The Invite’s (Not) Coming Today
October 7, 2008
Today is October 7th: the day Apple is going to invite the media to the brick event. Post what you guys think Apple will write on the invite in the comments… I’ll post whoever gets the closest with the actual invite once its released.
UPDATE: My speculation was wrong… no invite, which probably means no event. Unless Apple releases it later tonight or tomorrow, we’re all gonna have to wait.
Hi, Mac Soda team!
Are nyou SURE that the invites ARE going out today? I hope so, because I am already waiting way too long for a macbook.
Thanks
Hello,
I’m reading the blog for a weeks now, and i am in the same state of mind of MacUser. I extremly hope a special event on october 14th but Apple do make its events rarely…
To respond, even if I don’t work in the adds, it would be a thing like this:
Let’s brick! or There is Alu in the air…
I hope ,but not sure of anything at this point!
Top from the bottom.
“New Books for everyone”
Here’s the invitation:
You’re Invited
Apple Block Party
October 14, 2008
“There’s Something in the Brick”
Pretty bold of you folks to lay this all out, putting your credibility on the line and seemingly inciting Apple to defy you by making the announcement tomorrow …or Thursday even. If the announcement is made today, big fat props to you folks!
That being said, that song from the Commodores, “She’s a Brick House”, will be used in some fashion at the event. It will be referring to the new manufacturing plant that will house the process of conforming bricks of aluminum into the next generation of high-tech Mac laptops.
…those are my ‘glaring-into-the-clouds’ thoughts of the morning. : )
Nice one! That song would work perfectly for the event.
“Another brick in the wall”
actually hoping the brick will be the design of a new mini.
This is either going to boost the credibility of Mac Soda, or truely ruin it.
after the $400-600 “mix up” which I personally think was just a backtrack after everyone flaming, ive got to say im not feeling confident about these invites.
Prove me wrong!
“time to change…”
Michael what is your origin?
Send me a mail if you do not want to tell it!
Byeeeeeee!!!!!!!!
I can assure you that there will NOT be invites going out today! If you want to stay in the loop people go to a source you can trust…MacRumors! This guy is wrong, again!
Hey aaron what makes you that sure about that?
Invites will say ‘laserz and you’ll shit bricks, y00′…
because I know, trust me there will be NO invites given out today. I want the macbook just as much as everyone else and it will come but there is no invites going out today.
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so if u know, will there be an event on 14th
there will NOT be an event on the 14th..look for an event in the coming weeks though.
There WILL be an event on 14th. It’s being held on the Apple Campus in Cuppertino. No idea what it’s for.
putting a lot of credability on the line here! I really hope you’re right!
I’m telling you there will NOT be an event next week on the 14th and there will NOT be any invites sent out today. I don’t know where this site get’s it’s “sources” but they are wrong.
“Lets play”
lets play?
ok boys maybe you are right maybe not but you have no right to attack somebody in this way AND in his own site !!!!!!!
you can post that you disagree and end it…
I fully trust this site.
even other sites do mistakes you know
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Invites will be out in 55 minutes.
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I really hope this rumor is true, which I think it is as i totally believe in this site!
Macsoda I trust you but…. if you don’t get this one right (*&^*&*&^!
Hey Aaron, chill the F down!
I really hope your right about this!
I’m chill…I’m just trying to calm you all down because your hopes are up and I’m telling you that it won’t happen today.
The invites will not be going out today. Apple will announce the new products on October 21st but they won’t be released until that Friday, the 24th….bite that off and chew on it for a bit
Aaron…i know you are correct. But how do you know?
Oh boy… it’s 2pm on the east coast and no announcement yet. Beginning to feel like it’s really not going to happen. Oh well. : (
I think this thread’s time stamp is off
Ya! LOL! I mentioned the time for historical reasons because I noticed the stamp was incorrect. If it does happen, we can look back on this thread and have a point of reference as to when the rumor was substantiated. It’s not 2:06pm EST
I meant to say that it’s now 2:06pm.
it is 2:06 eastern and its been the 55 mins this site said the invites would go out. I have been telling you all along they are not coming.
UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD im tremendously excited… hope this rumor is a fake!!!
