Apple has wasted very little time posting the video stream from today’s new iPad event as it is now live on Apple’s events page. You can now see for yourself how Apple introduced the upgraded Apple TV as well as the next generation iPad wtih a stunning 2048 x 1536 Retina display.

You can watch the complete keynote right now on Apple.com. It hasn’t arrived in iTunes as a podcast as of yet; we will keep an eye out for it and let you know as soon as it does.

Source : Apple Events

Now that it seems Apple will be holding their iPad event in early March, rumors have turned to Apple working with developers in a frenzied rush to get Retina display iPad apps ready to show off on stage. TheNextWeb reports:

Apple has a long history of hand-picking apps that it thinks are exemplary or really show off the hardware of a device to demonstrate during iPad presentation. The iPad 2 saw demo segments with Apple’s own Garage Band, iMovie and Photo Booth apps, while the recent ‘Let’s Talk’ iPhone event saw game title Infinity Blade 2 demoed in order to show off the graphics capabilities of the new iPhone 4S. Apple’s pre-event weeks are often spent soliciting demonstrations from many app developers and preparing demonstrations of those apps for the live event. Our sources tell us that this selection process is continuing at an increased rate as Apple looks to finalize the lineup for the iPad 3.

Retina display iPad apps would require 2x, high-definition elements. The iPad 3 -- or iPad 2S according to some rumors -- is widely expected to have a similar form factor to the currently available iPad 2. The main differences are thought to be on the inside with a faster, possible quad-core processor, improved graphics performance and of course a higher resolution display.

We're taking a poll of what you expect to see, hardware wise, in the iPad 3 so if you haven't already, hurry up and vote now.

Source: TheNextWeb

Apple will announce the iPad 3 in the first week of March according to All Things D, which has a superb track record when it comes to the timing of Apple events. Apple typically holds these types of events on a Tuesday or Wednesday, making March 6 or 7 likely targets. Apple iPad launches have so far been on Fridays, so possibilities include March 16 and 23.

Sources say the company has chosen the first week in March to debut the successor to the iPad 2 and will do so at one of its trademark special events. The event will be held in San Francisco, presumably at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Apple’s preferred location for big announcements like these. No word yet on a street date for the iPad 3 (assuming that’s what it’s called), though my guess is retail availability will follow roughly the same schedule as that of the iPad 2: available for purchase a week or so after the event.

The iPad 3 is widely expected to have a similar form factor to the currently available iPad 2. The main differences are thought to be on the inside with a faster processor, improved graphics performance and the much sought after Retina display. That would give the iPad 3 a screen resolution of 2048 x 1536 at 9.7-inches.

Features like a quad-core processor and LTE networking have been the subject of conflicting rumors.

Come event day, what are you hoping to see?

Source: All Things D

According to a report by Ars Technica, Apple is going to announce a GarageBand type tool to aid in the creation of e-books at its New York education event this Thursday. The new tools will assist in the creation of interactive e-books especially in the education sector.

At the same time, however, authoring standards-compliant e-books (despite some promises to the contrary) is not as simple as running a Word document of a manuscript through a filter. The current state of software tools continues to frustrate authors and publishers alike, with several authors telling Ars that they wish Apple or some other vendor would make a simple app that makes the process as easy as creating a song in GarageBand. Our sources say Apple will announce such a tool on Thursday.

Source: Ars Technica

According to All Things D, Apple is set to hold a media event in New York later this month. The news comes from sources close to the situation who told All Things D that the event is not related to the iPad 3 or a new Apple TV.

According to sources close to the situation, Apple is planning an important — but not large-scale — event to be held in New York at the end of this month that will focus on a media-related announcement.

There is nothing official coming fom Apple just yet, but as soon as we hear more, we will let you know!

Source: AllThingsD

Apple has announced that it will be holding a one day holiday shopping event on Black Friday which just happens to be this Friday November 25^th.

Mark your calendar now, and come back to the Apple Online Store for the special one-day event. You’ll discover amazing iPad, iPod and Mac gifts for everyone on your list.

