coloured ipads are the most likely, maybe a return of coloured macs.
yeh I know - ground breaking....but it would make more sense than most of the rumours, which seem to involve the need to innovate...
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The sad thing is he's dead and the people that made the joke have moved on and your reviews of Apple products are generally balanced, I think it's just the click bait Apple stories and your own determination to remain uninvited that's keeping you out of these events now.
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