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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
Reminiscent of, "You can't reproduce vinyl audio digitally..."
Weak shot, foot-dragger!
Shanghai Dan, meet Consumer Reports. Here they report that Lil' Wayne's vaunted Samsung's Galaxy 7 phone that has an actual 3.5mm audio jack is NOT SO waterproof, repeatedly failing their water resistance tests! Imagine that!
Not to mention there are several phones that are 1+mm THINNER than the iPhone 7s - and still have 3.5mm jacks.
Who said anything about "thinner" or "thinnest?" No one at Apple even mentioned it in reference to the iPhone 7. Nice Strawman. They only were talking about room inside the case is at a premium for other items such as more battery space.
Yes, a BIG connector (like a monster CUI unit - much bigger than in your phone) takes all of 0.5cc.
Did you notice how that CUI unit you linked to, its size, just to hold the jack (the barrel of the jack is 5mm in diameter), is 8mm thick from solder tabs to top? Note that the iPhone 7 is a mere 7.1mm thick. Hmmm. 8mm minus 7.1mm... equals 0.9mm. Say, Dan? What are you going to do with the excess 0.9mm of thickness? Add another bump on the case?
That's just before you try to INSTALL that female jack inside the case. How are you going to solder that unit on a circuit board (they do have a thickness, you know. Apple's are 1mm thick.), then mount that circuit board below the complex laminated screen assembly (which ALSO has a thickness which is 0.76mm), Then fit it inside a machined aircraft aluminum case (which ALSO has a thickness, which according to the Apple blueprints for the iPhone 6S is 0.95mm) and then squeeze all of that into 7.1mm?
Let's see, you have only 5.39mm of open space left inside the case. Oops! Almost forgot, you have to CENTER that jack on the case on the outside. That limits the dimension you have to work with, so it's NOT that entire dimension, because you have to allow for the 1mm of the circuit board (or could you use a cut-out in the board? Hmmmm. Possibly. Now, position all that in front of the hole in the bottom or top of the case, and oh, Dan, keep it waterproof while pushing a jack repeatedly in and out several hundred times a year. Hmmmm.
The ONLY way to keep a 3.5 mm jack is to make an open work jack on the circuit board, but then how do you make it water and other liquid proof? That is a real poser. You can machine your jack into a pocket in the case which would be sealed with gaskets. But then that adds lots of costs of running multiple wires through the gaskets which requires a separate step in manufacturing and adds another connector on the circuit board.
Now you have STILL have a circuit board to hold the open design jack (which is much more fragile than a barrel design) so the pocket has to be much larger in area a barrel design, because what was done in three dimensions is now done essentially in two and the spring contacts have to be more robust and longer because they don't have a housing. Some kind of inert coating has to be added to prevent electro-active liquids from shorting the contacts and leads, since we are talking water and liquid proof. Alternately, a rubber glued on dam added to the existing circuit board's 3.5mm jack which is also glued to the case around the opening. Oh, I can see all kinds of potential for that not holding over time.
What company was the first company to go entirely wireless on its shipped computers for its keyboards and mouses?
What company invented a means of recognizing wireless printers automatically on WIFI and/or Bluetooth and automatically connecting and installing the drivers called Bonjour and made it open source so all could use it?
What company was roundly criticized for eschewing cables and cutting the cord?
Oh. . . it was Apple.
Keep living in your PC and Android bubble world, Dan.
But YOU are the non-Apple users who come onto Apple threads acting the SJWs offended for someone else. . . like the white girl berating the Asian Lyft driver for having the gaul to have a bobble hula dancer on his dashboard. You are here to "educate" us about our "poor choices" and our "elite entitlement attitude" and give us "lessons" from your high position of enlightenment. You seem to think it's your moral duty to lecture us while you walk acting like a rude ass in your hurry to show us the truth of your position. It is YOU who act like the Social Justice Warrior who is somehow offended that we like Apple products and just has to show us how much we are in the wrong. You do it repeatedly. . .apparently for your sick amusement.
It's pathological, House Atreides. Here is the diagnostic code that my girlfriend and I are planning to submit for the next addenda update to the IDC-10, the manual of International Diagnostic Codes:
iOS90210 Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projected Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.
Another patented VanDeKoik falsehood. People are NOT buying the iPhone 7 because it doesn't have a 3.5mm audio jack. They are buying it because it IS an improved model iPhone due to that and a compendium of other upgrades such as the A10 4 core processor, which you ignore so you can scream and shout and run in circles complaining about a minor change on something YOU WILL NEVER BUY OR USE. You are the rude, insulting, delusional one on this thread who is throwing brickbats at every Apple user on FreeRepublic by calling them names such as "Sheep."
In our view, its more likely the Sheep are those who follow the herd of Android users who accept 10 million malware in the wild as of TWO YEARS AGO and think it's NORMAL and an OK thing they just have to put up with. The lemmings are those who follow the vast majority of Windows users who are repeatedly abused by Microsoft with acts like forcing them to upgrade when they do not want to, and keep bending over and say "Yes, sir, may I have another!"
