Apple to hold media event on September 1st

What? No mention of OS 4 coming to the iPad??

Earlier, people were talking about the possibility of a MacBook Air refresh?

I hope so. I don't see the iPad as a notebook replacement, except on very short trips.

There will be no ipad update - hardware or software.

As Daring Fireball mentions there have been no iOS 4 beta for iPad at all so they couldn't just spring it on us.There could be the first iOS 4 beta for ipad i guess

thats not funny. don't even joke about that kind of stuff. there could have been children listening.

Sounds great!

Steve will announce that inside the boxes of 5 random Apple devices, there are 5 golden tickets. The lucky finders (heh, Finder :D) of these tickets will be allowed to tour Apple Headquarters and get to see all the places where the secret new devices are tested (and even get to mess with some of them). At the end of the tour, the one kid who didn't steal random Apple devices from various parts of the compound will be named as Steve's successor as CEO of Apple.

Count on it.

I agree that this is likely to be an iPod event, so there might not be iPad and Apple TV announcements (sigh).

But let's Speculate Different.

A new iChannels service for iTunes. Your own iTunes library provides the initial iChannels, which are stream-able playlists.Streaming from your own library will likely require a MobileMe media backup subscription ("MobileTunes"?) for license management and bandwidth. (And Apple gots to make da money, yo.) Your ISP will go b*****t crazy if you and 40 million other iTunes users start streaming media UPstream and then DOWN to millions of iDevices and browsers. So it will be backed up to MobileMe or a dedicated iChannels service before it can be streamed. Apple likes 9s, so figure $5.99 a month for iChannels service. An IChannels plug-in for Safari will make it really cool and easy to find and use iChannels.

Commercial iChannels will include the broadcast networks, which will be able to charge on a per-episode basis. $0.99 for temporary viewing rights, $1.99 to add it to your library to view anytime. You can view whatever is available anywhere you have a connection.

iChannels renders things like Slingbox pretty much obsolete bandwidth hogs, and provide the excuse for cable providers to ban them. (Sorry. I have one, so I know how it feels...)

So how do you watch iChannels on your huge HDTV at home? An iPod with HDMI out and IR transceiver brings your TV into the iOS ecosystem. Initially the HDMI+IR piece could be an accessory for iOS4 devices. By Christmas, there will be a dedicated, screenless device for TVs. Call it iTuner ("iTV" is locked down pretty hard). Existing Apple TVs will also be able to use iChannels in Front Row, but will be discontinued. IPods will have more features than iTuners, though, like FaceTime support. What about your old iPod? It's the world's best iRemote and can view iChannels over the network.

I'm wondering if the iPod Nano could get a Facetime update too. Small screen, but still would be cool, and it would allow many more millions of Facetime devices.

IOS 5 is announced, available in January.
New iMac with IOS5 and touch screen.
iPad II can use tethering on iPhone.

Oops, sorry, that's September 2011.

ITV is a major british TV broadcaster, so Apple will not introduce a product called iTV because it would be unmarketable in the UK because of trademark infringement.