{"id":85997,"date":"2013-09-03T23:39:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T21:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=85997"},"modified":"2013-09-04T10:20:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T08:20:20","slug":"apple-launch-event-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/85997-apple-launch-event-next-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple launch event next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-Inc\">Apple<\/a> send out a colourful invitation Tuesday to a September 10 launch event at which it is widely expected to announce a new version of its <a title=\"iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/487844-iPhone\">iPhone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation, which featured a palette of brightly coloured dots above the tag line &#8220;this should brighten everyone&#8217;s day,&#8221; followed numerous media reports that the company would be introducing a line of low-cost iPhones in a variety of playful colours, while the company&#8217;s premium models would feature a gold-coloured phone in addition to the usual black and white offerings.<\/p>\n<p>Apple is facing ever-more intense competition from <a title=\"Samsung\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/333656-Samsung\">Samsung<\/a> and a variety of manufacturers who rely on <a title=\"Google\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314567-Google\">Google<\/a>&#8216;s rival <a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/221979-Google-Android\">Android<\/a> operating system, with a number of companies now offering models that handily beat the iPhone in terms of specifications, screen size and features.<\/p>\n<p>The company last week launched a trade-in program for older models which will allow owners to take their used iPhones into stores and receive up to 280 dollars towards the cost of a new model.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Apple news<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Apple prepares for new iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/85759-apple-prepares-for-new-iphone.html\"><strong>Apple prepares for new iPhone<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/83975-apple-request-to-drop-e-book-ruling-denied.html\">Apple request to drop e-book ruling denied<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/83787-android-wins-iphone-loses.html\">Android wins, iPhone loses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple send out a colourful invitation Tuesday to a September 10 launch event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":85999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[36,605,1125],"class_list":["post-85997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-active","tag-apple","tag-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86043,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85997\/revisions\/86043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}