Apple announcing "fun new products" next Tuesday
By Marc Perton 
posted February 21st 2006 1:31PM
posted February 21st 2006 1:31PM
posted February 21st 2006 1:31PM
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I hate apple and will always be a apple hater, APPLE SUCKS!
What are you talking about? I love apple, but I don't go around hating PCs! Think of the old days circa 1998-2002. In 1997, the battery of the PowerBook G3 had a button to tell how much battery life was left in the battery. 1997! Then copycat Dell copied them probably in 2004 and now my friends piece of junk Dell craptop, I mean laptop, has it too! And they had the fastest Notebook in 1997. They had some of the world's most cheapest computers back then too! There a little pricer now, but compared to all in one PCs macs are cheaper. Apple changed the world with the iMac G3 in 1998. They introduced the cheapest consumer notebook in 2003 with the iBook G4 at only $999! They had the first computer that had graphics in 1984 before Windows! And the Operating System Mac OS X is far more intuitive and better than windows! Innovations like this make me want to use Apple. Even if other people copied Apple's stuff and put it in PCs, I still want to use Apple. Apple is a better company, it has practicly cult of it. There is no "cult or the PC" people are always impressed when you buy a mac. Even if it's a 9 year old Beige G3! I don't hate PCs, I just get annoyed when PC manufractures and Microsoft copy things and when apple haters talk trash. Sure I could sit here all night and say why Apple is better and all of there innovations, but I don't have 20 years to do so!
I just got a new 5G iPod. If he phases them out, I'm so returning it.
Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... Touchscreen Video iPod... pllllllleeeeeeeeeeeaseeee!!!!!!
Hnh. Is that the actual invite pictured?
Apple knows marketing like few other companies.
I'm hoping for an 80gb ipod with video. Up the size and keep the price the same!
More than likely tho, it won't be anything special. They've kinda lost their edge lately (and I'm an Apple lover too.)
The apple website has a countdown to the billionth song on iTunes...but isn't it more of a count-up?
My money goes on the Intel iBooks. I don't think they'll do a new iPod quite yet.
iFun new iProducts for your iLife iStyle.
Its probably some keychain for showing off iPhotos, and can sync with your iPod photo/video/nano.
Sounds like a fun product to me.
Otherwise its some tiny shuffle. w0wZ3rz
It'll be a iBoom box.. man apple really got on the iPod accessories train late... they could have totally raked it in.
My guess is on an ipod boombox. period
Maybe a widescreen, touch screen iPod video
I don't think this is the full-fledged video iPod announcement. I think that would be much bigger... at a bigger venue, off-site and with more notice. (And a more interesting graphic.)
This seems like the iPod boombox or updated Airport Express type of announcement. Why not throw in a few more Intel-based devices as well.
I dont think it will be something thaaat big
Maybe I'm wrong, but don't all the Apple supporters get tired of hearing all the crazy predictions about what is coming out next? People aim so high that when Apple finally announces something, it inevitably falls short of the lofty predictions that people were hoping for.
Relax with the predictions and just appreciate whatever it is that they reveal.
80 gig ipod with video - fun fun fun!!!
be a bit more optimistic - i'm thinking touch screen ipod video that also plays games (psp rival?) that can be downloaded from the itunes music/video/games store. Interface a bit like the nintendo ds but woy more stylish!
If only aaahhh ;)
what happend to the "special event" that was supposed to be held tomorrow the 22nd !!!???
I have access to an inside source and he has told me that they are going to reveal that iChat is totally lame and that the iSight i bought to work with it doesn't work anymore and that i should shoot myself for trusting them! Can you believe this, I can't iChat Video with my friends in europe and better yet, I can't connect to my dad who is in upstate NY and i am in NYC. Apple is really starting to suck big piles of rhinoceros dung.
I'd take a guess at a Media Center Mac Mini (maybe Intel?) Partly because everyone thought that's what they were going to announce at the last event, and partly because I want one.
PDA PDA PDA PDA. I really want a Palm TX but if apple do make a pda how cool would that be. I know they wont make a pda but man I wish they did. If not a touchscreen video ipod wont be bad will it. PDA PDA PDA or touchscreen video ipod if not ill settle for a boombox.
hopefully it'll be something cool, i doubt it'll be the new video ipod (if there is one) but we can always hope. Maybe it'll be some apps because they dont have to many big apps that they make for non professionals else then the iLife and iWork. It could be a suffle update, Who knows (else then Steve J.).
irobot
Yeah what happened to the 22nd? Thats my bday too... No gifts from Apple? How dare they!
