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Originally Posted by starman
Wireless TV?
Doesn't the Apple TV already run on a wireless network?
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Download and watch movies and TV on Apple phones and laptops... anywhere?
Laptops with 3G internet?
Apple hover boots? Flying cars?
Antigravity iPods?
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Originally Posted by ort888
Superman?
Steve Jobs walks on stage with his pants over his jeans...
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Change? Change is in the air?
What if Apple cut the prices of all their consumer computers by 25% in order to make a real splash.
No idea why that popped into my head... but it's something I think Apple has needed to do for a long time.
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As long as there isn't anything in the water...
I can imagine a wireless, universal iPod dock.
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Electricity through the air?
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
Electricity through the air?
Wireless syncing, not power. Then you can sync your iPod in a different room in the house.
The iPhone and iTouch will gain WiFi syncing without a dock.
Maybe we'll see wireless earphones?
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Maybe wireless USB-like technology, but that actually works.
Originally Posted by olePigeon
CDMA iPhone?
Nah, I'd rather see a 3G iPhone.
Originally Posted by ort888
Apple orbital laser.
OK, that'd definitely be cool too.
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Maybe Phil Schiller farted.
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Maybe it's a cheaper ï£żTV, without a hard drive? That I would buy.
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When is the big event? Monday?
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Originally Posted by ajprice
2008. There's something in the air.
ï£żAirplane, "fly by touch"
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More iPod and iPhone accessories on the expo floor. Count on it. :thumbsup"
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By "Something in the air" they could mean what Steve (and others) call the "cloud" meaning the internet content serving etc.
So perhaps he means movie downloads coming from the cloud OR have something to do with "TV being on the air" and here is Apples new movies on demand.
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As to what it means, I have no idea.
I'd assume something like wifi syncing wouldn't get its own banner.
I hope it's a new product because that's more exciting than wireless syncing of my iPhone; which I feel won't get used much since I have to plug in my iPhone to charge anyway.
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wireless cinema display? plug a wireless transmitter into your computer's dvi port and the display will get the picture? only draw back would be no ports on the back of the display, unless they figure out how to do wirelessly transmission of firewire and usb?
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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²
wireless cinema display? plug a wireless transmitter into your computer's dvi port and the display will get the picture? only draw back would be no ports on the back of the display, unless they figure out how to do wirelessly transmission of firewire and usb?
I doubt that. It's a not a good idea when you start to think about it.
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the "lightness" of the new ultra thin macbook
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There was an Apple patent a while back regarding the ability to play any media on any device on a local network. Stream from a mac to your iPhone or from your iPhone to your AppleTV, etc. I think it also allowed for any device to act as a remote for any other: use your iPhone to control playback from your AppleTV or mac, etc. Anyone have a link to that? It seems like something logically related to this new slogan.
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5
I doubt that. It's a not a good idea when you start to think about it.
each transmitter would already be paired with the display from factory with no way of de-pairing them, so that way one computer can't control a lot of other displays.
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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²
each transmitter would already be paired with the display from factory with no way of de-pairing them, so that way one computer can't control a lot of other displays.
I have similar plug-n-play wireless networking adapters. Not the fastest, but you simply plug them in and go. There is a transmitter and a receiver, which take the place of an Ethernet cable. They are paired in the factory with a unique encryption passcode, which is unalterable. No two pairs have the same passcode either.
I use it with my HD DVD player. It functions completely independently from my WiFi network.
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Call out the instigators
Because there's something in the air
We've got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution's here, and you know it's right
And you know that it's right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now
so the bottom half of the banners would show something that integrates stuff...but what...
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I'm not really sure the banners are a reference to some Thunderclap Newman song. "There's something in the air" is just a common phrase.
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
I'm not really sure the banners are a reference to some Thunderclap Newman song. "There's something in the air" is just a common phrase.
i know...but it's all i got!
btw, i retract something from a previous post....i don't think steve will say how many iphones have been sold. he will reiterate, "we are on target to sell 10 million iphones by the end of 2008."
