Personally, all I want to see is a healthy Steve Jobs.

dna

Oh one more thing and this should be easy, I'd like a visualizer for my AppleTV instead of just the floating pictures. Something like this would be awesome on my HDTV: [www.barbariangroup.com]

Or any kind of visualizer that reacts to the sound of the music.

Late_Night

More photos = more better.

Rain-man

Sub $1000 Macbook Air.

I'd like to see them come out with some new Cinema Displays even though I gave up on waiting for that 2 years ago.

Joseph

I want more details during the liveblog, Gabe style.

dingus

What do I want?
A lower price iPod Touch.
iPod disk access.
iPod Ogg support.
A fulltouch tablet.
A flying pig in an apple tree.

kanon

I just want to see updates from you guys and I'm glad you're there. If there's a price drop on the touch, make sure to let us know right away ;-)

theblackdog

I want to see tv's turn off, I want to see macs turned off, I want to see iphones turned off, i want to see more tvs turned off, i want to see power turned off, I want every gadget, except for what ever you use to blog on giz to be turned off in the middle of being used! And screaming MS rules in the middle of steves key note wouldnt hurt.

vinnyr

@Rabid Penguin: I agree with you.

Hey Giz, how about a pics of the giz team, it would be nice to see who make the liveblog possible... and the guy who type faster and faster.. to make the giz liveblog even better than the neighboor ( aka. engadget)

iscangel

I want to see a new iPod Touch, just so I can finally decide whether or not I want an iPhone or a Touch.

Anyone know if you can continue using the iPhone if you aren't using it as a phone? Like, can it become a de-facto iPod Touch?

I also wanna see a new MacBook with an HDMI port.

PlayerX

@Rabid Penguin: I don't think our bloggers need to have a death wish.

Chen: *typing on Giz updating the Live Blog*
Random Appleite: "Hey man, what're ewe dewin' here?"
Chen: "Hey I'm just checki..
Random Appleite #2: "Look man we just wanna see the Steve in peace. Why can't you just let us be happy??!"
Chen: "Wha..."
Random Appleite #3: *stabs Chen in the back*

*crowd of bloodthirsty fans carry corpse out to the street*

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

I want to see you go there dressed up in a Microsoft shirt and Microsoft ball cap, carrying a Zune, and a Big Gulp that has the words "Microsoft's Ecosystem Rocks!" printed on it. And change your cell phone ringer to Vista boot up sound. I think it will make your live blogging experience at the Apple event a little more... interesting.

Rabid Penguin

@Late_Night: same here. I really want a high capacity iPod, but I don't want a Touch, I'd feel ridiculous carrying a Touch and a iPhone around, and I don't want the Classic. It bores me.

GiantEnemyCrab

This is obviously just an iPod event, so we can forget about the Mac stuff. Apple's not going to suck the material out of their next Macworld Expo.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

What would I LIKE to see?
Easy...A touch tablet, with bluetooth, wifi, and about 80 gigs. An unholy marriage of an iPhone and a netbook.

Will I see it? Not a chance in hell.

Miranda Kali (Desperate But Not Serious)

Just a big price cut on the 160GB Classic. Dare I dream wifi podcast updating?

ryan7107

Yeah, what about all those leaked shots of the supposed new Macbooks. Are we not expecting anything on that front?

stallionz

@Kaiser-Machead on the Edge: Agreed, I think as long as the iPod gives them the lead in capacity, in that form factor it may be here for a few more years.

Oh I forgot to mention, MacBook Pros...no way will anything be mentioned about these but the body style is in need of a refresh. I know some will say the mini but who cares? that's a box you put under your tv.

Late_Night

I want to hear Steve say "in your face Motorola! Just try and catch up."

schrosa

Yeah dont change it, its works just fine.

ALT

Dancing girls is always a hit.

Obviously some of the rumors are true, new iPods.

I'd bet the biggest news is going to be price drop on the touch and maybe a price drop on the MacBook Air.

What else hasn't been updated in a while?

Mac Mini? Do people buy them? I mean, for the price of a Mini, it's not that much more to get a full iMac that comes with a screen, keyboard and mouse.

thebear91

And I just now realized it is what we want to see from Gizmodo. Oops.

Everything is fine with the live blogs. Keep up the good work.

Jagged Toaster

If its just "new" ipod announcements, then I dont care. What I want to see is a tablet. Something unique. (not that a tablet is unique at this point) but... a giant multi-touch iphone looking this with OSX and all that happy horse shit would be nice!

Stacky Botrus

@Late_Night: I wonder if they're ready to be rid of hard drives altogether. If there's no 64GB touch in this event, I think not.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

Oh what do I want to see from you, you guys rock. I love your liveblogs, don't change or I'll be confused.

Late_Night

I am hoping for a new sub-$100 nano. 4GB will do. I'm selling my 16GB iPod touch now. I only use 1.5GB of space, and I realized I don't really need all of the extra features.

Jagged Toaster

@praevalesco: And suddenly I do a complete about-face.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

The end of the iPod Classic.
The birth of iTunes 8 with a completely new UI that foreshadows Leopards' upcoming changes.
Push notification for iPhone...I know that won't happen but you asked what I want to see.

Late_Night

I personally like the live blog the way it is. It's pretty much to the point, at least I think so.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

You guys start live blogging about 45 minutes before the event. I have never felt like this is enough coverage. I want full live blog/snapshot coverage from the moment you wake up that morning. I want to know what you ate in the morning and what stripper you paid that night.

praevalesco

@Rabid Penguin: thirded. pass this one into Gizmodo law.

@thebear91: people buy mac mini for their cars. yes. that and for first NEW computers- converting that old Windows ME user is easy.

CYST!

I want to see a faster iTunes that can handle large libraries better.

rockstarjoe

@rjupiter: But you DO care enough to comment on it :P

@hatboysam: One thing that's great about the clickwheel. It's fantastic for scanning quickly through tracks and videos.

Kaiser-Machead on the Edge

@dna: :'/

BiZarRroBALlmeR

The liveblogs are great as-is; keep up the good work. As far as what I want to see from Apple? 1) iPhone firmware that works. 2)All-you-can-eat iTunes subscriptions paired with 'Genius.'

TheZolf

A new, high capacity, non touch iPod.

The touch is an amazing device but the expensive flash memory and the music browsing software don't make it as good as previous iPods for true music fanatics. It takes too long to browse through large collections, and too much effort to do menial tasks like adjusting volume. I'm asking for an ipod classic that is not slow and has a bigger screen (like a Zune-style device). I think it would truly be a shame for apple to completely abandon the wheel for it's music devices.

hatboysam

@rockstarjoe: I agree faster iTunes would be better also if they could make it easier to find the folder where all of you're music is stored (on PC) that would be great too.

And hopefully we will get to see a new mac book because I'm trying to save up for one and I'd be pretty pissed off if i just go out and buy one and then apple decides to release a new mac book just out of blue like a week after.

SirNirian

nothing, i don't give a crap about Apple.

rjupiter

beatles finally available on Itunes????

estephanovich

Tell you what I'd like to see, is that you just make sure that none of the Apple stuff slips into the no Apple RSS feed, clogging everything up for me. There were a ton of tagging issues around the iPhone release that let stuff get through. I've had it turned off for a while but if this event is going to make things go nuts I'll be putting it back.

Oh, and try not to strain your right hands from too much... typing...

mhlaxp

Get rid of the auto-refresh on the page. That would be great. A lot of times I stumble on the live blogging a little late and it sucks as I'm reading to catch up and the damn page reloads and I lose my place.

conformco

I heard that whatever Apple announces it will be surpassed by the MS Zune announcement. Why else would MS announce something on the same day? MS must have what 1000 engineers working on this thing?

Ken_Darrow

new cinema displays. PLEASE.

rudeadly

My hope is see a 32GB iPhone, which should have been available from Day 1 when the 3G version launched.

jaximflash

Bring the most powerful zoom lens you can and take photos of Jobs' pants pockets. He's bound to pull something out of there.

slip

Steve Jobs

Fox Mulder

Once the actual event starts, drop all of the photos of the pre-show stuff. It's just wasted bandwidth at that point.
(We already know that the usual cast of fanboys and journalists like Mossberg and Levy will be there.)

slip

@mr_bigglesworth: Heh yes, good thinking thanks.

Jason Chen

I want to see Steve Jobs and Bill Gates playing Hold'Em, with Jobs holding a new Zune Phone thing that runs Midori, and Gates on an iPhone.... lol jk.
I want to see a new iPod Touch with speakers and a better battery at the most. I gotta go return my old iPod Touch to Costco to get me a new one when Costco gets their shipment in, lol. Gotta love the 90 day return thing, perfect timing. :D
But I'm thinking that Apple is gonne do away with the iPod Classic line, replace it with super high capacity Nanos (don't really see the advantage of a nano, it's like a shuffle with a small screen?), and probably beefing up the Shuffle. Making the iPod Touch a "replacement" of the Classic line with a 64GB version coming out. So if you need capacity, get an iPod nano, but if you want more then get an iPod Touch. :P
Does Apple announce notebooks around this time too? Probably a slate tablet... probably not since they'd probably ship that with like OS11 (XI?) with crazy multitouch controls that would stomp on Windows 7 somehow, lol. Would be nice to see a tablet though, but OSX imo would seem like a dated OS for Apple to make a new hardware debut like a tablet, lol.

