{"id":77,"date":"2009-09-08T18:28:56","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T22:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.loomingtech.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2009-09-08T18:28:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T22:28:56","slug":"tomorrows-apple-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/tomorrows-apple-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomorrow's Apple Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know, I know, way too much Apple. But that’s news. OK. The rumors are in for the September 9th Apple event. I really liked VentureBeat’s run down<\/a> on tomorrow’s event. They boiled it down to\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/a>this:<\/p>\n

Some sort of iTunes enhancement.<\/strong> Depending on what day you read MacRumors, the major music labels are either working with Apple<\/a> or working against Apple<\/a> on enhanced digital formats for album and single releases. The rumor mill is spewing every geeks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 dream feature list<\/a>: Blu-Ray! Facebook! Twitter! An even more complicated way to poke around with apps you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really use! The latter is a given.- A tablet computer.<\/strong> The Wall Street Journal reported as fact<\/a> a few weeks ago that Jobs was working hard on a touchscreen device. Would Steve Jobs tease us with a music event and then hit us over the head with a new type of Mac? Anyone who witnessed Jobs\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 cruelly clever fake-out of Motorola<\/a> in 2005, where he held an entire launch event for their phone before dropping the iPod Nano on us, secretly hopes he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll do something like that tomorrow.<\/p>\n

– Apple TV update. <\/strong>Nah. <\/strong>Given the two-time failure of Apple TV to steal the world from Netflix and Comcast, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m skeptical they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll go against the Beatles with strike three.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

OK. Here is my take. Apple announces new iPods in September. And because Apple is trying to get rid of the iPod Touches, they might be getting ready for a new, cheaper iPod Touch. The new iPod Touch will have similar pricing to the iPhone 3G, and have a camera and compass. I would also say that a refresh on the iPod Classic, Nano and Shuffle is in order. The Classic might be downgraded to a iPod with a SSD to increase the speed and prevent drive failures.<\/p>\n

Let us know what you think the Apple event will bring in the comments!<\/p>\n

Photo: el patojo<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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iPod refresh, iPod Touch revamp, possible tablet announcement,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[14,22,31],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guesswork","tag-apple","tag-event","tag-ipod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.squealingrat.org\/lt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}