Live Coverage Of Apple’s Special Event, “The beat goes on”

The Mac Observer’s live coverage of Apple’s Special Event, “The beat goes on”… 09/05/07[...] Thanks to Universal for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

InstantRamen: It was nice not having iphone spamed all over Digg..Apple pulls another out the trick bag. “Fan boys not bitching just making a observation. “

HairyGrapeNuts: Thanks for the post. It was really helpful.

Universal: September 5th, is Apple’s Special Event “The beat goes on” at:

7:00AM - Hawaii
10:00AM - Pacific
11:00AM - Mountain
12:00PM - Central
1:00PM - Eastern
5:00PM - GMT
6:00PM - London
7:00PM - Berlin
2:00AM - Tokyo (June 12th)

There are a number of sites that will be providing live coverage, including the following:

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (http://www.tuaw.com/)
Ars Technica (http://arstechnica.com/journals/apple.ars)
Apple Matters (http://applematters.com/)
Engadget (http://engadget.com) (confirmed - http://www.engadget.com/2007/09/05/steve-jobs-live-apples-the-beat-goes-on-special-event/)
Gizmodo (http://gizmodo.com/) (confirmed - http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/liveblogging-the-beat-goes-on-event-sept-5th-10am-pdt-296275.php)
Macworld (http://www.macworld.com/)
MacNN (http://macnn.com/)
MacUser (http://www.macuser.com/)
MacScoop (http://macscoop.com/)
The Apple Blog (http://theappleblog.com/)
Apple (http://apple.com/) (always good to have open in a tab, just in case)
Apple Events (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/guide/appleevents/)
The Apple Store (http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore) (Get your wallets ready!)
Apple Gazette (http://www.applegazette.com/live) (confirmed - http://www.applegazette.com/events/we-will-be-live-blogging-tomorrows-special-event-bookmark-now/)
Mac Rumors (http://www.macrumorslive.com/)
Mac Rumors on Twitter (http://twitter.com/macrumors)
AppleInsider (http://www.appleinsider.com/)
ThinkSecret (http://www.thinksecret.com/)
SlashGear (http://live.slashgear.com/)
Mac Minute (http://www.macminute.com/)
The Mac Observer (http://live.macobserver.com/article/2007/09/apple_event.shtml)
Loop Rumors (http://www.looprumors.com/)
iLounge (http://backstage.ilounge.com/)
Digg.com/Apple (http://digg.com/Apple) (Had to add that)

Engadget live-blog from Apple “you’re-getting-widescreen-ipods” conference

Digg away, friends. Digg away.[...] Thanks to louse101 for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

component: Ditto thanks for the updates. It was fun to watch.

djalam: APPLE SUCKS

thevelvetsun: The big dogs at NBC are probably crying right now.

BobOki: Iphone new pricing, effective imedantly.
4gb $299 and 8gb $399!!!

dudefaceguyman: Fuck yes I’m buying the Nano video. I just got a black Macbook last week and need a new iPod since they have their Windows/OSX restrictions bullshit so now my Nano is a brick, can’t wait to watch diggnation on it though.
..
Man so much to buy, bump my Macbook to 2GB (meant to buy it that way in the first place, mixup. Ah well I’ll do it myself) need a shoulder strap case for Macbook, Mighty Mouse, iPod Nano Video (hopefully 8GB..) to replace my windows based ipod, I’ll just give it to my mom. She wants an iPod desperately lol, and of course get a copy of LEOPARD when it’s released.

My wallet is sobbing softly in the corner

pnmoore: I have been saying to a friend for a while that Apple will go a long way toward re-establishing the vice-grip on this market (that they have never lost, but it slips a little every now and then) if they really come out with an ipod that is iPhone-phone. They did! I am not an Apple fan in general, but I must have one of these (these being iPod Touch). I truly believe they have created the ultimate media device with currently available technology. Hurray Apple!