SDreamer

Podcast for iphone ipod touch via wifi, not itunes needded.
2. hulu like project for ipods iphone....

Godgem

I need a new god damn laptop!

ferrdidly

could you just change the title to "what do you want to see - from us, it seems most people have't actually read any of the article.

mr_bigglesworth

nudes

dorylomorphs

iTunes 8!! Really, it needs a change. Faster, Better, and i´d like to see iPhone/iPod-like Cover Flow in iTunes.

stopitnow54

@iscangel: I agree. You guys tend to summarize what Jobs says as opposed to actually quoting him in realtime. But, I'll be honest: no liveblog coverage beats Engadget (at least as of today), but I still come here to see the pics and comments.

Hey, on the bright side, at least you do a heck lot better job than CNET or TechCrunch ever do.

rer89

I'd like to see Jobs use TimeMachine to go back and never subsidize iPod boxes and included accessories to make them available to every kid and their dog.

New iPod touches couldn't hurt either. I'd like my sister to get one so she'll be thrust into the Cult of Mac.

michaelwiggins

I've always thought the live coverage from Giz has been great... I remember having multiple sites open during keynotes in the past; nowadays, Giz is all I need. It's nice to have pictures.

Stash

a complementary reach-around?

MFlick

make sure you get some booth babes. I heard iPhone Nano might be coming along on this one

acekrn

Boobs. Lots of them.

AJ_Syrinx

@vinnyr: "I want to see tv's turn off, I want to see macs turned off, I want to see iphones turned off, i want to see more tvs turned off, i want to see power turned off, I want every gadget, except for what ever you use to blog on giz to be turned off in the middle of being used! And screaming MS rules in the middle of steves key note wouldnt hurt."

I second this. Matter of fact, pack a bunch of Apple Remotes (the universal ones) and see if you can control Steve-O's presentation from the back of the room, or start all of Engadget's liveblogging laptops into Front Row! Make sure to blame it all on that one guy who got kicked out of CES though.

Please? Do it for your readers?

It would be epic.

mobiuslogic

I'd have to agree with the majority of the posters-
photos, photos, and more photos.
Also, could you set your camera on a lower resolution? Currently, the photos take forever to come up, and I notice they're about 10MP. If you used your camera at 5, you'd have no apparent reduction in quality, yet they'd upload 100x faster, and also reduce the load on Giz's servers.

Sam.Nerd144

fix my iphone backups

jhilla

How about less Apple posts?

Hardcore1

GPS and a Camera on the iPod Touch.

frankus

@jhilla:

Off-topic side note: Secrets for Mac now has an option to turn off iPhone/iPod touch backups on sync. I'm not trolling, I'm just presenting a solution to everyone's grief.

I sent Giz and Lifehacker the tip, but that's the second time they've ignored good tips from me.

I don't get no respect.

mobiuslogic

A one-of-whatever-they-unveil-at-the-event giveaway?

Work on whatever system you are using to upload and serve us photos(I get a lot of broken links and the like)?

And... Smell-o-vision? I bet Steve Jobs smells like sandalwood and burnt sage. I need to get onto Intrade.

D.E.P.C.

@Kaiser-Machead on the Edge: There's always going to be the people who want to bring their entire collection with them. The Classic isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

As for you Giz, more pictures, more info. You're always top notch and I always use Gizmodo's live blog over the others. Although last event it was strange the way it was refreshing for me.

kylo4

From Apple I'd like to see the multitouch trackpad from the Air become available on old laptops even though they said its not likely. I'd also like an update to the iphone firmware. I'm tired of bugs. Lastly, I'd like the video of the event available on the Apple site in real time. A kid can dream right?

rdarwin

How about more photoes? I have a suggestion, how about MORE PHOTOES. MORE PHOTOEES!!!! I want to see what you see, a picture is worth a thousand of your mis-spelled and ineloquent words.

Noobs-R-Us

someone use an unlocked iphone to broadcast it on flixwagon....? please

johnthevulcan

iPod/iPhone news = Meh.
Anything touch screen = Meh.
EEE Competitor = Interesting.

LankySean

Some good crowd pictures. Lots of them. It's fun to look at each face in those rare crowd shots and look for familiar faces, not that I get many hits. It's actually one of the most fascinating things to see, and yet it's something we almost never see. Since you're asking, yes, do something different from the other bloggers, and give us some good crowd pictures.

