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'

[tbone1]

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.

Given that we are talking about a big trade show for photography professionals, I'd say that it is potentially a special event for those at the trade show.

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.

Re:Definition of 'special'

[lionel77]

Given that we are talking about a big trade show for photography professionals, I'd say that it is potentially a special event for those at the trade show.

Can we please stop these baseless speculations? What's next? Someone suggesting that a keynote at Apple's World Wide Developer conference is actually geared towards the attending OS X developers?

We can only hope!!!

[Professor_UNIX]

Please let it be a 12" widescreen iPod with touchscreen interface, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and built-in dual CDMA/GSM phone functionality with wireless Bluetooth stereo headphones! Oh please oh please oh please Steve!

Re:We can only hope!!!

[jonwil]

Throw in UMTS too please.

What is the point of this article?

[frankie]

The article blurb already sums up EVERYTHING that is known about this coming event. It coincides with a professional photography conference. The invite is a close-up of Aperture's logo. Aperture obviously matters a lot to that crowd, not so much to other people.

ThinkSecret doesn't have any more info about it than that. TUAW doesn't have any more info about it than that. MacRumors and MacOSRumors don't have any more info about it than that. Most likely there *is* no more info about it than that.

Aperture update, and maybe the new MBP too. End of story. Next time, how about waiting until there's actually something worth discussing, mmmkay?

Re:What is the point of this article?

[squiggleslash]

I've been looking in to it and I've found some remarkable information that might be interesting here.

Apple has been trying to find a way to shoe the Core 2 Duo into a MacBook and, frankly, it's not working out. The chip just uses too much power and generates too much heat.

So, don't expect an upgraded MBP this year. Instead, look for an amazing announcement next August at the WWDC. Jobs is going to announce a remarkable new development - the entire Apple line is switching to Sparc. They've been talking to Jonathan Schwartz, and he's sold them on the next generation of multiple core Sparcs, the successor to Niagara, codenamed "Viagra." For the last eight years, Mac OS X has been living an amazing, hitherto secret, triple life, running on PowerPC, Intel, and Sparc architectures.

When the 64 bit version of that'll not fit in a laptop, they'll announce a switch to MIPS in 2009, and a switch to ARM in 2011.

Re:What is the point of this article?

[dwightk]

on a more serious (albeit off topic) note, it would be nice if Applications stayed Universal and Apple just sold people the fastest offering from Freescale/IBM or Intel/AMD...

Re:Working Software...

[Yahweh Doesn't Exist]

>Like the pile of trash that is iTunes 7 on my copy of Microsoft Windows.

fixed a bug in your rant. happy to help.

Apple's HAL?

[acomj]

Does that invitation remind anyone of HAL 9000.

Steve: open the ipod DRM HAL

HAL:I'M SORRY STEVE, I CAN'T DO THAT..

Thanks, I'm here all night...

Re:Aperture update?

[cayenne8]

Any chance of the rumored Video iPod finally coming out I wonder???

Re:apple hardware updates

[John Nowak]

Here, have some, you may need them one day: ................

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.

Re:Big whoop

[Golias]

If I cared about hearing about the existence of every Apple announcement, I'd read Apple Hot News, not Slashdot.

If I didn't care to see articles about Apple, I'd block those stories in my Slashdot preferences, not piss and moan like a whiney bitch trying to ruin everybody else's fun.

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?