Spring forward - March 9th

Creamy Goodness

Credit cards at the ready.

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Apple on Thursday sent out invites for a special event to be held on March 9, 2015. The event will be held in San Francisco at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a venue that Apple has used many times before for special events.

It is widely expected that Apple will use the event to give more details about the Apple Watch, which was introduced last September.

There are still many details about the Apple Watch that we don’t know, including pricing of the various configurations that we could find out in March.

Zcott

The day after the US clocks go forward...good timing for a watch (no pun intended...)

DubDJ

For some reason I've a feeling Apple won't release the Watch here till a few months later and will restrict it to US only at first. Hopefully not but they probably will imo. Even though there will be less demand compared to the iPhone and iPad I can see them doing this as its moving into a new category and they will probably roll it out slowly.

Zcott

Hard to say really, I'd expect them to be available at least in Belfast on launch day or shortly after. I don't think it'll be a few months.

Anyone planning on picking one up on launch day without having tried one?

Creamy Goodness

It will be like the phone. U.S. and U.K. will be day one. Ireland afterwards probably second tier. If you go to apple.com you'll see they have a watch section same with apple.com/uk go to apple.com/ie and there's no watch section

naasrd

DubDJ wrote: »

For some reason I've a feeling Apple won't release the Watch here till a few months later and will restrict it to US only at first. Hopefully not but they probably will imo. Even though there will be less demand compared to the iPhone and iPad I can see them doing this as its moving into a new category and they will probably roll it out slowly.

The iWatch will be released here in Belfast. I choose to ignore the border. It makes life so much easier.

Zcott

Tim says the watch will be available outside the U.S. in April.

DubDJ

Zcott wrote: »

Tim says the watch will be available outside the U.S. in April.

Read this earlier and at first I thought maybe it would be Canada or China he mentioned but mentioning Germany it looks like it might be similar to an iPhone release. Hopefully it'll only be a few weeks wait at most.

banquo

Currently living about 25km from the centre. Taking the morning off to go get some snaps, fanboy tourism!

Zcott

Some good info now coming out about the watch:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/06/the-apple-watch-is-time-saved/

Not a hands-on review but info gleaned from various sources.

Creamy Goodness

9 hours 30 minutes to go

Zcott

There's a chance I might come home from college early to watch...

Creamy Goodness

At least the live stream works on iOS devices. So if you've got 4G you'll be sorted.

DubDJ

Is this happening at 5pm or 6pm? It's normslly 6 but I've added the reminder from the Apple website and that's telling me 5pm.

Sad Professor

5pm.

Eugene Norman

America has sprung forward. So 5 pm.

murpho999

Will this only be about the watch. Any other surprises possible?

Updated Apple TV perhaps?

Sad Professor

murpho999 wrote: »

Will this only be about the watch. Any other surprises possible?

Updated Apple TV perhaps?

Unlikely. Probably another year away.

The 12-inch Retina MBA is a slim possibility.

Zcott

Probably 8.2 as well.

Fingleberries

Eugene Norman wrote: »

America has sprung forward. So 5 pm.

True. It'd be ironic to miss the live event about Apple Watch because of a timing mistake, eh?

cloud493

So this is at 5 our time? Kinda excited.

FourFourRED

cloud493 wrote: »

So this is at 5 our time? Kinda excited.

Yep almost 20 mins away

naasrd

Now I want one...

http://www.thelightningdock.com/products/apple-watch-dock

Zcott

Stream is up.

Lardy

Anyone else having streaming issues? The video won't play at all for me?

FourFourRED

Lardy wrote: »

Anyone else having streaming issues? The video won't play at all for me?

You need to let it sit for a bit and it will play.

Zcott

Rock solid here.

Lardy

FourFourFM wrote: »

You need to let it sit for a bit and it will play.

Been waiting for about 10 mins...

Sad Professor

Apple TV price drop - 69 usd.

galljga1

First Ipod - 2nd gen
First Ipad - 2nd gen
First Ipad Mini - 2nd gen
First Iphone - 5 (previous gens too small, now have 6 plus, too bloody big)
Mac book pro and air, two apple TVs

Kind of an apple fan but will probably hold off buying a smart watch until it is waterproof and can make and receive calls.

DubDJ

Apple TV price drop is decent. Not much of a hype around here this time though. Also don't wanna jinx it but the stream is solid so far for me.