Also it would be fun to have shots of the crew and info about your gear, your setup, and process. Do you compare notes and techniques with other live bloggers? Is it cooperation, coopetition, or competition? Just more meta-information about the process of what you do. Not as a main focus -- obviously you are just the "chrome" for this and the real value is in the content -- but you could have one person on the side dedicated to giving us a sideways view, even if it was not necessarily delivered live.

natchthat

TV-B-Gone iPhone app...somehow

Tired_

I'd like to see an Eee competitor, and a Mac Mini Pro (i.e. something between a mac mini and a mac pro - single socket quad core, normal ram, but nice video and some expandability).
I wouldnt mind a macbook with updated graphics (9600 or ati equiv).

LowFuel

can you live blog the microsoft event too... goodbye to lasers... that is huge... maybe

purple-pillows

This time.... don't go off on a tangent for Win 7 and leave the "live" blog unattended for 10 minutes. Capisci? :)

I'd also like to see coverage of.. the whole day!

jlindenbaum

I'm usually reading your liveblog as well as macrumors', and I like that you're short and sweet. Probably enjoying yourselves, not stressing out about things. Once in a while I'll wish for a little more more often, but in general I find Gizmodo to be a breath of fresh air. Your liveblogs are a great reason to take the day off from work and start drinking at 10am. I'm unemployed, in case you were wondering.

Just don't ever liveblog the way kotaku does. WAY too much information. Impossible to catch up if you go to the bathroom and miss a few minutes.

collider

Ken Layne does a live blog like no other. Probably with a half bottle of scotch in him, but whatevs.

here's an example:

[wonkette.com]

smackswell

I can't beleave that nobody has mentioned macbook pros.

infiniteloop

audio would be nice, video even nicer :P

Geogeo

@purple-pillows: Only if the lasers were on the heads of sharks.

carsly

More photos, yes, but I would also like to see some crowd reaction shots to the new product announcements in addition to Steve-O dancing on the stage. If you could audio capture some Steve-O's "Boom"s for later splicing that would be nice as well.

Any way you could hook up a webcam for live video coverage?

carsly

@stopitnow54: Coverflow is in iTunes already.

Late_Night

Don't change a thing about your live blogging.

Also, don't listen to the people who say there's too much iPhone coverage on this site.*

*Full disclosure: I was one of those people until I bought one, and now it's my favorite part of the site.

RalphWiggum

Show me an AppleTV with DVR! that is what I want to see. Lie to me if you have too.

alphadog00

For the most part your coverage is OK, if a little excessive. The one thing that really got my goat with the iPhone 3G announcement was the article that you did on cardboard boxes sitting outside of Apple's warehouse. Seriously, that was getting a bit creepy.

So, stay away from the panty-sniffing stalker stuff, and we should be OK.

HeartBurnKid, creepy morbid freak

love your liveblogs already :)

cristian77

What do I want you to change? Not a thing.

What do I want from Apple? Everything, but mostly a tablet Mac. Since it's an iTunes event, I want them to bring back web streaming of my home iTunes library across the real Internet, not just the Internet in my pants. They accidentally released this back in version 3.0 or so but quickly made a patch to pull it out (not out of my pants).

codemagic

@infiniteloop: At a music event? They're probably not going to get mentioned there either. ; )

someToast

Beloved Gizmodo and the September 9th Live Bloggers,

Just imagine that we are on the other end, and you are us, gazing at the screen hitting refresh, trying to squeeze out as much information as we can from your sentences.

As your live-blogging on Tuesday, if your brain goes..."Would they want to know this? (Asking yourself about us readers), a general rule of thumb should be for you to think "Yes. They DO want to know this." Just hammer us with every little detail, and every possible photo you can crank out.

Think about what YOU would want to know?

So basically, just post something as you wake up and brush your teeth. Then post something else every 90 seconds until the event is over. That should be sufficient.

PS - Please don't use twitter for this. The experience is like watching someone cut a t-bone with a butter knife.

As always, I'll be here first on the 9th.