Maybe Apple did really have plans for an event on the 14th but skipped the event on purpose to tease us and will release the MacBooks silently today and amaze us all!
oh how I wish the naysayers were wrong – but it looks like there will be no invites today. That could posibly translate to no event on 10/14 but who knows. I want to buy a MBP so badly but the key word here is “want”. Since I don’t “need” one I can wait another week or 2 or even until Macworld 2009 if necessary. I’d rather NOT wait that long but…whatever. I keep in mind that Apple is a corporation and they have to do what they feel is best for business…not what’s best for MrHarris. So if they make me wait then I guess i have to wait.
when will they be presented then?
“Another brick in the wall.”
12pm PST has come and gone…and no news. Not good.
In Italy there is the feeling that stores are emptying by MB and MBP, is the same in US?
“Bricks …. mortar ….. the shape of things to come”
Based on Apple’s history, do they announce the invitation 1 week in advance of an event? I don’t recall how far in advance the invitation went out for the iPod’s “Let’s Rock” event. Was that a week in advance?
My train of thought is that maybe it still is going to be on the 14th and the invitation will be announced at some point this week.
What a pity…I was so hopeful too.
Why was the post by Michael which said that he had speculated wrong and that October 14th was not the day, deleted?
Whats the point in having any information let alone publishing it and getting people excited if your just plain WRONG!
MacSoda’s reputation just hit the ground!
To everyone that is freaking out: I made a mistake. I’m sorry. If I had believed it to be false, I would not have posted it. At the time I posted it, I believed there was enough evidence in favor of an invite being sent to support posting it. Apparently there wasn’t. I apologize to those whose hopes I got up by posting this article: I’m even more let down than you are.
So, I just checked and answered my own question. For the iPod’s “Let’s Rock” even, we did get a confirmed and official announcement exactly 1 week in advance. The event was held on Tuesday, Sept 9th and the announcement was confirmed on MacRumors on Tuesday, Sept 2:
http://www.macrumors.com/2008/09/02/apple-event-confirmed-for-september-9th-lets-rock/
he took the post down after i told him that he should have listened to me and that he should re-write it. Saying that your wrong but then saying so were other sites such as macrumors which is not true, doesn’t help your case. just admit your wrong and stop bringing other people down with you. i just have a feeling this site has lost all confidence in it’s readers.
this fucking idiot probably didn’t even have a source…just a guess based on previous event invitation releases.
Back-pedaling much? I was on the site just a while ago and MacSoda was trying to pull all the other Mac rumor sites down the water with itself in speculating wrongly. And now it’s gone.
Get it clear – none of those sites you mentioned wrote anything about an invite going out today. The only one who got it wrong was you, MacSoda. Sod off.
Geez. Mac. Soda. Truly. Sucks.
God you suck so much, stop talking shit in the future if your not sure about things.
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Guys, don’t be so critical and harsh. This is, after all, a rumor site. You cannot be too annoyed at the author of the site because he took a chance based on established voices in the rumor community, like MacRumors, John Gruber, etc. I guess at this point many of us are just anxiously emotional over this MacBook/MacBook Pro release, so it’s easy to fly off the handle when someone says something about the release date and it does not materialize. But before getting too annoyed at someone, just take some pause and appreciate that we are all speculating in these rumor forums and therefore, we MUST leave PLENTY of room for error.
Micheal, I know you did a terrible, and somewhat unforgettable (not unforgivable) mistake but don’t let these negative posters let you down. Let this be a lesson to you for your career in excellent rumor (or things you’ve heard from apple insiders) posting!
This is the only site with a post that suggests the invite would go out today.
Now I have another rumor site that I can delete from my bookmarks. Thanks for helping me thin the herd!
Crappy sourceless nonsense just making claims based on who-knows-what to try to increase readership and make a buck. I can guarantee I’ll never be back here.
let me be clear I was never in any way saying anything negative to Michael, I was simply stating what i knew and that was the facts, that there was not going to be an invite today and that there is not going to be an event on the 14th but in the weeks to come, and the other sites never mentioned the invite. So as darren said in the comments, let this be a lesson, even though this is a rumor site, double and triple check your story before posting.
