Posted on 09/09/2014 11:38:18 AM PDT by Kaslin
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RUSH: The Apple announcement. Do you want to hear my predictions? I don't know anything. Nobody does. There are rumors from sources all over the place and some of the sources have credibility, some don't. But there are certain things that are known. You're gonna get two phones announced today, and probably both will go on sale on September 19th, 4.7-inch screen, 5.5-inch screen. But that doesn't even cover half the news of the new phones. IOS 8 will go to gold master today, will be available to the public a week from tomorrow, is my prediction.
And iOS 8 is awesome. IOS 8, when they released the new upgrade to the Macintosh, which is Yosemite, they ought to do it on the same day. They won't, but they should because they've got a new thing called Continuity that unites the phones, the iPads, and the computers in amazing ways. But apparently Yosemite is not gonna be ready until October when Apple will have another announcement to introduce whatever's new with the Mac.
There might be a new iPad introduced today. If so, it will be a minor upgrade with a touch ID fingerprint sensor on it and a "home" button and maybe a little lighter and a little thinner, nothing more major, which, since it's not a major thing they might get it out of the way today rather than a special iPad event in October, make the October event strictly Mac. Apple TV, who knows, probably next year, not ready today because they don't have a deal with TV content providers. Unless there's a giant -- I mean, there's all kinds of surprises coming today.
Mayo Clinic supposedly on stage to help Apple introduce the new health app. This could be big. ABC News is doing a special tonight at 6:30 on historic occurrences at this Apple thing today. An historic event happening. ABC's promoting it. Now, keep in mind ABC is Disney, and Apple, Steve Jobs' widow, is the largest Disney shareholder. Bob Iger, the Disney CEO, is on the Apple board. So there is some synergy there.
But ABC is hyping this, whatever it is today, as historic with a special tonight at 6:30. People think it's the new mobile payments thing. If that's true, Apple today will begin to obsolete the credit card, and you will pay at point-of-sale with an app on your phone or whatever this thing that's being called the iWatch. And I, you know, let me tell you something. I have no idea what it is. If ABC's billing this as historic, there's more than a couple of bigger phones and a watch going on here. I mean, a watch is a new product category. What's historic? Mobile payments might be historic.
This is something that Google has tried, it hasn't worked. PayPal, it hasn't taken off. Apple comes in, they don't start something. They wait until something gets going and they come out and improve it and make it better than ever. Mobile payments, phones, iPads. Well, that was a new category. The watch, everybody's out there trying the watch and failing at it. Who knows what it is. These are just my predictions.
If the new phones are your big deal, I think a week from Friday they'll go on sale, 4.7 in plentiful supply, 5.5 will be tough to get like last year's gold iPhone 5s. But you'll be able to get one if you know somebody like I do. (laughing) Other than that, we'll just have to wait and see.
Apple's live streaming it today, and I bet if this were on television, it would rate as high as Obama's speech on ISIS tomorrow night, if it were in prime time. That's how much eager anticipation there is for this thing. It's been an incredible hype job. Mayo Clinic reportedly on stage. They are a signatory already to the Apple health app. You know, this is the thing that tells you you're out of shape. I won't need it. I already know that. But a lot of people are going nuts over the health thing, and apparently Mayo Clinic is going to be there on stage helping to introduce whatever this is.
Mayo Clinic's not insignificant. That's pretty big. Apple with Mayo today, exactly right. They've invited, by the way, for you watch people, Apple has invited fashion industry elite as guests to this thing. They're not there for phones. They're not there for iPads. No, it's not gonna be a typical looking watch. I'm not even sure it's going to be a watch. With ABC hyping this as historic, phones and watches and stuff are not historic. So we'll just have to wait and see like everybody else.
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Last really worthwhile Apple purchase I made was my G4. (Computers...remember when they made those?) I still use that thing—great machine.
Then I bought laptops after that. It’s been nothing but headaches with those and they are increasingly difficult to service.
25+ years with Macs and I never want to buy another again.
Motorola has had a Droid watch out for a while, now. My moto X is made in America, 1/2 the thickness as my mother’s iphone, with a bigger screen and a longer battery life. Apple is just responding to stuff already in the Android market.
What's so difficult? My daughter spilled a drink in her Mac laptop. I had her send it to me, isolated the problem quickly and swapped in a new keyboard for $100. Instructional videos are everywhere on the Internet, as are parts. A neighbor had a problem with his, and I swapped out his power inlet jack for $20 (he had broken the tip off the power plug and fried the jack, this was pre-magnetic plugs). I've even swapped out laptop screens and backlight tubes. Easy.
Battery life not addressed at unveiling.
Best competitor watches with B&W screen last 3-4 days, all other competitor color screens are lucky to get 1 day.
Sounds like being plugged in is a way of life!
http://www.theverge.com/2014/9/9/6127785/apple-watch-battery-life-mystery
I thought that about the iPad, and Apple proved me wrong.
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Not me. I had an iPad 1 in my hands the day before the official release. It’s getting a bit old. I’m going to buy the next one that comes out, hopefully next month.
Hackers have noticed.
Why don't you prance around more in the nude?
And that's how the coming generations will be controlled: by limiting information.
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Why don't you prance around more in the nude?
Given the recent incident with the iCloud getting hacked - not to mention the intentional security loopholes that are present in the iOS software - I wouldn’t trust ANY of my personal data with ANY of Apple’s products.
We already know entities like Facebook sell the data they collect to various interested parties. How would you like it if your health data was sold to various insurance companies who then used it - without your knowledge - to alter your healthcare premiums?
I don’t put sensitive items in the cloud.
Disgusting comment from a disgusting person no doubt.
Replacing a keyboard is easy? I’ve been misled then with everything I’ve read. I did basically the same thing as your daughter...a few errant drops and fried a row of keys.
Do you remember where you got the new keyboard?
re Post 18
Thanks for pretty well summing up what I’ve been thinking for a long time. :)
Well, isn't that special. Metrosexuals will love them.
You can find them at a lot of places via the Internet, I bought from eBay. There were Chinese sellers selling for $45 to $80 or so, but I didn't trust them as being absolutely new and Apple certified, some looked recycled. I bought from eBayer I2repair in New York. Totally brand new. White ones are cheaper, the black one cost me $109 with free shipping. There a various videos out there on opening the case and replacing components. Hardest part was separating the top lid around the keyboard from the bottom case, used a couple plastic credit cards and plastic tool just like opening iPod cases. Once you do it once, it's easy next time. Note that Apple would charge several hundred or more if out of warranty, which is the case of my daughter's laptop. Why pay them if you can do it?
Incidentally, eBayer I2repair sells other new keyboards from $27 and up. The one I bought is an older model which is probably why it cost a hundred.
this is a tech post. I can’t imagine what your trying to say or why your saying it to me.
Sayonara
If you’re going to repair anything on a Mac go to https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Mac
They are impossible to fix without these guides. OK, not impossible, but tossing them through a plate glass widow doesn’t count as fixing.
They often have links to parts also.
I understand.
A mere etiquette, not being full of myself, which seems to be lacking in many these days especially on this forum.
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