Welcome to iPhone Analysts vs. the Magic 8-Ball, where we take the often outlandish, sometime surreal predictions of iPhone analysts and pundits, blogeratti and the ‘net elite, and compare them to the potentially equally precise prognostications of a… magic 8-ball (running on an iPhone, of course!)
This edition checks back post-Let’s Rock to see was right, and what’s still left!
- Apple Insider/Shaw Wu: Will Apple’s “Let’s Rock” Event disappoint? Yes TIE!
- Apple Insider/Shaw Wu: Will Apple release new MacBooks (Pro/Air)? Very doubtful TIE!
- Apple Insider/Shaw Wu: Will Apple unveil a new Apple TV DVR? Ask again later WASH!
- Apple Insider/Shaw Wu: Will Apple unveil an iTablet/MacBook Touch? Very Doubtful 8-BALL WINS!
- iLounge: Is the thicker, more tapered iPod Touch for realz? Yes TIE!
- Ars Technica: Will iPhone 2.1 contain “secret” features? Don’t count on it 8-BALL WINS!
- MacRumors/Kevin Rose: Is Magnetosphere the new, trippy iTunes Visualizer? It is certain TIE!
- Microsoft/Seinfeld: Will the new TV commercial help Vista? Very Doubtful 8-BALL WINS! (yeah, it’s like that!)
- Kevin Rose: Apple Event on September 9th? “Very doubtful” KEVIN WINS!
- Kevin Rose: Firmware 2.1 debuting on sleeker iPod Touch? “Most likely” TIE!
- Kevin Rose: iTunes 8 with music recommendations? “Cannot predict now” (asked again…) Most likely TIE!
- Kevin Rose: New, candy-bar Nano with rounded widescreen? “It is certain” TIE!
- Kevin Rose: Massive iPod price drops across the line? “Don’t count on it” TIE!-ish (price cuts, but nothing great)
- Kevin Rose: Mac OS X with Blu-Ray? “Ask again later” (asked again…) “Ask again later”
- iDealsChina: GPS for the iPod Touch? “Cannot predict now” (asked again…) “Reply hazy” WASH!
Jim Goldman over at CNBC.com scored a one-on-one, on camera interview with Steve Jobs, fresh off the stage from Apple’s “Let’s Rock” event.
Jobs chats iPods, ‘natch, and after (and off-camera) joked that rumors of his ill-health were being spread by “hedge funds with a big short position in Apple.” Other than that? He could stand to gain a few pounds. Maybe the stress on uber-thin products is just creating a little negative peer pressure?
Love him or hate him, Jobs is the soul of Apple, and its great to see him in action again.
Head on over to CNBC.com for the video…
Missed all the news this morning? Well now is your chance to watch today’s Keynote given by none other than Mr. Steve Jobs. And I am glad to report he is alive and well!
Head on over to Apple’s web site and check it out!
After watching it let us know what you think in the comments or head over to the forums and discuss firmware 2.1 available this Friday!
It wasn’t MacWorld 2007, was it? Too much hype, too little delivery? Rumors of secret features and analysts wetting themselves over lower-margin product revelations set the bar too high? Or did Apple just decide to slip under it this time?
Either way, for iPhone lovers like we here at TiPb, Apple spared only about 10 seconds worth of attention. Highlights were limited to Firmware 2.1, which will be available Friday and include better battery life, less crashy apps, and… working 3G?!
Apple’s already made their money for the year on the iPhone, however, so it was time to pump the holiday purses: iPod Nano and iPod Touch. Read on for pics and the full roundup!
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Welcome one and all to the iPhone Blog’s Live Meta-Blog for Tuesday, September 9th Apple pre-Holiday Event: Let’s Rock.
Well, are you ready to rock, TiPb style? The event is now over, but if you want the full play-by-play coverage of the coverage, along with the unique analysis, color, and insight only the TiPb writing team can provide, check it out in reverse chronological order, after the break:
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We repeat, this is not a drill! The Apple Store is Down! Reports are flooding in from all over the intertubes… Details are sketchy but authorities urge everyone to stay calm and proceed to TiPb where Live Meta-Blog coverage of Apple’s Let’s Rock Event will begin soon!
