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yankees playing
if the yankees lose tonight there out of playoff and then wait till next year would hurt a lot for me and piss me off so lets go yankees
The Amazon Kindle Fire won't have the Android Market - that bother you? they say
KMLProxy in our forums brings up a good point, if you're looking at purchasing an Amazon Kindle Fire. You won't be able to easily transfer apps that you purchase in the Android Market to the Kindle Fire. That is, you won't be able to redownload them directly, because the Kindle Fire won't have the Android Market.
That's not an insurmountable problem -- we've talked about how to pull the apps off your phone before, and you should be able to sideload them back onto the Kindle Fire. But you do see what we're getting at here, right?
Will the absence of the Android Market sway your decision to purchase a Kindle Fire? Let's hear it.
More: Preorder the Amazon Kindle Fire; Amazon Kindle Fire forums
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Android 101: How to share apps via the Android Market
Android 101: How to share apps via the Android Market
not hard at all
When you find a great app in the Android Market, it's only natural to want to go ahead and share it with others. Luckily, the Android Market makes that a fairly easy process when combined with Androids built-in sharing options. The process:
Find the app you want to share in the Android Market
Tap on the share button, as denoted by the blue arrow in the image
Select to where and how you wish to share which, can be pretty much anything
There you have it, that's it. An easy and simple process for sharing apps with others directly from the Android Market. Keep in mind, sharing apps doesn't mean if you buy it and share it will be free for people you share with -- it's more suggesting and app to another user.
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iPhone 4S announced today [the competition]
iphone 4s
Ed. note: Rex Manning Day is still in effect. But now that the iPhone's coming to Sprint, we need to care about it a little.)
Today was the big day if you are an Apple fan. The folks in Cupertino unveiled the latest version, leaving many disappointed and many elated. If you were waiting for a big screen, or 4G in any shape or form (and a lot of Apple users have been) that didn't happen, but the new iPhone did get a healthy spec bump over the old. The A5 chip currently in the iPad 2 is now in the phone version, and that should give better graphics performance, and the camera has been beefed up to an 8MP version with 1080p capture.
The "big news" with the iPhone 4S is Siri, a voice command and reader application, the Cards app to print and order cards direct from your phone, location sharing with the Family and Friends app, and of course that the new model will be coming to Sprint. Combined with iOS 5, it sounds like an excellent phone for a lot of users, and will sell "a billion" according to Seth at TiPb. While a billion may be a bit high, the iPhone 4S will sell well, and it should -- it has some great features we've seen on Android for a while to help push it forward.
On the hardware front, Apple didn't mention the clock speed of the iPhone's A5 chip, but it will match well with the new dual-core devices we're seeing in Android phones as of late. While there is still no support for removable storage, they have bumped things up to 64GB for everyone that found 32 just wasn't enough. And the camera, well, let's face it -- Apple uses quality cameras and fans will be pleased. Rene Ritchie lays out the new specs as:
Apple A5 chipset, dual core Cortex A9 for 7 times faster graphics. This is basically the iPad 2 chip but probably not clocked as fast.
Longer batter life – 8 hrs talk time on 3G, 9 hours browsing on Wi-Fi, 10 hours video, 40 hours music.
New intelligent switching between antennas
HSPA+ 14.4 (no 21?)
CDMA + GSM World phone
8mp rear-facing camera, CMOS backside illuminated sensor, 73% more photons! High end IR filter. Wide f2.4.
Siri, which was the highlight of the entire announcement, is basically Google voice actions combined with talkback -- you speak to your phone, and it speaks back to you. This comes to the iPhone 4S as a beta (which is pretty un-Appley). It's a cool feature, one I use it on my Android phones (while nobody is looking anyway), and if implemented well can be a nice selling point.
Seemingly glanced over was the news much of the Internet was waiting for -- the iPhone 4S will be available on Sprint. At the very end of the event when pricing was announced they snuck it in with little fanfare.
What does this mean for Android? In my humble opinion, not a damn thing. It's clear that Apple is waiting until next time to bring any big hardware changes, and it's going to be a tough choice at the store between a new iPhone or a Galaxy S II or new HTC phone. The new changes are nice, don't get me wrong, but don't offer a compelling reason to buy an iPhone over an Android or Windows phone. I think the "one more thing" everyone was waiting for will happen on October 11.
Ed. note: Rex Manning Day is still in effect. But now that the iPhone's coming to Sprint, we need to care about it a little.)
Today was the big day if you are an Apple fan. The folks in Cupertino unveiled the latest version, leaving many disappointed and many elated. If you were waiting for a big screen, or 4G in any shape or form (and a lot of Apple users have been) that didn't happen, but the new iPhone did get a healthy spec bump over the old. The A5 chip currently in the iPad 2 is now in the phone version, and that should give better graphics performance, and the camera has been beefed up to an 8MP version with 1080p capture.
The "big news" with the iPhone 4S is Siri, a voice command and reader application, the Cards app to print and order cards direct from your phone, location sharing with the Family and Friends app, and of course that the new model will be coming to Sprint. Combined with iOS 5, it sounds like an excellent phone for a lot of users, and will sell "a billion" according to Seth at TiPb. While a billion may be a bit high, the iPhone 4S will sell well, and it should -- it has some great features we've seen on Android for a while to help push it forward.
On the hardware front, Apple didn't mention the clock speed of the iPhone's A5 chip, but it will match well with the new dual-core devices we're seeing in Android phones as of late. While there is still no support for removable storage, they have bumped things up to 64GB for everyone that found 32 just wasn't enough. And the camera, well, let's face it -- Apple uses quality cameras and fans will be pleased. Rene Ritchie lays out the new specs as:
Apple A5 chipset, dual core Cortex A9 for 7 times faster graphics. This is basically the iPad 2 chip but probably not clocked as fast.
Longer batter life – 8 hrs talk time on 3G, 9 hours browsing on Wi-Fi, 10 hours video, 40 hours music.
New intelligent switching between antennas
HSPA+ 14.4 (no 21?)
CDMA + GSM World phone
8mp rear-facing camera, CMOS backside illuminated sensor, 73% more photons! High end IR filter. Wide f2.4.
Siri, which was the highlight of the entire announcement, is basically Google voice actions combined with talkback -- you speak to your phone, and it speaks back to you. This comes to the iPhone 4S as a beta (which is pretty un-Appley). It's a cool feature, one I use it on my Android phones (while nobody is looking anyway), and if implemented well can be a nice selling point.
Seemingly glanced over was the news much of the Internet was waiting for -- the iPhone 4S will be available on Sprint. At the very end of the event when pricing was announced they snuck it in with little fanfare.
What does this mean for Android? In my humble opinion, not a damn thing. It's clear that Apple is waiting until next time to bring any big hardware changes, and it's going to be a tough choice at the store between a new iPhone or a Galaxy S II or new HTC phone. The new changes are nice, don't get me wrong, but don't offer a compelling reason to buy an iPhone over an Android or Windows phone. I think the "one more thing" everyone was waiting for will happen on October 11.
AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II review
Posted: 04 Oct 2011 03:28 PM PDT
Easily AT&T's best Android smartphone
AT&T has always seemed to have an odd relationship with Android. Conspiracy theorists like to believe it’s because of the iPhone, and there might be a little truth to that. But despite a slow start with Android -- and a few odd decisions along the way -- AT&T’s started to come into its own, sporting compelling smartphones from most of the leading manufacturers.
And it’s second out of the gate with the Samsung Galaxy S II. The Atlanta-based carrier’s doing us all a favor by not messing with the phone’s name at all -- the same can’t be said for others -- and AT&T’s also shaken up the U.S. GSII lineup with some physical tweaks to its Galaxy S II. Minor modifications to the software and user interface hardly are a surprise, too.
So how does the AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II fare against AT&T’s other offerings, the iPhone, and the recently released (and wildly overnamed) Samsung Galaxy S II Sprint Epic 4G Touch? Read on to find out.
Thin, light, fast. And the 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus screen is gorgeous. It's a Galaxy S II, after all.
Launched with a fairly major security flaw, may still be too big for some at 4.3 inches. AT&T's customization of the TouchWiz home screens is uninspired.
You can't get a better Android smartphone on AT&T. This is as fast and as light as anything available today. And AT&T (and other retailers) have priced it right, under $200.
new cd just go out
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fast five movie rated:pg13 132 minutes number 5 of fast
fast five
By Justin Lin, 2011.
Starring Vin DieselPaul WalkerDwayne Johnson
Vin Diesel and Paul Walker lead a reunion of returning all-stars from every chapter of the explosive franchise built on speed in Fast Five. In this installment, former cop Brian O'Conner (Paul Walker) partners with ex-con Dom Toretto (Vin Diesel) on the opposite side of the law. Dwayne Johnson joins returning favorites Jordana Brewster, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, Matt Schulze, Tego Calderon, and Don Omar for this ultimate high-stakes race.the movie getting old now they really need to update something in it to make it better as this movie is rated:pg13 and 132 mins it long for it.the should be a car it more like a fighting with action and THE ROCK from wwe is in here is we know from his work its going to be good like other work from him this movie get 3.5 *** start off slow but gets better like most movies they start with jail and trying to find the cars so i thinking this is to the point of old but it still show that it can be good in someways i would like to see more cars then fighting in it ..get your copy by the store in town or find it cheaper then others must of the time www.amazon.com or rental today from www.netflix.com or try to get your copy from redbox.com they thinking if you watch the others then gotta keep it going.
app for what you love on your phone
getglue.com
GetGlue is the social network for entertainment, which can be accessed on GetGlue.com, iPhone, iPad, Android and other mobile devices. Users check-in to shows, movies, music and books to share what they are enjoying with their friends.
After checking-in the users can chat with their friends, get recommendations, and earn virtual stickers and discounts. Once a month, users can request to have real versions of the stickers they earn online mailed to them for no cost.
new way to show stuff you love off plus get stickers to show it too and post to twitter and facebook and a new update coming soon it a new social network for phones
been using it for almost one year new i like it alot gets 4**** out of 5
i have it on my andriod phone and ipod touch 3g one and never had problems with it.
i have order 3 set of stickers that 20 a roll and can order ever 30 days going soon to order my 4 one from them
GetGlue is the social network for entertainment, which can be accessed on GetGlue.com, iPhone, iPad, Android and other mobile devices. Users check-in to shows, movies, music and books to share what they are enjoying with their friends.
After checking-in the users can chat with their friends, get recommendations, and earn virtual stickers and discounts. Once a month, users can request to have real versions of the stickers they earn online mailed to them for no cost.
new way to show stuff you love off plus get stickers to show it too and post to twitter and facebook and a new update coming soon it a new social network for phones
been using it for almost one year new i like it alot gets 4**** out of 5
i have it on my andriod phone and ipod touch 3g one and never had problems with it.
i have order 3 set of stickers that 20 a roll and can order ever 30 days going soon to order my 4 one from them
Cityville for facebook
love this game add me i send free gifts out daily start your own city and watch it grow like i did so much fun get 4**** out of 5 add me facebook.com/thundercatsnyy thanks
cityville
by Zynga
for Facebook
CityVille is a browser based casual social city-building simulation game developed by Zynga as an application for the social-networking website Facebook. The game allows Facebook members to become the mayor of a virtual city and to oversee its development into a large metropolis. Players can perform tasks, which include farming, construction, and rent collection in their city using energy points. The amount of energy available increases as the user gains in experience levels. The energy points are replenished automatically at a constant rate.
cityville
by Zynga
for Facebook
CityVille is a browser based casual social city-building simulation game developed by Zynga as an application for the social-networking website Facebook. The game allows Facebook members to become the mayor of a virtual city and to oversee its development into a large metropolis. Players can perform tasks, which include farming, construction, and rent collection in their city using energy points. The amount of energy available increases as the user gains in experience levels. The energy points are replenished automatically at a constant rate.
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon rated pg-13 2hrs.34mins 2011
By Michael Bay, 2011.
Starring Shia LaBeoufRosie Huntington-WhiteleyJohn Malkovich
Shia LaBeouf returns as Sam Witwicky in the third installment of Michael Bay's trilogy about the giant robots that will be either Earth's salvation or destruction. This time, Sam squares off against Shockwave, leader of the evil Decepticons. Sam also has a new girlfriend (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) but can't focus on love when the space race between the United States and Russia heats up with interference from Shockwave and his minions.....Transformers: Dark of the Moon is a 2011 American science fiction-action film based on the Transformers toy line. First released on June 23, 2011, it is the third installment of the live-action Transformers film series. Like its predecessors, Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers: Dark of the Moon is directed by Michael Bay and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film's story structure revolves around a genuine NASA manned mission to the Moon. Three years after the events of the second film and 42 years after the Apollo 11 space race, the Autobots continue to work for the NEST (Networked Elements: Supporters and Transformers) military force. Meanwhile, the Decepticons unveil a plan to use the new groundbreaking technology, the Pillars, to enslave Humanity in order to save the home planet of the Transformers, Cybertron.
Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, and John Turturro reprised their starring roles, with Peter Cullen and Hugo Weaving returning to voice the characters Optimus Prime and Megatron, and Kevin Dunn and Julie White reprising their roles as the parents of the main protagonist, Sam Witwicky. English model Rosie Huntington-Whiteley replaced Megan Fox as the lead female character; the cast also saw the additions of Patrick Dempsey, John Malkovich, Ken Jeong, and Frances McDormand. Leonard Nimoy, Keith Szarabajka, Ron Bottitta, John DiMaggio, George Coe, and Francesco Quinn joined the film's voice cast. The script was written by Ehren Kruger, who also collaborated on the narrative of the second film of the series. Bay has stated this would be his last installment in the series. Dark of the Moon was shot with both regular 35mm film cameras and specially developed 3-D cameras, with filming locations including Indiana, Washington, D.C., Moscow, Florida, and Chicago. The film was rendered specifically for 3-D, and the visual effects involved more complex robots which took longer to render.
In May 2011, it was announced that Paramount Pictures moved Transformers: Dark of the Moon's release date of July 1, 2011, to June 29, in order to receive an early response to footage. The film was then released nationwide one day earlier, June 28, in selected 3-D and IMAX theaters, to open exclusively one night before its official global release, and one day later in wide release, in both, 2-D and 3-D formats, including IMAX 3D, and featuring Dolby Surround 7.1 sound.
Critical reception of the film was mixed to negative, with several critics praising the film's visuals but criticizing its writing, acting, and length. Dark of the Moon has grossed $1.19 billion worldwide, to become the fifth highest-grossing film of all time, the second highest grossing film of 2011 (behind Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2), the highest grossing film in the Transformers series, and the tenth film to gross over $1 billion...... get your copy of it in store or rental one one www.netflix.com THIS MOVIE GETS 5 ***** OUT OF 5 STILL GOOD BUT NEED FOX BACK hope we see more of them
prowl movie rated r 2010 1hr and 24min.
prowl movie rated r 2010 1hr and 24min.
By Patrik Syversen, 2010.
Starring Ruta GedmintasJoshua BowmanCourtney Hope
Amber dreams of escaping her small town and persuades her friends to accompany her apartment-hunting in the big city. When their transportation breaks down, Amber and friends gratefully accept a ride in the back of a semi. But when the driver refuses to stop and they discover the cargo is cartons of blood, they panic. Soon, panic turns to terror when the truck disgorges into a dark, abandoned warehouse where blood-thirsty creatures learn to hunt human prey, which the friends realize is what they have now become...
gets 4**** out of 5 get it at www.netflix.com it horror movie not for kids
the new zune pass no more free songs :(
We've continued to gather great music, and we've lowered the price—so you get unlimited access to more than 14 million songs to stream or download, and play on your Xbox 360®, Windows® Phone, PC, and the web* for just $9.99 per month. And now you can also instantly stream tens of thousands of music videos on your PC—and soon, through your Xbox 360.**
So you can:
• Listen to the music you love—as much as you want—in your home or on the go.
• Discover all kinds of new music with tools like Smart DJ and Mixview. Just pick a song or artist you like, and Zune® does the rest.
• Stream unlimited music videos. Now on your PC, and coming soon on Xbox LIVE®. Rewatch your favorite '80s music videos—and catch up on the latest hits, too.
It's your anytime access to all your favorite music.
And now it's just $9.99 per month...still has 14 days free first still better then itunes
So you can:
• Listen to the music you love—as much as you want—in your home or on the go.
• Discover all kinds of new music with tools like Smart DJ and Mixview. Just pick a song or artist you like, and Zune® does the rest.
• Stream unlimited music videos. Now on your PC, and coming soon on Xbox LIVE®. Rewatch your favorite '80s music videos—and catch up on the latest hits, too.
It's your anytime access to all your favorite music.
And now it's just $9.99 per month...still has 14 days free first still better then itunes
what happend to yankees on 10/3/11 playoffs
NEW YORK YANKEES POSTGAME ALERT
October 3, 2011
N.Y. Yankees 4, Detroit 5 at Comerica Park
N.Y. Yankees Record: (1-2)
Detroit Record: (2-1)
Winning pitcher - Justin Verlander (1-0)
Losing pitcher - Rafael Soriano (0-1)
SV - Jose Valverde (1)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
NYY 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 6 0
DET 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 X 5 8 0
October 3, 2011
N.Y. Yankees 4, Detroit 5 at Comerica Park
N.Y. Yankees Record: (1-2)
Detroit Record: (2-1)
Winning pitcher - Justin Verlander (1-0)
Losing pitcher - Rafael Soriano (0-1)
SV - Jose Valverde (1)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
NYY 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 6 0
DET 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 0 X 5 8 0
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Scream 4
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a
self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale Weathers, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface...play trailer!at youtube
Sidney Prescott, now the author of a
self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale Weathers, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill and her Aunt Kate. Unfortunately, Sidney's appearance also brings about the return of Ghostface...play trailer!at youtube
tupac sex tape
Tupac Sex Tape - Coming soon to an Internet near you. Technically it's actually a Blow Job Tape, as it (reportedly) features Tupac rapping and smoking a blunt and drinking a cocktail and hanging out with the dude from Digital Underground while he gets fellated. That sounds pretty fun but also awkward. Hit the links for more details on this breaking blow job news.
5 Most Insane iPhone 5 Rumors
5. Apple will announce that it has obtained international cloud-music licenses
After 4 Oct., all iPhones and iOS devices will have access to international cloud-music licenses from record companies and publishers. Although it has been touted that Apple will reveal updates about its upcoming iCloud and iTunes Match (storing your whole music library "in the cloud") products, it's highly unlikely that they will launch tomorrow, and especially that such a vast number of licenses would be immediately available.
Siri (which Apple bought last year) co-founder Norman Winarsky believes that tomorrow's announcement will be "world-changing," and that his company's voice-recognition technology combined with Apple's will result in the first "mainstream" artificial intelligence. Who knows what that could really mean, though.There won't be an iPhone 5, only "4S...One of the most-talked about rumors from this past weekend is that there won't even be an iPhone 5 announcement tomorrow, but instead just a minor update (like a 64GB hard drive), and hints at the next iteration. Obviously, this one has infuriated most people interested in the matte...Sprint is betting "the company" on the iPhone...While most industry experts think Sprint will be getting some form of the iPhone's next generation, some have gone even further and predicted that the company has signed a $20+ billion contract. That would mean Sprint (no. 3 largest carrier) would have to sell over 30.5 million iPhones in the next four years, or, essentially, go belly-up...wher the iphone going too The iPhone 5 will be a Sprint exclusive, AT&T and Verizon only get 4S...
Building off the craziness of the above rumor, today Boy Genius posted that the iPhone 5 will be a Sprint exclusive and will use WiMax 4G technology.
Supposedly, this would also mean that AT&T and Verizon would only get the iPhone 4S (if that exists).
via gizmodo.com
The only real consensus about the new iPhone (whether 5 or 4S) is that it will likely have a side-to-side, 4-inch screen with a higher resolution, 32GB minimum (upgradeable to 64GB) hard drive, with a "dedicated Assistant button," perhaps integrated with or replacing the "Home" button.
knox was in jail
20 Things Amanda Knox Missed While She Was In Prison
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kanye wast really
Kanye's attempt at fashion design was slammed by critics almost as soon as the first model hit the runway.7 Vicious Reviews Of Kanye West's Paris Fashion Debut
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iphone 5
Apple's iPhone 5, new iPods arrive in October, analysts say Even without Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple, the show must go on September historically is when Apple updates its iPod line of music players. This year, tech analysts expect Apple in October to add a new iPhone to the mix, a model with wider distribution than before.
The iPhone 4, now offered through AT&T and Verizon Wireless, will be available to Sprint customers, too, says Forrester Research analyst Charles Golvin. Apple needed to broaden the iPhone's base because of the growing dominance of smartphones based on Google's Android operating system, sold by the four major carriers.
STORY: Jobs and Apple have changed the way we play
STORY: Behind Jobs and Apple is longtime designer Ive
PHOTOS: Jobs' best and worst ideas
AT&T last March announced a deal to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion. But because of uncertainty about regulatory approval of the proposed merger, analysts don't expect the iPhone to be available this year on T-Mobile.
"Android became so big because people shopped at their local carriers for a smartphone with a touch-screen that could play apps," he says. "Android was what was there, so they bought it. They couldn't get the iPhone."
Beyond the new iPhone, dubbed the iPhone 5 by analysts and Apple watchers, Golvin expects Sprint and Verizon to sell the existing iPhone 4 at a discount when the new model arrives. "The iPhone 4 could be $49, and in the future, as low as $29," he predicts.
Sprint is alone among major carriers in offering unlimited data for a monthly fee to new subscribers, says analyst Richard Doherty of Envisioneering Group. Verizon and AT&T have caps, and extra charges if the data allowance is surpassed. "For heavy Internet surfers, this is like living next to an oasis if you're a thirsty person," he says. "We'll see a lot of families switching to the iPhone on Sprint." Sprint didn't respond to requests for comment; Apple declined to comment.
Doherty expects the new iPhone to be a "little thinner, with better battery life, and improved camera."
The iPod lineup, which has seen sales decline for the past three years, will get a refresh that ties the portable players more into cloud-based music services, he says. Doherty also expects a new version of the iPod Touch, which he thinks will closely resemble the iPhone 5. "It will be an even better gaming machine, because games sell better on the Touch than they do on the iPhone," he says.
Apple earlier this year announced a fall debut for iCloud, a new software service for accessing and syncing data from multiple Apple devices.
The iPhone 4, now offered through AT&T and Verizon Wireless, will be available to Sprint customers, too, says Forrester Research analyst Charles Golvin. Apple needed to broaden the iPhone's base because of the growing dominance of smartphones based on Google's Android operating system, sold by the four major carriers.
STORY: Jobs and Apple have changed the way we play
STORY: Behind Jobs and Apple is longtime designer Ive
PHOTOS: Jobs' best and worst ideas
AT&T last March announced a deal to buy T-Mobile for $39 billion. But because of uncertainty about regulatory approval of the proposed merger, analysts don't expect the iPhone to be available this year on T-Mobile.
"Android became so big because people shopped at their local carriers for a smartphone with a touch-screen that could play apps," he says. "Android was what was there, so they bought it. They couldn't get the iPhone."
Beyond the new iPhone, dubbed the iPhone 5 by analysts and Apple watchers, Golvin expects Sprint and Verizon to sell the existing iPhone 4 at a discount when the new model arrives. "The iPhone 4 could be $49, and in the future, as low as $29," he predicts.
Sprint is alone among major carriers in offering unlimited data for a monthly fee to new subscribers, says analyst Richard Doherty of Envisioneering Group. Verizon and AT&T have caps, and extra charges if the data allowance is surpassed. "For heavy Internet surfers, this is like living next to an oasis if you're a thirsty person," he says. "We'll see a lot of families switching to the iPhone on Sprint." Sprint didn't respond to requests for comment; Apple declined to comment.
Doherty expects the new iPhone to be a "little thinner, with better battery life, and improved camera."
The iPod lineup, which has seen sales decline for the past three years, will get a refresh that ties the portable players more into cloud-based music services, he says. Doherty also expects a new version of the iPod Touch, which he thinks will closely resemble the iPhone 5. "It will be an even better gaming machine, because games sell better on the Touch than they do on the iPhone," he says.
Apple earlier this year announced a fall debut for iCloud, a new software service for accessing and syncing data from multiple Apple devices.
ok Report: Sprint to buy more than 30M iPhones
NEW YORK – Sprint Nextel has committed to buying more than 30 million iPhones over the next four years, imposing a heavy burden on an already cash-strapped company, according to a report published Monday.the Wall Street Journal's online edition attributed the report to unnamed sources. Apple is expected to a reveal the first new iPhone model in more than a year on Tuesday.
