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Posted on 08/27/2015 11:57:12 AM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple on Thursday sent out invitations to members of the media, making official its anticipated Sept. 9 event at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. It's expected to showcase not only a next-generation "iPhone 6s" handset, but also a new Siri-enabled Apple TV set-top box.
This year's event comes with the tagline "Hey Siri, give us a hint," likely alluding to the voice input expected to be a part of this year's revamped Apple TV. The new set-top box is also widely anticipated to feature a redesigned controller with touchpad, as well as a dedicated App Store for downloading third-party applications.
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"iPhone 6s"
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As for the next-generation iPhone, the so-called "iPhone 6s" is expected to boast Force Touch, gaining the same pressure-sensitive contextual input method already found in the Apple Watch and latest MacBooks.
As was rumored, Apple's Sept. 9 event will be held at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, which has a seating capacity of 7,000. That's a much larger venue than those traditionally used by Apple to host its annual iPhone events — the Yerba Buena Center can hold 1,470 people, while Cupertino's Flint Center hosts 2,400 visitors.
If Apple sticks to its usual release schedule, as is expected, the company would likely make its new iPhones available for sale the following Friday, on Sept. 18. The revamped Apple TV is also expected to hit the market soon after it is announced.
With the event now officially set to take place in less than two weeks, leaked parts and details about the new iPhone have continued to mount, though many of the details have been known for some time. AppleInsider exclusively reported back in February, that the next iPhone will feature Force Touch input, while sources indicated in March that it will boast 2 gigabytes of RAM.
Parts leaks and iOS code have reaffirmed that the "iPhone 6s" and its larger counterpart, the "iPhone 6s Plus," will gain Force Touch input. The device is also expected to feature a faster "A9" processor, as well as the same durable 7000 series aluminum found on the Apple Watch.
Other leaks have suggested the "iPhone 6s" will feature a 12-megapixel camera that may shoot 4K-resolution video. And code found hidden in iOS 9 suggests the "iPhone 6s" will sport a forward facing flash and 1080p-resolution front camera that would offer better selfies, particularly in low-light situations.
In another change to its lineup, Apple is also expected to offer its latest iPhones with a new rose gold color option. That would join the existing three variants of space gray, white, and gold.
Sources revealed to AppleInsider earlier this year that the 4.7-inch "iPhone 6s" was internally codenamed "N71" while in development, and the larger 5.5-inch model was identified as "N66."
Quit and restart Safari. . . Should solve your problem.
I’m psyched. I have an iPhone 4S. Running OS 6 . The first date to upgrade to a new phone is Sept 7, and as soon as I heard about the rose gold iPhone a few months ago I’ve been waiting.
Can’t wait to purchase. Rose gold sounds pretty and I’m a girly girl.
I’m also getting the watch at the same time. My birthday is next week. It’s my birthday present to me.
I may be interested in the new AppleTV, I have a gen3.
If so, then why are you here? Go be bored elsewhere...
I doubt you’re going to see significant internal storage. What would be ideal is if they allow you to hook up a USB or networked (e.g., NAS) drive and have an iTunes client run directly on the ATV rather than relying on an intermediary like a PC, Mac, or iDevice to be the iTunes client.
Honestly, I think they really need to take a good hard look at iTunes anyway - it needs to be split, at a minimum, into a server application to manage the library and a client application to use it, allowing multiple clients to use the same server and see updates made to the library from any source. That applies to not just Apple TV devices, but multiple PCs/Macs and multiple users on each computer as well. No reason a hosehold shouldn’t be able to share one centralized library with independent views into it. Home Sharing is a little to clunky to count as a real solution.
Not mental, eh? Then, what drives you these Apple threads with your snarky attitude and insults to the readers?
Painful gas pressure in your lower alimentary tract?
Virtualization does not introduce vulnerability to malware. In fact it is a way of managing/isolating sessions that brings with it enhanced security.
The reason iOS and Android are vulnerable is that they are a classic OS design, with both having roots in Unix with common core architectures. Androids higher malware rate is that they are much more open source and fragmented across manufacturers. Apple controls it with walled-garden. But both are inherently unsecure.
Yep - the apple shills put so much emotion into electronics its humorous. They get whipped up in a frenzy with their “Apple-first” policy for everyone rather than use a technical trades analysis approach to identify the right tool for the job.
I think this is the first Apple thread I’ve visited in 2015. not particularly driven on that front.
“Now with Tint Control!”
/obscure Bloom County reference.
Dooooooooooooooooooooooomed! ;')
Shouldn't that be "not me" ?
You are right. . . chalk that up to tiredness. . .
Sorry, that is not so. UNIX™ has been around so long that it has been tested by many people for flaw in that basic architecture and its system of permission is industrial strength. If what you were saying were true, then unjailbroken iOS would have malware and hacks coming out its ears. It doesn't. There is not a single viable hack or malware in the wild for unjailbroken iOS.
The Hacker Team sells tools to break into all mobile devices to government agencies around the world except for UNJAILBROKEN iOS devices, because despite years of working to create a means of doing it, they were unsuccessful in creating a means to do it. This is the company that provides the tools to the FBI, NSA, CIA, MI6, Scotland Yard, police agencies around the world, and THEY cannot do it. Yet you blithely claim that iOS is "inherrently insecure" with absolutely no evidence to back your claim!
