Apple Will Hold a Special Event on April 20 (engadget.com) 26
If you're wondering when Apple will hold its next event, Siri may have the answer. From a report: Ask the digital helper: "When is the next Apple event?" and it will respond with "the special event is on Tuesday, April 20, at Apple Park in Cupertino, CA. You can get all the details on Apple.com." MacRumors, which spotted the reply, says the virtual assistant is providing it in certain instances on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and HomePod. While it's an open secret that Apple is planning an event for later this month where it's expected to debut a new iPad Pro, Siri has seemingly leaked the date ahead of confirmation. We won't have to wait long to find out if the info is correct, though. Apple normally sends out invites to the press a week ahead of the proceedings, so it should make it official later today. The event itself is expected to be a virtual affair starring the iPad Pro (in two sizes) and possibly featuring the AirTags Bluetooth tracker. Apple's next premium slate reportedly features a Mini LED display on the flagship 12.9-inch model, but supply chain issues could see it ship later than planned and in limited quantities.
Re: New app store! No more scamware! (Score:2)
> scamware
Uuum... you know you are takling about a "store" for ... *Apple* products, right?
Whereâ(TM)s my new Apple TV? (Score:2)
Arcade is starting to get good, yet my old atv hd is getting old...
Re: (Score:2)
& 3G is pretty much dead after YT app stopped working. :(
Naturally (Score:3, Funny)
Re: (Score:3)
Re:Naturally (Score:5, Funny)
A special event on 4/20 you say...
A limited edition Hitler iphone?
Re: (Score:2)
Bulletproof shield iDevice case in memory of Columbine shootings.
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:1)
The iDab Pro rig.
Wrong Company (Score:1)
A special event on 4/20 you say...
Seriously, how is this not a Tesla event.
Mini-LED *backlight* (Score:2)
Still a traditional LCD with a very high amount of pixels for backlighting it. Pretty neat but when you read it I thought "have they really shrunk direct-view LED displays to a tablet size" but no, apparently that is called "micro-LED" which is just the dumbest of naming conventions I have heard in awhile.
Re: (Score:2)
TL;DR mini-LED is still LED backlighting but with more areas and thus a less washed-out image. Think "active LED backlighting matrix".
Micro-LED displays, i.e. actual micro-LED pixels, are the future most of us are waiting for.
Next time anmounce it first! (Score:2)
Cause we really need an announcement of a vague "special event"! But the only thing we need more, is an announcement that you're soon gonna announce an event! ... On April 20, we will make an announcement for when we will make an announcement for when we will have the event where we will announce the event!".
Hey, make *that* an event! With lasers and techno and turtlenecks and "one more thing
It's Official (Score:2)
While it's an open secret that Apple is planning an event for later this month where it's expected to debut a new iPad Pro, Siri has seemingly leaked the date ahead of confirmation. We won't have to wait long to find out if the info is correct, though. Apple normally sends out invites to the press a week ahead of the proceedings, so it should make it official later today.
https://www.apple.com/apple-events/
Apple Event
Watch on April 20 at 10:00 a.m. PDT.
Anything cool, or just the last decade of Apple? (Score:2)
I think the iPad was the last new popular devise they released, the rest of the stuff were incremental upgrades. It isn't that they are slacking off at Apple, they have some nice upgrades, but I feel the technology market may have peaked with new stuff. Unless there is some real break-threw that I am unaware of.
Re: Anything cool, or just the last decade of Appl (Score:2)
How is swapping to ARM, doubling the battery life overnight, not cool?
Re: (Score:3)
Nice, but still an incremental upgrade. There's nothing new to it.
Augmented Reality done right, on the other hand, could prove to be extremely impressive and game-changing for all sorts of real-world applications.
Re: (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
It is cool for the techies... However it still fits well in the normal trend of technology improvements. My PC has a faster CPU than my PC 10 years ago... However what I use it for didn't change much.
4/20? (Score:2)
Apple event on 4/20? I smell a new OS version!
(Not really. They'll probably save that for WWDC.)
Re: (Score:1)
Re: (Score:2)
no that's just the fumes from the iToke.