Okay, so you’ve heard by now that Apple is having a ‘Spring forward’ special event on March 9th (just a day after the clock springs forward in the US for DST), and Tim Cook has pinned the Apple Watch debut down to sometime in April, so it’s a no-brainer that we’ll be filling in lots of blanks about the device then.
Apple already publicly unveiled the Apple Watch last September including an hour of on-stage time, though, so aside from more demoes, pricing, and availability specifics, what do you expect from Apple’s upcoming event?Typically Apple events run about two hours long (or short depending on how you look at it) so Tim Cook and company will have some time to fill next month. At last fall’s special event, Apple debuted two new iPhones, Apple Pay, and the Apple Watch while making a point to skip the usual state-of-the-business report at the top. If you recall, it was a rather fast-paced event relative to recent prior keynotes.
While Apple announced the Watch in September and has already been marketing it in interviews, magazine covers, and ad spreads plus videos, the company will likely take the approach that this is the first time many viewers are hearing about the Apple Watch. We’ll also be nearly half a year from the previous Apple Watch event, so a refresher on everything we already know wouldn’t be surprising.
With all of that said, what do you expect or want to see from Apple’s upcoming March 9th event in San Francisco? Aside from the Apple Watch, there’s clearly a lot of new products and services in the pipeline (12-inch MacBook we revealed earlier this year/iPad Pro and rumored stylus/recent Apple Car talk), but are they on the horizon or is it Apple Watch’s time to shine?
Let us know in the poll above and tell us more in the comments below.
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Please UPDATE THE APPLE TV it gotta start supporting 4k, ac WIFI and a faster processor!
4k would be great. But it needs an App Store badly! It needs games!
It needs content in general. It also needs to allow PS4 controller connectivity (which they won’t do because they’re stupid), or an Controller. Anyone of even average intelligence knows that a great, ergonomic, tactile controller is absolutely the most important aspect to video games. It is the first thing you focus on, and all else comes second, and only after getting that right. Anyone that thinks it would be a good idea using your iPhone to control video games on the TV doesn’t think rationally at all, sorry to say.
The Apple TV needs an app store so content providers outside the US can get their stuff on the platform. Here in the UK the Apple TV Is utterly useless as it’s devoid of local content.
Specially in Europe.
tv content here is sooo limited… :(
100% agree. The watch is nice. Carplay is so bound to a “car” I have to get a new car to have it.
AppleTV though would be a HUGE hit for me. How about gaming support either direct on device or co-connected to an iPad using a bluetooth game controller.
I think it definitely needs 4k, but also 3D. I would love to be able to watch 3D movies on my home cinema from the Apple TV. Also there are 5k iMacs by now, so they definitely need to bring 4k video content to iTunes
Whatever it is it will be magical, amazing, and the best Apple has ever created. ::sigh:: It will be expensive, lacking many features leaving room for another magical announcement for simple features down the road, and it will sell millions and millions and millions..
Welcome to the consumer electronics industry.
(you don’t really think the Galaxy Note 1 had all the same powers and features of the Note 4 do you??)
No, but I am sure he things that the reason the original iPhone didnt have LTE, Touch ID, Siri, Retina Display and multitasking is so that Apple could sell it to us on the next iPhone :P
“Spring Forward” is in reference to Daylight Savings Time. This event will be exclusively about Apple Watch.
Lol. Uh. Read the iPhone 6/Watch keynote and look at the picture and tell us again that due to that it will only be the watch………
I just want Apple Pay in Canada :(
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Because it’s already been 3 years since the last update, I could also imagine a refreshed Apple TV with an A7/A8 chip, 802.11 ac Wi-Fi and 4K support to offer an improved AirPlay experience for the MacBook Pro with Retina Display, the iMac with Retina 5K Display, as well as the upcoming 12 inch MacBook Air with Retina Display and the iPad Pro.
Actually closer to two years technically, but Apple TV is an entire *section* on the Apple web site, so it would seem likely that even if (as rumoured) they come out with some game-playing POS or some kind of Apple TV with a stupid cable passthrough or any of the hundred other silly things people have been asking for, that the original Apple TV will remain as one of the options.
