Apple Music Event is going to take place in September and it suddenly created a buzz all over the net. All the big tech blogs and websites are talking about the event where they would see technologies that would create new trends in future.
In 2008, “Lets Rock” was the theme of Apple Music event where it rolled out its 160GB iPod Classic, the 4th generation iPod Nano with voice recording capability, a thinner iPod Touch and iTunes 8.
Next year, the Music Event took place after Labor Day and dubbed “It’s only rock and roll but we like it,” That year, Apple released its 64GB iPod Touch, iPod Nano with a built-in video camer and iTunes 9.
On August 25, 2010, Apple sent out email invitations to media people which had the picture of an acoustic guitar with Apple logo. In 2009 Apple Music Event invitation had a dancing silluete. The Apple Music event 2010 would take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theatre in
The event would start at 10 a.m. Pacific Time, 1 p.m. Eastern time. The email invitation does not give out much detail except a 9 a.m. registration time.
At the center of all speculation is the all new Apple iPod Touch. It is believed that the company would unveil its latest iPod touch 4 at the event. The new iPod Touch is expected to have many features of the iPhone 4. It will have dual camera including a front-facing camera for FaceTime videoconferencing, retina display, and a gyroscope. It is believed that the new iPod Touch will be released in stores during the holiday shopping season but the actual release date will be known at the event. The iPod Touch would cost around $200.
Apple would also unveil its new cloud-based iTunes where users are not required to store any applications rather would they have to rely on wireless networks –Wi-Fi and 3G. Users would have to pay a monthly subscription fee.
News reports are also saying that Apple will unveil its newly upgraded Apple TV rebranded as “iTV.” Priced at $99 the new iTV would sport A4 CPU and would only handle 720p not 1080p full HD. According to Technolog the new iTV would have 160 GB HDD but Engadget says 16GB flash storage. The Apple TV was launched in 2007 but it did not see much success.
Apple is also planning to roll out a new $0.99 TV show rental service and the company is in talks with various studios including Walt Disney, CBS, NBC Universal and Fox Studios.
According to Kaufman Brothers analyst, Shaw Wu, there is a good possibility that the new iTV has a great potential and it would become a “multimillion unit seller.” The new device would start the next major trend into home entertainment industry. He said that the new Apple TV could hit the stores this Christmas or could be further pushed to early 2011.
Another speculation is that the September event would see a newly designed iPod Nano sans click wheel. The click wheel, like the touchscreen, remained one of the most significant innovations in the field of engineering and helped Apple to regain market in the 2000s. It is believed that the new iPod Nano would come with a smaller touchscreen.
Last year, Apple included some new features in iPod Nano including a video camera and a FM tuner.
It is not sure whether the new iPod Nano would have a touchscreen and if it does would it have access to App store apps or run newly developed apps and run on iOS4. At this moment all this is just speculation but if it happens that it would be a big change for the iPod Nano.
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