It's only been about a month since
we last held court with his Steveness (we have what's supposedly a
banner this time, too), but tomorrow bright n' early on the PST we're going to bring you our live coverage of Stevie J.'s "
It's Showtime" keynote at the Yerba Buena Center in downtown San Francisco. As always, set your browsers on autofire-refresh and watch out for late-breaking developments. Some time zones are listed below for when the show gets underway (though you'll want to tune in early for our pre-game coverage):
7:00AM - Hawaii
10:00AM - Pacific
11:00AM - Mountain
12:00PM - Central
1:00PM - Eastern
5:00PM - GMT
6:00PM - London
7:00PM - Paris
2:00AM - Tokyo (September 13th)
There was a big ol' Apple in there, but no banner we could easily spy.
This truck was pulling in as we got there; wonder what that satellite connection is for? Well, we'd guess it's for their London broadcast.
posted September 11th 2006 6:22PM
It's a real banner on the side of the theater, I drove by it on Saturday.
However, if memory serves, it's been there for awhile.
i bet they just peel off a sticker to reveal a full screen. dopes. why do people get so caught up?
It's actually PDT. We are on Daylight Time- i.e. EDT, CDT, MDT PDT.
Arizona doesn't go on Daylight Time, so they are MST. Hawaii doesn't observe DT either...
Can everyone PLEASE stop referring to Jobs as His Steveness and the various other psuedo-hipster nicknames I see way too frequently? Seriously, I throw up in my mouth a little bit every time I read something like that (Stevie J. is barely a step up). There is a chance that it was clever once upon a time...long ago (though I have my doubts), but now it is just silly. Really.
Got a problem with Baron von Stevenhiemer?
I think you guys forgot ALASKA... we are the biggest state you know. 9:00am :P
Yes, there are many apple fanboys here (yet no apple store, hint hint).
Hope they pull out something we all can't live without! :P
Has anyone given thought to the possibility of a 20.1" MacBook Pro? I think it would be a welcome addition to the MacBook Pro line, and companies like Acer already make such mammoth laptops. A 24" iMac serves as a pricey television/home media center, why not have one for those on the go? While I am sure that there will be some new iPod goodness, I hope that Apple throws in a laptop revision just for kicks.
Considering Apple just announced new iMacs and Minis, additional computer models would be unlikely. Why not announce them all at the same time?
Good money is on movies and iPods of some sort, but I'm holding out hope for the fabled iHome.
The dark horse would be an early release of Leopard for those spankin new imacs and minis just in time for the holiday shopping season. :)
I remember my Powermac 5200 with integrated tv tuner, remote and video ins almost ten years back... That was showtime, now it's getting slowtime if it isn't the video iPod.
SCOOP: Steve is going to announce that every new Mac purchase will get a free ticket for the movies at your local theater! You can even choose when you go, and the sound's awesome! It's showtime!
GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) time is London time - Greenwich is in London. Why are the GMT and London times for the presentation different?
""Seriously - we're going to see a 32GB solid-state iPod nano.
the competition will be blown away :)
Posted at 6:42PM on Sep 11th 2006 by unimog [ ! ]""
you know they already have 75% of the market ?
What's this about?
5:00PM - GMT
6:00PM - London
Apparently you have no idea that the whole concept of the Greenwich Mean Time is from the era when London was the center of everything. Even today with all the UTC nonsense London resides very much on it, not an hour before it. GMT+1 is also known as CET, Central European Time (for places like Paris and Berlin etc.)
Tonio: oops, need to do some reading. London isn't on GMT at the moment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Summer_Time
Engadget: Why no Elbonian National Time? You suck, why even bother putting timezones at all if you're going to miss out Elbonia! Pffft.
iTunes is down and being updated:
http://phobos.apple.com/showtime/showtime.html
Does anyone know if you can wacth the show off the net?
16GB iPod Nano... HA. Are you freaking kidding me?! Anyone want to take a guess how much 16GB of flash memory would cost?
I say the banner will drop and and new banner will exhibit the new IPOD!!!!!!
I really really really hope its another leather case for the iPod. I can't stand the Apple hype machine, though I do own a number of Apple/iPod products. Just not the leather case.
The banner is not important. Though I do make out the image of the Virgin Mary, so stay tuned for a crowd of gawkers.
Uh, since Greenwich is located in South London, GMT and London time are the same thing.
No - Apple is not Webcasting today's event.
I have an Epson CX11NF that does not print on my MacMini Intel Core Duo. Does anybody have a solution?
I called Epson and they could not help me. They don't have drivers for the Intel macs.
apple store down
Okay, so they might change the iTunes name, but apple being apple wouldn't name it Showtime, but instead it would be called iShowtime. That way they don't steal anyones name, and they can keep with the appleness of everything else.
apple store is down...
How about iENTERTAINMENT or maybe iSHOWS, or iWANTNEWIPOD, or maybe iCONTENT, or iSTUFF who know maybe iKNOW?
The satellite truck is more likely providing a link to the Apple Paris Expo which opens today.
London isn't on GMT right now because it is the summer.
Why does it have different times for GMT and London when the time is GMT in London??? Which ONE IS IT????
Never mind. I'm an idiot.
GMT is the observed mean time at the royal observatory in London, but the country obseverves time an hour ahead during the summer months so that we get time to go out after work. The time in greenwich is an hour ahead of GMT! Not very patriotic but hey, it makes us happier. In fact, people are petitioning the government to go an hour ahead of greenwich all year round so we get light during the winter. How do the japanese live with such early sunsets?