The paper previously reported that Sprint Nextel will sell the iPhone, which has been exclusive to AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
In Monday's story, the Journal said CEO Dan Hesse had told Sprint's board that the company would lose money on the deal until 2014. Sprint has posted a loss for every quarter since 2007.
Sprint shares fell 31 cents, or 10.2 percent, to close at $2.73, a three-year low.
Apple and Sprint did not respond to requests for comment.
Sprint, the country's third-largest wireless carriers, is losing subscribers to the two bigger wireless companies. The fact that Sprint hasn't been able to sell the iPhone is one of the main reasons. The Journal said the board considered the chance to sell the iPhone as a make-or-break proposition.
Sprint has 33 million subscribers on contract-based plans, so its reported commitment means it would have to convert half of them to iPhones, assuming they upgrade after two years.
At current prices 30 million iPhones would cost Sprint about $20 billion. Assuming it charges $200 for them, Sprint's iPhone sales could amount to about $6 billion. The company hopes to make up the difference on contract sales and service.
Currently, Sprint buys phones for about $7.4 billion per year. Its iPhone commitment corresponds to spending two-thirds of that on iPhones every year.
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The paper previously reported that Sprint Nextel will sell the iPhone, which has been exclusive to AT&T and Verizon Wireless.
In Monday's story, the Journal said CEO Dan Hesse had told Sprint's board that the company would lose money on the deal until 2014. Sprint has posted a loss for every quarter since 2007.
Sprint shares fell 31 cents, or 10.2 percent, to close at $2.73, a three-year low.
Apple and Sprint did not respond to requests for comment.
Sprint, the country's third-largest wireless carriers, is losing subscribers to the two bigger wireless companies. The fact that Sprint hasn't been able to sell the iPhone is one of the main reasons. The Journal said the board considered the chance to sell the iPhone as a make-or-break proposition.
Sprint has 33 million subscribers on contract-based plans, so its reported commitment means it would have to convert half of them to iPhones, assuming they upgrade after two years.
At current prices 30 million iPhones would cost Sprint about $20 billion. Assuming it charges $200 for them, Sprint's iPhone sales could amount to about $6 billion. The company hopes to make up the difference on contract sales and service.
Currently, Sprint buys phones for about $7.4 billion per year. Its iPhone commitment corresponds to spending two-thirds of that on iPhones every year.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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What we know about the new iPhone
There is perhaps no company that values secrecy more than Apple.That makes media events like Tuesday's — where Apple is expected to unveil the long-awaited iPhone 5 at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters — that much more high-profile.
Because Apple seldom offers hints, all we know is that Apple has an event planned for 1 p.m. Tuesday. The invite to members of the media said just, "Let's talk iPhone."
STORY: Apple expected to unveil new iPhone
STORY: Report: Sprint to buy more than 30M iPhones
Apple broke its own pattern this year of releasing an iPhone each summer, so the fall release of the iPhone 5 — this is only what we expect it to be called — has forced the Apple faithful to wait a few months longer than usual.
There's a whole lot we won't know until Apple says it Tuesday. Here's a look at the five biggest questions.
Will the iPhone 5 see a redesign?
Most expect the iPhone 5 to have a slightly larger screen and perhaps a slightly redesigned home button that will allow for multi-touch gestures.
Both those clues have come from leaked case designs from third-party manufacturers. Such leaks are not altogether trustworthy.
Thinner, faster, lighter is a very common refrain for Apple, though. Look for all that and an even better camera in the iPhone 5.
Which carriers?
When the iPhone was launched in 2007, AT&T was the exclusive U.S. carrier. Verizon landed the iPhone 4 earlier this year and has since sold millions.
Look for Apple to announce yet another carrier — most likely Sprint.
There has also been some late speculation that the iPhone 5 would support the 4G-like speeds of HSPA+, which is a souped-up 3G network that allows for faster speeds.
But of those three carriers, AT&T is the only one that supports HSPA+. Verizon has gone the LTE route and Sprint uses a 4G standard called WiMax.
Apple, to a fault, usually lags about a year behind next-generation wireless networks.
How many models?
While most attention will surely be paid to the new iPhone 5, Apple is also expected to release another version of its iPhone 4, which is expected to be called the iPhone 4S.
Photos of parts for an iPhone 4S have leaked steadily from Chinese manufacturing plants in the last couple weeks.
This would allow Apple to continue its successful venture in selling older iPhone models at a steep discount to try to lock more customers into its platform. Apple has sold its iPhone 3GS for as cheap as $50 with AT&T.
How will new CEO Tim Cook perform?
This will be the first big public event for new CEO Tim Cook, who took over for Steve Jobs in August when the iconic leader stepped down for health reasons. Jobs remains on Apple's board.
Cook had long been a deputy to Jobs, but his role is now to be a bit of a showman — something at which his former boss excelled.
An iPhone 5 announcement will be a good first public step for Cook, who'll likely bring a supporting cast for parts of the announcement, including Apple's design chief Jonathan Ive, a fan favorite.
Any surprises in iOS 5?
Current iPhone users have also been waiting for the fall release of Apple's next mobile operating system — iOS 5.
The new software is set to bring an Android-like notifications center, deep Twitter integration and iMessage, a messaging system to connect iOS users. Apple, too, could announce another last-minute feature to iOS 5 alongside the new iPhone.
iOS 5 will be a software upgrade available to users of the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad or recent iPod Touch models.
Apple has said it would come out this fall. We should get a date Tuesday, most likely a few days before the iPhone 5 release.
'One more thing …'
A hallmark of Apple keynotes over the years has been when Steve Jobs slyly announces that he has "one more thing" for the audience. It has long been his coy way of making some big news to an audience already enraptured by Apple's new offerings.
Some of Apple's biggest devices and services have been announced this way, including the MacBook Air and the company's FaceTime video chat.
While it seems unlikely that Cook would pull out such an iconic Jobs gesture, it will be something big if he does.
There's nothing that makes an Apple fanboy smile quite like, "One more thing …"
—
Contact Mark W. Smith: msmith@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter: @markdubya
There is perhaps no company that values secrecy more than Apple.That makes media events like Tuesday's — where Apple is expected to unveil the long-awaited iPhone 5 at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters — that much more high-profile.
Because Apple seldom offers hints, all we know is that Apple has an event planned for 1 p.m. Tuesday. The invite to members of the media said just, "Let's talk iPhone."
STORY: Apple expected to unveil new iPhone
STORY: Report: Sprint to buy more than 30M iPhones
Apple broke its own pattern this year of releasing an iPhone each summer, so the fall release of the iPhone 5 — this is only what we expect it to be called — has forced the Apple faithful to wait a few months longer than usual.
There's a whole lot we won't know until Apple says it Tuesday. Here's a look at the five biggest questions.
Will the iPhone 5 see a redesign?
Most expect the iPhone 5 to have a slightly larger screen and perhaps a slightly redesigned home button that will allow for multi-touch gestures.
Both those clues have come from leaked case designs from third-party manufacturers. Such leaks are not altogether trustworthy.
Thinner, faster, lighter is a very common refrain for Apple, though. Look for all that and an even better camera in the iPhone 5.
Which carriers?
When the iPhone was launched in 2007, AT&T was the exclusive U.S. carrier. Verizon landed the iPhone 4 earlier this year and has since sold millions.
Look for Apple to announce yet another carrier — most likely Sprint.
There has also been some late speculation that the iPhone 5 would support the 4G-like speeds of HSPA+, which is a souped-up 3G network that allows for faster speeds.
But of those three carriers, AT&T is the only one that supports HSPA+. Verizon has gone the LTE route and Sprint uses a 4G standard called WiMax.
Apple, to a fault, usually lags about a year behind next-generation wireless networks.
How many models?
While most attention will surely be paid to the new iPhone 5, Apple is also expected to release another version of its iPhone 4, which is expected to be called the iPhone 4S.
Photos of parts for an iPhone 4S have leaked steadily from Chinese manufacturing plants in the last couple weeks.
This would allow Apple to continue its successful venture in selling older iPhone models at a steep discount to try to lock more customers into its platform. Apple has sold its iPhone 3GS for as cheap as $50 with AT&T.
How will new CEO Tim Cook perform?
This will be the first big public event for new CEO Tim Cook, who took over for Steve Jobs in August when the iconic leader stepped down for health reasons. Jobs remains on Apple's board.
Cook had long been a deputy to Jobs, but his role is now to be a bit of a showman — something at which his former boss excelled.
An iPhone 5 announcement will be a good first public step for Cook, who'll likely bring a supporting cast for parts of the announcement, including Apple's design chief Jonathan Ive, a fan favorite.
Any surprises in iOS 5?
Current iPhone users have also been waiting for the fall release of Apple's next mobile operating system — iOS 5.
The new software is set to bring an Android-like notifications center, deep Twitter integration and iMessage, a messaging system to connect iOS users. Apple, too, could announce another last-minute feature to iOS 5 alongside the new iPhone.
iOS 5 will be a software upgrade available to users of the iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPad or recent iPod Touch models.
Apple has said it would come out this fall. We should get a date Tuesday, most likely a few days before the iPhone 5 release.
'One more thing …'
A hallmark of Apple keynotes over the years has been when Steve Jobs slyly announces that he has "one more thing" for the audience. It has long been his coy way of making some big news to an audience already enraptured by Apple's new offerings.
Some of Apple's biggest devices and services have been announced this way, including the MacBook Air and the company's FaceTime video chat.
While it seems unlikely that Cook would pull out such an iconic Jobs gesture, it will be something big if he does.
There's nothing that makes an Apple fanboy smile quite like, "One more thing …"
—
Contact Mark W. Smith: msmith@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter: @markdubya
new iphone out today
Apple today revealed the iPhone 4S to feature a retinal display and A5 dual core processor that is up to two times faster.By Ed Baig and Brett Molina, USA TODAY
Apple unveiled the next step for its signature smartphone -- the iPhone 4S -- during a press event Tuesday at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters.
The device will feature a retina display and dual-core processor that makes the phone twice as fast as its predecessor.
Follow our live coverage below for more details.
2:14 p.m.: Now Schiller is talking about the camera system. The iPhone 4 alone has passed all other cameras and phones to take more pictures and post on Flickr.
"We set our sites on competing against many point-and-shoot cameras," he says.
The new camera inside iPhone 4S has a 8-megapixel sensor, 3264 x 2448 to print out an 8 x 10 glossy, and 60% more pixels than in the iPhone 4 sensor.
The new sensor, though permits 73% more light, yielding much richer colors. It's also about 33% faster. There''s a hybrid IR filler, allowing for better color accuracy and universal color. There are also five element lenses, 30% more sharpness and f/2.4 aperture.
Inside the A5 chip is an Apple signal processor for things like face detection, which can tell if up to 10 people are in a photo. It adds better white balance, too.
Schiller is showing handsome photos taken with iPhone 4S, including macro photos of a squirrel close up. There's a lack of distortion in these images.
He's now using the same camera system for video recording. For the first time, it is now 1080p HD video.
The video image stabilization is in real time, and adds temporal noise reduction (helps in low light scenarios). Schiller is showing some edited home movies taken with iPhone 4S.
2:06 p.m.: Mike Capps, President of Epic Games, has been invited on stage to demo Infinity Blade II, which launches Dec. 1.
Schiller is back. He says iPhone 4S will offer 8 hours of talk time on 3G of 14 hours of 2G talk time.
Apple has also intelligently switched between the two antennas to transmit and receive, which Schiller says has never been done. It is supposed to lead to improved call quality and faster speeds for downloading data. Previously with iPhone 4, you could upload 5.8 megabit/second up and 7.2 down. Now 5.8 up and 14.4 down. "This is what majority of our competitors claim when they talk about 4G performance. We're not going to get into a data of what's 4G and what isn't."
Next, a world phone. The iPhone 4 of course came in two flavors, GSM and CDMA. The 4S is a world phone that has both GSM and CDMA, letting you roam across the other network when you're traveling.
2:01 p.m.: Apple executive Phil Schiller comes on stage to talk iPod.
Last year, we introduced an all-new Nano, Schiller says, reminding the audience of its compact design, multi-touch navigation and other features. Among the new updates: easier navigation. And out of the box, you can go not on a walk but a run as well. It tracks walks and runs, and users can connect to a PC to upload your fitness data through Nike+.
He's talking about a Nano watchband. It adds new clock faces to Nano, including one color coordinated with the color Nano you picked. And there's a Mickey Mouse Nano watch face (or Minnie Mouse). New prices: $129 for 8GB and 149 for 16GB Nano.
