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It’s time to get excited about next week’s “Let Loose” Apple event.
The online-only event promises long-awaited and worthy iPad updates, but there could be a surprise in store. Why? A couple of reasons:
It’s being held at an unusual time: 7 a.m. Pacific. Most Apple events happen at 10 a.m., but this one seems timed for audiences on the East Coast and in Europe and Asia. Maybe Apple should have been doing this all along, but the change makes you wonder.
Apple’s been promoting the event like mad on social media — more than previous events, it seems.
Does Tim Cook have something special to announce? We’ll see next Tuesday.
Also in today’s newsletter:
Apple’s latest quarterly earnings weren’t as bad as Wall Street had predicted, and Tim Cook used an analyst call to hype Apple’s plans for AI.
As usual, CdkeySales offers crazy-cheap prices on Microsoft software. Its May Sale has Windows 11 Pro for just $23 and Office 365 for $21.
Time’s running out to snag a great deal on this sci-fi iPhone stand that includes a portable power pack, which means you always have a battery ready to go.
Apple’s new ad for Find My featuring Boba Fett is pretty amusing.
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
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Tweetz o’ the day
I have gotten this ad like 20 times across multiple platforms… never seen so much hype from Apple over an event
— Dylan (@DylanMcD8)
4:09 AM • May 3, 2024
Apple Maps *finally* added biking directions for the bike capital of the planet (The Netherlands). And boy are they comprehensive!
— Ryan McLeod (@warpling)
12:16 PM • May 3, 2024
Japanese jackets are living in 2034
— Spencer Shulem (@Spshulem)
9:24 AM • May 2, 2024
On one hand: It seems like it's only a matter of time before Apple starts making major AI-related moves around the iPhone and iOS and buries these AI-in-a-box gadgets extremely quickly
On the other hand: Have you used Siri lately?
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD)
11:46 PM • May 2, 2024
3/3 Don’t think that any AI announcements in June are going to change this sad story. Apple has ZERO data center capabilities relative to the leaders & why it’s needs to partner with Google/OpenAI/etc.
Sad state of affairs…— Tony Fadell (@tfadell)
3:31 PM • May 3, 2024
"Tim Cook says half of the Fortune 100 companies have purchased Apple Vision Pro units"
I mean, that's 50 sales right there!
— Paul Thurrott (@thurrott)
10:56 AM • May 3, 2024
One more thing ...
I don't think much about my time of life. I just get up in the morning and it's a new day. Somebody told me when I was 17 to live each day as if it were my last, and that one day I'd be right. I am at a stage where I don't have to do things just to get by. But then I've always been that way because I've never really cared about money that much. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I feel the same way now as I felt when I was 17.
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