Powerlock: Strange… 16GB isn’t going to cut the job for most people.

jdavid: wow, it does everything a zune could have done last year, but it does it right????? microsoft what happened?

Verdanic: Wow, that was really disappointing. The new nano is ugly as sin, the new ‘classic’ iPod is less than exciting and the new shell is uglier than the 5G’s, and what the fuck is up with the iPod Touch? 8 and 16GB? That doesn’t do it fr me at all. I wouldn’t pend that much on a new iPod what has less than a quarter the storage of my 80GB, I don’t care how pretty the fucking screen is.

What the fuck was with the Starbucks thing? Who the hell cares? Is it just me, or did they drone on about that for way more time than it deserved (which would have been a quick mention)?

I’ll just hope for a hard drive based iPod Touch. My money isn’t going anywhere until then.

Rhythmicidea: The Starbucks feature is stupid.

Paying extra to make a song you already own a ringtone? Weak.

And the iPod Touch doesn’t have enough storage - they should have just given it a hard drive and longer battery life. Might as well if people are going to be using it to browse the internet.

You can get the iPod Classic for the same price with 5x the storage and longer battery life. The only cool thing about the iPod Touch is the WiFi idea. But that still needs more work also. Such as integrating Skype into it.

Davinator: Here’s all the new iPods on Apple.com: http://www.apple.com/ipod/whichipod/

mayonnaiseparty: really wanted a hard drive based iPod touch.. what am i going to do with a 16GB device?

Caleb83: Over 600 million copies of iTunes distributed? What percentage of that is people who just wanted to download quicktime but had to download iTunes with it?

MISDIREK7ED: Iphone for 399$? Does this mean the refurbs at the apple store will go for 299$?
I hope so.

BozoTClown: OMFG!!!! NEW IPOD!!!!! SECOND-BY-SECOND COVERAGE OF STEVE!!!!! OHH!!! OHHH!!! OHHHH!!!!! GODDDDDDDD!!!

I hate fanboys. Buried.

Gartner: Expect an enterprise iPhone

Apple might start making enterprise-class iPhones or incorporate more enterprise-friendly features into existing models, a Gartner analyst has predicted.[...] Thanks to maheshee11 for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

superjunaid: I agree this Apple really doesn’t care about enterprise much… http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.ars/2007/08/09/stuck-on-the-enterprise

NeoRicen: What a load. This whole thing is speculation based on the idea that Apple actually cares about the Enterprise which they clearly don’t.

Is This the iPod touch? (PIC)

This iPod touch has a striking resemblance to the newly redesigned iMac that Apple released earlier this month. What do you think?[...] Thanks to andru for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

astrosmash: No, it is not.

PhireN: I don’t like that white border, perhaps just the lower part should be white. maybe you could get rid of the home button all together, put it on the side or top or something.

PhireN: I don’t like that white border, perhaps just the lower part should be white. maybe you could get rid of the home button all together, put it on the side or top or something.

toetagger: The edge looks a little sharp (like my MacBook Pro- ouch!).

mcatrage: Well it’s begun. I’m avoiding the internets tomorrow, I can only handle so many dupe Apple articles before I snap.

mrfluff: i really hope it looks something like that. more imac style then iphone.

Apple’s Future TV Network: TV Channels with only the shows you like anytime

So what does watching the Apple TV network feel like? It feels like having a TV channel that only has your favorite shows and movies on it, and plays those shows whenever you want. Think of the these channels like podcast subscriptions that update automatically and which can be changed at will, all for a fixed price per month[...] Thanks to CLIFFosakaJAPAN for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

Gizmodo Slips One By Apple

Gizmodo posted what it said was a photo of the new iPod “fat nano”; But here’s where the story gets good. When Apple legal demanded that Gizmodo remove the spy photos, they complied but promptly replaced the photo with a Photoshopped replica. Gizmodo certainly complied with Apple’s request but also defeated the purpose of taking down the photo[...] Thanks to CLIFFosakaJAPAN for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

virtualball: Welcome to last week! Didya see that video of the Miss Teen USA girl who just babbled when asked a question yet?

tekhna: God I wish Gizmodo would slip one by me, that means I’d have somehow avoided the 300 stories a day they post here.