It may be a section there, but it won’t make the major product list on the regular page until they deem it worthy. As of now, it’s definitely not something that changes the TV experience, but it’s easy to imagine how it could. I do believe it should remain a separate entity from the TV for a while. It needs to become something amazing. Something that you can easily hook up to your current TV, and it gives you the experience. The TV itself simply needs to be the display for which this device pushes all the content to. I think it should also be a powerful router, which can beam multiple streams of content to separate TV Pods throughout your house, hooked up to other TVs. Granted, ideally a business would want to sell multiple TVs (which is how I think it will be rebranded), but I think customers would be more likely to purchase cheaper TV Pods and one TV being that I think the new TV will be far more expensive than it currently is.
Now that I think about it, it’s feasible that they could offered different models of the new TV. Say, TV, a less expensive general purpose device that supports casual gaming, and TV Play, a far more expensive device that competes with gaming consoles in gaming quality, for more hardcore gaming. These both would be able to stream content/games to TV Pods throughout your house.
And don’t forget a higher price
Wow, the third article in less than an hour focussed on a one sentence announcement from Apple. You guys should just step over that line and start to make stories up wholesale. You’re almost there already.
Any site that receives most of its revenue from advertising will rely on ad impressions to make money. A way to drive clicks and thus ad impressions is to cover as many angles as possible with regards to any big story. This is business. It is a bit ridiculous, and I’m sure some people would rather pay and get better quality, but the truth is, for a site like this, that’s not really a sound business model.
You know all of this already, I am sure; people just seem to forget.
Indeed. But as you yourself say, this is a bit ridiculous, and three stories on the same non-announcement in less than an hour is “pushing it” even for those of us that know the reasoning behind it.
Apple TV is #1 on my list, as far as another product announcement. And it’s plausible, if the Apple Watch introduces a new control paradigm — show them both together!
I’d like to know that the device can actually do. So far it’s just vaporware.
I suspect that there were plans in place as to what the various sensors could measure, and that some of that functionality, what ever it is, won’t make the final cut.
Did you miss the announcement several months ago when they showed us what the Apple Watch does, did an entire presentation on it, put up a website about it, and even built a building outside the auditorium for attendees to see and demonstrate the Apple Watch?
Apple.com/watch
Start here.
I can’t believe you included the car in this. I really can’t believe people voted on it. If they’re working on a car, they’ve just started, and you won’t hear a thing from them for about 4.5 years, at the earliest.
I’m 100% sure it’s on there as a joke and those who voted on it did in jest. :)
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I voted for every single option up there. I don’t even think I read half of them. I was insta-check-check-check-check. I get very greedy when I see an all-you-can-eat poll.
If only Apple TV would be able to browse SAMBA Servers that along with the gaming and 4K would be the best media box out there. I really can’t see why they won’t allow this. I am waiting and hoping I must admit. I am sitting here now ready to buy. Yes I can go and get a Mac Mini to use as my main media server but it has no TV unless you watch streaming TV like Netflix via Safari which is my 2nd choice but to get an Apple TV with all these channels streaming in my living room with the added ability to connect to my SAMBA server would be the icing on the cake. Hence a waiting game here, Why will they not allow this I have no idea. Well it’s a Mac Mini or Apple TV either way but to use a Mac Mini just as a media box seems a waste but at least it will do the job. So come on Apple please allow your Apple TV to connect to Samba Servers (heres Hoping).
Hopefully an updated MacBook Air AND a new 4K Thunderbolt display (the existing Thunderbolt display is over 2 years old now and woefully out of date and overpriced)
Resetting watches for daylight savings is incredibly unintuitive. Have to browse through a 3 point pdf manual, find the manual.
Spring is also for Growth, would like to see Canada, Australia and Brazil Apple Pay Expansion in conjunction with watch.
More retail partners, especially ones who have left MCX, since Current C is in hiding. Try to find a real live Current C demo on YouTube. It may be the only subject in the world not covered by YouTube. There are discussions of Current C, but no demos. I have only seen cartoons.
Would like to see Apple TV refresh, love mine, would love to see Sling equivalent based off of it.