A-Veev

@thebear91: Plenty of people buy Mini's, in fact it was my Mini which convinced me that Apple was the way to go, and I then got a MBP. The Mini makes a perfect media centre, and the form factor goes really well in a living room setting - much better than having a PC box IMHO

Vestan_Pance

@Vestan_Pance:

DEFINATELY!!!!!!! Mac Minis rule for a home media setup, and with wifi, you also have access to all your other files, web, iTunes rentals, etc. I work on a 109" LCD projector on mine and it rules!!!! Nothing like Photoshop on a screen that large, Or ESPECIALLY my Xbox!! Holy Crap... it will go up to 300" but I don't have that kind of real estate in my apt. But the neighbors still freak out at night when we are watching a movie on the home "Theatre" with 7.1 surround LOLOL!!! It rules...only native 1024x768 xvid but still AMAZING!!! much better than some 65" LCD flat screens I've seen (unless viewing an HD channel or BD or something and certainly a MUCH lighter hit on the budget for casual viewing where you don't HAVE to have HD (Mines an Epson LCD (3CL) ? I think, but still looks wonderful HD or not. and was only 499.00. I us my 32" Olevia for HD and it looks great too, amazing in fact for people on a budget this little guy pumps it out and at a reasonable price point, I think it was like 599.00 when I bought a few months back on sale at CC. The HD Projector versions for all the "must have" HD people out there are much more, but mine is still super fun nonetheless, and my bulbs last 2000 hours and I have had a year or so now and still 1200 hours on the bulb which is only 130.00 VS severl hundred for Nicer projectors.Anyway, FUN!!! especially Pron!!!!! J/K ;-) Anyway enough rambling and a bit off topic, but Mac Mini on a projector or large Screen with a decent tuner (5.1) and up and you are King of the Nightime world!!!!!

Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass

Please use your "Strong Arm" influences to encourage Apple to release a firmware update to unlock the bluetooth stack on iPhone for complete A2DP listening. It's ridiculous it's "locked" and limited to it's true capabilities. Then we can stream to BT headphones and car decks and lose some more wiring etc. Go Green Apple!!!! We don't need any damn cables....roll with the changes, you sponsor "Product Red" (I Think), now start a "Project Green" campaign. And lets us Go Wireless!!!!!!

Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass

@codemagic:

Check out Simplify media!!!! Streams iTunes or just a regular folder of mp3s to iphone, another PC, receiver etc. I have only used the iPhone setup and it takes a bit to "build your library" in the background, but retains it once it's done even if you shut off the phone, it remembers your collection, but works well even on EDGE connection and better over WIFI, when I go to work or am driving, I have 32,000 or so at my leisure. I just hit shuffle and got all my music Virtually with me. Or at a friends etc. like having a jukebox in your pocket, plug in some headphones to a receiver, Cd player etc. and hit Aux channel on the tuner and you are the king of the party....

Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass

@Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass: Because wireless devices that use more power are greener.

D:

e-friend

New MacBook and MacBook pro cases please! And a merger with Nintendo! Maybe not.

jaymac

I would like a good, graphical, in-depth liveblog.I would also like a sort of nano-ish thing with a touch screen and a click wheel, because the click wheels are great for scrolling and the touch screen is great for most other things.

chjrelf

I want to see the tough questions asked as they announce new products / upgrades / new versions. Examples:

1) iTunes: Will this new version also bring better performance on the Windows side? We know Apple prides itself on great execution of software, but are they only good enough to make that happen on the Mac OS side and not XP / Vista?

2) iPhone: If they don't have Copy / Paste, will the question be asked, "At what point will Apple adhere to the voice of the millions that purchase their products and give them Copy n' Paste as well has a horizontal keyboard when doing text messaging?"

My point? What I want? I want Team Giz to NOT go all girly eyes when they see the new stuff / enhancements. I want you guys to quickly identify the shortcomings and use your time with the Apple staff to get those questions answered as to "Why Not!"

All of the other media outlets will cover that other stuff. But if you guys find the time to get questions answered that we all want to know...that would set you guys apart from the rest.

svnx

No, but seriously. Tomrrow, just give us the Gizmodo love that we know.

A-Veev

i'd like to see a map of the event with red dots of all you gizmodo guys and floating descriptions over each room saying what is going on there atm. in real time ofcourse :)

Pocari

@frankus: If that happens I will buy one immediately.

Sora57

@Hardcore1: How about, stop being a douche?

Minimum91

@AJ_Syrinx: A suit...er turtleneck full of boobs.

Minimum91

What I would like to see from you?
Well you wearing a shirt saying:

I paid 600€ for my iPhone, and every 2 weeks I have to make a factory reset!

the iPhone is very unreliable, and Steve should feel that awkwardness in the room... you know... the feeling that people won't be clapping after each sentence cuz they are pissed with his company work...

Portuga

I'd like to see you guys unlock an iPhone 3G right before the event begins. If not, just lots of pictures and detailed info will be great! If there is time for questions, please ask Steve where are the MMS app and the video recording app (if it's not included in firmware 2.1). If Apple doesn't provide one, it should at least let a third-party developer create one for those who wish to have those apps!

vandy1997