Apple’s gigantic quarter, iPhone vs. Android, and the new MacBooks. Listen in!
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Wanna put some pictures to the live meta blog? Streaming not your thing? Need something you can sync over to your iPhone for a little drooling on the go?
iTunes has you covered, with Apple’s Keynote feed now updated to include today’s Spotlight Turns to Notebooks (iTunes link) special event.
Click it. Download it. Sync it. Live it.
Ha! No iPhone news indeed! We knew Steve Jobs wouldn’t abandon us completely, not his baby, not his “third-leg” love child! Jason Snell, putting the new MacBooks under the microscope for Macworld, discovers (via Daring Fireball):
Yes, it’s true — these new MacBooks work with your iPhone headphones. If you click the button on your iPhone headphones, iTunes pauses. Click again, and the music resumes. A double-click advances one track, and a triple-click moves back a track—just like on the iPhone. What’s more, the headphones’ built-in microphone appears as the input device “Microphone port” in the Sound preference pane.
How awesome — and completely Apple-like is that?
(But is it enough to make you order a new MacBook?)
While an iTunes Podcast downloadable version will no doubt follow, Apple has just launched their usual Quicktime Streaming Video of the “Spotlight on Notebooks” Keynote.
No love from Apple for the iPhone today, despite glass trackpads, with multi-touch being introduced into the MacBook line. We have a transcript of our full meta-live blog coverage available now if you want the details, but the broad strokes are all in aluminum and black. The long-standing rumors mostly came true, with design unified around the current iMac model — with a gorgeous new 24″ Cinema Display being a near kissing-cousin to last year’s desktop rev.
15″ MacBook Pro and MacBook’s available now-ish. Air’s to follow soon (November?). Rumor has it there are issues with the 17″, so we may only see those later.
Check out the MacBook Video, featuring the now legendary Jonathan Ive, at Apple for more.
But with the lines being blurred in every sense, if you’re in the market for a new Apple laptop, it’s gotten really hard to choose. No worries, though. Apple’s got you covered. Head on over and see which MacBook you are — and what your iPhone might just be syncing itself with next!
(And let’s hope Apple turns back to the iPhone in time for its quarterly conference call coming later this month, b’okay Steve?)
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 “The Spotlight Turns to MacBooks’s” 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…
RIM calls it “ClickThrough” and introduced their version with the Blackberry Storm. While we here at TiPb were initially dubious, Crackberry.com was apparently right about the Storm as the Big Sites loved it quite a bit. Still, we never saw Apple adopting it, and it’s scroll-click metaphor, to the iPhone, but it looks like they may have already put a similar concept to use in the new MacBooks set to be announced today. Daring Fireball has the spoiler alert:
The new trackpad is similar to the Air’s, in that it is bigger and supports additional multi-touch gestures. But unlike the Air’s, the MacBook Pro’s new trackpad is made of glass, and is a button itself. You just press and it clicks. This is not like the current software option where you can enable “Tap to Click” in the trackpad preferences, but instead a glass trackpad that acts as a physical button, with a click you can feel. Sounds odd, but I hear it’s very cool in practice.
TiPb will be live meta-blogging the Spotlight Turns to MacBook’s event today, which starts at 1pm EDT/10 am PDT. See you here!
Engadget brings the news: there will be an Apple event next week, on October 14th. Obviously, based on the invitation above (which we didn’t receive, sniffle), the focus is going to be on notebooks. Presumably there will be a new form factor or two to talk about here based on Apple’s rumored “Brick” manufacturing technique, where they carve the case out of a single block of aluminum.
The only possible iPhone angles we’re seeing here:
- Steve comes clean about when we’ll see background notifications during a tiny aside about the iPhone
- The rumors of a Glass Touchpad with iPhone-esque multi-touch and even an iPhone-like secondary display down there may be true
- Tethering becomes allowed? Pretty Please?
We’re putting the above 3 possibilities in the “One More Thing” category — which is to say we haven’t really seen a real “One More Thing” moment from his Steveness in awhile now and have pretty much given up hope of seeing one at this event, but we haven’t given it up entirely.
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