Source: Apple Store UK

iOS 5 is slated to be released as a free update on October 12th for current iOS users. This is a bit different than in the past where iPod Touch users typically had to pay a fee of $9.95 for major iOS updates.

This probably means the rumored October 14th release date for the next hardware version of iPhone is right on track. Software typically is released officially just a few days beforehand so the new hardware can come with new software straight out of the box.

We're still covering the Let's Talk iPhone event live. Come chat with us!

Apple has begun its preparations for its upcoming “Let’s Talk iPhone” event on Tuesday October 4th. The banners reflect the invitation that was sent out last week. It shows the four iOS icons which are Calendar, Clock, Maps and Phone.

We are still unsure what exactly Apple will reveal at the event, most now believe it will be the iPhone 4S rather than an iPhone 5. I am still holding out for a completely new design for the iPhone 5 although that now looks highly unlikely.

Source: 9to5Mac

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It took weeks for WWDC 2009, days for WWDC 2010, but only 10 hours of WWDC 2011 to sell out. Needless to say that's the fastest sell out time ever. That's rock concert fast.

Apple's annual Worldwide Developers Conference was only just announced today, and is to take place from June 6th till June 10th at Moscone West.

What are we going to see at this years WWDC? Any Developers lucky enough to get a ticket?

BoomTown reports that Apple will hold their much anticipated iPad 2 event on Wednesday, March 2 in San Francisco, CA.

According to several sources close to the situation, the Wednesday date in a little more than a week is firm and will take place in San Francisco, the scene of many such Apple events.

So mark your calendars, folks! In just a over a week, we'll know which of the crazy rumors about this device turn out to be true. In the mean time, let the speculating continue and let us know what you expect Apple to reveal next week in the comments below!

Update: The New York Times and other publications are now echoing the March 2 date.

[All Things D]

Like our sibling site, Android Central, TiPb has been invited to a mobile event at Facebook HQ this Wednesday, November 3. If it had just been AC, I'd have started wondering about that Facebook phone. Just TiPb and I might have thought iPad app. Both Android and iOS at the same bash and maybe Facebook is ready to make some bigger cross-platform waves. With former Android lead Eric Tseng and former iOS developer Joe Hewitt busy in the mobile division, who knows what they have up their social little sleeves?

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I love the fact that Apple gives us their events on iTunes! Believe it or not, I still watch the MacWorld 2007 video. I enjoying watching the part where Steve says:

An iPod, Phone and an Internet communicator. iPod, Phone, and an Internet communicator. Are you getting it? These aren't three separate devices...

hmmm, perhaps I have watched that one too many times.

I do wonder why it is a Podcast though and not a "movie". I say this because the Podcasts do not refresh... we just get a new one every time.

You can find the link here to the Apple store for download, enjoy.

We're not able to liveblog the event here at Phone different, but we are able to put our two cents in -- stay tuned to this blog post during the event for color commentary on what Apple announces. It won't be up to the second, but you'll get a little more analysis in exchange for those extra minutes.

Bonus: comment on this post and we'll quote our faves in at the top.

T-Minus 25 minutes. When you see the "read more" link below, it's showtime!

All times below are EST, subtract 3 hours for actual Cupertino Time.

12:45: I'm feeling the Reality Distortion Field even though:

1. I'm not there
2. I don't expect to be happily surprised by today's announcement.

I've definitely crossed through that permeable membrane into his Steveness' realm, though.

12:55

Bri Guy: I'll give my first-born for cut 'n paste.

I'd give your first born, too. :p

Bad Ash: why delay a week for an announcement?

Exactly. I still think that they were working their butts off to get something real out the door but couldn't manage it. That's the one ray of light here - that we might actually be pretty close to real apps getting released because they were this close to getting it out.

rener: Games ready to ship? 3G iPhone announced? ActiveSync licensed (purely for Dieter, of course)?

No. No. partly cloudy, with a 30% chance of Exchange.