What If the AppleTV became a DVR to spite NBC?

I mean, $300 for an Apple TV is cheaper than buying 3 seasons worth of any NBC show at the $4.99 they wanted to charge per episode this fall…right?[...] Thanks to CLIFFosakaJAPAN for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

MaceSoul: Or you could buy a Tivo like everyone else.

batmant: Job is all about “The Whole Banana”. That means controlling the entire experience from the remote in your hand, to the device it’s communicating with, to the Application running on the device, to the OS running the Applications, and to the network (iTunes) it’s connected to. It would NOT be in there best interest to make traditional DVR and undercut themselves just to get back at NBC. Give it a season, heck maybe just until the holidays and ten bucks says they’ll come crawling back at $1.99.

Dustin00: What if TV sucked so much, I quit watching it years ago and don’t care about new TV products?

lump1: Wake me up when AppleTV has a nice big bluetooth remote with an ipod wheel and an LCD which displays the interface even when the television is off. Maybe I’d like to scroll through the songs on my network and don’t want to turn on the TV?

Oh, and you’d really get my attention if this remote had a little speaker and microphone built in and worked as a Skype phone. Wouldn’t be expensive; WOULD be immensely useful and cool.

myellis: There is always the hope that Apple could implement Bit torrent throughout iTunes (and Apple TV?) and upgrade the video quality to some form of HD H.264. This would at least partially alleviate the bandwidth problem in delivering higher quality content. It could also allow them to distribute content in a close-to-live time frame (sports, news, etc.). Then all they would need is some sort of pricing model where you could select 5 shows for one price (or 7 or 10) and most of us could say good bye to cable for good.

isaaccs: So AppleTV doesn’t do a lot… and it’s a bit expensive for what it is. But I bought one, and frankly, I like it. It plays my iTunes, shows my pictures, it looks great - I’ve yet to have a guest that doesn’t comment, “Wow” if it’s turned on. Beyond that, it doesn’t do a whole hell of a lot. You could build an equivalent device that has much more in terms of TV capabilities, but not everyone wants to build something. I’d love to see Apple improve the product, there certainly is room for improvement, but I totally disagree that it’s a complete flop. It is what it is, if you don’t like it don’t buy it, but quit moaning about it.

makemeweak: Apple lied about the $4.99 an episode pricing - NBC is now releasing their shows on Amazon for $1.99 an episode.

autoy: The ATV is in the same position as, say, an iPod that only plays AAC files. Almost worthless if you need to transcode everything you have to a specific format just to play it, people just can’t bother to do that if it takes more than two minutes. Has the compatibility of iPods with mp3 totally blocked online sales from the iTunes store? Guess not. In my view and in order to succeed, the ATV desperately needs compatibility. Apple needs to either open the box using a plugin system or include support for most popular codecs like 100% of the rest who make multimedia HDs do (BTW, these are extremely popular in my country, where they serve as a cheap media PC substitute). Yes, doubling the capacity or making it cheaper would kinda help, but compatibiliy is essential if Apple doesn’t want to see this product agonize.

archer75: You still won’t be able to record HD from cable or satellite so it’s still useless. And it only plays what? 1 or 2 formats?

superkendall: DVR’s are insanely stupid. not insanely great. In a day when we can download anything directly, for very little cost in network usage thanks to BitTorrent, who would want to hang out on a stream waiting to grab just the bits you want as they flit by, never to be seen again?

In fact if Apple really wanted to stick it to “The Man” I think now would be a great time to look into building the ultimate torrent device - that would use BitTorrent under the covers to deliver HD media to users directly. And one that could be easily hacked to add other feeds as well all worked via the same interface…

ahuxley: Content is king.
Apple needs to get and pump content around the world.
In Australia its dead. End users are not smart enough to rip dvd’s.
They go online and find blocky trailers.

