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 companys 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).
Apples special event will be webcast live by Apple here.
MacDailyNews will offer live notes during Tim Cook and companys special event presentation right here on this page. So, just open both the webcast and this page so you can watch and comment live!
Apples 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
“Who wants 100 year old technology?”
With all due respect, I’ve heard that stupid line far too many times today to take it seriously.
The answer is YOU DO as long as Apple puts it in front of you.
That QWERTY keyboard you use is over 100 years old. Using a PHONE is well over 120 years old.
HEADPHONES are still run on electromagnets... also over a century old.
Battery tech runs virtually unchanged from the 19th century.
Sound recording and transmission (radio) is also about as old as the airplane.
AC and DC to charge your phones also is as well.
I want to move on to newer technology. Battery technology is so dated. I want a battery that will power my device for months without needing a recharge. I am not impressed by old technology. Except for the trusty bottle opener. The same bottle opener that cracked open a beer in pre-Prohibition 1916 opens my beer just as effectively in 2016.
it seems Bluetooth makes a hackable avenue for the uninvited.
Pray tell, what is radio?
consider you go from buying a $10 overprice earbud set to a 150 overprice Bluetooth set with lower sound quality.
What is the point of a battery life if it is a net loss keeping the Bluetooth transmitter going.
my takeaway today, smartphones are now a commodity and the ONLY thing apple is offering is “stay on the plantation” (suckers)
I’m usually a silent observer, but I frequently, as in for hours on end, have the phone plugged into the charger, and aux port plugged into the car radio with navigation and a book reader running. I can’t run the navigator and book reader at the same time without discharging the battery in a matter of hours.
It would be a frequent problem for me, at least.
Like moths drawn to a flame and getting burned, the anti-Apple bigots flock to denigrate a roll-out of technical improvements that push technology forward to the future.
I suppose you also complained about the demise of old RS-232 and parallel sockets, unless you cobbled them to your dumb phones. Give it a rest.
Quality sound is what I meant to say.
Wired audio > Wireless.
Get the iMplant in a few years and you won’t have to worry about your ears clogging up either!
The point is lost on the other fellow. Probably complaining you can't play vinyl records on smart phones. As you say, you can reproduce high quality sound over wireless. Plus the fact that the source of the sound recording is already digital before sent over wireless is lost on him.
(s)does it come with iKoolaide?(/s)
(s)but wireless is more expensive so it MUST be better!(/s)
seriously, smartphones are a commodity.
“Like moths drawn to a flame and getting burned, the anti-Apple bigots “
“Bigot”? LOL Ok, Apple SJW. Whatever you say. I guess I should have given you a trigger warning that you might hear something that goes against your dogma so you get your safe space ready
“denigrate a roll-out of technical improvements that push technology forward to the future.”
LOL! Taking out the audio jack is not “technical improvements that push technology forward to the future” anymore than taking out the screen is. Apple just did it....and you dutifully praise it.
Exactly what technology is being pushed into the future? The technology of inconvenience?
“I suppose you also complained about the demise of old RS-232 and parallel sockets, unless you cobbled them to your dumb phones”
1/10. Not even remotely the same. Quite being obtuse.
And the funny thing is that Apple fans on other tech blogs were saying that Apple would never do this because it was so goofy, when the first rumors of it came out!
Now that they have all of a sudden headphones are called “100 year old tech”. LOL!
Did they forget how much Apple paid for a headphone company just a couple of years ago?
I do it at my desk. Phone, USB cord, and headphones. No need for Yet-Another-Item-And-Cable at the desk. I thought we were getting away from chains and chains of things?
But with the MacBook having just a single USB-C connector, and the Mac Pro requiring lots and lots of external boxes, I guess Apple’s new approach is cables and adapters for all!
PS: I use the USB port on planes all the time, to charge my phone. It’s great for my monthly flights to Hong Kong, where I can read and listen to music for 14-15 hours straight and arrive with a fully-charged battery. No need to break out lots of little parts - one cable, one headphone - done.
Swordmaker, meet Lil' Wayne. Here he introduces you to a phone that has an actual 3.5mm audio jack AND is waterproof. Imagine that!
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.
Yes, a BIG connector (like a monster CUI unit - much bigger than in your phone) takes all of 0.5cc. How much battery are you going to gain from that? Not to mention there are several phones that are 1+mm THINNER than the iPhone 7s - and still have 3.5mm jacks.
In a day and age of multiple functions, why dedicate a port to a single purpose? Oops, another reason to keep it gone.
If only there was a way to use that port for other things. Like a microphone. Or something like an IR emitter for remote control applications. Or read credit cards. If only the 3.5mm jack was more than a single-purpose port, why the world would be great!
Not so different. The point is that most people no longer print to their printers over a dedicated parallel cable. I haven't done so in many, many years. The printing goes over wireless to my printers. I'm glad I no longer have to deal with dedicated parallel cables to my printer. You call it "technology of inconvenience". Wrong. It is certainly convenient to do away with wires for mobility. And it isn't "quite", it's "quit being obtuse", which isn't the case.
Yes, wireless is nice. But realize, this move now forces you to, in many instances (such as low battery or situations where you CANNOT use Bluetooth like on flights within Asia) to have MORE connectors and dongles than before.
Instead of just a USB cable (for charging) and a pair of headphones, you now have to have a Lightning-to-USB cable, a hub that has at least two ports (one for charging, one for the phone) and one Lightning port (for the headphone), a headphone, and that USB cable.
So you get to carry extra things and string more spagetti around. All because what you could already do - wireless audio - is now deemed as your ONLY choice, if you want to use your Lightning port for anything other than audio (like, say charging).
More stuff to carry! Hurray!
Point taken. However, I wouldn't bother having all that on a plane in the first place. I currently use bluetooth headphones on every flight. The duration of the battery charge is more than enough for flights. I recharge in the hotel room. So all the gear would be stowed away in luggage for flights.
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