12:58: Reports that Disney employees have preferred seating -- that's interesting? Can't imagine that Disney has any relation to apps -- maybe we'll get more info on just why iTunes hasn't met the goal of getting movies in quickly enough, with a side of "every Disney film in on iTunes now"

As an aside, I will forego sourcing each little tidbit here during the liveblog, but will add them after. Kudos in advance to: Ars, Gizmodo, PhoneMag, Macworld, and Engadget. ...who are relegated to the back, but they get free power -- Apple's finally admitted that this live blog thing is real and they're paying attention to it.

Update again: going to put new stuff at top.

12:01: It begins. "Welcome" from Steve, in a turtleneck of course. Stats on the iPhone, 2nd to RIM in the US. Huuuge Safari usage stats, as we've previously reported. I wonder: 90% of people reading these live blogs must already know a lot of these figures -- or am I just so deep into cell phone news that it doesn't occur to me that not everybody knows that the iPhone is rocking the mobile industry.

12:05: Bam. Jumping right into Enterprise news. That bodes well - usually these things end with a bang. If we start with enterprise support, that may mean that the "bang" will be apps NOW. Crossing my fingers.

Yes, he said "push email" wouldn't say it if he wouldn't get it. Right? Right?

12:07: They're doing ALL of these things: push email, push contacts, VPN, security, remote wipe, enterprise config. I didn't expect that. This might just be bigger news, sales-wise and mindshare-wise, than the SDK. I care most about the SDK, but America and Wall Street cares most about enterprise.

Active Sync and Exchange support confirmed. BOOM. Except no "Boom." This announcement was given to Phil Shiller -- a sign that Steve still doesn't really care about Enterprise.

...now, the devil is going to be in the details. How will they implement this. Will the iPhone work with MSCMDM (search WMExperts for that one). If so, this is a RIM KILLER. Both MS and iPhone using the same device management tool? Goodbye RIM.

12:10: Demoing the support. Good and interesting that the support is built directly into the default PIM and Email apps in the iPhone. Good because it just might mean that Apple is going to have real (instead of half-a**ed) Exchange support on the Mac too. Interesting because, well, Apple licensing Microsoft's biggest Enterprise service (Exchange) is big big news.

12:15: Hehehehe! There's a photo showing how ActiveSync is direct, while RIM's NOC is indirect and a failure point. Hi BlackBerry Outages! Just like Palm, Apple's not going to let you forget about that one. When the marketing comes out for this stuff, Apple is going to take potshots at RIM. I wonder - Microsoft Guy and Mac Guy vs BlackBerry guy. I'll give a $25 Phone different Coupon to the person who comes up with the best candidate for BB guy in the comments!

rener: 802.11x is also a must for a lot of university networks

I am stupid - what's 802.11x and why do universities in particular care?

12:19: SDK time. They're really rolling fast. Overview of web apps and adding icons to the home screen. Please please -- give us an admission that "No SDK Needed" was a gigantic slap in the face. We need to hear you say that, to hear that even the Jesus Phone can sometimes stray.

12:20: Whoa - are they "releasing" today? Yes - starting today, we get the same "APIs and tools that Apple uses." Wow - color me pleasantly surprised. I was all doom and gloom before the event started (ref. the last PD podcast, as Bri Guy mentions in the comments below). They're calling it "Cocoa Touch." The basic idea here is that the iPhone is OSX at its core, but as you get to higher layers at some point it assumes you have a mouse and keyboard and no touchscreen. So development must be very similar to OSX development with Cocoa, but instead of Cocoa you have Cocoa Touch.

If they're not blowing smoke about this, then app development for the iPhone is going to be as advanced or more advanced than either Windows Mobile or Symbian in very short order. There are some similarities to developing for Windows Desktop and Windows Mobile (ref. .NET), but that pales in comparison to this.

12:27: Another "Boom" moment without the "Boom:" Core Location. Just like any app can look up a contact, any app can look up your location just like Google Maps does. How does this thing not have GPS?

I guarantee the 3G iPhone, the very next iteration, will have GPS built in. No question. If Location is a deep, OS-level service, then they're planning on GPS. Bank on it.

rener: Curse you Rogers and Canadian Data Rates!