Now moving to the iPod Touch, which of course runs iOS 5. He mentions iMessage, Game Center, etc., which "make perfect sense" on iPod Touch, says Schiller. Through iCloud, you have access to all your music, books, etc. It will be available in black and a brand new white version. It's now $199, $299 and $399 for 8GB, 32GB, 64GB. Available on Oct 12.
There's also a new iPod Shuffle 2GB device, starting at $49.
There was no mention of the Classic iPod. Is it disappearing? Again, no mention.
Schiller is now moving onto iPhone. Finally. (This is what this event was announced to cover, after all.)
Yes, there will be an iPhone 4S, with a thinner body and retinal display. "Don't be deceived. Inside, it is all new." Schiller says. How? First, Apple's A5 dual-core processor is included, which makes the phone twice as fast. It also has dual-core graphics, which are seven times as fast. It's a big deal for games, Schiller says.
1:55 p.m.: Eddy Cue from Apple's Internet software and services division is talking iCloud now.
Over one-third of the music in the iTunes store is purchased on iOS devices. Now, if you buy an album from iTunes on an iPad, it starts the download on that device and to the iPhone, and Mac or PC. If you have songs previously purchased on iTunes and want to listen on another device, you can tap a new purchased area and it downloads at no cost.
With Photo Stream (part of iCloud), photos you take are pushed to all of your devices. It's built in a new PhotoStream album. It even downloads to iPhoto on Mac, and you can see it on Apple TV.
When you create a new document on the Pages word processor on iPad, it is automatically saved in iCloud. You can open and start editing right where you left off across all of your devices. Apple is making this available to developers. For now, it works in Apple's own Pages, Numbers (spreadsheet) and Keynote (presentations). They are all available on Oct 12.
The same process will apply to Apps and Books, Cue says.
Another iCloud feature is Backup, which makes it easy to restore your device right form iCloud. It's the same with Contacts and Calendars: updated across all of your devices. Find My iPhone (which I recently used to find a lost iPhone) is part of iCloud too.
Cue unveils a new app called Find My Friends. When you launch it, you see a list of family and friends sharing location with you, like when you're in Disneyland, or to check if your son or daughter made it to school today. Parents can prevent their kids from turning the feature off.
Sometimes, Cue says, you may choose to share location just for a few hours a day. You can share your location through a temporary sharing option, and deciding when it will end.
iCloud is free, and will feature unlimited storage for the media you purchased, as well as 5GB for Mail, documents and backup.
Apple has over 20 million songs in its iTunes store. The company will scan and match each song in iCloud with the 20 million available and users can scan for the few songs you own that are on iTunes. Using a new feature called iTunes Match, you can see your entire iTunes library and stream every song by tapping it. It also sees your playlists. It will cost $24.99 a year.
iCloud will ship Oct. 12, same date as iOS 5, and iTunes Match ships in U.S. at the end of the month.
1:44 p.m.: The Apple Card is $2.99 mailed in U.S. (including postage) and $4.99 elsewhere in world. It will be a free download on on Oct 12.
Moving on to iOS 5: Apple has seeded more than 100,000 developers.
The top features include Notifications (and Notifications Center). For example, if you're playing a game and Notification comes up, it subtly appears on top without interrupting the game.
iMessage is a new message service between iOS users, and supports iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Users can send text, photos, videos, pushed to all your devices so you can pick up on one device where you left off on another. It works on 3G and WiFi and messages are encrypted.
Reminders include location-based reminders, as in "remind me to pick up my dry cleaning when I leave work.."
Twitter will be integrated right into OS. Twittter is also integrated into other apps like Photos or websites from Safari, Maps, etc.
Newsstand adds subscriptions like New Yorker, Martha Stewart Living, etc., and gathers all your subscriptions to newspapers and magazines in one place, all downloaded in background.
Also, iOS 5 makes it easier to take a picture. A new camera button takes you right to the camera app, even from the lock screen. You can add optional grid lines, or use the rule of thirds. Also, you can pinch to zoom right in the viewfinder, and edit photos from an iOS 5 device.
Game Center has only out for a year but been a huge hit: 67 million people have signed up through Game Center. Apple is adding "Achievement Points", game discovery/recommendations and more.
Apple has added a new Reader button to the Safari web browser. Whatever you're reading is formatted perfectly to that device. It works great on the iPad and on the iPhone, Forstall says. If you don't have time to read the story now, you can add it to a reading list that is synced to all your iOS devices. Apple also added full tabbed browsing.
Apple's Mail application will add "rich text formatting," flaggable addresses and messages, and you can now search the entire body of a message.
It used to be the case that to own an iOS device you had to own a computer. Now, you don't need one. When you take it out of the box, you can set it up without a computer. Wireless system updates are also supported.
Overall, there are more than 200 new features in iOS 5. It will be available Oct 12, next week.
1:30 p.m.: "Despite everybody and their brother trying to compete with iPad, three out of four tablets sold in the U.S. are iPads," Cook says.
We have passed 250 million unit sales market for iOS devices, Cook says. "Today we're taking it to the next level." He invites Scott Forstall, senior VP for iOS software, to the stage.
Forstall says iOS has 43% of market share compared to 33% for Android, 17% for RIM on mobile devices. There are 500,000 apps on the App Store, 140,000 of which are made for the iPad. The App Store is the number one store for mobile apps, Forstall says.
Customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps, with more than 1 billion apps downloaded each month. And Apple has paid more than $3 billion to developers for apps in App Store.
Forstall is tailing about a new app called Cards. It lets you create and mail beautiful, customizable cards from your iPhone or iPod Touch, and print them out on high-quality cotton paper.
You can choose from 21 different designs in 6 categories -- holiday cards, thank you cards, birth announcements, travel, etc. You create the card on your iPhone and Apple does the rest: print it, affix postage and mail it. If you mail it to an address in the U.S., they'll add a postage barcode at the bottom and send you a push notification days after it's delivered. Very cool.
1:25 p.m.: Cook is talking about how iPads in schools are helping kids learn. Every state in the U.S. now has an iPad pilot program or deployment in place. Almost 1,000 K-12 schools have a 1-to-1 program.
It is not just happening in K-12, but higher education too. About 1,000 universities in the U.S., including Stamford, Notre Dame, University of Chicago all have iPad programs.
Cook continues, adding how airline pilots are using iPads to make planes more fuel efficient. "Yes, it's true," Cook quips with a dry understated sense of humor.
Cook says over 80% of the top hospitals in U.S. are testing or piloting iPads. "From the board room to the back room and everywhere in between, iPad is showing up," he says. Also, according to Cook, 92% of the Fortune 500 companies -- "and this is a stunning number" -- are testing or deploying iPad in less than 18 months.
1:23 p.m.: On to the iPhone, which has become the top smartphone in the world with momentum rising in the second calendar quarter: 125% year-over-year growth compared to 74% for other smartphones.
Cook says 93% of Fortune 500 companies are testing iPhone.
The iPhone is pummeling the competion, Cook says. It has 70% mobile phone satisfaction, compared to runner-up 49% for HTC. He also adds J.D. Power recognized the iPhone as #1 in the smartphone category for the 6th consecutive time.
However, iPhone has only a 5% market share among the worldwide mobile phone market, not just smartphones.
1:19 p.m.: Cook is giving product updates. First is Mac.
OS X Lion has generated over 6 million copies, 80% more than Snow Leopard, the previous edition. Accoriding to Net Applications, it took Windows 7 20 weeks to reach 20% of their installed base. Lion took two weeks.
Cook is saying Mac outgrew PC market by almost 6 times during last four reported quarters. Every single quarter for the last 5 years, Mac has outgrown the PC market. 58 million users around the world have Macs.
In U.S. retail, Macs are selling at 23% in store, according to NPD. Not long ago, the number was in single digits. "We have a lot to go," Cook says, pointing out that 77% are somebody else's computer.
Now he shifts to Music. The iPod launched in 2001, Cook reminds us, and became the number one music player in the world. Market share is 78% for iPod, he adds. Cumulatively, Apple has sold over 300 million iPods around the world. Adding some perspective, Cook notes it took Sony 20 years to sell 200,000 Walkman players.
"The MP3 market is a mature market ... but iPod is still a large and important market." Cook says Apple sold 45 million iPods last year ending in June. Many are going to people, he says, who are just being introduced to Apple through the iPod.
Cook moves on to iTunes, which started in 2003 with 200,000 songs in its music library. Now, it has 20 million songs. It is the number one music store in the world and over 16 billion songs have been downloaded. "It's mind-boggling."
1:11 p.m.: In Hong Kong, Cook says Apple sold more Macs on opening day than any other store.
Cook is quiet, gentlemanly. He seems comfortable on stage. But he of course doesn't have the charisma of Steve Jobs. However, it is in many ways unfair to compare him to Apple's iconic former CEO.
1:09 p.m.: Ten years ago, Apple launched original iPod, Cook says, and just one year ago launched the new MacBook Air. Today "we'll remind you of the uniqueness of this company as we announce innovations for our mobile operating system to applications to services to hardware and, more importantly, the integration of all of these into a powerful yet simple integrated experience."
Here come some updates:
"Apple has enormous momentum and nowhere is that more evident than in our retail stores," continues Cook. Last weekend, company opened two new stores in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
1:04 p.m.: Rolling Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash is playing in the background.
The music fades and Apple's Tim Cook walks on stage. "This is my first product launch since being named CEO -- I'm sure you didn't know that."
"I love Apple. I consider it the privilege of a lifetime to have worked here for almost 14 years."
1:01 p.m.: From Ed Baig: "It's the calm before the storm. The crowd is all settling in their seats. Normally, Steve Jobs walks on stage at events like this. In a moment, I would expect it to be Tim Cook or Phil Schiller or some other Apple executive."
Update at 12:53 p.m. ET: USA TODAY's Ed Baig just entered the room where Apple will host its iPhone event.
"AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega is sitting in the row in front of me," he says.
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It's clear Apple has big plans Tuesday for its popular iPhone. The question is what exactly can tech consumers expect from today's event at Apple's Cupertino headquarters?
Be sure to visit this post for updates from Apple's iPhone event as they become available. The show starts at 1 p.m. ET.
Meanwhile, let's round up some of the notable rumors and reports:
iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S? Most of the speculation suggests Apple will unveil the iPhone 5, but several recent reports claim the next update might not be as drastic as many think.
Mashable neatly wraps up some of the reports that Apple will unveil the iPhone 4S, which sounds similar to the company's shift from the 3G to 3Gs models. However, the reports appear light on details about what a 4S model would feature.
STORY: What we know about the new iPhone
Last month, the New York Times reported the device would receive notable upgrades, including a faster processor and 8-megapixel camera. Also, Bloomberg -- citing Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster -- reports the iPhone will add overhauled voice controls, allowing users to set appointments, surf the Web and send text or email messages by voice.
Sprint. Several outlets suggest AT&T and Verizon won't be the only homes for the next iPhone. A recent Wall Street Journal report (subscription required) says the wireless carrier will make a "multibillion-dollar gamble" to snag rights to sell the new iPhone. Citing "people familiar with the matter," the report claims Sprint wouldn't start profiting from their Apple arrangement until 2014.
iOS 5. Apple's website says the update arrives this fall, so it's highly possible we'll hear more about the latest upgrades to the iPhone operating system (also for iPad and iPod Touch). Among the key features this update will add: a notification center for alerts, iMessage for iPad and iPod Touch, a to-do-list style Reminders app, Twitter integration, camera tweaks, photo enhancements and the ability to set up and update devices without tethering it to a PC or Mac.
Readers, what do you want from the next iPhone?
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Apple unveiled the next step for its signature smartphone -- the iPhone 4S -- during a press event Tuesday at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters.
The device will feature a retina display and dual-core processor that makes the phone twice as fast as its predecessor.
Follow our live coverage below for more details.
2:14 p.m.: Now Schiller is talking about the camera system. The iPhone 4 alone has passed all other cameras and phones to take more pictures and post on Flickr.
"We set our sites on competing against many point-and-shoot cameras," he says.
The new camera inside iPhone 4S has a 8-megapixel sensor, 3264 x 2448 to print out an 8 x 10 glossy, and 60% more pixels than in the iPhone 4 sensor.
The new sensor, though permits 73% more light, yielding much richer colors. It's also about 33% faster. There''s a hybrid IR filler, allowing for better color accuracy and universal color. There are also five element lenses, 30% more sharpness and f/2.4 aperture.
