Posted on 10/19/2016 10:23:43 PM PDT by Swordmaker
As expected, Apple just sent out invites for an event in Cupertino next week on October 27th,” Nilay Patel reports for The Verge.
“The tagline on the invite, ‘hello again,’ is a clear reference to the Mac, which was originally introduced with the word ‘hello'” in 1984,” Patel reports. “The event will be streamed live starting at 10AM PT / 1PM ET.”
“The rumors suggest the new MacBook Pro will have an OLED touch control bar above the keyboard that will dynamically display different function keys,” Patel reports. ” There are also reports that Apple will move to an all-USB-C port arrangement, dropping classic USB and its own MagSafe power connector in favor of the simple all-in-one port it uses on the smaller 12-inch MacBook.”
MacDailyNews Note: The event will be streamed live by Apple here.
Apple’s invitation for their “hello again” special eventRead more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Shut up. Just shut up!
You had us at hello… you had us at hello.
The use of “hello” by Apple (previously used to introduce the original Mac and the original iMac) is significant and signals that this is more than a typical Mac event.
As we wrote back in January 2014:
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which was referring back to the introduction of the original Mac in 1984:
This all has the feeling of “legs tingling” and a rally of Hillary Clingon with a huge turnout of 26 supporters. Way to go Appel.
that Imac thing from 1998 was a dog. I owned one out of curiosity mainly because it was free. I couldn’t believe how dumbed down it was from a current era Windows PC. Appel was grasping at straws and still is.
Time to replace my six year old MacBook. WOOT WOOT ;^)
there’s no way that screen image of the graphics program that spelled out hello was able to do that in 1984. Way too smooth and no pixels. It was photoshopped even though Adobe’s Photoshop didn’t arrive until 1990.
You're wrong. It was able to do that in 1984. For proof, do the following.
Take the image in this thread and magnify it. I'm easily doing that on my Mac right now. Go ahead, magnify the picture. Your Windows PC is capable of magnifying a picture, is it not? You will see the pixelation.
I don't believe you ever owned an iMac from that time period. I have a couple (I collect computers), and it's quite robust. As a matter of fact, they still connect to the Internet and can access content. Mine are set up with dual booting, to boot either OS9 or OSX. It is a dog running video graphics compared to modern desktops, but so is a Windows 95 machine from the era (or the later Windows 98 PCs).
Rather, this is blatant advertising for Apple. You yelp about your "tech ping" list for apple stuff, I fail to see a touch of that here.
Yes, it did. What do you think the hoopla was all about? MacPaint was one of the big selling points. That's one of the reasons all the artists adopted the Mac.
Are you really so bored and cranky that this thread bothers you so much that you have to annoy JimRob about it? REALLY??
In my Windows Ping List I post articles about new announcements from Microsoft, new releases and feature updates to Windows 10, stuff about HoloLens and Microsoft Research, much of which is not strictly "tech list" material, but which might be of interest to the FReepers on the Windows Ping List because they have Windows machines or related items, or maybe they're just interested in what's going on.
To Mac folks, getting a ping about a major update to the product line is potentially very interesting.
Maybe not to you. Okay, fine.
Lighten up, FRiend. Bothering JimRob just because your panties are in a twist about Apple is not, IMO, either polite or necessary.
You are outnumbered by the 750 plus other Freepers who have asked me to keep them informed of such things. An announcement of NEW APPLE TECH DEVICES with new technology falls under the category of TECH.
Now, give it a rest.
FRiend, I suggest you be more careful, since you're dead wrong. I was there, back in 1984, and I saw it in person with my own eyes.
When I attended the SIGGRAPH'85 conference in SanFrancisco in July 1985, Apple gave a side-talk/demo of some of MacPaint's capabilities to an overflow crowd of people, I among them. I think it was Bill Atkinson (who as you know created MacPaint) but it was over 30 years ago so maybe it was somebody else..
Anyway, when he showed off FatBits, not only did the crowd go wild, but I saw artists and others around me who were so strongly impressed by these new and wonderful capabilities, they were moved to tears -- because they could immediately see how they could do their creative work with greater speed and precision, and spend more of their energy creating instead of fighting with their limited tools.
At that time, I was mainly working with MSDOS and DEC RSX-11/M, neither of which had any graphics ability to speak of. I had gone to SIGGRAPH mainly to attend a paper presentation by a colleague, but the Apple side-talk caught my eye. It was a BFD, I must say.
Yes, I am in a crappy mood, but the no advertising thing just irks me every time I see this sort of post that is blatantly that. Explain how this post is the same as advising about an OS update?
Bad form in the middle of a freepathon.
Yoyreally are an apple sycophant. Putting it on a little thick about people crying over Apple graphics in 1984, or is that the liberal in you leaking out?
That's because it was done pixel-by-pixel in 1983 on a Lisa, and then ported to the Mac as a graphic image for the photo shoot to be ready for the product intro in 1984.
LOL. Hardly. I'm just reporting what I saw. I wasn't affected in the same way; but I was impressed.
In 1984 I was designing spacecraft attitude systems, running a corporate engineering network, and developing my company's drawing and drafting capabilities, so the Apple developments were of high interest.
What were you doing in 1984 that gives you the right to be so snotty? Just askin'...
Sorry to hear that. I sincerely hope you feel better soon.
> Explain how this post is the same as advising about an OS update?
Fair question. Well, if by "OS update" you would include the releases of Windows 10 (and I would), then the threads I posted a couple weeks ago that were basically rah-rah feature descriptions were just as much "advertising" for Windows 10 as this thread is "advertising" for the Mac.
I had been posting a lot of threads about Win10 problems and I was catching a lot of flak for being "anti-Windows" and a "Microsoft hater". So guess what? When I started posting pro-Windows threads, I started getting called a Microsoft shill.
There's just no pleasing some folks, and in this case we (SwordMaker, ThunderSleeps, ShadowAce, and I) are damned if we do and damned if we don't. Is ThunderSleeps supposed to catch hell from pro-Android fans because of the threads about the Samsung phone that catches fire? Conversely, if he posts a pro-Android article is he shilling for Samsung and Google?
I see "advising about an OS update" and "advising about a hardware update" as being equivalent. Sure, it's gonna be in positive, even glowing terms. It's gonna talk it up. No surprise there.
The problem threads come later, of course. :-)
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