Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Jobs unveils new iPhone; Apple takes bigger bite of Vegas

It's a Mac, Mac, Mac world: If there's a member of the Apple computer cult among your friends and family, you probably already heard about today's Big News: Our Leader, Steve Jobs revealed the next generation of the iPhone this morning in San Francisco. (Apple has posted QuickTime video of Jobs' keynote. Yes, Steve, I hear and obey...)

So what, you say? Even the New York Times made the story front (web)page news, following Jobs' every utterance with a breathless blow-by-blow liveblog. Elsewhere, in offices all over the world, Mac addicts refreshed their browsers obsessively to learn each new detail about what some termed, with tongue in cheek, "the Jesus phone."

Those new features on the restyled smartphone, which will be available in July, include GPS, zippy wireless web-surfing speeds and a significant price drop. Gaze upon its beauty here.

So expect to see even more visitors walking around Las Vegas while gazing distractedly into their glossy black (or new special-edition all-white) handheld mirror-machines. After which they can go back to their hotel room and manage their photos and soundtracks and videos on an iMac computer -- the new Fountainebleau hotel-casino, which opens in fall of 2009, is installing the Apple desktop computers in every one of its 3,889 rooms. Imagine the vacation-movie possibilities.

"Now what happens in Vegas will be visible to your iChat buddies," says The Unofficial Apple Weblog, which also notes that Apple is planning to build a 20,000-foot, bi-level flagship as an anchor store in the massive CityCenter development currently erupting from the center of the Las Vegas Strip. (Vegas already has two Apple Stores, one in the Town Square outdoor shopping center and the other at the Fashion Show Mall.)

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