Falsehoods about the topic is what I will not stand quite about. . . and when someone repeatedly reposts myths, I will respond, and again post the facts,, rebutting the myth. Discostu's claims of Apple "cult" claiming Apple was first in everything is one of those myths. It doesn't happen except in the minds of the Apple haters. Especially when they have been told in the past and pointed to articles which are authoritative on the topic with links. I do know the facts on this subject.
I own a cross platform consulting business and am intimately familiar with several OS platforms. I make the majority of the income in that business from Microsoft Windows and the problems it develops. There is not much you can tell me on that subject that I don't know or haven't experienced.
Every fanbase has a cult contingent. It’s just part of life. There are people who insist the Beatles did everything first, there are people who insist Tim Tebow is a great QB, and there are people that insist Apple invented everything. You can pretend Apple is immune if you want, but that’s you putting on blinders.
Then it was not necessary to bring it up in this thread.
“Necessary”?! This is America, almost nothing we do here is necessary. I mean heck, we’re on an Apple thread, a company that specializes in high end entertainment products that are completely and entirely unnecessary. All I did was point out that Apple TV getting voice command capability was a very “us too” feature and that some people would some people would insist it was a cutting edge never before seen feature. From there you went down the very unnecessary path of getting all mad and throwing insults.
Oh and you want proof of the cult of Apple:
http://theweek.com/articles/474359/5-signs-that-apple-cult
“You’ve always been an evangelist for Apple and now you can get paid for it,” Graham Marley, a former Apple salesman, tells Segal.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/anthropologist-confirms-apple-is-a-religion/
A stranger observing one of the launches could probably be forgiven for thinking they had stumbled into a religious revival meeting.
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/12/turning-customers-into-cultists/382248/
But the iPhone isn’t just another phone, and Apple isn’t just another phone manufacturer. It’s a brand with a cult following, whose new products inspire sane people to squat for hours outside the nearest Apple store like Wiccans worshipping before Stonehenge.
And finally there’s my absolute favorite:
http://www.cultofmac.com/about/
Cult of Mac is a daily news website that follows everything Apple.
You should probably explain to those guys how there’s no Apple cult.
Well it’s been fun. But really I have more interesting people to be with. Enjoy you Apple junk.
Your first link "5 signs that Apple is a Cult," is filled with bias confirmation. . .
You cannot deny that entire article was not a load of biased, inaccurate junk. . . FUD!
In your second link, "Anthropologist 'confirms' Apple is a religion," you quote an article written by a Anthropologist with ties to SOUTH KOREA (the research fellow conducted fieldwork on new religious movements in South Korea until 2005) where he claims he believes Apple is littered with cult like symbols, citing the Apple Logo for the cultists to venerate. How absurd!
South Korea is the home of Apple's primary competitor, Samsung, which in the year he published his "study" expended more than $14 billion on "marketing" their competing phones, of which only $4.3 billion was in advertising. Guess who funded this anthropologist's so called "study" of Apple. It's important to follow the funding, discostu. I did when I posted that stupid study back when it was first published. Can you spell FUD? How about "smear"?
The release of this "study" just happened to coincided with Samsung's ad campaign showing Apple fans, wearing Apple shirts, standing in line for the next Apple iPhone and then having Samsung users approaching them and showing their "next greatest thing is already here" Galaxy phone to the line standers who would then leave the line to rush off to buy a Samsung Android phone. I do not believe in coincidences.
Your third linked article, "Turning Customers Into Cultists," ignores that fact that Apple makes products that people WANT to assume that it is entirely about creating a cult religion worship culture as witness the graphic they start the article with:
The fact is that people do not make product decisions based on such matters. . . but want products because they offer ease of use, do what they are designed to do without erecting barriers to the user by adding cruft and crapware, and do it elegantly, and the company who sells them offers excellent customer service. It has NOTHING to do with religion. . . especially when those sales have grown to over 1.2 billion in only seven years from the product's introduction! This article is FILLED with confirmation bias, including claiming that other companies are using the same marketing techniques as Apple has and claiming they are ALSO cultish. That is patently absurd. !.2 billion is not a cult. . . it is a successful sales approach. . . and the people who are claiming it is a cult are trying to spread NEGATIVE characterization to keep people AWAY from companies who are that successful using FEAR tactics by using psychologically loaded fearful terminology. . . as are you and anyone who uses such intentionally loaded epithets as Cult.
So you respond with a flurry of FUD articles written by people who don't have clues who wrote those article to generate Internet CLICKS. . . They cannot grasp the idea that people buy PRODUCTS because they like things that work, not because the worship them like a religion. You spread your lies as much as you like and then dance around claiming you are not. . . then end your screed with proof of your ignorance by saying "Enjoy your Apple junk."
And your fifth link to the "Cult of Mac" website is a tongue in cheek SATIRE name based on those claims from the FUD spreaders who have named Apple a "cult". . . and you don't see it, taking it at face value because of a total lack of a sense of humor.
I will give you this: You do Google search moderately well. . . but you don't do critical analysis based on facts or even cursory research well at all.
You show your entire base of ignorant lack of knowledge of what you are talking about. You do not have a clue about what you are criticizing. . . That makes you a biased, ignorant bigot on the subject of Apple and Macs and iOS.
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