:p

12:28: Aside for Windows Mobile nerds who know about the HTC video driver issue -- hardware video acceleration is built-in deep and available globally. Send the pitchfork-wielding mob over to Qualcomm and HTC.

12:30: Things we get access to: "multi-touch events, multi-touch controls, accelerometer, view hierarchy, localization, alerts, web view, people picker, and image picker camera" (via PhoneMag).

Hm. I assume that "data" via radio and WiFi are just assumed somehow, that the iPhone itself handles that. "Web view" is a really big deal -- allows for seamless integration of local and remote data, AKA true widgets.

WRT "true widgets," isn't it funny that Palm got this EXACTLY RIGHT nearly 10 years ago with their first wireless Palm device, then dropped it because it was too difficult to code for and not enough people had the wireless devices. Why didn't they bring those back?

12:33: Discussing the development platform now - it is XCode as expected. Want to develop for the iPhone? Get a Mac. That's just fine -- Apple is better off focusing their resources on one development tool on a single platform, they don't need to bring XCode to Windows users, they know that Windows users will come to the Mac just to be able to develop for the iPhone.

rener: That Apple's techs have fit Darwin, BSD networking, OpenGL, and all the Core services into this thing is unbelievable.*

You damn skippy.

12:35: Interface builder is drag'n'drop. Full iPhone emulator on the Mac. This is incredibly full featured and way more powerful that I expected -- I was half expecting them to hand out a flyer with a list of calls and bits of code.

Something this full featured makes me suspect that it's not ready TODAY. But they did say it was. Crazy. They really did delay it a week to polish this thing off. No... maybe they delayed a week to give some 3rd party developer a bit more time? Are we getting APPS TODAY?

12:39: Requisite "Hello World" app building demo. Able to build/compile/whatever (I'm not a developer) quickly. You can test in the emulator or test directly on a sync'ed iPhone.

Ok guys, give us time table. Tell us about distribution. Pricing for developers to get this stuff on iTunes. Apps.

12:44: Demoing some apps now. Touch Fighter -- full access to a really good accelerometer means you can just move the phone around to control the fighter.

Lots of people poo-poohed the touch screen and accelerometer on the iPhone because we've seen both on phones before -- but a high quality touchscreen and accelerometer, now that makes a big different, doesn't it? What used to be gimmicks can become genuinely new and engaging ways of interacting with a device.

I officially declare 2008 to be the year that the Stylus Died.

12:47: Mike Overbo, Editor Emeritus of Phone different and the host of our Podcast, is going to soil himself. EA is on stage and intimating that they have ported Spore over -- with a dev. platform they've never seen before -- in about two weeks.

12:50: Just in case you are missing what's happened here today: Apple took the "IT" phone of 2007 and early 2008 and just made it simultaneously ten times hotter to Business users (via exchange and, just now, a salesforce.com app) and general conumsers (via fun games).

And Steve Jobs hasn't been on stage the entire freaking time. What's the deal there? Giving credit to a team that's clearly been working quadruple overtime? Still bitter that his precious work of singular art is getting sullied by people who don't work at Apple?

12:55: AOL is coming up next. AIM? Yes: AIM. Hunh. That's interesting and I think in a good way. Apple could have said "Screw you guys, we're going to do iChat and stay the heck away from our iPhone, much less our big app announcement."

Instead, they eschewed their own program and let AIM write one instead. Kudos. Kudos Kudos -- it took AOL FIVE days to build it. FIVE. DAYS.

Oh, and now epocrates. I know that a lot of Doctors are hanging on to antiquated PDAs just because of a few medical apps. This helps them a lot.

2:01: Super Monkey Ball with accelerometer support. Swoon. "We had to fly a developer in to upscale the art for the iPhone"

Nintendo DS: You are going to lose market share to this. The big, high-resolution screen is the difference here. see my comment below about quality components.

chadman: Too bad I have to use GroupWise

Take heart, remember that there were rumors of Lotus support. If Apple is willing to support Microsoft and (rumor) Lotus and they're willing to forego writing iChat and let AIM have a shot at it instead, then they'll definitely not complain if somebody cobbles together groupwise support.