Full integration of Apple Pay into Apple EcoSystem. Use in iTunes, iBooks for all payments. More retailer announcements including Home Depot who has left Current C. DisneyLand in addition to Disney World. Ikea, Eddie Bauer adding to Apple Pay and more restaurants. Way over 100 banks in Apple Pay. More Passbook announcements, all US airlines are already using it. Passbook, QR codes on watch?
And one more thing. Love to see Corporate Cards on Apple Pay, especially American Express, Wells Fargo and other big banks. That would be huge all around, both domestically and internationally.
I know no one believes in the iPad Pro, but I have already budgeted for it.
Im surprised this poll doesn’t include anything about the new Photos App. I bet the 10.10.3 Public Beta (w/ Photos) will be released as soon as the Keynote is over.
Why is the event on a Monday and not a Tuesday like all their past events?
Please announce a new Apple TV for love of God. This damn thing is so old it still has a iphone 4 processor in it. Plus like said below put the app store on it. It needs games and a controller.
Why would you put the app store on a Mac and not the Apple TV. It is no brainer and should have been done a long time ago. Giddy up bitches!!!
I have to say I am not impressed with the Watch. It has no GPS in it so you have take your phone with you if you are going on a run. Kind of defeats the purpose. Why not just use your phone since it does the same thing. Also the battery life is shit on it. Why would you not make it waterproof. I mean every other watch out there is. Dumb move!! Not going for the carrot that they put in front of me. Happy they are releasing a new product but it won’t be good until it can track without a phone.
You apparently know very little about it. You should watch the event March 9th. Your phone doesn’t track heartrate, and you can run without the phone, you just won’t be able to track where you ran, you’ll still get an estimated distance…. I get that it’s cool to know where you ran, but that’s obscenely unnecessary. Heartrate is far more useful to know than where you ran, anyone that doesn’t know that….
You have absolutely no idea what the battery life is, all you know is a rumored battery life, which for a device you glace at throughout the day, probably isn’t bad.
You also have no idea about its water resistance, and by the way, none of these are waterproof. A submarine isn’t waterproof if it goes to a deep enough depth, it will be crushed by the pressure. However, Tim Cook just allegedly told some employees that he wears his in the shower, which likely means it’s water resistance is pretty good.
i certainly excited and will be buying one. I think it looks more developed and feature rich than the competition in many ways. But, you’re wrong about gps – it’s imperative for running, everyone I know who runs has a garmin watch and is on strava. I’ll give it a go with my iPhone in a water resistant case, notifications while running will be fun. Although garmin watches support notifications too on their latest models.
How is it imperative for running? Nothing is imperative for any kind of exercise. Exercise is exercise, it is good for you, and bad for you (in the case of running, bad for your joints). Nothing is needed to run, it only can offer information and motivation where there otherwise, wasn’t any. Is it cool to have? Of course, but it isn’t necessary.
GPS is only necessary for the annoying “look at me” crowd on Facebook,
No one gives a crap about where you ran today.
Use your distance and your heart rate to track your progress… GPS is just for showing off…
At least one joke about the old bugs in iOS that shut off alarms when the clocks changed for daylight savings, you know when clocks “fall back” and “Spring Forward” :-)
I don’t expect a retina MacBook Pro update, but considering I was going to buy one the Friday before – I’ll just have to wait and see. Regardless, I’d like to see some more information about the Apple Watch but I don’t think we need Apple Watch keynote 2.0, where that’s all they talk about. Hardware redesigns in any product category are always welcome.
a working live stream ;)
What about HomeKit? They announced it and, as far as I know, it never really launched.
This would be awesome. I just kitted up my place with Nest and Philips Hue… and if I ask Siri to “turn the bedroom lights off” she says: “I’m sorry, you haven’t setup any devices for that yet”!
I’m really itching for that to work!
It’s supposed to all work through the AppleTV… so maybe it will come alongside an updated AppleTV…
i think the surprise will be some BT headphones. We know the Apple Watch can be loaded with music but there’s no way to listen to it apart from third party headphones.
I wonder how many will actually buy the apple watch, then again apple just needs Hollywood to buy thousands of gold watches and they should be good.
Not really sure they will disclose about iPad pro. I have observed that they only disclose limited important announcements and rest is left for the next event.
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