Rumor: Apple event the last week of February

TUAW has received a tip that the company that does television for Apple's live events and Macworld is apparently hiring for an unannounced Apple event at the end of February. Keep in mind that this is an unconfirmed rumor -- while TUAW trusts our source, job listings are not available on the video company's website, and Apple has not yet announced any events happening this month. But Apple did promise us a year flush with announcements, and starting with the new Mac Pros all the way up to the bigger iPhones and iPod touches last week, they haven't disappointed yet.

And what would the event be about? Considering that we've got our ultraportable already, and our HD Apple TV, what big news are we possibly hoping to hear in "the end of February"?

This is just a rumor, so don't get too excited yet. But if it is true, and if Apple is holding an event before the end of the month, get ready, baby. We just might be about to see the iPhone SDK.

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Phen42

Phenomenon?

"...Apple also announced that they would end support for Shake, as they begin work on the next-generation software, codenamed Phenomenon to be released in 2008.[5] Existing maintenance program subscribers had the option to license the Shake source code for $50,000 USD."
-Wikipedia

February 27 2008 at 3:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

34skyline

new apple cinema displays, its time for thr displays to be updated

February 10 2008 at 3:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

NavStar

Well, the iMac hasn't been updated in 9 months....

February 09 2008 at 12:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

In Awe

Look at all you geeks rave at something that it is not confirmed at all. Comments like... "I'm gonna be really pissed off if they don't do that" make me laugh really hard.
Thanks for all the comedy guys, it lights up my morning!

February 09 2008 at 7:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

RicG

I'm hoping for Java/Flash on the iPhone/Touch. And, if they can't jailbreak the hand-held OS, at least parole some of it's file access features.

February 08 2008 at 4:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bertie

Fully agree with BJ Nemeth.

Plus I'd say that it is unlikely Apple would announce a new iPhone (3G iPhone ?) if it is not able to ship it yesterday (!), because it could expect the selling figures of the other iPhones to drop with the announcement of the new one.

February 08 2008 at 2:18 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

GJD

Sounds to me like this will be a catch-up launch event for the projects delayed when engineers were reportedly pulled-in to work on the Macbook Air.

- iPhone SDK launched
- AppleTV take 2 software goes live
- Time Capsule ships
- One More Thing: updated MacBook Pros

Outside bet that they'll update the design of the Macbook itself, but they'll have to differentiate it clearly from the Pro.

February 08 2008 at 6:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

PepPla

Apple said the were going to release the iphone sdk in February, so this is not new. Probably some xcode release with cross platform integration: iphone/ipod/mac/appletv.

My prediction:
- more iphone countries: canada, japan, spain and south america (telefonica), italy and more european countries.
- the end of white apples: new aluminium mini and macbook.
- new mac book pro.
- macbook series renamed macbook becomes macbook water and macbookpro becomes macbook fire. This way we have water, air and fire. Just kidding.

February 08 2008 at 5:45 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Aaron

The big announcement is that Apple is finally incorporating Blu-Ray into its ecosystem!

February 08 2008 at 5:27 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

shawk

I'd guess this is a method of high speed HD video distribution. But I don't know anything.

February 08 2008 at 12:01 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply