Apple Announcement Oct 23rd - iPad mini? Live links inside!

[cheezy321]

Thought I would make a thread regarding the apple announcement today. Its pretty much a forgone conclusion that they are announcing the iPad mini. The event is in less than an hour!

Apple is streaming the event:
http://www.apple.com/apple-events/october-2012/

Other LiveBlogs:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/10/23/apple-ipad-mini-liveblog/

http://live.gizmodo.com/

I'll link some more liveblogs if you guys have any suggestions.

Personally I think they will announce the iPad mini starting at the $299 price point. I hope they also announce a 13" retina display macbook pro. Might have to finally upgrade my 2 year old macbook air!




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[Suspicious-Teach8788]

why does *this* event get streamed but not the iPhone 5?

 

[Ravynmagi]

why does *this* event get streamed but not the iPhone 5?

I imagine it's just Apple finally realized how silly it is of them not to stream these events. I'm sure the next iPhone event will be streamed too.

 

[vshah]

why does *this* event get streamed but not the iPhone 5?

any way to stream it on a windows pc?

the site says "Live streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later."

retarded.

 

[cheezy321]

any way to stream it on a windows pc?

the site says "Live streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later."

retarded.

lol, it would be very apple-esque to only allow streaming on mac based computers.

 

[bearxor]

I imagine it's just Apple finally realized how silly it is of them not to stream these events. I'm sure the next iPhone event will be streamed too.

They're weird. They did live stream some events several years and then stopped for some reason.

I didn't think anyone really cared about the event. New iPad, new Macs, zzzzzzzzz

 

[Dominato3r]

any way to stream it on a windows pc?

the site says "Live streaming video requires Safari 4 or later on Mac OS X v10.6 or later; Safari on iOS 4.2 or later. Streaming via Apple TV requires second- or third-generation Apple TV with software 5.0.2 or later."

retarded.

Why

 

[jpeyton]

Why

The rest of us lack rose-colored glasses.

 

[Oyeve]

Why

Because apple are jerks.


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[Oyeve]

Lame, they are waxing themselves. Ug.

 

[cronos]

http://www.ustream.tv/ltktv <-- sorry if this is disappointing. it was good at first and then they started having random people talking wtf.

 

[cheezy321]

It wouldn't be an apple thread without the usual haters. Thanks for the incredible insight!

 

[jpeyton]

$1700 with a dual-core i5...

...pass.

 

[cronos]

The Apple stream actually would not work on my iMac (Safari, 10.6.8). It just keeps buffering. Not sure why.

 

[cheezy321]

$1700 with a dual-core i5...

...pass.

Good thing there is a comparable PC laptop at a lower price...

oh wait...

 

[jpeyton]

Big yawn on the Mac Mini update. Dual-core i5, 4GB RAM and 500GB standard for $600.

 

[cronos]

damn this new iMac is impressive!

 

[Vdubchaos]

It amazes me that there is people in this world that not only watch this crap but also go there in person.

Really sad.

But more power to apple

 

[Oyeve]

I must say, as much as I think apple is the ultra douche, the imac looks nice. Even tho there is zero user upgradability its cool that they glued it all in such a thin package.

 

[cronos]

It amazes me that there is people in this world that not only watch this crap but also go there in person.

Really sad.

But more power to apple

They are all media people that were invited.

 

[jpeyton]

No Retina on the iMac. They swapped desktop CPUs for mobile CPUs to make it thinner. Now it truly is a monitor with a Mac Mini strapped to the back.

 

[cheezy321]

man the iPad just dominates the tablet space. It's not even a competition. These stats are pretty impressive.

I know a forum post on here stated that the iPad is down to 50% marketshare. I highly doubt there have been 100,000,000 android tablets sold.

 

[badb0y]

Fourth gen iPad? THIS WAS NOT WHAT WAS PROMISED TO ME.

Edit: Here we go.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

HOLY SHIT WE WERE WRONG ABOUT THIS ONE....

ipad 4 and not mini??? lol

ok and mini...

 

[jpeyton]

I highly doubt there have been 100,000,000 android tablets sold.

Is your day job compiling statistics, or just reading them on the web?