Inside the A5 chip is an Apple signal processor for things like face detection, which can tell if up to 10 people are in a photo. It adds better white balance, too.
Schiller is showing handsome photos taken with iPhone 4S, including macro photos of a squirrel close up. There's a lack of distortion in these images.
He's now using the same camera system for video recording. For the first time, it is now 1080p HD video.
The video image stabilization is in real time, and adds temporal noise reduction (helps in low light scenarios). Schiller is showing some edited home movies taken with iPhone 4S.
2:06 p.m.: Mike Capps, President of Epic Games, has been invited on stage to demo Infinity Blade II, which launches Dec. 1.
Schiller is back. He says iPhone 4S will offer 8 hours of talk time on 3G of 14 hours of 2G talk time.
Apple has also intelligently switched between the two antennas to transmit and receive, which Schiller says has never been done. It is supposed to lead to improved call quality and faster speeds for downloading data. Previously with iPhone 4, you could upload 5.8 megabit/second up and 7.2 down. Now 5.8 up and 14.4 down. "This is what majority of our competitors claim when they talk about 4G performance. We're not going to get into a data of what's 4G and what isn't."
Next, a world phone. The iPhone 4 of course came in two flavors, GSM and CDMA. The 4S is a world phone that has both GSM and CDMA, letting you roam across the other network when you're traveling.
2:01 p.m.: Apple executive Phil Schiller comes on stage to talk iPod.
Last year, we introduced an all-new Nano, Schiller says, reminding the audience of its compact design, multi-touch navigation and other features. Among the new updates: easier navigation. And out of the box, you can go not on a walk but a run as well. It tracks walks and runs, and users can connect to a PC to upload your fitness data through Nike+.
He's talking about a Nano watchband. It adds new clock faces to Nano, including one color coordinated with the color Nano you picked. And there's a Mickey Mouse Nano watch face (or Minnie Mouse). New prices: $129 for 8GB and 149 for 16GB Nano.
Now moving to the iPod Touch, which of course runs iOS 5. He mentions iMessage, Game Center, etc., which "make perfect sense" on iPod Touch, says Schiller. Through iCloud, you have access to all your music, books, etc. It will be available in black and a brand new white version. It's now $199, $299 and $399 for 8GB, 32GB, 64GB. Available on Oct 12.
There's also a new iPod Shuffle 2GB device, starting at $49.
There was no mention of the Classic iPod. Is it disappearing? Again, no mention.
Schiller is now moving onto iPhone. Finally. (This is what this event was announced to cover, after all.)
Yes, there will be an iPhone 4S, with a thinner body and retinal display. "Don't be deceived. Inside, it is all new." Schiller says. How? First, Apple's A5 dual-core processor is included, which makes the phone twice as fast. It also has dual-core graphics, which are seven times as fast. It's a big deal for games, Schiller says.
1:55 p.m.: Eddy Cue from Apple's Internet software and services division is talking iCloud now.
Over one-third of the music in the iTunes store is purchased on iOS devices. Now, if you buy an album from iTunes on an iPad, it starts the download on that device and to the iPhone, and Mac or PC. If you have songs previously purchased on iTunes and want to listen on another device, you can tap a new purchased area and it downloads at no cost.
With Photo Stream (part of iCloud), photos you take are pushed to all of your devices. It's built in a new PhotoStream album. It even downloads to iPhoto on Mac, and you can see it on Apple TV.
When you create a new document on the Pages word processor on iPad, it is automatically saved in iCloud. You can open and start editing right where you left off across all of your devices. Apple is making this available to developers. For now, it works in Apple's own Pages, Numbers (spreadsheet) and Keynote (presentations). They are all available on Oct 12.
The same process will apply to Apps and Books, Cue says.
Another iCloud feature is Backup, which makes it easy to restore your device right form iCloud. It's the same with Contacts and Calendars: updated across all of your devices. Find My iPhone (which I recently used to find a lost iPhone) is part of iCloud too.
Cue unveils a new app called Find My Friends. When you launch it, you see a list of family and friends sharing location with you, like when you're in Disneyland, or to check if your son or daughter made it to school today. Parents can prevent their kids from turning the feature off.
Sometimes, Cue says, you may choose to share location just for a few hours a day. You can share your location through a temporary sharing option, and deciding when it will end.
iCloud is free, and will feature unlimited storage for the media you purchased, as well as 5GB for Mail, documents and backup.
Apple has over 20 million songs in its iTunes store. The company will scan and match each song in iCloud with the 20 million available and users can scan for the few songs you own that are on iTunes. Using a new feature called iTunes Match, you can see your entire iTunes library and stream every song by tapping it. It also sees your playlists. It will cost $24.99 a year.
iCloud will ship Oct. 12, same date as iOS 5, and iTunes Match ships in U.S. at the end of the month.
1:44 p.m.: The Apple Card is $2.99 mailed in U.S. (including postage) and $4.99 elsewhere in world. It will be a free download on on Oct 12.
Moving on to iOS 5: Apple has seeded more than 100,000 developers.
The top features include Notifications (and Notifications Center). For example, if you're playing a game and Notification comes up, it subtly appears on top without interrupting the game.
iMessage is a new message service between iOS users, and supports iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Users can send text, photos, videos, pushed to all your devices so you can pick up on one device where you left off on another. It works on 3G and WiFi and messages are encrypted.
Reminders include location-based reminders, as in "remind me to pick up my dry cleaning when I leave work.."
Twitter will be integrated right into OS. Twittter is also integrated into other apps like Photos or websites from Safari, Maps, etc.
Newsstand adds subscriptions like New Yorker, Martha Stewart Living, etc., and gathers all your subscriptions to newspapers and magazines in one place, all downloaded in background.
Also, iOS 5 makes it easier to take a picture. A new camera button takes you right to the camera app, even from the lock screen. You can add optional grid lines, or use the rule of thirds. Also, you can pinch to zoom right in the viewfinder, and edit photos from an iOS 5 device.
Game Center has only out for a year but been a huge hit: 67 million people have signed up through Game Center. Apple is adding "Achievement Points", game discovery/recommendations and more.
Apple has added a new Reader button to the Safari web browser. Whatever you're reading is formatted perfectly to that device. It works great on the iPad and on the iPhone, Forstall says. If you don't have time to read the story now, you can add it to a reading list that is synced to all your iOS devices. Apple also added full tabbed browsing.
Apple's Mail application will add "rich text formatting," flaggable addresses and messages, and you can now search the entire body of a message.
It used to be the case that to own an iOS device you had to own a computer. Now, you don't need one. When you take it out of the box, you can set it up without a computer. Wireless system updates are also supported.
Overall, there are more than 200 new features in iOS 5. It will be available Oct 12, next week.
1:30 p.m.: "Despite everybody and their brother trying to compete with iPad, three out of four tablets sold in the U.S. are iPads," Cook says.
We have passed 250 million unit sales market for iOS devices, Cook says. "Today we're taking it to the next level." He invites Scott Forstall, senior VP for iOS software, to the stage.
Forstall says iOS has 43% of market share compared to 33% for Android, 17% for RIM on mobile devices. There are 500,000 apps on the App Store, 140,000 of which are made for the iPad. The App Store is the number one store for mobile apps, Forstall says.
Customers have downloaded more than 18 billion apps, with more than 1 billion apps downloaded each month. And Apple has paid more than $3 billion to developers for apps in App Store.
Forstall is tailing about a new app called Cards. It lets you create and mail beautiful, customizable cards from your iPhone or iPod Touch, and print them out on high-quality cotton paper.
You can choose from 21 different designs in 6 categories -- holiday cards, thank you cards, birth announcements, travel, etc. You create the card on your iPhone and Apple does the rest: print it, affix postage and mail it. If you mail it to an address in the U.S., they'll add a postage barcode at the bottom and send you a push notification days after it's delivered. Very cool.
1:25 p.m.: Cook is talking about how iPads in schools are helping kids learn. Every state in the U.S. now has an iPad pilot program or deployment in place. Almost 1,000 K-12 schools have a 1-to-1 program.
It is not just happening in K-12, but higher education too. About 1,000 universities in the U.S., including Stamford, Notre Dame, University of Chicago all have iPad programs.
Cook continues, adding how airline pilots are using iPads to make planes more fuel efficient. "Yes, it's true," Cook quips with a dry understated sense of humor.
Cook says over 80% of the top hospitals in U.S. are testing or piloting iPads. "From the board room to the back room and everywhere in between, iPad is showing up," he says. Also, according to Cook, 92% of the Fortune 500 companies -- "and this is a stunning number" -- are testing or deploying iPad in less than 18 months.
1:23 p.m.: On to the iPhone, which has become the top smartphone in the world with momentum rising in the second calendar quarter: 125% year-over-year growth compared to 74% for other smartphones.
Cook says 93% of Fortune 500 companies are testing iPhone.
The iPhone is pummeling the competion, Cook says. It has 70% mobile phone satisfaction, compared to runner-up 49% for HTC. He also adds J.D. Power recognized the iPhone as #1 in the smartphone category for the 6th consecutive time.
However, iPhone has only a 5% market share among the worldwide mobile phone market, not just smartphones.
1:19 p.m.: Cook is giving product updates. First is Mac.
OS X Lion has generated over 6 million copies, 80% more than Snow Leopard, the previous edition. Accoriding to Net Applications, it took Windows 7 20 weeks to reach 20% of their installed base. Lion took two weeks.
Cook is saying Mac outgrew PC market by almost 6 times during last four reported quarters. Every single quarter for the last 5 years, Mac has outgrown the PC market. 58 million users around the world have Macs.
In U.S. retail, Macs are selling at 23% in store, according to NPD. Not long ago, the number was in single digits. "We have a lot to go," Cook says, pointing out that 77% are somebody else's computer.
Now he shifts to Music. The iPod launched in 2001, Cook reminds us, and became the number one music player in the world. Market share is 78% for iPod, he adds. Cumulatively, Apple has sold over 300 million iPods around the world. Adding some perspective, Cook notes it took Sony 20 years to sell 200,000 Walkman players.
"The MP3 market is a mature market ... but iPod is still a large and important market." Cook says Apple sold 45 million iPods last year ending in June. Many are going to people, he says, who are just being introduced to Apple through the iPod.
Cook moves on to iTunes, which started in 2003 with 200,000 songs in its music library. Now, it has 20 million songs. It is the number one music store in the world and over 16 billion songs have been downloaded. "It's mind-boggling."
1:11 p.m.: In Hong Kong, Cook says Apple sold more Macs on opening day than any other store.
Cook is quiet, gentlemanly. He seems comfortable on stage. But he of course doesn't have the charisma of Steve Jobs. However, it is in many ways unfair to compare him to Apple's iconic former CEO.
1:09 p.m.: Ten years ago, Apple launched original iPod, Cook says, and just one year ago launched the new MacBook Air. Today "we'll remind you of the uniqueness of this company as we announce innovations for our mobile operating system to applications to services to hardware and, more importantly, the integration of all of these into a powerful yet simple integrated experience."
Here come some updates:
"Apple has enormous momentum and nowhere is that more evident than in our retail stores," continues Cook. Last weekend, company opened two new stores in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
1:04 p.m.: Rolling Stones' Jumpin' Jack Flash is playing in the background.
The music fades and Apple's Tim Cook walks on stage. "This is my first product launch since being named CEO -- I'm sure you didn't know that."
"I love Apple. I consider it the privilege of a lifetime to have worked here for almost 14 years."
1:01 p.m.: From Ed Baig: "It's the calm before the storm. The crowd is all settling in their seats. Normally, Steve Jobs walks on stage at events like this. In a moment, I would expect it to be Tim Cook or Phil Schiller or some other Apple executive."
Update at 12:53 p.m. ET: USA TODAY's Ed Baig just entered the room where Apple will host its iPhone event.
"AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega is sitting in the row in front of me," he says.
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Be sure to visit this post for updates from Apple's iPhone event as they become available. The show starts at 1 p.m. ET.
Meanwhile, let's round up some of the notable rumors and reports:
iPhone 5 or iPhone 4S? Most of the speculation suggests Apple will unveil the iPhone 5, but several recent reports claim the next update might not be as drastic as many think.
Mashable neatly wraps up some of the reports that Apple will unveil the iPhone 4S, which sounds similar to the company's shift from the 3G to 3Gs models. However, the reports appear light on details about what a 4S model would feature.