...though it might not be as deeply integrated, instead it would be standalone, I guess?

rener: they could seriously contend for mobile gaming market share.

I was thinking the exact same thing. It also seems like it's a big slap in Nokia's face -- they still haven't gained any traction with their N-GAGE platform.

2:05: "App Store." You can buy apps directly on the iPhone. I can't believe I didn't think they'd do this. It's obvious. Grumbles about having to go through iTunes are going to get overshadowed by the fact that you don't have to think about syncing, .cab files, .prc files, etc.

Good that Steve's finally back on. And yes, you can also buy through iTunes. And yes, I'm seeing the word "Free" next to apps. And yes, unlike iTunes WiFi, you can buy over EDGE or WiFi. And yes, you're alerted if there's an update. And yes, it's exclusive. No other way (short of jailbreaking)

A bit of a bummer, that last bit, but not surprising at all.

2:09: No charge to developer if they give the app away for free. Otherwise it's a 70/30 revenue split, Apple taking 30% is about what I expected. Actually, it's better. Apple is eating hosting costs, cc fees, and they're paying out monthly.

Apple says "no malicious apps or porn." Guess that means this stuff will be policed and vetted by Apple. Does that mean you have to submit your source code to Apple in order to distribute your application?

eeeeeeee.

2:11 iPhone firmware version 2.0. Beta is going out today to developers. Customers will see it in June as a free update.

Darn. Darn Darn Darn. June is close, but not close enough. It's what I expected, though. Unexpected -- another charge for iPod Touch owners because of accounting. $99 bucks in order to publish on iTunes. so Apple's not eating everything, but $99 is much less than I expected it to be.

2:15: One More Thing: iFund. Some VC firm is giving away $100 million (yes, that's the right number of zeroes) to iPhone developers... I guess you can go apply at www.kpcb.com .

That'll spur development and right quick.

rener: No pr0n, realistically, means stay-of-execution for jailbreak

True that. Jailbreak isn't going away... but it's certainly going to be minimalized.

2:20: Asking the press to stay for just a few more minutes. Hm.

Bodes ill? Or it could just be a Q&A

2:23: Q&A Starting. We won't do all of these questions. Just the juicy ones.

Q: Business apps are coming, should RIM be worried? Steve: Go ask them. We're not sending them a message, we're sending customers a message [Gizmodo]

Seriously - Where did Apple buy that humungous gauntlet? You're most definitely sending them a message, Jobso. You're practically mooning them.

2:28: Q: What will happen if someone does a VOIP app? A: We will only stop VOIP over cell networks, but not WiFi.

That's interesting -- I wonder if it's because they know that VOIP over an EDGE connection will be an inherently horrible experience or if AT&T wouldn't let them because of their deal. I suspect it's both.

It's also a little foreboding -- Apple gets to decide what gets published and what doesn't, but I'm still unclear on what the criteria will be. Malicious - No. Porn - No. VOIP isn't either of those... So is the 3rd "No":

• "Whatever hurts our business model with AT&T"
• or is it "Whatever we think will deliver an inherently bad experience to the customer" ??

...Either way I don't know that I like that Apple should get to decide that for me.

2:34: a SIM unlock program will not be allowed in the iTunes Store.

That's an LOL right there.

2:38: Quote from Macworld:

• More talk about iPhone versus Blackberry. "Why aren't CIOs really worried about security? Every email message sent to or from a RIM device, goes through a NOC up in Canada. Now, that provides a single point of failure, but it also provides a very interesting security situation. Where someone working up at that NOC could potentially be having a look at your email. Nobody seems to be focused on that. We certainly are."*

On Phil Shiller's office wall: A photo of the BlackBerry Pearl with a giant target painted over it. I said it before and I'll say it again, expect a massive anti-BlackBerry, poke-fun style campaign from Apple this summer in the same style as their current Mac vs. PC ads.

2:40: "Parental Controls" are coming.

Super Monkey Ball PLUS mom can turn off Safari to stop junior from looking at porn on the net. They'll sell a million this year to pre-teens alone.

2:45: We're done! Expect a LOT of posts in the coming days analyzing this big big news!