Apple needs to release something that can compete with http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_DisplayProductInformation-Start?CategoryName=cpu_VAIONotebookComputers_SZSeries&ProductSKU=VGNSZ160P%2fC&TabName=specs&var2=
Has anyone not invited tried to RSVP to the email address on the invite?
jta
Why does clicking on the pic link to a fake invite contest?
Apple is switching to Windows
you know, that calender reminds me of something else that has a calender, a PDA! but no, it wont be a pda....
Wait, Why do iCare? iDont use iCrap
I'll make a deal with you. I live 10 minutes away from Cupertino. You fed-ex me that invite, I do the report and save your corporate card from being charged up with plane tickets. I'll do hands-on impressions and pictures and all that jazz. LEt me know.
Am hoping for a Intel core duo Mac-mini. I think it's about time, they roll this out!
iPDA is probably not so out of the question as some folks might think. Or an iPod with PDA functions.
Maybe even iPhone... But probably the intellification of some the Mac line (mini, iBook) is most likely.
Expect no big thing. probably is an iBook announcement (not release) because the education market buying season is coming an they need schools to know what is coming.
That and some minor releases like an ipod boombox, and how the new prodcuts have been a success.
IT WON'T BE the TABLET nor the VIDEO IPOD those will come later, the tablet who knows, the Video iPod will come wen the new home entrainment platform is released. Maybe April 1.
iGame :O
Expect no big thing. probably will be some minor "fun" releases like an ipod Boombox and an iBook announcement (probably not a release) since the education market buying season is coming and they need to give information of what's is coming.
IT WON'T BE the TABLET nor the VIDEO IPOD those will come later, the tablet.. who knows. The Video iPod will come when the new home entrainment platform is released. Maybe April 1.
Whatever it is it will iSuck and the battery will only last for 18 months....
My guess is an iBook. My reason...all of the rebates out there for the MacBook Pro have valid purchase dates ending, yea you guessed it February 28th. Apple may have received enough pre-order sales for the MacBook Pro that they now feel they can release the Intel ibook without canabalizing sales. Sure, it could be a coincidence, but it's more fun to think it's not.
I recently visited half a dozen mac stores trying to find a mini in stock. Couldn't find one. Staff at one store says they're not getting their order, so they think it's 'cause an upgrade is coming. Intel mini is my guess.
I hope it's not an Ipod Boombox. Accesories are anti-climatic.
they're releasing the iPod touchscreen on the 29th.
Honestly speaking, I don't think it would be a new iPod. Maybe new iPod accessories, but they just released/remodelled the iPod line these past 3-5 months. I'm putting my money on Apple Intel iBooks, and I just may get one if I'm right...
I'd venture their going to put all the Apple bloggers into a big room and gas'em for spreading rumors all the time.
Guaranteed to be an Apple branded phone/cell service/data service.
How do I know this?
I just parked 350 ponies down for a Sony Ericsson K750i.
That's why.
jw
"1. I hate apple and will always be a apple hater, APPLE SUCKS!"
That's nice. Stop reading Apple-related stories, then.
Its a tablet. A Maclet. It has buttons and mic in the pen. The thing has a camera. It has a good battery life. But its going to be very expensive. Some where above $3000(mainly b/c of software). The funny thing is, its the size of an iPod.
I'm getting sort of sick and tired of all the crap hype that surrounds Apple's 'next best thing'. You know what WOULD be the next best thing, Apple? If you paid attention to a little something called craftsmanship, and made your products built to last.
Seems like every product they come out with, they have another one that's been out for a while that has significant faults (be it screen scratches, white spots, iPods mysteriously losing their entire music library, etc., etc.). I grew up on Apple computers from the beginning. An Apple IIe, then a MacPlus, a Performa, and so on. But, I'm sure not as proud of Apple as I used to be. Stevie J, just chill out for a while, and fix your broken toys before you buy new ones!
I didn't know the 'F-Word' was allowed on Engadget....
So many Apple haters, no wait... that's Microsoft. Go on, tell me, how much did MS pay you to make a post?
I'm excited about the news.
Dave: I am crossing my fingers for the same thing, an intel-based mini with frontrow that I can use for an HD media center. (Coincidentally, my name is also Dave, wierd.)
Jared: I guess they don't have to compete now, clicking that link took me to a page that said "The requested product is no longer available"
Ummmm A launch in infinate loop seems a bit unusual, either everywheres booked, its not an important annocunement or its a VERY importnat announcement. I find chocolate fun when im hungray, so maybe a chocolate coloured ipod or new shuffles.
iJobs.
I wouldn't be surprised to see an AirPort update next week. I was at my local Apple Store this past Saturday and the "refreshed table" was full of AirPort Extremes, AirPort Expresses, and those Monster audio cable kits. Maybe someone bought 4 AirPort Extremes and a handful of Expresses and decided he didn't want them, but I'm just not feeling it.