Apple To Stream a Product Launch Live For the First Time 288
redletterdave writes "In the biggest surprise since the original iPhone, Apple has decided to live stream its product announcement for the very first time on Tuesday. This means that the company's media announcement from the California Theatre in San Jose, which will begin at exactly 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST), will be available to watch on computers, laptops and mobile devices for the very first time, all in real-time. Apple will be live streaming today's event directly on the company's website. Apple says all Mac and iOS devices will be able to live stream the event, including computers, laptops, iPhones, iPads and Apple TVs." Update: 10/23 18:45 GMT by S : The iPad Mini was announced, as expected. It has a 7.9" screen at 1024x768, it's 7.2mm thick, and it runs on an A5 chip. Pricing is as follows for the Wi-Fi only version: 16GB for $329, 32GB for $429, 64GB for $529. For LTE-capable versions, add $130. Apple also updated the larger iPad, as well as its Mac Mini, iMac, and MacBook Pro lines.
Apple devices? (Score:5, Insightful)
What? (Score:5, Insightful)
I dunno what semantics the authors are juggling to call this the first time Apple has live streamed it's product launches. But back in the day, Apple used to live stream all their WWDC keynotes... this is definitely not a first for Apple.
Re:Apple devices? (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:Apple devices? (Score:4, Insightful)
I was going to ask sarcastically if any
any product release since the iphone has been described other than ""In the biggest surprise since the original iPhone..."
I'm not sure, but I think they Might Possibly sell a little tablet-ette a wee bit bigger than my trusty rusty ipod touch and a big smaller than my trusty almost as rusty ipad-1, in other words almost the same shape and size as a kindle reader (With Special Offers(tm))
A real surprise would be Apple announcing "F all this computer shit, we're reorganizing as a produce orchard and selling real apples"
Re:Apple devices? (Score:1, Insightful)
Pardon me for saying so, but what an absolute dick of a company.
Re:New Tag Line (Score:4, Insightful)
And how is an Apple product announcement not news for nerds?
Did you read the Summary? This isn't a product announcement. This is details about a product announcement announcement. The next logical step is to have a press release indicating that sometime in the near future we will release a press release about a new product and the press release's press release is on 8.5x11 heavy cardstock paper.
Tactic to win first impressions? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:New Tag Line (Score:0, Insightful)
Let's try this:
$article =~ s/Apple/Samsung/g;
$article =~ s/iPad/Galaxy Tab/g;
print $article;
Still irrelevant? But you just jizzed your pants.
Fact: it takes no effort to ignore an article, and not post.
Fact: it takes effort to click the link, type up a post, and submit it.
If this article is so inconsequential, why did it prompt you to exert yourself? Let's be honest: the only reason you've declared it irrelevant is that it gives you a reason to post and remind us all how much you hate Apple, and would never use their products, and use the clearly superior Android/Linux versions of the products, thus demonstrating your exquisite taste and amazingly clear-eyed judgement.
And you lot say that APPLE users identify with their brand choices? Pot, I'd like you to meet Kettle. You probably won't like him, because he's black.
Re:Another Apple blunder (Score:4, Insightful)
Since when has any Apple customer cared about a price difference of $100?
You're right, Apple customers obviously don't care about saving $100 since they are still customers, but Apple ex-customers do. That is precisely how Apple lost the lead in the smartphone market.
Re:Tactic to win first impressions? (Score:1, Insightful)
I suspect that the reason for the restriction to Apple devices is to assure that the first wave of third-party online reporting about the announcement is from a group biased to be more generally favorable to Apple products, to set the tone of the response.
Yeah, as if those who want to attack Apple need any actual information on the devices they are going to bash.
Re:iPad Mini -- $329 (Score:4, Insightful)
As noted, $80... but that is a fair premium for more screen real estate
There's actually less real screen estate here, because resolution is lower. So you can fit less text with the same legibility level.
a much wider range of apps built for a larger display
That's debatable. There are plenty tablet-aware apps for Android, certainly all the big names that actually matter are there. We're not talking about fart apps, right?
and also much higher quality of construction (looks to use the same materials at the iPhone 5 as far as metallic backs and glass).
The quality of construction is not defined by materials alone, and then there's also the utility aspect of it. Soft touch rubber-like plastic on the back of Nexus 7 is actually far superior to all-aluminum iPad, because it makes it so much easier to grip it in one hand.
All in all, this has been a very unimpressive announcement: epic fail on price, display is very meh in this day of Retina craze, and overall lack of any distinguishing competitive features other than the Apple logo. The 13" MacBook is much more interesting.
Re:Thats no moon (Score:4, Insightful)
I sense a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out "I want one now"
That's amazing, in spite of the fact the this new product has lower screen resolution than a product that costs $130 less, sports an obsolete dual core processor, and still has no built in USB port.
Oh, and the battery is glued in.
Re:Thats no moon (Score:2, Insightful)
And yet it's still the best 7" tablet.