Now find your loved ones. Cling to them. And hold to hope. The Apple Store WILL be back. And it will once again restore your childlike sense of wonder.
We’re beyond the looking glass. Boom-time approaches people…
Today brings Let’s Rock. You know, Apple’s yearly pre-holiday event. The one that the entire tech-verse has been chomping at the bit for since roughly 0.001 seconds after Steve Jobs left the stage at WWDC 08. The one that will answer: “What’s next?”
But that’s all we know: Let’s Rock, September 9. We don’t know what, exactly, Apple will announce, or even if Steve Jobs himself will be announcing it (though we certainly think so!) — or more importantly for the end user: whether or not “OMG new firmware can has stability!!11″
However, that won’t for one Jobs-forsaken minute prevent us from guessing!
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Personally, I believe Steve Jobs’ health is his business unless and until it materially affects his ability to act as Apple’s CEO, and I believe a great deal of the internet speculation has been in poor taste, to say the least. But more than anything, I believe in the rights and freedoms of other people and sites to cover things however they best believe. So, while I’ll spare you my rant on how the stock market has gone from something that encouraged investment to grow companies and wealth over generations and increasingly turned it into the speculative, impatient mess that is modern hysteritrading, I will say I love me some Steve Jobs Keynotes, and it looks like we may just be getting one more for the record books tomorrow.
Daring Fireball says:
Spoiler: Jobs will be on stage, in his usual role. But he remains just as thin as he was in June. This isn’t some sort of state secret, though. Jobs is a common presence on the Apple campus. He eats in the cafeteria, he walks around between buildings. He’s not and has never been a recluse.
Gene Munster via Apple Insider says:
“While some investors are concerned that Jobs will not deliver the keynote, we have reason to believe he will,” Munster said. “Therefore, we believe his health has improved since the June event, which would be a positive for the stock.”
Don’t rant. Control rant. Deep, rant-cleansing breath…
So, with Jobs on stage, any guesses as to the “One More thing”? The thing that will make Steve go “Boom!”
Welcome to iPhone Analysts vs. the Magic 8-Ball, where we take the often outlandish, sometime surreal predictions of iPhone analysts and pundits, blogeratti and the ‘net elite, and compare them to the potentially equally precise prognostications of a… magic 8-ball (running on an iPhone, of course!)
This edition rounds up some of the mountain of rumors piling up in advance of Tuesday’s “Let’s Rock” event. Let’s get it on!
- Apple Insider/Shaw Wu: Will Apple’s “Let’s Rock” Event disappoint? Yes
- Apple Insider/Shaw Wu: Will Apple release new MacBooks (Pro/Air)? Very doubtful
- Apple Insider/Shaw Wu: Will Apple unveil a new Apple TV DVR? Ask again later
- Apple Insider/Shaw Wu: Will Apple unveil an iTablet/MacBook Touch? Very Doubtful
- iLounge: Is the thicker, more tapered iPod Touch for realz? Yes
- Ars Technica: Will iPhone 2.1 contain “secret” features? Don’t count on it
- MacRumors/Kevin Rose: Is Magnetosphere the new, trippy iTunes Visualizer? It is certain
- Microsoft/Seinfeld: Will the new TV commercial help Vista? Very Doubtful
And for those still keeping score on the last round, the current standings are after the jump!
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Kevin Rose, bound by vengeance to clear his name of false rumors past, has been laying the veritable smack down on Apple’s “Let’s Rock” Event. It’s like he’s got Phil Schiller on the Bat-iPhone or something.
The latest? The above mock up of what iTunes 8.0’s interface will look like, along with a roundup of rumors thus far. Maybe he’ll digg his way out of this yet! (Har!)
Meanwhile, Apple Insider is reporting that some users might have sneaked a copy of an early, pre-release iTunes 8.0 download. Nothing much there to substantiate it yet, but we all remember people getting iPhone 2.0 early last time, so who knows?
(Us, come tomorrow’s Live Meta-Blog — see you there!)
