Special Apple Event Scheduled for September 12

davidmcg writes "Macworld are reporting that Apple is hosting a special media event on Tuesday, September 12th 2006 in San Francisco, CA at 10AM Pacific. The event will also be simulcast to a location in London where journalists have also been invited. The invitation to the media was entitled It's Showtime — suggesting Movie-related announcements. Rumors sites had originally expected iMac updates during the event, but Apple surprised everyone with iMac and Mac mini updates last week. This leaves iPods, a Movie Store and the possibility of a new streaming Media device for the Tuesday event."

Comments

Well duh.

[popeyethesailor]

This leaves iPods, a Movie Store and the possibility of a new streaming Media device for the Tuesday event."
Oh wow. I thought it was a new musical with Steve Jobs as the lead with a consort of white furry bunnies.

Re:Well duh.

[Bruce McBruce]

Maybe by "Showtime" they refer to destroying Mars as a display of the iStar's power.

Re:9/11

[TomHandy]

That's true, people might have forgotten it was the anniversary of 9/11 if they didn't see it on Slashdot.

Re:9/11

[TheRaven64]

This is a news website. Precisely how is dredging up something that happened five years ago newsworthy?

A question many people frequently ask the editors...

Re:9/11

[dunkelfalke]

what happened on the 9th of november?

Re:About ready to quit reading Slashdot...

[argent]

You don't read slashdot for the comments?

I'll bet you read the articles in Playboy too!

please be a phone, please be a phone

[bunions]

Dear Steve Jobs,

Just make a goddamn phone already, Jesus fucking Christ!!

Sincerely,

bunions

Re:streaming media device

[HTH NE1]

the point is I only have 1 computer - a laptop I take with me to work and home every day. at home I have wireless keyboard, mouse, internet, speakers, [and] phone (sync + remote). why NOT have everything wireless if it can be? my laptop is only 3 feet from the monitor because it HAS to be to use the monitor.

So you just plonk it down on the desk and it knows to associate with the nearby peripherals? That reminds me of this bit from one of my favorite authors, Douglas Adams (RIP):

"How... does it work?" he said, trying to make it sound like a casual enquiry.

"Well, it's really terribly simple," said Reg, "it works any way you want it to. You see, the computer that runs it is a rather advanced one. In fact it is more powerful than the sum total of all the computers on this planet including - and this is the tricky part - including itself. Never really understood that bit myself, to be honest with you. But over ninety-five per cent of that power is used in simply understanding what it is you want it to do. I simply plonk my abacus down there and it understands the way I use it. I think I must have been brought up to use an abacus when I was a... well, a child, I suppose.

"Richard, for instance, would probably want to use his own personal computer. If you put it down there, where the abacus is the machine's computer would simple take charge of it and offer you lots of nice user-friendly time-travel applications complete with pull-down menus and desk accessories if you like. Except that you point to 1066 on the screen and you've got the Battle of Hastings going on outside your door, er, if that's the sort of thing you're interested in."

But of course there the logic is in the computer controlling the desk, not in the laptop.

It also reminds me of Apple's PowerBook Duo and its DuoDock.