Yea guys. I’m not mad at Micheal or MacSoda at all. I don’t read the site as if it were the Apple website. It is a rumor site and Micheal attempted to give us some info that he honestly believed was true. I don’t necessarily read this site to get the most accurate information available, I read it because I like to and because it fills time gaps in between my classes. I am very dissappointed, not with micheal, but with the simple fact that these MacBook (pros) are taking so long to be released. Micheal thought he had the date nailed, he probably (not even 100% sure yet) made a mistake, and we move on and hope that the next date we hear about will be right. C’mon, we all make mistakes.
+1000 to Matt! I won’t be removing MacSoda from my bookmarks, nor from my iPod’s RSS list! So I suggest Michael to continue posting info and rumors about Macs!
And after that. I still say like I said earlier. The new laptops will be announced one week after the 14th (the 21st), but they will not be released until the friday after (oct. 24th). Apple will be sending out invitations on the 14th to the 21st event. Say what you have to say, but come october 21st, I will be back on this post and I will say…I told you so.
why the hell would you still come here? he says absolutely flat out that x will happen based on sources. x does not happen. why would you ever listen to him again? it’s just a waste of your time — you could just use a magic 8 ball or just make up an answer yourself.
I totally agree with Matt!
Everyboby make mistakes. I’m not dissapointed with the fact that the new macs are taking so long to be released, ‘cus I know it’s because Apple wouldn’t sent something half-done on the market.
But PLEASE could somebody freeze me down and dry me up again when the macbooks are released, ‘cus I CAN’T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!!!!
Matt, what are your sources???
I don’t agree with Matt with his sourceless, speculative information. I still think that the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros will be released on the 14th, silently, with no event. Apple never did a laptop-only oriented event. Never! Why would Apple do a laptop-oriented event now?
BUFFONI, dioporco
The reason Apple would stage an event for the new MacBook and MacBook Pro is because they are going to get a make-over and have all-new features, including this rumored glass trackpad with all new gestures, among other all-new goodies. Having an event for the new MacBook series gives them the forum to demonstrate the new functionality so that we know what we’re getting and what can be done with this new glass trackpad. I cannot tell you how many people I meet who have the PowerBook G4 and I teach them for the first time that they can scroll just by putting 2 fingers on the trackpad and swiping up and down and back and forth. I imagine this new MacBook revision will have enough new features that Apple will want to demonstrate them for us before they sell it. This also allows the media to yip-yap about it in their various newspapers, magazines, websites, podcasts and tv shows.
This really isn’t going to help build up MacSoda’s Reputation!!!
very niceee! 0_o
For all of those who are so angry at MacSoda’s author, please realize that this is not the first time, nor will it be the last time that a RUMOR site was not spot on. The author based his speculation on RUMORS that came from fairly credible sources. We all believed that this special event was going to take place on October 14th. Apple seems to always give us and media 1 weeks notice of special events. Is it not reasonable that the author speculated that the invites for the event would be announced today? It is reasonable!
NOW, this final comment/question is directed to all the people who say they are going to abandon MacSoda because the author was wrong today: IF THE SPECIAL “BRICK” EVENT DOES NOT MATERIALIZE NEXT WEEK TUESDAY (OCTOBER 14TH) ARE YOU GOING TO ABANDON MACRUMORS, APPLEINSIDER AND 9TO5MAC? Of course you’re not going to abandon them, because you realize that they are RUMOR sites – and RUMORS are NOT FACT until they materialize. So just chill out. It’s not that serious.
“One for the books.”
Yes, you all are rumors site, but this is not a good justification to writes bullshits. Anyway, Apple wrongs. Everybody are waiting to buy a Mac. And with this rumors they stay to the window (ah ah) and dont buy.
Apple reseller too, say me to wait the next (?) Apple event.
Anyway, dont blame yourself Macsoda, and go on with your rumors.
Aaron said:
“he took the post down after i told him that he should have listened to me and that he should re-write it. Saying that your wrong but then saying so were other sites such as macrumors which is not true, doesn’t help your case. just admit your wrong and stop bringing other people down with you. i just have a feeling this site has lost all confidence in it’s readers.”
