The media has been invited to attend a “special event” hosted by Apple on September 1 in San Fransisco. Every September in recent memory sees a refresh to Apple’s iPod line and sometimes an update to iTunes. The upcoming music-centric event might tackle Apple rumors that have been swirling in the mill lately. These include iPod touches with back and front-facing cameras with FaceTime capability; smaller iPod shuffles with multitouch screens; a redesigned Apple TV box at a cheaper price point ($99?) with 1080p playback, app support, and cloud storage; 99 cent TV show rentals; iTunes content-in-the-cloud support. It would also makes sense for Apple to update their music programs like GarageBand and Logic. Whatever is going to go down you can expect excitement to be in the air when Steve Jobs takes the stage. The “one more thing” being a CDMA iPhone heading to Verizon? Don’t hold your breath. The death of iPod classic? That may very well be imminent.
Check back here after the event is completed to catch a full rundown of all the new/updated products and services that are revealed.
Update: An Apple press release states that Apple will be providing live video streaming of the event. However there are requirements to access the HTTP Live Streaming-based video: “Viewing requires either a Mac running Safari on Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard, an iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad.” No love for Windows and Android users, huh?
[Via Engadget]
