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Posted on 09/07/2016 12:36:08 PM PDT by Swordmaker
Apple CEO Tim Cook and a team of Apple executives will be holding their September 7th special event at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT. The special event will take place at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California.
It is widely expected that Apple today will unveil the new flagship 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus and the smaller 4.7-inch iPhone 7 along with the next-gen Apple Watch. Mac updates may also be announced (although could be limited to press release only).
MacDailyNews will offer live notes during Tim Cook and company’s special event presentation right here on this page. So, just open both the webcast and this page so you can watch and comment live!
Apple CEO Tim Cook and a team of Apple executives will be holding their September 7th special event at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT.
The special event will take place at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco, California.
It is widely expected that Apple today will unveil the new flagship 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus and the smaller 4.7-inch iPhone 7 along with the next-gen Apple Watch. Mac updates may also be announced (although could be limited to press release only).
Apple’s special event will be webcast live by Apple here.
MacDailyNews will offer live notes during Tim Cook and company’s special event presentation right here on this page. So, just open both the webcast and this page so you can watch and comment live!
Apple’s September 7th special event live notes:
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• AAPL: $107.34, -$0.36, -0.33% @ 12:57pm EDT
• Apple CEO Tim Cook in video on way to keynote with James Corden
• Carpool Karaoke with Tim Cook: One Republic
• Pharrell joins in backseat
• Carpool Karaoke: Sweet Home Alabama (where Tim Cook was born)
• Cook takes stage to applause
• Apple Music: Over 17 million paid subscribers • Apple Music tweaked in iOS 10
• Apple Music has become the premiere service for artists’ exclusives
• Apple Music Festival in London (10th anniversary) begins in just 11 days
• App Store: 140 million apps downloaded to date • App Store: 106% growth in app downloads YOY
• App Store: 2X more global revenue than “closest competitor”
• World’s more popular gaming devices: iPad and iPhone
• Over 500,000 games in App Store
• Mario coming to App Store
• Nintendo comes to iOS
• Creator of Mario, Shigeru Miyamoto, takes stage
• Mario – first on iOS – Super Mario Run (brand new game)
• Demo of Super Mario Run
• One-handed operation
• New “battle mode” called “Toad Rally” – compete against your friends or against players around the world
• Phil Schiller loses to Nintendo expert
• Super Mario Run – One set price. TBA at later date. Coming for 2016 holidays.
• Cook: Apple honored that Mario comes to iOS first
• Apple “deeply committed” to ConnectED • Cook has visited several ConnectED schools
• ConnectED teachers and students attending keynote
• This fall, all 114 ConnectED schools that Apple supports will be up and running
• Apple donates thousands of Macs, iPad, and Apple TVs top these schools
• Apple teaching Swift programming language to students via Swift Playground
• iWork: Pages, Keynote, and Numbers – Real-time collaboration (works on Macs, iPad, and iPhones)
• Demo of editing Keynote deck live onstage
• Cook takes stage to talk Apple Watch • Apple Watch is #2 behind only Rolex in worldwide watch sales despite only 8 months of sales vs. Rolex’s 12 months of sales in 2015
• Apple Watch is #1 in customer satisfaction
• Jeff Williams takes stage
• watchSO 3 – packed with features
• watchOS 3 features Instant app launches, Scribble, Dock, Activity sharing, SOS (emergency services), etc.
• Pokémon GO comes to Apple Watch • Pokémon GO has been downloaded more than 500 million times around the world
• Pokémon trainers have walked more than 4.6 billion kilometers playing the game
• Pokémon GO for Apple Watch gameplay blends gameplay with your daily life
• Pokémon GO complication available on Apple Watch watch face
• Pokéstops shown on Apple Watch
• Pokémon GO for Apple Watch shipping before the end of the year
• This’ll sell more than a few Apple Watches
• Jeff Williams introduces the next-gen Apple Watch • Apple Watch Series 2
• Completely reengineered
• Swim-proof. Now IP 67 - Can be worn while swimming, surfing, etc. – water resistant to a depth of 50 meters.
• The speaker ejects the water at the end of your workout
• Apple Watch Series 2 have been thoroughly tested for water-resistance
• New swimming workouts for Workout app
• Apple S2 system-in-a-package (SiP) – dual core processor that’s up to 50% faster, new GPU up to 2X the performance
• Night Sky app (60 frames per second on your wrist)
• 2nd-gen display – 2X brighter (1000 nits) – birghtest screen Apple has ever shipped
• BUILT-IN GPS! Runners, cyclists, hikers, etc. rejoice!
• Apple Watch Series 2 – GPS starts immediately, route maps, open to developers
• ViewRanger hiking app GPS demo for Apple Watch Series 2
• Apple Watch Series 2 – aluminum, stainless steel, and CERAMIC (4X stronger than stainless steel) – new white Apple Watch
• Apple Watch Series 2 Hermès models also available
• Apple Watch Series 2 offers something special for runners: NIKE partnership • Apple Watch Nike+ – specifically for runners
• Apple Watch Nike+ – Fitbit is hating life
• Apple Watch Nike+ is “your perfect running partner.”