Add more cpu power, real HD and more content.

piper999: Basic TV capture cards are like what $20 now for a PC or Mac? For the price of 5 NBC TV shows you can record as much TV as you want. This is the thing I never got about all this pay-per-episode stuff.

insomniac8400: Or you could have just wrote about a Tivo and said how its price is much cheaper than what you would end up paying when buying the episodes. Or talked about making your own media pc to do the recordings.

bingobongony: And that would spite NBC how, exactly? The 5 people that actually have, or are considering buying Apple TV don’t matter in the ratings. And if they do that, you would see EVERY network leaving iTunes. And perhaps a domino effect of every co-owned music label as well.

jdaniel284: Why not buy a $90 500GB harddrive and subscribe to Blockbuster Online or Netflicks and get AnyDVD or and maybe Magic DVD Ripper? Then rip as many damn episodes you like. Buy some software like CuCuSoft converter coupled with AnyDVD and make as many iPod or Zune movies that you want.

I don’t understand all this nonsense about Apple TV and $5 NBC episodes.

Target warns workers to expect ‘Significant High Theft Device’ from Apple

Giant US retailer Target is warning employees to be prepared for a “very significant” product announcement on Wednesday. the retailer will be “one of the first resellers” of the unnamed device. The company’s internal memo describes the device as a high profile and a “high theft” device, that report claims[...] Thanks to CLIFFosakaJAPAN for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

abid786: Isn’t the event scheduled for the morning? The article says that it’s scheduled for tommorow night.
Edit: Sorry just noticed the website is from hte UK.

Install Third-Party Applications on Your iPhone

In less than two-months time, a persistent and merry band of iPhone hackers have been pushing out application after killer application for the iPhone, and hacking your iPhone to install those applications has become dead simple. Today I’ll show you how to download, install, and manage third-party software on your iPhone[...] Thanks to mklopez for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

badjoke: You can go to http://iphone.nullriver.com to download and install the installer straight to the phone. From there you can just install apps.

alias420: That’s an old hack, just check out http://www.iphone-hacks.com to stay up to date with new ones.

scotticus: Why does this need to be a hack?

Best phone evar my ass…

iXneonXi: Does Installer.app allow you to change the provider or do you still need a hardware hack for that?

geneshifter: Does any know for certain if I use this and install 3rd party apps that I would void my iPhone warranty? Or, if new firmware versions would break the phone if these apps are installed? I just want some concrete information about this and nothing I’ve found addresses this. Some of these apps would really be useful to me.

dansmeek: yeah dupe but….. for those that have not kept up to date with installer.app, some cool apps are now here.
springboard: this extends the “interface” so that you can scroll up and down, and thus have unlimited icons. And no “pages” like the stupid iFuntastic.
apolloIM: has become a pretty good AIM program. they are close to an update that will make it more ubiquitious, such that, when your iPhone is off, you will still receive AIMs.
terminal: obviously. so you know…. you can hack i guess
dock: if you have tons of apps…. this is like the dock on the apple os x. It always appears on your iphone (you can barely see it) in the lower right hand corner. It’s like a off yellow, but it’s hard to notice. You drag your hand from the lower right hand corner to the center, and a list of all open applications pops up so you can browse between them. This feature stays running while using any program on the iphone.
favorite games are lights off (pretty hard), and i guess mine sweeper.

the iphone is capable of having much cooler games though. when programmers start understanding how to use the whole “tilt” code a little better (not to mention that I believe the iPhone is capable of 3d graphics, even though it lacks a dedicated graphic chip), then they will use some innovative ways to make gameplay “superfun.” for instance, imagine a driving simulator where you turn left and turn right by actually just leaning the screen a little right and little left.

whether you like the iphone or not, you have to give these programmers some props for what they have been able to do in such a short period of time.