I’d just like to point out the difference between “your” and “you’re.” “You’re” is a contraction, meaning “you are.” “Your” is a possessive, meaning “belonging to you.” Also, there is a difference between “its” and “it’s.” “It’s” is a contraction meaning “it is,” and “its” is possessive meaning “belonging to it.”
Thank you and have a good day.
last time I checked it was a blog not a grammar lesson. I think everyone knows what I was saying and a lot of people when posting blogs or comments don’t enter the proper grammer! However if you’d like to take the same English test and see who does better Kelly let me know!
oh you better watch out, you’ve just been challenged to see who “does better Kelly”.
I wonder if that’s a dish?
Right,anyway, I don’t think we can really listen to your “certainty” of there being no MacBook event. I don’t generally listen to illiterate morons over rumor bloggers who actually know how to use punctuation and “grammer”
Cheerio,
Sal
P.S.- before you ask, -I- would certainly take the same English test and “see who does better”, Aaron
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No invites huh? You guys suck! No credibility at all, yet you talk like your word is the gospel! I’m glad you were wrong, exposes you as a fraud!
You guys need to get a life. You are fighting like little elementary school kids about a stupid invite? GO WORK!
A post made on October 2, 2008 on TUAW:
“Earlier this week, Apple announced that their fourth quarter financial conference call will take place on October 21st. The live audio stream will begin at 2PM Pacific time.”
Thought this was interesting, to those who are saying that the announcement won’t happen on the 14th, but rather the 21st. How are they going to do something like that in the middle of a financial conference call? And isn’t that around the time of day that they would do something like that? Just doesn’t add up to me. I still want to stand by the 14th, but I don’t know anymore. I just want my Macbook Pro, new design or not.
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“The reason Apple would stage an event for the new MacBook and MacBook Pro is because they are going to get a make-over and have all-new features, including this rumored glass trackpad with all new gestures, among other all-new goodies.” – RRRize
Apple NEVER did a laptop-ONLY oriented event, not even when they switched to Intel. Not even when they released the iBook, as it was WWDC 1999. Why would they do such event now? For new features, that’s why Apple has their site with info on their products, and that’s why there is an instruction manual with Apple products.
Perhaps you’re right Darren. What you’ve said is certainly not incorrect from a historical standpoint. I guess we will see what happens this time around.
I agree, there is not reliable precedence for a Mac-only showcase. What is also interesting about the rumored unveiling is that it would likely occur at the more intimate setting of 1 Infinite Loop. The only recent precedence for that is the Apple SDK unveiling, which occurred March 6, a Thursday, and announced a week and a day prior to the event.
Maybe Tuesday might be a cheap day to get the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, but that conference room in Cupertino is only open on Thursdays? Total speculation here.
Hopefully someone will come forward to support or refute the Oct. 14 date. I mean, I’d love to know either way.
Nick
[...] MacSoda, la fonte dell’articolo di ieri nel quale avevamo anticipato il nome e la data del prossimo evento Apple, ci fa sapere che non sono ancora arrivati gli inviti per i Media. Questo può significare soltanto due cose: o alla Apple sono tutti in forte ritardo, oppure non ci sarà nessun evento il 14 Ottobre! Per ora non possiamo fare altro che attendere, ma vi terremo aggiornati. [...]
Mac Soda, you may be partially redeemed. Invites went out today! October 14th is confirmed! See appleinsider or gizmodo.
The event is on!
Sooooo….all you sucka’s who were pissed off at Micheal better feel stupid now.
The event is on! Jooohooo!
http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/09/apple-notebook-event-is-on-october-14th/
Matt said:
October 7, 2008 at 8:09 pm
“And after that. I still say like I said earlier. The new laptops will be announced one week after the 14th (the 21st), but they will not be released until the friday after (oct. 24th). Apple will be sending out invitations on the 14th to the 21st event. Say what you have to say, but come october 21st, I will be back on this post and I will say…I told you so.”
Be sure to come back and say I told you so.
So the event is on! The only credibility that has been shot to hell is the poster on this thread by the name of Aaron, who stated emphatically and with total confidence that an event would not be held next week. He went on to say that an event would be held sometime in the following weeks though. I personally was hoping he was dead wrong because he was trying to sound like he knew for sure and that he had some inside scoop and I knew he didn’t.
Glad the event is on for the 14th!!
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