• Apple Watch Nike+ delivers the best – “the best” – running experience available.
• Apple Watch Nike+ invites wearers to run
• With Apple Watch Nike+, users are a part of Nike+ Run Club, “the world’s best running club.”
• Available in four colors
• Apple Watch Series 2 starts at $369
• Apple Watch Nike+ starts at $369
• Apple Watch Series 1 (gets new S2 Sip) starts at $269
• Pre-order September 9th, on sale the following week; Apple Watch Nike+ available late October
• iPhone: The phone to which all other smartphones are compared • Apple has sold over 1,000,000,000 iPhones – the best selling product of it’s kind ever
• iOS 10: Apple’s biggest iOS release ever
• Cook reviews iOS 10 features
• Cook reviews HomeKit and the new Home app for home automation made easy (look for accessories with the “Works with Apple HomeKit” label)
• Cook reviews new features in Messages for iOS 10
• iPhone 7 revealed – the best iPhone that Apple has ever created • Jony Ive video shows of the new iPhone 7
• High-gloss black finish
• Pristine mirror-like finish – seamless – the glass melds into the casing
• iPhone 7 is the most singular, most-evolved representation of this design
• Phil Schiller takes stage • iPhone 7 design – beautiful new designed. JET BLACK (high-gloss). Black (matte). Gold. Silver. Rose Gold.
• iPhone 7 Home button – completely redesigned – force sensitive, solid state, Apple Taptic Engine (API available to developers)
• iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are water and dust-resistant IP67 protection standard
• iPhone 7 camera: All-new. Optical Image Stabilizer. f/1.8 aperture, six-element lens, 12MP sensor, New True Tone flash with Quad-LED with flicker sensor, Apple-designed image signal processor (“a super computer for photos”), wide-color gamut (for the first time), low-light photography is greatly improved
• Live Photos are now image stabilized, RAW camera capture API for developers
• 7MP FaceTime HD camera (up from 5MP) with auto image stabilization
• iPhone 7 Plus – Two (2) 12MP cameras (one wide angle and one telephoto lens) • iPhone 7 Plus – optical zoom up to 2X
• Software zoom from 2X all the way up to 10X
• iPhone 7 Plus – depth of field – hardware and software working together – a huge breakthrough – simply choose “Portrait” and you see the “depth effect” – generated in realtime, deep-depth preview on your iPhone’s display – comes as free update later this year to all iPhone 7 Plus users • iPhone 7 Plus camera is unparalleled in a smartphone
• This is the best camera ever made in any smartphone
• For many users, this will be the best camera they’ve ever used
• iPhone 7/Plus Retina HD Display: 25% brighter
• Instagram demo
• Audio: Lightning is great for digital audio. Provides power and control • There are now over 900 million Lightning-enabled devices
• There are many Lightning-enabled headphones
• Apple taking headphones to Lightning – including Lightning earphones in the box
• Lightning to 3.5mm analog adaptor included in the box with every iPhone 7/Plus
• 3.5mm headphone jack is over 100 years old
• Apple has the courage to move on
• Gives Apple space where space is at a premium
• Apple has a vision of how audio should work on mobile devices: Wireless
• Apple wants to really deliver wireless audio the right way
• Apple wants to kill the audio cable
• Apple AirPods: wireless earphones
• Apple’s new wireless AirPods contain the Apple-designed W1 chip – high quality playback while maintaining a constant connection
• Up to 5 hours of listening on a single charge – case provides up to 24-hours of listening
• Apple wants a truly wireless experience. The company has been working toward this for many years
• Apple AirPods – put them near your iPhone. Tap “connect.” That’s it. (No pairing, unpairing, etc._
• Apple AirPods deliver a truly magical Apple experience – dual acceleromoters, many more features
• Tap to talk to Siri
• Apple AirPods are small and comfortable
• Beats will have line of wireless headphones using Apple’s W1 chip
• Apple Pay – Over 90% of contactless payments made in U.S. are made using Apple Pay
• Apple Pay coming to Japan in October using FeliCa technology
• Apple A10 Fusion – 40% faster than A9, 2X faster processing vs. A8 – four cores, two cores are high-efficiency cores to max. battery life • New GPU in A10: 50% faster than A9, 3X faster than A8 (240X faster than original iPhone)
• Apple A10 Fusion is the most powerful chip ever in a smartphone – console-level gaming
• ThisGameStudio demo (Oz Broken Kingdom)
• iPhone7/Plus – longest battery life ever in an iPhone (2 hours longer in 7 vs. 6s, 1 hour longer in 7 Plus vs. 6s Plus)
• iPhone 7/Plus video • iPhone 7 starts at $649 (available in 32GB, 128GB, 256GB) • iPhone 7 Plus starts at $749 (available in 32GB, 128GB, 256GB)
• iPhone 6s Plus gets upgraded storage capacities, too
• iPhone Upgrade Program starts at $32/month, includes AppleCare+ – expands to UK and China
• Orders start September 9, ship on September 16th – in 28 counties and then, one week later, in 30 more countries
• Apple AirPods available in late October for $159
• Cook recaps, thanks Apple employees, asks them to stand
• Cook introduces Sia performance featuring Maddie Ziegler
It’s cool how the wireless buds connect without having to mess around with bluetooth. Too bad they will be inevitably lost or put through the wash.