(also, to get the nes sound to play, you have to use the terminal to turn the iphone sound off, you essentially make a macro in ssh for “soundon” and “soundoff” and run it *manually* when playing the NES. this website has good instructions on how to do it:
http://www.hacktheiphone.com/iphone_install_nintendo_emulator_mac.html
eventually it will be automated.)
also, i don’t know why you guys are losing data when installing this stuff. when i restore my iPhone to factory settings (which I have done about 30 to 50 times) i get all my pictures, text messages, emails, phone calls, etc. back. the *only* thing I lose are the passwords for my wi-fi networks, and my voicemail password (and I guess the pictures I take with the iPhone if I havent’ synced it).
Anyway, longass comment, but installer.app is really the best thing for the iPhone. Don’t use that iFuntastic. It’s a bunch of hacked code put together and gives you a lot of problems. If you have installed iFuntastic, that is likely the reason for the iphone being forced into recovery mode.
okay, digg me down

digitallysick: i couldnt get the nes to play sound bleh, so i gave up, i haven’t really found a useful 3rd party app yet, im sure i will in time.

jakdracula: Installation crashed my iPhone and forced me into ‘recovery’ mode, which means I lost all of my great pictures.

murty: ahhh i look forward to the day the iphone comes out in australia

schoate09: Aww geeze, not this shit again.

7of7: You have to love when it’s newsworthy that a product actually runs third party code. Typical Apple move, release a product totally lacking in features and ways to implement features and then rely on your marketing department to sell enough of the product that people start trying to hack features on out of sheer frustration.

econoar: If only I could figure out how to install the NES roms…

historyfool24: I would not say the third party apps suck but they are lacking. I want something awesome to be on iPhone, but I dont know yet..come on there has to be something cooler then Lights Out and Terminal

stukdog: When I read this on Lifehacker I was just about to try it but thought I’d wait to see what happens tomorrow. No reason to get it all hacked only to restore it tomorrow for a software update.

over90000: Too bad all the 3rd party applications suck.

‘The Beat Goes On’ Rumor Roundup

Last week, Apple sent out invitations for a media event on September 5th, 2007. The invitations pictured Apple’s Cover Flow interface as well as a scene from the Mi Swing Es Tropical iPod ad. The caption on the invite reads “The beat goes on.” Based on this alone, it seems clear that Apple w…[...] Thanks to normalkid for providing this nice story on Digg.

What other users say about this:

warnergt: How about a new version of Logic that is compatible with GarageBand?

demonstro: What will the “one more thing” be this time?

zdiggler: Spring is here and Leeds play Chelsea tomorrow and Ringo and John
and George and Paul are alive and well and full of hope.
The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you.
When the spinning stops — that’ll be the time to worry, not before.
Until then, the Beatles are alive and well and the beat goes on, the beat goes on.
— Final Beatles press release, April 10, 1970

orangedog: I’m betting they announce that the entire “Sonny and Cher” collection will be pre-loaded onto every new ipod.

scronide: My sources tell me The Beatles rumours are just a smokescreen for a new “The Whispers iPod”: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ubp5PTqX-jc Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

ummagummas08: Talking Heads Reference?

drewfer: We prefer the “big boned” iPod nano, not fat….

drtyfrnk: I thought this was for the store the beat goes on up here in canada!

easy4lif: if I know apple, the widescreen ipod will be last in announcements.

nusuni: A chrome iPod, baby!

psiphre: paraphrased: “we have no fucking clue what’s coming out of apple, so here are all the rumors”

buried

corporalclegg24: School is going to be soo slow tomorrow.

PhireN: So, when exactly does this event start? its already been Wednesday for like 11 hours where I live.

jonneh: These Apple special events make me feel giddy

ForgeModels: I’ve yet to buy an iPod… and to think I own 6 Macintosh’s in my house all with intel processors, and I’ve owned them ever since my Performa 635CD

http://www.forgemodels.com