Its show time Apple confirms March 25 event at the Steve Jobs Theater Ars Technica

Enlarge / The event invite strongly suggestions at the imminent video carrier.

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Apple has sent invitations out to members of the click and other guests for a March 25 "special event." The tagline and animation at the invitation strongly endorse that the employer's lengthy-rumored streaming TV service will take center stage.

The invitation is accompanied by using the phrases "it's show time." Apple used the same tagline in 2006 for an occasion at which it unveiled its then-destiny Apple TV product. TechCrunch editor Matthew Panzarino tweeted out a GIF of the animation: it's miles a countdown throwback to antique films and movie production, once more suggesting that video content material be a focal point for the occasion.

Apple has been courting Hollywood writers and other skills from its rapidly increasing Culver City, Calif., offices inside the Los Angeles location. The enterprise is reportedly seeking circle of relatives-friendly content and has obtained an extensive quantity of content material from established entertainers. For instance, it'll reboot Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stores, distribute a film from the Oscar-winning director of La La Land, release a brand new series from Battlestar Galactica and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine showrunner Ronald D. Moore, and run a sequence based on Isaac Asimov's Foundation series of memories. It additionally has a deal of some sort with Oprah Winfrey.

TV may not be the best component on tap; Apple is rumored to be operating on a premium magazine and news subscription service built on its acquisition of Texture. That carrier would possibly make an look on March 25 as nicely.

The occasion might be held at the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple's new campus in Silicon Valley. The theater changed into first publicly utilized in September2019 for the declaration of the iPhone X and different products. Since then, Apple has held events at other places, like a school in Chicago or an arts middle on Brooklyn. But the theater in California has been a routine platform for announcements.

Pictured underneath: The Steve Jobs Theater at the day of its first use for a public event on September 12,2019.

• The Steve Jobs auditorium on Apple's new campus. A faux information story stated Google personnel might be entering into Apple's headquarters.
• The floor-level ready location has a minimalist design with slight accents, like many Apple products and retail areas.
• You can see the now-well-known spaceship campus via the window.
• The elevator from the floor-level waiting place to the basement-level theater spins as it ascends or descends.
• If you don't need to take the elevator, two identical stairwells are placed symmetrically in the area.
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• Once you've got descended, Steve Jobs' name ornaments the theater.

This event will occur nearly precisely a year after the March 27,2019, occasion in which Apple introduced the modern-day-generation, base iPad version. That model has the A10 processor—the same used in the iPhone 7—and begins at $329. That system-on-a-chip lacks a few flagship functions of other contemporary iOS devices, just like the Neural Engine silicon designed to pressure gadget-getting to know functions. The2019 iPad additionally supported the Apple Pencil, and Apple placed it as a tool for education.

This 12 months, a developer observed evidence of new iPad models in code for the iOS 12.2 developer beta, in addition to a document in Bloomberg citing sources close to Apple announcing that Apple plans to replace the iPad this year with a quicker processor and a 10-inch screen. The document additionally claimed that Apple will sooner or later introduce a new version of the iPad mini, which has not been up to date considering that2019. Other reviews across the Web indicated that Apple may also introduce an up to date iPod contact.

Any of those products could make an appearance on the March 25 event. But it's also feasible the occasion will zero in entirely on software and offerings—a developing attention for the enterprise. The occasion might be livestreamed, and Ars will even cover it stay beginning at 10am PDT/1pm EDT.

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