No headset jack seems like a bad idea. How do you connect to aux ports on car stereos or use an fm transmitter in cars that aren’t equipped with Bluetooth?
If they DO have a lightning to aux adapter, how will you charge your phone while listening to music?
Might be missing something though.
Is it hammer proof?
this new phone is like re-arranging the grains of sand on a beach and then selling the beach as new real estate.
I am sitting out of this hip hip hurray, personal politics of Tim Cook is the reason I have turned away from Apple.
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Cash grab.
It’s hilarious listening to Appleheads twist in vain to tell us how earphones are just so antiquated and problematic that these devices really need to not have headphone jacks, because (something-something) reasons.
You are missing something, but in this kind of listing it is easy to do that. Apple is including a Lightning to 3.5mm Analog jack adaptor. Your old connections will work as expected when plugged in to that.
Depends on the size and material the hammer is made of. No phone will survive this hammer:
But most of them would have no problem with this one:
Too bad you can’t charge whilst listening to those headphones! And, per the Apple Accessory Interface Spec (R25, the current one) you CANNOT do “Y” cables. Each cable must have one, and only one, connector on each end.
I guess there could be a big dongle with several cables going to it, a little Lightning hub to carry around. Plug your phone into the hub, plug a charger into the hub, and plug your headphone adapter into the hub. So I guess that would work - just at the cost of two donglish things and two additional cables to carry around...
Really? If you want something to be waterproof, take away the ⅛th inch hole through the casing. Helps immensely. Such a jack also takes up space inside the casing that could be used for other components, such as more battery, adding to the utility of the device. Oh, that's another good reason to lose the 100 year old technology. In a day and age of multiple functions, why dedicate a port to a single purpose? Oops, another reason to keep it gone.
Who listens to music, walks around, all while charging their phone? Strawman and not a very good one. Trust you to have a half-empty glass. You want to do that, buy the Airbuds. Otherwise, suck it up and do without Madonna for a while.
I’m glad the headphone jacks are going away. They are always clogging up with dust and dirt. I hate the dangling cable that gets snagged on something and yanks the plugs out of my ears.
Wireless is the way to go. Kudos to Apple for moving us forward. They killed the floppy drive and CD-ROM drives as well and we are the better for it.
I recently upgraded to iPhone 6S Plus and it is awesome. Can’t wait for the 7S Plus next September. Who knows what that will bring?
My phone isnt a pool toy. I think I can properly keep it away from the water.
“Such a jack also takes up space inside the casing that could be used for other components, such as more battery, adding to the utility of the device. Oh, that’s another good reason to lose the 100 year old technology. In a day and age of multiple functions, why dedicate a port to a single purpose?
LOL! Really one of the worst regurgitation of goofy talking points I’ve heard on this yet.
Dude, you know damn well no one really saw headphones that way, nor did they see headphones jacks as “standing in the way of progress”. Progress meaning making a phone uselessly thinner for the sake of making it thinner.
Calling it “100 year old technology” just radiates the ignorance Apple users are projecting to spin this dumb idea.
Who wants 100 year old technology?
“I’m glad the headphone jacks are going away. They are always clogging up with dust and dirt.”
Because you cant keep yours clean?
I have multiple audio devices and a huge headphone collection from high end down to dollar store earbuds, and this is the first time I’ve ever heard someone getting dirt clogged in their audio jack that much where you rather not have an audio jack.
“I hate the dangling cable that gets snagged on something and yanks the plugs out of my ears.”
Oh? That isnt a reason to take out the audio jack. I stuff the cords of mine down my shirt, and into the phone, when I’m in my woodshop for obvious safety reasons. I never thought “gee wouldn’t it be great if I couldn’t plug these in anything anymore
“Wireless is the way to go. “
Noooooooo it is not. I have both clip-on Bluetooth adapters and full earphones. Aside from the battery going dead, obnoxiously going around the corner to only lose the connection or get garbled audio, and finding that day when that unit’s internal batteries officially did and cannot be recharged, They also become easily lost or stolen, putting you out of a lot of money.
They simply dont come close to replacing actual wired earphones. That is why the best made ones are NOT wireless. You cannot reproduce wired sound over wireless. And for the casual user, Bluetooth devices are expensive and unsightly on a good day.
“Who knows what that will bring?”
A bunch of compromises and excuses.
For trips around town on the Yamaha, I put my phone in a mount, plug it into power and pop in my ear buds.
Are they going to have a two into one adapter for lightning?
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