STORY: What we know about the new iPhone
Last month, the New York Times reported the device would receive notable upgrades, including a faster processor and 8-megapixel camera. Also, Bloomberg -- citing Piper Jaffrey analyst Gene Munster -- reports the iPhone will add overhauled voice controls, allowing users to set appointments, surf the Web and send text or email messages by voice.
Sprint. Several outlets suggest AT&T and Verizon won't be the only homes for the next iPhone. A recent Wall Street Journal report (subscription required) says the wireless carrier will make a "multibillion-dollar gamble" to snag rights to sell the new iPhone. Citing "people familiar with the matter," the report claims Sprint wouldn't start profiting from their Apple arrangement until 2014.
iOS 5. Apple's website says the update arrives this fall, so it's highly possible we'll hear more about the latest upgrades to the iPhone operating system (also for iPad and iPod Touch). Among the key features this update will add: a notification center for alerts, iMessage for iPad and iPod Touch, a to-do-list style Reminders app, Twitter integration, camera tweaks, photo enhancements and the ability to set up and update devices without tethering it to a PC or Mac.
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DETROIT -- Justin Verlander struck out 11 in eight gritty innings and Jose Valverde stopped a New York Yankees rally for the second straight night, whiffing Derek Jeter with two on to close out the Detroit Tigers' 5-4 victory Monday.
Delmon Young hit a tiebreaking homer in seventh off Rafael Soriano and the Tigers took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five American League playoff, pushing the Yankees to the brink of elimination.
Their hopes ride Tuesday night on A.J. Burnett, the $82.5 million pitcher who was so unreliable this season that he wasn't supposed to get a start in this series. A rainstorm changed all that when Game 1 was suspended Friday night, forcing both teams to alter their pitching plans.
"Trust me, they're not going to go away," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "We've put ourselves in a decent position, but we've still got more to accomplish. So this is a long way from being over."
Verlander and New York ace CC Sabathia were back on the mound after their series-opening matchup at Yankee Stadium was halted after only 1 1/2 innings.
While Sabathia didn't make it through the sixth Monday, Verlander was still hitting 100 mph on the stadium radar gun in the eighth.
"There's so much adrenaline in a situation like this," he said. "I was a little out of rhythm in the first, and then found it, and then lost it for three batters, and it shows what this lineup can do. I lost my rhythm for three batters and they scored (two) runs to tie the game. But this team has a never-say-die attitude. We've done it all year. Come from behind. We've held leads. We've done everything we've had to do, and tonight's another example of that."
Valverde took over in the ninth -- and another dramatic ending followed. The All-Star closer, who was perfect in 49 save chances this season, walked two and got a warning-track flyout before striking out Jeter to end it.
"It's not very comfortable with a guy that's got over 3,000 or so hits up there in that situation," Leyland said.
Trailing by four in the ninth on Sunday, the Yankees scored twice against Valverde before he got Robinson Cano to ground out with two on to close out a 5-3 victory in Game 2.
"Every now and again he does that, but we've got the utmost faith in him," Verlander said. "He's done it all year long. What a job he did, especially after throwing 30-some pitches last night. You know, that's not easy."
After two games in New York that took three rainy days to finish, Comerica Park was dry on Monday, with the exception of the fountains beyond center field. The Yankees managed two quick runs off Verlander in the first, but the 24-game winner settled down. He appeared to be laboring at times, allowing four runs, six hits and three walks, but he stayed in for 120 pitches and Detroit produced just enough offense.
Brett Gardner tied it for the Yankees with a two-run double in the seventh, but Young answered with a line drive that barely cleared the wall in right field to give the Tigers a 5-4 lead.
It was reminiscent of Young's homer in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium -- which came before a downpour Friday night that forced that game to be suspended and knocked both Verlander and Sabathia out for a couple of days.
Young was obtained from Minnesota in a quiet trade Aug. 15.
"Amazing," Verlander said. "What an acquisition he's been. He's been such a great teammate, such a great acquisition for us and this lineup. It just extends our lineup even farther. What a stud. What an at-bat."
Valverde, who threw 34 pitches in a non-save situation Sunday, was back for the ninth a day later. He had playfully declared the series was "over" after Game 2, and the Yankees nearly made him eat his words, but Jeter struck out swinging with runners at first and second.
"I feel good about Jeter whenever he's up there in those situations because he's been there so many times," New York manager Joe Girardi said.
Sabathia allowed four runs and seven hits with six walks in 5 1-3 innings.
"I actually thought he made a lot of good pitches tonight and I thought the zone was a small zone," Girardi said. "No disrespect to anyone, but that's what I thought. That's what I saw."
Verlander, who led the American League in wins, ERA and strikeouts, was a bit erratic in his lone inning of work Friday, walking two and allowing a run before the rain ended his outing. The first inning went even worse for him Monday. Jeter hit Verlander's first pitch right back up the middle for a single, then Curtis Granderson's drive sailed over the head of Austin Jackson in left-center for an RBI triple.
Alex Rodriguez made it 2-0 with an RBI groundout.
Sabathia had even more problems, walking four of the first six hitters he faced, but Detroit grounded into double plays in each of the first two innings and didn't score.
Brandon Inge doubled to left-center in the third for Detroit's first hit, and Jackson walked. Ramon Santiago failed to get a bunt down but made up for it by lining an RBI single to left.
After Young's single, Miguel Cabrera -- who homered in drove in three runs in Game 2 -- came to the plate with the bases loaded and nobody out.
With the crowd on its feet waving white towels, Cabrera grounded into Detroit's third double play in three innings -- but this one tied the game at 2.
Verlander found his groove during the middle innings. He struck out Nick Swisher for the third out of the fourth, then struck out the side on 10 pitches in the fifth, leaving the New York hitters looking helpless as his sweeping breaking ball dropped over the plate.
"He settled down nicely. His curveball was real effective, his changeup was real effective. Obviously when you throw 100 (mph), that's going to be effective most of the times, too," Girardi said.
Leyland altered his lineup slightly from Game 1 against Sabathia, putting Santiago at second base instead of Ryan Raburn and batting him second. Santiago has hit .292 against Sabathia (7 for 24) in the regular season, while Raburn is 4 for 23 against the New York ace.
Sure enough, in the bottom of the fifth, with one out and a man on second, Santiago hit an RBI double to left-center to make it 3-2.
Detroit added another run off Sabathia in the sixth. Jhonny Peralta followed Don Kelly's bunt single with a double to left that appeared to bounce off a pole in the fence, caroming strangely to the left while the runner came around to score.
After walking Jorge Posada with two outs in the seventh, Verlander stood behind the mound briefly to gather himself. It didn't work -- he then hit Russell Martin in the ribs with one of his triple-digit fastballs, putting runners on first and second.
Gardner lined a 3-2 pitch from Verlander to left-center. By the time Jackson raced over to retrieve the ball and unleashed a mediocre throw back to the infield, both runners were on their way home for a 4-all tie.
But that was it for the Yankees, and now their season is in the hands of Burnett.
"I feel good about what A.J. is going to do for us tomorrow," Girardi said.
Delmon Young hit a tiebreaking homer in seventh off Rafael Soriano and the Tigers took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-five American League playoff, pushing the Yankees to the brink of elimination.
Their hopes ride Tuesday night on A.J. Burnett, the $82.5 million pitcher who was so unreliable this season that he wasn't supposed to get a start in this series. A rainstorm changed all that when Game 1 was suspended Friday night, forcing both teams to alter their pitching plans.
"Trust me, they're not going to go away," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "We've put ourselves in a decent position, but we've still got more to accomplish. So this is a long way from being over."
Verlander and New York ace CC Sabathia were back on the mound after their series-opening matchup at Yankee Stadium was halted after only 1 1/2 innings.
While Sabathia didn't make it through the sixth Monday, Verlander was still hitting 100 mph on the stadium radar gun in the eighth.
"There's so much adrenaline in a situation like this," he said. "I was a little out of rhythm in the first, and then found it, and then lost it for three batters, and it shows what this lineup can do. I lost my rhythm for three batters and they scored (two) runs to tie the game. But this team has a never-say-die attitude. We've done it all year. Come from behind. We've held leads. We've done everything we've had to do, and tonight's another example of that."
Valverde took over in the ninth -- and another dramatic ending followed. The All-Star closer, who was perfect in 49 save chances this season, walked two and got a warning-track flyout before striking out Jeter to end it.
"It's not very comfortable with a guy that's got over 3,000 or so hits up there in that situation," Leyland said.
Trailing by four in the ninth on Sunday, the Yankees scored twice against Valverde before he got Robinson Cano to ground out with two on to close out a 5-3 victory in Game 2.
"Every now and again he does that, but we've got the utmost faith in him," Verlander said. "He's done it all year long. What a job he did, especially after throwing 30-some pitches last night. You know, that's not easy."
After two games in New York that took three rainy days to finish, Comerica Park was dry on Monday, with the exception of the fountains beyond center field. The Yankees managed two quick runs off Verlander in the first, but the 24-game winner settled down. He appeared to be laboring at times, allowing four runs, six hits and three walks, but he stayed in for 120 pitches and Detroit produced just enough offense.
Brett Gardner tied it for the Yankees with a two-run double in the seventh, but Young answered with a line drive that barely cleared the wall in right field to give the Tigers a 5-4 lead.
It was reminiscent of Young's homer in Game 1 at Yankee Stadium -- which came before a downpour Friday night that forced that game to be suspended and knocked both Verlander and Sabathia out for a couple of days.
Young was obtained from Minnesota in a quiet trade Aug. 15.
"Amazing," Verlander said. "What an acquisition he's been. He's been such a great teammate, such a great acquisition for us and this lineup. It just extends our lineup even farther. What a stud. What an at-bat."
Valverde, who threw 34 pitches in a non-save situation Sunday, was back for the ninth a day later. He had playfully declared the series was "over" after Game 2, and the Yankees nearly made him eat his words, but Jeter struck out swinging with runners at first and second.
"I feel good about Jeter whenever he's up there in those situations because he's been there so many times," New York manager Joe Girardi said.
Sabathia allowed four runs and seven hits with six walks in 5 1-3 innings.
"I actually thought he made a lot of good pitches tonight and I thought the zone was a small zone," Girardi said. "No disrespect to anyone, but that's what I thought. That's what I saw."
Verlander, who led the American League in wins, ERA and strikeouts, was a bit erratic in his lone inning of work Friday, walking two and allowing a run before the rain ended his outing. The first inning went even worse for him Monday. Jeter hit Verlander's first pitch right back up the middle for a single, then Curtis Granderson's drive sailed over the head of Austin Jackson in left-center for an RBI triple.
Alex Rodriguez made it 2-0 with an RBI groundout.
Sabathia had even more problems, walking four of the first six hitters he faced, but Detroit grounded into double plays in each of the first two innings and didn't score.
Brandon Inge doubled to left-center in the third for Detroit's first hit, and Jackson walked. Ramon Santiago failed to get a bunt down but made up for it by lining an RBI single to left.
After Young's single, Miguel Cabrera -- who homered in drove in three runs in Game 2 -- came to the plate with the bases loaded and nobody out.
With the crowd on its feet waving white towels, Cabrera grounded into Detroit's third double play in three innings -- but this one tied the game at 2.
Verlander found his groove during the middle innings. He struck out Nick Swisher for the third out of the fourth, then struck out the side on 10 pitches in the fifth, leaving the New York hitters looking helpless as his sweeping breaking ball dropped over the plate.
"He settled down nicely. His curveball was real effective, his changeup was real effective. Obviously when you throw 100 (mph), that's going to be effective most of the times, too," Girardi said.
Leyland altered his lineup slightly from Game 1 against Sabathia, putting Santiago at second base instead of Ryan Raburn and batting him second. Santiago has hit .292 against Sabathia (7 for 24) in the regular season, while Raburn is 4 for 23 against the New York ace.
Sure enough, in the bottom of the fifth, with one out and a man on second, Santiago hit an RBI double to left-center to make it 3-2.
Detroit added another run off Sabathia in the sixth. Jhonny Peralta followed Don Kelly's bunt single with a double to left that appeared to bounce off a pole in the fence, caroming strangely to the left while the runner came around to score.
After walking Jorge Posada with two outs in the seventh, Verlander stood behind the mound briefly to gather himself. It didn't work -- he then hit Russell Martin in the ribs with one of his triple-digit fastballs, putting runners on first and second.
Gardner lined a 3-2 pitch from Verlander to left-center. By the time Jackson raced over to retrieve the ball and unleashed a mediocre throw back to the infield, both runners were on their way home for a 4-all tie.
But that was it for the Yankees, and now their season is in the hands of Burnett.