Apple users, a small minority who are beset by you Apple Hate Brigade BIGOTS, are those who CHOSE to take a different road than to put up with all of that. . . and have not regretted it. Our experience is broader than your myopic single platform view, as we HAVE been or are STILL users of those sad platforms and chose to leave of our own educated free will. YOU can keep dancing and making a fool of yourself, but you will just show what a fool you are, trying to tell people who know you for the ignorant fool you are.
That is EXACTLY what the Luddites said about the dropping of the floppy drives said. Word for word. You are exposing your ignorance.
The only one being stupid, and not playing it, here is you, VanDeKoik. Every single one of those has changed in fundamental ways from their originals. Do you really maintain that sound recordings are still mechanically engraved on wax cylinders and then read back by placing a needle into the tracing and using the needle to technically vibrate a wafer thin piece of metal or rubber, and then using a cone to amplify the sound? Really???
And then it will be called a brilliant move and they will all (deliberately) forget that Apple was first to move and then later claim that Apple was a late follower in this area. I seem to recall this was the same argument when Apple got rid of the QWERTY keyboard on the Smartphone and went to a virtual keyboard. The same voices were making the same idiotic arguments.
You have come on this thread and insulted every Apple user on Freerepublic. Youre fair game. You should be ashamed of what you do, Troll. You are not welcome on these threads with your attempt to shame all Apple users.
I have answered your idiotic question in detail, but you don't like the answer. You are too locked into your ignorance to see what several of us have been trying to tell you. . . or you are being paid to foment discord. I am beginning to think it's the latter.
There you go again: "Clowns." "fanboys" Strawman arguments. All logical fallacies. Because YOU disagree, you insult people. Ad hominem attack anyone who disagrees with the arrogant GOD VanDeKoik. No, you are not right. YOU are an Asshat who invade threads to disrupt them and make them totally unpleasant places to read and discuss. You insult other participants and you will not abide any opinion but yours.
A poster on Reddit put it well when he recalled how Jobs extolled the headphone jack on the 3G as being made so well that any headset could use it, only to have fanboys in 2016 swear that headphones are antiques, only in the past 12 hours.
Now you trot out a non sequitur. Invoking what Steve Jobs said in 2008 about the universality of a change in design necessitated because the original previous design would NOT accept all headphone jacks because some with thicker hafts would NOT clear the opening is irrelevant. It has NOTHING to do with today.
Again, asshat, WHY ARE YOU COMPLAINING? Your ox is not being gored? You don't own any Apple products. You are not ever going to buy an Apple product. You are never going to be affected by the lack of this jack. Quit being an asshat. All you are doing is proving that you are a rude jackass, acting just the same as every Liberal acts being offended for no reason what so ever.
Frankly, I think you are scared that Apple has another hit on its hands and your employer has sent out its social marketing minions to bad mouth the iPhone 7 with scads of posts.
I gave several perfectly reasonable rational reasons why Apple is dropping the 3.5mm audio jack (notice I did not say headphones). I explained in detail why, but you did not refute even one of them. You just kept on shouting "LALALALA I head no answer to my question!"
I will not repeat my answers. You are desperately trying, and succeeding, in making this thread about one single idiotic thing. WHY? There has to be some other reason and I think you are being paid to do it. It seems to match your always negative posts over the years.
VainDeKoitus is not worth correcting. Lost in his fantasy world and no truth will set him free. Like a moth drawn to a flame only to be burned, he’s hopeless. Maybe he’s got no balls so doesn’t use porn for relief; he comes here to get his jollies. The rest of us have productive lives and shouldn’t have to bother combating this troll who comes here even though he supposedly has zero interest in Apple products. Yet he keeps coming, and coming. It’s a form of madness, him doing the same repetitive motions without any gain for himself. The only answer is that this is his porn, his form of masturbation. He should get a girlfriend - one that doesn’t have Apple products.
He is coming across as if he were having a tantrum about not being allowed to keep his jack, isn't he? Do you suppose he's finally saved enough to buy an iPhone he's always wanted to be able to use his very expensive headphones with, and now Apple has pulled the rug out from under him for his lifelong desire?
There, there, VanDe Baby, I told you, Apple did include an adaptor for you. You can have your cake and eat it too.
Stamping your foot and turning blue?
If you are going to comment, you should be civil and not insult the people you are talking about. . . like not calling the clowns?
It is. Thanks.
He set out to destroy this thread. He attacked every Apple user in it. Sheesh.
Yes, he did try. Just like he tries to do with every Apple thread. You're doing a fantastic job of rebuttals to his smears; you have the facts to rub in his face. It's just that he's nuts...
Oh poor, swordmaker. Lol!
I bet I kept you up all night tapping out all those replies.
Point is, like it seems to be the consensus all over the web, that this is a goofy idea that accomplished nothing but needlessly remove a much-used part of mobile devices for no rational reason.
So you can go on your boo hoo “why you hate Apple” tangents until you Mac melts crybaby posts, it still doesnt change the fact that this is a stupid idea.
Dittos for me.
I drive, navigate and listen to Audible. Gotta have the charger running, especially on long trips.
Same thing with the new Macbook. Ended up getting a Macbook pro for my daughter cause no USB ports, plus the weak processor.
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