Another Apple Special Event Coming Soon

Sabathius writes "Hard on the heels of the last 'Special Event,' Mac Rumors reports that Apple will make another announcement on the 25th of September just one day before Photokina, a world-wide a photography/imaging gathering in Germany. There are rumors of a new version of Aperture (based on the lens image on the invitation matching the one on the Aperture box), as well as the possibility of a MacBook Pro update."

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Definition of 'special'

[payndz]

Would a new version of Aperture be big enough to qualify as a 'special' event? It would be of interest to photo pros, but hardly anyone else.

Who knows? Maybe it's the damn iPhone at last!

Re:Definition of 'special'

[Jeff DeMaagd]

When I've been paying attention, when there is a major trade show going on, is when Apple announces some software closely related to the trade show's target industry, and hardware announced to support that software, though the hardware has more broad appeal. NAB2005, Final Cut Studio, Universal + 17" Mac Book Pro Core Duo notebook, actually, most Final Cut updates are announced at NAB. The next minor update announced at IBC2006 is possibly the lone exception for Final Cut updates in a long time, but I suppose the iMac updates pair up with that nicely. The photography show where Aperture was announced also had the Power Mac G5 Quad / dual core PowerMacs and updated PowerBooks.

Re:Definition of 'special'

[ronanbear]

This event is the biggest event for the professional photographer trade. Maybe Apple have some big plans for Aperture but there are other possibilities. Apple have moved towards including iSight cameras as standard on most of their computers but the resolution is not that high. Not high enough to be used as an alternative to a scanner for OCRing text documents.

For many people this would be a killer app especially with Apples knack for making it simple and intuitive. I know there are already ways of doing this but they're less well known.

Hope Apature is Far Improved

[QuantumFTL]

I, for one, really hope Apature is far improved from the original version. I have a friend who is a senior photojournalist for Time Magazine - one of the first at the magazine to use digital photography, back in the old $2000-for-three-megapixel days. He was very interested in Apature until he saw what an utter piece of junk the software was. With Apple re-organizing the development effort, one can hope they've really learned from their mistakes, and make something worth buying here.

I for one am a huge fan of Apple software, and there's little that dissapoints me more than something like that. Good luck guys!

i bet it is macbook and macbook pro updates

[Anonymous Coward]

i ordered a macbook on sep 5th. "ships in 5-7 business days it said". yesterday i called to see what's up. they upgraded my shipping to 2 day. thanks apple! then today i get this email:

Due to an unexpected delay, we were unable to ship your product(s) by
the date originally quoted to you. We now anticipate shipping the
following item(s) as follows:

      MA472LL/A, MB 13/2.0/2X256/80/SD:BLACK-USA
      will now ship by Sep 26, 2006
      and deliver by Sep 29, 2006

this seems a little too good to be true.

Remember QuickTake?

[jevvim]

It's been nine years since Apple has produced a digital still camera, but Apple was an early innovator in the field (even if other companies, like Kodak, did the manufacturing). Rather than hope for new notebooks or the mythical "widescreen iPod", I'm going to hope that Apple is getting back into the digital still camera market. Perhaps the secret to Apeture's success could be getting people to use a digital camera that extends the desktop workflow into the camera?