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
That’s still not the same. What the equivalent is that someone takes out the USB ports from your laptop today and tells you to print wirelessly because [it’s the current year!], but you have a printer....and no built-in Wi-Fi.
And taking away the audio jack still has “jack” to do with helping mobility. The device had BT before, along with wired audio. Now it has NO headphone jack.
You can spin it all you want, but it isn’t insta-ancient because that’s the line you need to parrot because Apple put you in the position of having to do so.
Not equivalent at all, not the same. All my printers have built-in Wi-Fi. Regarding the iPhone 7, it comes boxed with the adaptor so you can connect your old devices - you're not losing connectivity at all. You can spin it all you want, but you're just an anti-Apple bigot who hawks Chinese and Korean products.
Got no dog in this fight.
The ‘air buds’ do make me think of Gillette’s old razor blade marketing strategy though...
If I had only short flights, that could work. I get the pleasure of flying to Hong Kong every month, and that’s a 15 hour slog one way. And then I often have to travel domestically inside China - and those airlines (and many other intra-Asia airlines) do not allow any Bluetooth operation.
Wired still has quite a bit of viability! Not sure what was really gained by removing the jack - it’s a thicker phone, not enough volume gained to do really anything with battery capacity (around 0.5cc volume gained), and not a leak potential (at least not for the 20+ other phones that are waterproof and have 3.5mm jacks).
That's why Apple included the 3.5mm female jack to Lightning adaptor. You aren't paying attention. There are legitimate reasons to eliminate the internal analog jack. You sound exactly like the Luddites who argued loudly and vociferously when Apple dropped the floppy disk drive in favor of the CD drive. . . then argued the same about dropping the optical drive in favor of the USB flash drives. Technology moves onward.
In your first post, you claimed that Apple had removed the audio jack as a "cash grab" but that is ridiculous. Apple has replaced a 10¢ part and a 10¢ jack on the earbuds with a $10 jack with additional internal electronics to convert digital electronic signals to an analog audio sound AND are including those new earbuds with that jack at no additional cost. . . and then they are ALSO including a Lightning to 3.5mm analog converter, with the ancillary processing for that conversion, free of charge in the box with the new iPhones. How, pray tell, is that a "cash grab?"
“it comes boxed with the adapter so you can connect your old devices “
Ok... So an extra thing to carry and keep track of when that ability was built-in.
“but you’re just an anti-Apple bigot...”
You seriously sound like a SJW, dude. Apple is not a freaking race, genius. Are you seriously trying to act like you are some ethnic group based on your purchasing habits?! LOL!
#iFanLivesMatter
“It is our duty to fight for Apple! Ii is our duty to wiiiiiiiin!”
“who hawks Chinese and Korean products.”
Where and who do you thinks manufactures your iProducts? Where do you think Apple licenses a bunch of their tech?
“How, pray tell, is that a “cash grab?””
They tell their sheep that it is an improvement.
Those sheep tell themselves that until they believe it.
And you show up to buy it.
“That’s why Apple included the 3.5mm female jack to Lightning adaptor.”
Needless extra adapter to restore functionality we are told we don’t need.
“There are legitimate reasons to eliminate the internal analog jack.”
No there isnt. Apple just told you they are doing it, and you invent the reasons so you dont find yourself thinking something they did was stupid.
“You sound exactly like the Luddites who argued loudly and vociferously when Apple dropped...”
That is not an argument. The wired headphones have not been “replaced” with an improvement. The ability to use them has been needlessly retarded for no legit reason, as you plainly didn’t state any in your last post.
“Technology moves onward.”
What TECHNOLOGY IS MOVING ONWARD?
Wow, talk about “moths drawn irresistibly and mindlessly to the light”. 10 out of the first 48 posts in this thread were authored by you - someone who states they have zero interest in Apple products for himself. For someone not interested you seem to be pretty compulsive with your posts to an Apple thread. On the other hand perhaps, like the moth, you are irresistibly attracted to the light of Apple’s products and just haven’t accepted your attraction yet.
All three of those have changed drastically since 100 years ago. Or do you maintain we still mechanically record sound on wax cylinders or disks? Nice try, no banana.
And where do you put the floppy disk?
Only in the Android market. Apple doesn't play there.
“All three of those have changed drastically since 100 years ago. “
The basics are still the same. Which was the point. Just like headphones have seen advancements for an “100-year-old” technology.
Dont play stupid, Swordmaker.
They tried to use Bluetooth for a Computer Virus on the Mac several years ago. Did not work. Apple signs the connections and will not allow non-signed connections.
So tl;dr
[C attempt at Shaming language]
I hear the same from leftists on Reddit. It registers about as high on the amusing level here as it does there.
Why are you complaining? You don't use an iPhone and you won't buy an iPhone 7, but here you are screaming your fool head off about something that will not ever impact your pansy bottom as if it is a personal affront to you. Why? What skin is it off your nose? What insult have YOU suffered that you are so butt hurt? Why are you ALWAYS being a rude Troll in Apple threads, telling us we are so stupid as to like Apple products and the changes to technology they make?
You aren't going to be inconvenienced a single whit by Apple iPhones not having a 3.5mm headphone jack. But you are complaining as if you lost your dearest friend. Why?
No, but it was not just a headphone company, it was also a streaming music company, and Beats already has a line of Lightning headphones and another line of BlueTooth wireless headphones. . . As do many other competitors. So that is a non-starter.
Like the other anti-Apple Hate Brigade members, you choose to ignore anything that doesn't fit your meme. Such as "Apple included a Lightning to 3.5mm Jack adaptor." That covers your useless and snide comment.
It is really older than 100 years and it is analog. Do they really pay you enough to try and think up insults for no other reason than they are insults? In a phone where space is at a premium the old analog jack took up a lot of prime Realestate.
Like every other time Apple has killed of worthless technology there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth, then there will be acceptance and when everyone else makes the same move there will be praise.
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