"I feel good about what A.J. is going to do for us tomorrow," Girardi said.
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With the Yankees down a run in the eighth, Alex Rodriguez drew a two-out walk from Justin Verlander. Mark Teixeira came up with a chance to get a meaningful hit in a big spot.
What did he do? Popped up.
Teixeira is now hitting .201 in his career in the 114 playoff at-bats. Since being a Yankee he has struggled in the post-season. The only big hit that comes to mind is the ALDS game-winning he had against the Twins in 2009.
Teixeira knows that he will get another chance in Game 4.
"If we don't win tomorrow, we go home," Teixeira said.
That is true and the 2009 World Series ring pass might expire for Teixeira and his post-season struggles.
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Where have you seen this before?
With the Yankees down a run in the eighth, Alex Rodriguez drew a two-out walk from Justin Verlander. Mark Teixeira came up with a chance to get a meaningful hit in a big spot.
What did he do? Popped up.
Teixeira is now hitting .201 in his career in the 114 playoff at-bats. Since being a Yankee he has struggled in the post-season. The only big hit that comes to mind is the ALDS game-winning he had against the Twins in 2009.
Teixeira knows that he will get another chance in Game 4.
"If we don't win tomorrow, we go home," Teixeira said.
That is true and the 2009 World Series ring pass might expire for Teixeira and his post-season struggles.
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After falling behind in the ALDS, two games to one, the Yankees' season rests firmly in the pitching arm of ... A.J. Burnett. A pitcher who came perilously close to losing his job in the rotation during the regular season is now the Yankees' last hope against an early October exit (on this date last season the playoffs had yet to begin), but the Tigers, who will have Rick Porcello on the mound, may have their own problems.
Discussion of the Day: Would you rather the Yankees be starting Burnett, Phil Hughes or Bartolo Colon in Tuesday's elimination game?
Behind Enemy Lines: Brian Costa writes that Tigers' closer Jose Valverde is everything that Mariano Rivera is not. Valverde is flamboyant in his celebrations and maddeningly wild in his pitching, but with a perfect record in save opportunities, is hardly ineffective.
1) Ian O'Connor writes that Yankees fans should be scared of Burnett while Michael Salfino notes that the Burnett/Porcello matchup is an historically bad one for a postseason series.
Burnett's season was not a good one, but in what is perhaps described as bitter irony, he is now the Yankees' last hope to extend their postseason. Still, Burnett has had postseason success with the Yankees before, and although the Yankees can't expect from him what they might from CC Sabathia, Burnett isn't facing Justin Verlander, either. He doesn't have to be an ace for the Yankees on Tuesday; he simply has to be better than Porcello.
2) Filip Bondy writes that the Bleacher Creatures at Yankee Stadium aren't ready to panic.
The fans who inhabit a portion of the right field bleachers all season long are well known among Yankees fans; they are especially well known for their Roll Call tradition. Of course, many Yankees fans are not as die-hard as the Bleacher Creatures, but for those who do invest a significant amount of one's time and emotion in a sports team and a season, the prospect of facing an elimination game is often the worst part of the year. Still, the Yankees have come back from worse, and their 2011 season will remain alive for at least another day,
3) Daniel Barabarisi writes that Alex Rodriguez's bat no longer strikes fear.
Indeed, while having Robinson Cano hit third in the order might seem like an obvious move to make, having a struggling Rodriguez hitting cleanup might very well ensure that Cano doesn't see a pitch to hit. Rodriguez's postseason hasn't been all bad; he did have an RBI in Monday's loss, but the Yankees need more from their cleanup hitter, especially as neither Mark Teixeira nor Nick Swisher are having excellent postseasons, either. Of course, Max Scherzer and Verlander are decent pitchers (Verlander a potential unanimous Cy Young winner), and three games is still a small sample size, but unfortunately in the playoffs, small sample sizes matter.
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After falling behind in the ALDS, two games to one, the Yankees' season rests firmly in the pitching arm of ... A.J. Burnett. A pitcher who came perilously close to losing his job in the rotation during the regular season is now the Yankees' last hope against an early October exit (on this date last season the playoffs had yet to begin), but the Tigers, who will have Rick Porcello on the mound, may have their own problems.
Discussion of the Day: Would you rather the Yankees be starting Burnett, Phil Hughes or Bartolo Colon in Tuesday's elimination game?
Behind Enemy Lines: Brian Costa writes that Tigers' closer Jose Valverde is everything that Mariano Rivera is not. Valverde is flamboyant in his celebrations and maddeningly wild in his pitching, but with a perfect record in save opportunities, is hardly ineffective.
1) Ian O'Connor writes that Yankees fans should be scared of Burnett while Michael Salfino notes that the Burnett/Porcello matchup is an historically bad one for a postseason series.
Burnett's season was not a good one, but in what is perhaps described as bitter irony, he is now the Yankees' last hope to extend their postseason. Still, Burnett has had postseason success with the Yankees before, and although the Yankees can't expect from him what they might from CC Sabathia, Burnett isn't facing Justin Verlander, either. He doesn't have to be an ace for the Yankees on Tuesday; he simply has to be better than Porcello.
2) Filip Bondy writes that the Bleacher Creatures at Yankee Stadium aren't ready to panic.
The fans who inhabit a portion of the right field bleachers all season long are well known among Yankees fans; they are especially well known for their Roll Call tradition. Of course, many Yankees fans are not as die-hard as the Bleacher Creatures, but for those who do invest a significant amount of one's time and emotion in a sports team and a season, the prospect of facing an elimination game is often the worst part of the year. Still, the Yankees have come back from worse, and their 2011 season will remain alive for at least another day,
3) Daniel Barabarisi writes that Alex Rodriguez's bat no longer strikes fear.
Indeed, while having Robinson Cano hit third in the order might seem like an obvious move to make, having a struggling Rodriguez hitting cleanup might very well ensure that Cano doesn't see a pitch to hit. Rodriguez's postseason hasn't been all bad; he did have an RBI in Monday's loss, but the Yankees need more from their cleanup hitter, especially as neither Mark Teixeira nor Nick Swisher are having excellent postseasons, either. Of course, Max Scherzer and Verlander are decent pitchers (Verlander a potential unanimous Cy Young winner), and three games is still a small sample size, but unfortunately in the playoffs, small sample sizes matter.
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CAMDEN, N.J. — Campbell's is hoping consumers are ready to "mangia" as it launches a new line of Italian sauces under the Wolfgang Puck brand.
Each of the new sauces, which are available at grocery stores nationwide this fall, are packaged in a distinctive 16-oz. jar to offer restaurant-inspired dinner at home, Campbell's said. The new varieties include:
Arrabbiata: Spicy marinara and roasted red pepper combine for a distinctive sauce with real kick;
Creamy vodka: A combination of tomatoes and fresh cream is finished with a splash of vodka;
Four cheese: Parmigiano, ricotta and asiago cheeses are combined with tomatoes, fresh garlic and cracked black pepper, then finished off with mascarpone cheese for a sweet and unexpected creaminess; and
Tomato basil: A blend of tomatoes, garlic and sweet basil makes this sauce a great way to bring classic Italian dishes to the next level.
Wolfgang Puck Italian sauces will retail for $2.79.
OCTOBER 3, 2011 | BY ALLISON CERRA
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CAMDEN, N.J. — Campbell's is hoping consumers are ready to "mangia" as it launches a new line of Italian sauces under the Wolfgang Puck brand.
Each of the new sauces, which are available at grocery stores nationwide this fall, are packaged in a distinctive 16-oz. jar to offer restaurant-inspired dinner at home, Campbell's said. The new varieties include:
Arrabbiata: Spicy marinara and roasted red pepper combine for a distinctive sauce with real kick;
Creamy vodka: A combination of tomatoes and fresh cream is finished with a splash of vodka;
Four cheese: Parmigiano, ricotta and asiago cheeses are combined with tomatoes, fresh garlic and cracked black pepper, then finished off with mascarpone cheese for a sweet and unexpected creaminess; and
Tomato basil: A blend of tomatoes, garlic and sweet basil makes this sauce a great way to bring classic Italian dishes to the next level.
Wolfgang Puck Italian sauces will retail for $2.79.
Behind the scenes with McCormick’s first chief science officer really like how
McCormick & Co. recently created the position of chief science officer, as the leader in global flavor emphasizes its commitment to flavor innovation and healthy choices. I reached out to Hamed Faridi, a 14-year veteran of the company, to discuss flavors, trends, food science and more.
Globalization, health and wellness, and competition are influencing the culinary landscape. As the head of research and development at McCormick, what must you and your team focus on to drive flavor innovation?
We focus on science-based innovation that is designed to predict, identify and develop exciting flavors matched to consumers’ expectations. Consumers want flavors representative of the global marketplace — ingredients from the Mediterranean, India, South America, Asia and North Africa. They also want healthy choices, and they don’t want to compromise on flavor to get it. Consumers and customers want it all when it comes to flavor — wide range of flavor, convenient package sizes, various price points and healthy options. At McCormick, our job is not only to deliver all of this when consumers want it but also to anticipate and deliver it three years before they even know to ask for it.
Describe the collaboration process among chefs, restaurateurs and food scientists in flavor and product development at McCormick.
We are so fortunate at McCormick to benefit from a historically collaborative culture. Our CreateIT® process is an innovation engine consisting of teams of flavorists, sensory scientists, chefs and other professionals who work together in a highly collaborative environment. This engine starts at the fuzzy front end where we design general concepts, then rapidly prototypes and optimizes the top concepts from that session, with continuous streaming insight and guidance from consumers directly into the process. We even include panels of consumer advisers as catalysts to this process — directly interjecting consumer feedback and panels into our development phase, so no time is lost and ideas are tested in real time. The consumers provide the real-world direction we need, the chefs rapidly and consistently create and tweak delicious flavor options in our kitchens, and our food scientists in our lab create the working formulas that are safe, smart and satisfying. All pieces of this process literally work in the same building to ensure optimal, successful collaboration happens easily and naturally.
How many flavors do you produce in a year, and how many of them are successful?
We introduce hundreds of products each year for our consumer business and for customers in our industrial businesses around the globe. The vast majority of these flavors remain in the market for several years. That said, we also continually refresh our offerings on the grocery shelf — creative flavor products might replace older ones depending on changing trends, tastes and consumer preferences year to year. This is one of the things that keeps McCormick on the cutting edge of flavor: our ability to continually reinvent flavor. In fact, one of our most successful products this year has been Recipe Inspirations, a concept that consumers helped us develop that literally offers them the ability to experiment with flavors and tastes.
How do you measure flavor?
We measure flavor using analytical instrumentation in tandem with human sensory processes. McCormick enjoys state-of-the-art pioneering laboratories in both of these areas. The two labs have collaborated for many years in developing instrumental methods to predict human response to flavor, which enables rapid quality methods throughout our company. Analytical instrumentation provides powerful tools for flavor investigation, but when it comes to developing innovative and creative flavor solutions, nothing beats the human palate for evaluation.
What are some challenges of flavor innovation?
We need to continually surprise and delight our customers and consumers’ palates by creating flavorful food that is also good for you. Scientists must continually explore materials and processes as effective and unique flavor contributors. McCormick has a long history in global sourcing, scientific understanding and artful combination of natural flavoring materials. McCormick is excelling in this space, but the “all-natural” area is one the entire food industry is facing and learning how to adapt and evolve and create delicious all-natural products.
What are some opportunities of flavor innovation?
It’s an incredibly exciting time to be in the flavor business! Emerging trends in the global marketplace are bringing more exotic flavor combinations to the mainstream consumer and creating opportunities for more adventurous flavor creation. Today’s consumer has high expectations and demands novel products that are delicious, convenient and healthy. Development of these products creates exciting flavor opportunities for developing a unique, multisensory flavor experience as well as replacing the flavor contribution of ingredients that have been reduced, such as salt or fat. This requires innovative and creative flavor formulation combined with functional methods of flavor delivery. McCormick scientists utilize science and technology as a foundation for the art of flavor development to create delicious, high-performing consumer-preferred flavors.
What flavor or menu trends will you keep an eye on in 2012?
Vegetables! Consumers and the Department of Agriculture agree that we should all be eating more of them. We are looking for veggies to be on menus and in the home … as people want to enjoy the true, fresh taste of vegetables with less of the fatty saucing and overcooking. Look for vegetables prepared in ways that enhance and complement — not overpower — their natural deliciousness, such as roasting, grilling and braising By Rebecca Pollack Scherr on September 29, 2011
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SUNDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children can enjoy some Halloween candy and still avoid sugar-related tooth decay, according to Dr. Margaret Mitchell, a Chicago dentist.
