<p>E pluribus unum … here is a link to the live reports. From the leaders in SF:</p>
<p><a href=“Apple's iPhone 6 launch event: A live analysis of all the news | VentureBeat”>http://venturebeat.com/2014/09/09/apples-iphone-6-launch-event-a-live-analysis/</a></p>
<p>PS I looked at our mailroom. Timmy did not send me my advanced one. Bummer!</p>
<p>I thought we had all the nuts in California:</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/iphone/11084402/iPhone-6-fans-camp-outside-London-Apple-store.html”>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/iphone/11084402/iPhone-6-fans-camp-outside-London-Apple-store.html</a></p>
<p>Hey @cobrat, do you have a few cousins in line? </p>
<p>lol, he doesn’t have cousins who have time to play ping pong at work even. :D</p>
<p>Apple Live Event broadcast is horrendous. Sounds like a UN conference gone bad. Steve must be going ballistic.</p>
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<p>I’d doubt it. Most aren’t Mac fans and even if they were, don’t have the time or the inclination to wait hours in line for a product which will soon be widely available anyways.</p>
<p>By the way, the upgrade prices are lower than some had “shared.” 200 for the 6 and 300 for the iPhone6 Plus. Not great but not bad. Now the rumors can start for the Seven with better glass, curves, and full USB. </p>
<p>I just ordered ( yesterday, currently the Apple store is being updated) an iPad mini Retina- refurbed & at a great price. I’m pretty excited.
Ive been holding onto my electronics longer & longer. My macbook pro, is almost 8 years old, and my iPhone 5 is 2 yrs old. My ipad3 is 2&1/2 yrs old. Keeping them so long gives me more motivation to buy nice cases that will last. My bookbook iphone case, is great. The only way it could be better, would be if it added an extended battery!
The mini will fill a niche, but I only have a mild interest in hearing what new products there will be.
I do look forward to system updates however.
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<p>LOL-- I am finally planning to replace my Iphone 4S. Don’t have a clue how old it was but suffice it to say I was eligible for an upgrade eons ago. Keeping them 2- 2/12 yrs? Thats nothing!</p>
<p>I will give Apple one shot at righting the wrong and will get a 6 to replace my crappy 5. A watch like that ugly mess? I pass. </p>
<p>I skip every other number & all letter upgrades.
I didn’t get an iPad till the retina. I had an iPhone 3, but didn’t get another till the 5 so thats 4 years.
Current iphone5 is working fine so I will probably wait another couple years to upgrade it.
H is still using his original iPad touch daily, mostly to read books or play games but occasionally to read news. ( 6 or 7 years old)
But his truck is about 50 years old and it shows no signs of giving up.
Oldest has an iPhone 4s also that we gave her when she graduated from grad school.
I imagine she still has it as that was only 2-3 yrs ago.
Four or five yrs in between small electronic upgrades and ten or so yrs in between laptop upgrades seems reasonable.</p>
<p>I have a nano watch, but I mainly got it for the gym. However wearing it on your wrist and using the earbuds is awkward. Its still kinda cool, but it would be more practical on a lanyard.
The " smart watch" looks a lot like the nano watch.
<a href=“https://www.lunatik.com/products/ipod-nano/lunatik”>https://www.lunatik.com/products/ipod-nano/lunatik</a></p>
<p>Forget about iCrap, the community wants to know - does iPhone 6 come with this fabulous piece?</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/scarf-guy-quickly-becomes-the-apple-events-biggest-fashion-s%232g5df6x?s=mobile”>http://www.buzzfeed.com/jessicamisener/scarf-guy-quickly-becomes-the-apple-events-biggest-fashion-s%232g5df6x?s=mobile</a></p>
<p>I’m going to get a bigger screen before I complete ruin my eyes with the 4 inch. But I won’t rush into it, hate the crowd.</p>
<p>I was in the Apple Store today for a One-to-One session at noon, just as the press conference began. I have a 4S and am ready for a 6 - have been waiting all summer. So I asked the guy (really knowing he wasn’t going to reveal anything to me, if he knew), if he knew when the phone would actually be available. He said there have been times when they’ve released a new product via press conference and employees find out later that day that the new product is sitting in boxes in their back room, and other times it takes a couple of weeks; so what he was saying was, he didn’t know. I told him I had been waiting all summer for the 6 to come out, and how convenient it would be if, tomorrow, when I go back for my One-to-One and group session, the 6 was there waiting for me. But then I said I didn’t want to wait in line. He told me that, every time this store has had a release of a new product, all staff members are expected to work 12-hour days - no days off. And they cancel all classes. All of their resources are directed toward moving the line and selling product (they do still continue to sell computers and iPads at the same time). He told the story of, when the 5 came out, his wife dropped him off at the front door, and went to park the car so she could get in line to get it. By the time he had checked in at work and finished helping his first customer, who bought several things, his wife had already moved through the quite lengthy line and had her new 5 in hand. So the lines and crowds may look long, but at least some stores devote all their resources to just selling the phone, so the lines may move rather rapidly. He predicts about five minutes of being outside before reaching the front door, although the line is long.</p>
<p>I’m sure others have anecdotal stories of lines that don’t move quickly, but I am heartened to hear that perhaps it won’t be as bad as I thought it might be at our local store. I’ve never gone out and bought an Apple products so close to the release date. So I will be there on Sept. 19th. </p>
<p>Sometimes you can preorder online. Not always. It reminds me of getting the Harry potter books at midnight.</p>
<p>^^^ Yes, you can for the 6, but I’d rather get mine from the store.</p>
<p>With the pre-order, there are no real reasons to want to be close to a store on the 19th. Apple learned and they have reinstated a smarter way to order. In my case, it is more expensive to pick the small box at a store. Waiting for the shipment and tracking it from Shanghai and Canada sipping a warm drink is so much easier. And a lot more pleasant than being in a cattle stampede. </p>
<p>will also likely do an online order/preorder. Probably from AT&T</p>
<p>For anyone who may have to be/want to be budget minded like me, some info I saw today regarding the “5” series prices:" the 16GB iPhone 5s is now just $99, and the 8GB iPhone 5c is free (both with two-year contracts)".</p>
<p>There is a very good reason they are giving the Fives for almost/free… 
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<p>Clearly BB you are not a 5 fan!!!</p>
<p>But for those of us still holding onto a “4”, and not able to spring for a 6, we have to settle somewhere in the middle. </p>
<p>And, it is Apple custom to reduce almost always reduce the previous model(s) price when the new model comes out. </p>