(Public Domain photo credit: Wikipedia) Because The Nudge Wink Report can’t afford the current Apple logo.
The big news this week is that it isn’t happening this week. Next week is when the world will stop for Apple’s yearly declaration of new items that we will give them money for.
So this week, there has been no news on anything important:
- Maybe the US is taking some action in Syria, but maybe not.
- Perhaps the economy and the price of oil is either rising or falling.
- In sports, Johnny Manziel’s parents may have raised a jackass. That jackass is brighter than their son.
- This might be one of the slowest hurricane seasons on record, but September begins the peak of the season.
And in to this news void steps Apple with their announcement that they have nothing to say. Next week, they will have something to say. Next week they will say what they have something to say about, but until then we should talk amongst ourselves.
Yes, the big news this week isn’t this week. But because no one knows what it is, the news is not actual news, but speculation. Speculation is the opposite of news. Journalists don’t speculate, but reporters do, and those reporters call their speculation news.
Next week, Apple may or may not announce one or two new iPhone models. Here is what reporters tell us they know about the blessed announcement. By “know”, of course, what they mean is “they think” that…
- These iPhones will have a fingerprint reader for security, unless they don’t.
- If there are two phones announced, one will be cheaper. It will have a colorful plastic body, or not.
- The colorful, plastic phone will be available in the US, unless it is for another market. In that case, it won’t be available in the US.
- The new iPhone 5s or iPhones 5s will be available a week or so, or more, after Apple speaks to us all.
- The phone or phones could have an improved camera, possibly.
Good luck to all who line up. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
News consists of things that have happened, not things that could happen. But what could happen is what passed for news this week. In the spirit of what might be, I am here to report, as news, a few other things that Apple could tell us about the new iPhone(s):
- The updated iPhone’s beauty will be so powerful it could cause blindness. Apple will recommend gazing upon the phone through a paper plate with a hole in it.
- To prevent blindness, Apple will package a paper plate with the updated phone. It will be the most elegantly designed paper plate, ever.
- The new iPhone 5s is capable of disinfecting kitchen sponges.
- An app will make the phone able to steam shell-fish.
- With apologies to Mr. & Mrs. Manziel, even the new iPhone won’t cure poor parenting.
Best of luck to all who will line up for Apple’s newest “must have” in two weeks. Or three. Whatever.
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Thanks for the enlightenment or not… 🙂
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de nada(ish)
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Somehow, I’ve gotten to this advanced stage of life without ever having owned an Apple product.
On the Hot Dog Johnny issue, this year the Heisman will hopefully go to the most phenomenal player in recent years, Mr. Clowney. Mr. Manziel will fade into obscurity never to be heard from outside of Texas ever again.
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They’re addicting. I’ve been welded to an iPod for years now. I’ll probably go for this new phone as a replacement for the old one, once the frenzy dies down.
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Oma,
This is when I bless my decision to not own a not-so-smartphone so that I can continue to hide in my ignorance about world news/events/Apple. Which I could have done the same when the news of Kurt Cobain’s death overshadowed Rwanda’s genocide…
“But Le Clown, there were no not-so-smartphones back then”…
…Stop being a smartass.
Le Clown
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Oma,
And obviously, by “which”, I meant “wish”… Wish I had a not-so-smartphone auto-corrector for this one.
Le Clown
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Le Clown,
Lord only knows what auto-correct would have done to your wish.
There is a certain joy to not being constantly connected, isn’t there? At least that’s what I recall, I think.
Cobain…I was working on a suicide hotline when he died. I can’t tell you how many times I picked up the phone and “Smells Like Teen Spirit” was playing on the other end of the line…auuugh, flashback.
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It’s all so very mysterious. I hope there’s a feature to block Amber Alerts at 4:15am. I can’t afford to buy one to find out.
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I found the way to turn the 4:15 Amber Alerts off. Of course, I’d already soiled myself.
You soil yourself and you learn. Something like that.
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Android for life.
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That’s how you roll.
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Note from management: Nudge and Wink can’t afford a new iPhone for our field reporters but we decided to trim costs elsewhere and get everyone their own paper plate with a hole in it. It comes in white, white, or white. But you can pick the size of the hole.
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Sweet. Can we have our own chairs soon. Tom B. Taker sits in mine when I get up for a drink and it is all warm when I get it back.
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And we will henceforth have to purchase our white paper plates from Apple, who will no doubt patent it and corner the market of an already established market.
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Melanie, combining form and function isn’t cheap. Seriously, ask them, they’ll tell you.
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I am absolutely unenlightened now. Did they, per chance, announce numbers that are going to be drawn for Powerball, or that won’t be?
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I think that’s the bling-bling version. Even people with plenty of bling can’t afford it.
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UL…they will announce the numbers when they decide you should know, probably.
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Reblogged this on Blurt and commented:
Join me over The Nudge Wink Report!
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The brightness of that apple up above almost blinded me…*runs to get a paper plate*. I’m most definitely, without speculation, sticking to Droid.
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It’s interesting, I think people are Apple or Droid. No one crosses the line. It’s like congress, except both phones talk to one another.
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When the Samsung 4 came out, one brave soul tried to join the dark side. She was back to her Apple within weeks.
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Poor parenting? True. Poor judgment, too. Manziels all seem to have struck out.
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Some people never learn that you can’t buy class. Usually its the people who buy everything else.
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I may or may not have anything to say on this post. But most likely not, since I don’t really care that much about Apple.
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No, don’t get yourself stuck on one extreme.
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Sounds like this week we are in heaven…because heaven is a place where nothing ever happens.
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Fear Of Music album!
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I like technology that works smart,dumb or indifferent but it better work. That’s all I got to say about that.
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True, not much more frustrating than a beautifully designed brick.
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Well said because it would have to be for me to understand it.
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If The new iPhone 5s is capable of disinfecting kitchen sponges, I want one for pretty sure.
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It has a special antimicrobial flashlight.
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So you’re saying that my phone may be obsolete next week? Or not?
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Maybe I am. Maybe I’m in the same boat. Theoretically, if they were to announce something.
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“Speculation is the opposite of news. Journalists don’t speculate, but reporters do, and those reporters call their speculation news.” Classic!
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Oma has a way with a phrase. *grin*
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I found you and now I’m keeping you…love your perspective. ..
Poor John M., or better yet, poor us.
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