Mitchell said the key to preventing tooth decay lies in limiting not only the amount of candy children eat, but also how long the sugar remains in the mouth.
Brushing teeth as soon as possible after eating candy may keep harmful bacteria from developing, she said, and eating the candy quickly in one sitting decreases the amount of time it is contact with the teeth.
Children and parents can take several additional steps to protect their teeth, said Mitchell, owner of the Mitchell Dental Spa. These include:
Take inventory. Parents should examine their children's candy and remove anything they consider unacceptable before allowing them to eat it.
Avoid anything tacky or gummy. This type of candy can stick to teeth and cause decay.
Be consistent. No matter what time of day children eat candy (day or night), they should remember to have good dental hygiene.
Take precautions. Before Halloween rolls around, a dentist can put sealants into children's teeth grooves to protect them against corrosion caused by too much sugar.
More information
The American Dental Association has more on preventing tooth decay.
SUNDAY, Oct. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Children can enjoy some Halloween candy and still avoid sugar-related tooth decay, according to Dr. Margaret Mitchell, a Chicago dentist.
Mitchell said the key to preventing tooth decay lies in limiting not only the amount of candy children eat, but also how long the sugar remains in the mouth.
Brushing teeth as soon as possible after eating candy may keep harmful bacteria from developing, she said, and eating the candy quickly in one sitting decreases the amount of time it is contact with the teeth.
Children and parents can take several additional steps to protect their teeth, said Mitchell, owner of the Mitchell Dental Spa. These include:
Take inventory. Parents should examine their children's candy and remove anything they consider unacceptable before allowing them to eat it.
Avoid anything tacky or gummy. This type of candy can stick to teeth and cause decay.
Be consistent. No matter what time of day children eat candy (day or night), they should remember to have good dental hygiene.
Take precautions. Before Halloween rolls around, a dentist can put sealants into children's teeth grooves to protect them against corrosion caused by too much sugar.
More information
The American Dental Association has more on preventing tooth decay.
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Oklahoma's oldest grocery, Crescent Market, set to close
The Crescent Market, 122 years old and the state's oldest grocery, is closing its doors later this month as it faces the onslaught of two corporate upscale supermarkets opening nearby.
BY STEVE LACKMEYER slackmeyer@opubco.com 46
Published: October 4, 2011
The Crescent Market, 122 years old and the state's oldest grocery, is closing its doors later this month as it faces the onslaught of two corporate upscale supermarkets opening nearby.
Leo Gulikers puts out fresh cut rib eyes at Crescent Market in Nichols Hills , Monday, October 3, 2011. Gulikers has worked for Crescent Market for 27 years. Photo by Steve Gooch ORG XMIT: KOD
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10/04/2011 The history of Crescent Market is coming to an end after almost getting a new start in downtown Oklahoma City.
Robert Pemberton is the third generation of his family to run the grocery, which has operated in the Nichols Hills Shopping Plaza at Avondale and Western Avenue since 1948. On Oct. 29 that legacy will end.
“We started the day of the Land Run in a covered wagon on Main Street,” Pemberton said. “We are the oldest grocery store in the state. But over the past few years it's been losing money.”
Pemberton said he hoped to turn the tide by adding more organic and local produce and goods to his shelves a year ago.
Meanwhile, Pemberton witnessed his existing customer base shrinking due to the ravages of time and ever increasing competition.
“A lot of our customers have gotten older, they are single, or they have passed away,” Pemberton said. “And now everyone sells groceries, from Walmart to Target to Home Depot to CVS and Walgreens.”
Pemberton said he thought he could survive the long anticipated opening later this month of Whole Foods at nearby Classen Curve, a new retail center developed by his landlord, Chesapeake Energy Corp.
“I really would have worried more about a Central Market than a Whole Foods, because a Whole Foods is a totally different customer,” Pemberton said. “But I was not prepared for a Sunflower Market. And that's what has hit me the hardest.”
When the Sunflower Market opened at NW 63 and May Avenue, just a couple miles west of Crescent, the hit to Pemberton's business was immediate.
“It was right on our Labor Day weekend,” Pemberton said. “It made it just a regular weekend instead of a holiday weekend. Our sales were definitely down.”
The impact on Nichols Hills Plaza will go beyond the loss of a legendary grocery; Pemberton said he doubts his neighbor, Nichols Hills Drugstore, will find another vendor to supply fresh meat and produce for its lunch counter.
Longtime customers, employees and vendors say residents won't fully appreciate what they've lost until after Crescent closes. Pemberton's elderly customers could always relax on an ornate sofa in front of an actual fireplace as their health aides and assistants did their shopping. Crescent also is a grocery that still has employees to bring bags to customers' cars.
Picking through the produce aisle on Monday, Susan Parker lamented she has been aware a closing was imminent for the past few weeks.
“I've shopped here my whole life,” Parker said. “I shopped with his dad, and now with Robert. This is more like a boutique than a shopping center. It's the small things — the butcher, the care that you get. They were bringing in local foods.”
Parker guesses a lot of Crescent's customers live within the immediate two-mile radius.
“I worry about the elderly — they don't want to shop on May Avenue,” Parker said. “They love the ease of it, they can call in advance and have the food ready for them to pick up. They love the ready-made meals.”
Terry Sinclair was a customer for 30 years before she started making and selling soup and other meals sold on Pemberton's shelves.
“Crescent was very gracious about giving me more space, and I slowly got to build a clientele,” Sinclair said. “Everybody knows everybody here. It's just really sad.”
Sinclair, whose food also is sold at nearby Kamp's Meat Market, now has a commercial kitchen and is planning to open up her own storefront. In a bit of irony, Sinclair is one of several Crescent vendors contacted by Whole Foods to sell their goods in its first Oklahoma City store.
Leo Gulikers, a butcher at Crescent Market for the past 27 years, is uncertain what he will do next. It was Art L. Pemberton, Robert Pemberton's grandfather, who bought the market from prior owners in 1942 and later convinced Gulikers to pass on an opportunity to open his own butcher shop and work instead at Crescent.
“Mr. P is what we used to call him,” Gulikers said. “He kept coming into the store until '94. Then his son Art (Jr.) took over.”
Gulikers and fellow employees have fond emotions for the Pembertons, and said they always felt like they were a part of the family store.
A glance at the store's meat shop reveals the sort of operation that faded away from most groceries two decades ago — a place where trained, experienced butchers know their customers' preferences and can provide cuts usually only done by top chefs.
“Nobody cuts prime ribs like us, where you cut the fat and then tie it all together,” Gulikers said. “For Christmas, where are you going to get a crown pork roast and a crown lamb roast? We make a ton of those here. There are a few places that do that, but not many.”
For the past two years Pemberton has been courted by multiple developers to move his store downtown. He thinks a slim chance remains for him to reopen downtown, but if he does, he knows he'll have to start from scratch.
Parker is uncertain existing customers will follow such a move.
“This is a store that's always been here, and now that's changing,” Parker said. “And that's never easy.”
Read more: http://newsok.com/oklahomas-oldest-grocery-crescent-market-set-to-close/article/3610081#ixzz1Zpzlgykq
The Crescent Market, 122 years old and the state's oldest grocery, is closing its doors later this month as it faces the onslaught of two corporate upscale supermarkets opening nearby.
BY STEVE LACKMEYER slackmeyer@opubco.com 46
Published: October 4, 2011
The Crescent Market, 122 years old and the state's oldest grocery, is closing its doors later this month as it faces the onslaught of two corporate upscale supermarkets opening nearby.
Leo Gulikers puts out fresh cut rib eyes at Crescent Market in Nichols Hills , Monday, October 3, 2011. Gulikers has worked for Crescent Market for 27 years. Photo by Steve Gooch ORG XMIT: KOD
MULTIMEDIA
PHOTOview all photos
Oklahoma's oldest grocery, Crescent Market, set to close
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Read the letter from Chesapeake regarding the closure of Crescent Market
View the document.
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Crescent Market grew up with Oklahoma City
10/04/2011 The history of Crescent Market is coming to an end after almost getting a new start in downtown Oklahoma City.
Robert Pemberton is the third generation of his family to run the grocery, which has operated in the Nichols Hills Shopping Plaza at Avondale and Western Avenue since 1948. On Oct. 29 that legacy will end.
“We started the day of the Land Run in a covered wagon on Main Street,” Pemberton said. “We are the oldest grocery store in the state. But over the past few years it's been losing money.”
Pemberton said he hoped to turn the tide by adding more organic and local produce and goods to his shelves a year ago.
Meanwhile, Pemberton witnessed his existing customer base shrinking due to the ravages of time and ever increasing competition.
“A lot of our customers have gotten older, they are single, or they have passed away,” Pemberton said. “And now everyone sells groceries, from Walmart to Target to Home Depot to CVS and Walgreens.”
Pemberton said he thought he could survive the long anticipated opening later this month of Whole Foods at nearby Classen Curve, a new retail center developed by his landlord, Chesapeake Energy Corp.
“I really would have worried more about a Central Market than a Whole Foods, because a Whole Foods is a totally different customer,” Pemberton said. “But I was not prepared for a Sunflower Market. And that's what has hit me the hardest.”
When the Sunflower Market opened at NW 63 and May Avenue, just a couple miles west of Crescent, the hit to Pemberton's business was immediate.
“It was right on our Labor Day weekend,” Pemberton said. “It made it just a regular weekend instead of a holiday weekend. Our sales were definitely down.”
The impact on Nichols Hills Plaza will go beyond the loss of a legendary grocery; Pemberton said he doubts his neighbor, Nichols Hills Drugstore, will find another vendor to supply fresh meat and produce for its lunch counter.
Longtime customers, employees and vendors say residents won't fully appreciate what they've lost until after Crescent closes. Pemberton's elderly customers could always relax on an ornate sofa in front of an actual fireplace as their health aides and assistants did their shopping. Crescent also is a grocery that still has employees to bring bags to customers' cars.
Picking through the produce aisle on Monday, Susan Parker lamented she has been aware a closing was imminent for the past few weeks.
“I've shopped here my whole life,” Parker said. “I shopped with his dad, and now with Robert. This is more like a boutique than a shopping center. It's the small things — the butcher, the care that you get. They were bringing in local foods.”
Parker guesses a lot of Crescent's customers live within the immediate two-mile radius.
“I worry about the elderly — they don't want to shop on May Avenue,” Parker said. “They love the ease of it, they can call in advance and have the food ready for them to pick up. They love the ready-made meals.”
Terry Sinclair was a customer for 30 years before she started making and selling soup and other meals sold on Pemberton's shelves.
“Crescent was very gracious about giving me more space, and I slowly got to build a clientele,” Sinclair said. “Everybody knows everybody here. It's just really sad.”
Sinclair, whose food also is sold at nearby Kamp's Meat Market, now has a commercial kitchen and is planning to open up her own storefront. In a bit of irony, Sinclair is one of several Crescent vendors contacted by Whole Foods to sell their goods in its first Oklahoma City store.
Leo Gulikers, a butcher at Crescent Market for the past 27 years, is uncertain what he will do next. It was Art L. Pemberton, Robert Pemberton's grandfather, who bought the market from prior owners in 1942 and later convinced Gulikers to pass on an opportunity to open his own butcher shop and work instead at Crescent.
“Mr. P is what we used to call him,” Gulikers said. “He kept coming into the store until '94. Then his son Art (Jr.) took over.”
Gulikers and fellow employees have fond emotions for the Pembertons, and said they always felt like they were a part of the family store.
A glance at the store's meat shop reveals the sort of operation that faded away from most groceries two decades ago — a place where trained, experienced butchers know their customers' preferences and can provide cuts usually only done by top chefs.
“Nobody cuts prime ribs like us, where you cut the fat and then tie it all together,” Gulikers said. “For Christmas, where are you going to get a crown pork roast and a crown lamb roast? We make a ton of those here. There are a few places that do that, but not many.”
For the past two years Pemberton has been courted by multiple developers to move his store downtown. He thinks a slim chance remains for him to reopen downtown, but if he does, he knows he'll have to start from scratch.
Parker is uncertain existing customers will follow such a move.
“This is a store that's always been here, and now that's changing,” Parker said. “And that's never easy.”
Read more: http://newsok.com/oklahomas-oldest-grocery-crescent-market-set-to-close/article/3610081#ixzz1Zpzlgykq
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