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don't they usually use standard Myriad for their banners? the font they're using is Myriad light. maybe that's a clue to what's coming
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Am I the only one who thinks Steve will announce he's has consciousness transferred to an indestructible cyborg body so he can lead Apple into the 25th century?
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The era of anthropomorphizing hardware is over.
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"There's something in the air"
Rumors...
I think this time we have the worst rumors ever, only predictable products have done their way around the web, Apple should be proud of their top secret policy
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I think the line simply refers to changes in general. We can be pretty sure that that there will be movie rentals added to iTunes and probably an update to AppleTV. Yet that's hardly enough for a MacWorld event.
I think Apple will move forward with adding multi-touch to the whole laptop lineup. Whether that just means the trackpad or to the whole screen remains to be seen. I'd love to see a 12" Macbook Touch but I'm not sure Jobs sees a big enough market for that yet. They already have a version of OS X that is multi-touch based with the iPhone/Touch so I don't think it would be too difficult to apply it to Leopard. In my opinion to make a truly revolutionary Macbook Touch would be to lose the keyboard and optical drive but again is there a big enough market for such a device...
MacWorld may be a bit underwhelming though if the biggest announcement is an ultra-thin Macbook and a new AppleTV.
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Originally Posted by brassplayersrock²
don't they usually use standard Myriad for their banners? the font they're using is Myriad light. maybe that's a clue to what's coming
The font is a bit odd. They've used Myriad Pro for a long time. They've never used Myriad light for anything. I would expect Helvetica Neue before Myriad light.
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Originally Posted by mdc
Take a look at the logo. The edges look, let me say "sharp", like a knife or razor-blade? The logo seems to be very "thin".
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The edges looks sharp more because of the wrinkles in the banner. I think the light font is meant to be "airy."
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Originally Posted by adamfishercox
The edges looks sharp more because of the wrinkles in the banner. I think the light font is meant to be "airy."
IDK, I'm in the same boat as Nexus. It normally has a more built-up look, like in the "Welcome to 2007" banners last year.
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The bevelled edge looks the same to me, last years was the backlit eclipse style, this years looks like metal.
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Just went to the local store that sells Apple products
They don't have any Mac minis left, they will receive new ones in 3 weeks (New CPU, GPU, more Memory)
Was told that the 17" Macbook Pro will be completely redesigned very soon
Best Regards
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an ultraportable 17''? hmm
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I'm hoping for an announcement of when they'll finally be in Canada!
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i'm really hoping for an ultraportable 17'' within a good price range
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Originally Posted by darkmatter
Just went to the local store that sells Apple products
They don't have any Mac minis left, they will receive new ones in 3 weeks (New CPU, GPU, more Memory)
Was told that the 17" Macbook Pro will be completely redesigned very soon
Who told you that ?
I thought it's Apple's (and the Apple Store's) policy to not comment on unreleased products ?
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Originally Posted by turtle777
Who told you that ?
I thought it's Apple's (and the Apple Store's) policy to not comment on unreleased products ?
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The technician or seller at the store where Apple products are sold.
In case the Mac mini is dropped I wanted to have the last model, I hope it stays on the market with what ever specifications it has, not matter if the GPU is a Trident
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Only 3 to go until Bingo!
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You guys come up with the worst predictions. Thunderclap Newman songs, jagged wrinkled banners, wireless electricity, and wireless cinema displays will have nothing to do with what is released. Seriously, Apple is trying to sell products with mass appeal, not to nerds who want to unplug their display and move it 10 feet over, or people who want to be able to sync their iPods from the toilet.
It's a good thing they don't let Apple fans make product decisions, otherwise Apple would make the most pointless stuff.
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Originally Posted by Kerrigan
It's a good thing they don't let Apple fans make product decisions, otherwise Apple would make the most pointless stuff.
QFT
The only thing that would excite me would be a sub $2000 Mac Pro, otherwise...meh.
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