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RUSH: The Apple announcement. Do you want to hear my predictions? I don\u2019t know anything. Nobody does. There are rumors from sources all over the place and some of the sources have credibility, some don\u2019t. But there are certain things that are known. You\u2019re gonna get two phones announced today, and probably both will go on sale on September 19th, 4.7-inch screen, 5.5-inch screen. But that doesn\u2019t even cover half the news of the new phones. IOS 8 will go to gold master today, will be available to the public a week from tomorrow, is my prediction. <\/p>\n

And iOS 8 is awesome. IOS 8, when they released the new upgrade to the Macintosh, which is Yosemite, they ought to do it on the same day. They won\u2019t, but they should because they\u2019ve got a new thing called Continuity that unites the phones, the iPads, and the computers in amazing ways. But apparently Yosemite is not gonna be ready until October when Apple will have another announcement to introduce whatever\u2019s new with the Mac. <\/line><\/p>\n

There might be a new iPad introduced today. If so, it will be a minor upgrade with a touch ID fingerprint sensor on it and a “home” button and maybe a little lighter and a little thinner, nothing more major, which, since it\u2019s not a major thing they might get it out of the way today rather than a special iPad event in October, make the October event strictly Mac. Apple TV, who knows, probably next year, not ready today because they don\u2019t have a deal with TV content providers. Unless there\u2019s a giant — I mean, there\u2019s all kinds of surprises coming today.<\/p>\n

Mayo Clinic supposedly on stage to help Apple introduce the new health app. This could be big. ABC News is doing a special tonight at 6:30 on historic occurrences at this Apple thing today. An historic event happening. ABC\u2019s promoting it. Now, keep in mind ABC is Disney, and Apple, Steve Jobs\u2019 widow, is the largest Disney shareholder. Bob Iger, the Disney CEO, is on the Apple board. So there is some synergy there. <\/p>\n

But ABC is hyping this, whatever it is today, as historic with a special tonight at 6:30. People think it\u2019s the new mobile payments thing. If that\u2019s true, Apple today will begin to obsolete the credit card, and you will pay at point-of-sale with an app on your phone or whatever this thing that\u2019s being called the iWatch. And I, you know, let me tell you something. I have no idea what it is. If ABC\u2019s billing this as historic, there\u2019s more than a couple of bigger phones and a watch going on here. I mean, a watch is a new product category. What\u2019s historic? Mobile payments might be historic. <\/p>\n

This is something that Google has tried, it hasn\u2019t worked. PayPal, it hasn\u2019t taken off. Apple comes in, they don\u2019t start something. They wait until something gets going and they come out and improve it and make it better than ever. Mobile payments, phones, iPads. Well, that was a new category. The watch, everybody\u2019s out there trying the watch and failing at it. Who knows what it is. These are just my predictions. <\/p>\n

If the new phones are your big deal, I think a week from Friday they\u2019ll go on sale, 4.7 in plentiful supply, 5.5 will be tough to get like last year\u2019s gold iPhone 5s. But you\u2019ll be able to get one if you know somebody like I do. (laughing) Other than that, we\u2019ll just have to wait and see. <\/p>\n

Apple\u2019s live streaming it today, and I bet if this were on television, it would rate as high as Obama\u2019s speech on ISIS tomorrow night, if it were in prime time. That\u2019s how much eager anticipation there is for this thing. It\u2019s been an incredible hype job. Mayo Clinic reportedly on stage. They are a signatory already to the Apple health app. You know, this is the thing that tells you you\u2019re out of shape. I won\u2019t need it. I already know that. But a lot of people are going nuts over the health thing, and apparently Mayo Clinic is going to be there on stage helping to introduce whatever this is. <\/line><\/p>\n

Mayo Clinic\u2019s not insignificant. That\u2019s pretty big. Apple with Mayo today, exactly right. They\u2019ve invited, by the way, for you watch people, Apple has invited fashion industry elite as guests to this thing. They\u2019re not there for phones. They\u2019re not there for iPads. No, it\u2019s not gonna be a typical looking watch. I\u2019m not even sure it\u2019s going to be a watch. With ABC hyping this as historic, phones and watches and stuff are not historic. So we\u2019ll just have to wait and see like everybody else. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Mr. Snerdley, what were you gonna ask? (interruption) Of the Apple announcement? (interruption) Well, I\u2019m not surprised. Everything so far in the Apple announcement is exactly as sources that I trust have suggested it would be. We got two phones, 5.5 inches, 4.7 inches. They\u2019re great. IOS 8, I told you, would be out a week from now. It will be. <\/p>\n

The new phones will be out, both sizes, on Friday the 19th. Pre-order on the 12th, and, yep, right now they\u2019re into Apple Pay. This is the new wallet that\u2019s going to make credit cards obsolete. They\u2019re actually making a serious move into mobile payments. I have no idea (I\u2019m watching right now) how it\u2019s gonna work. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m assuming that there\u2019s gonna be a special enclave on a special chip in the phone — or the watch, whatever the hell it\u2019s gonna be. Your credit card numbers and data will all be, everything on the magnetic strip and your card number will go on that enclave. It\u2019s only on your phone that nobody can get to. And then there will be an app on the phone that will talk to the payment-acceptance device at the establishment, the restaurant or the store, whatever. <\/p>\n

What they\u2019re gonna have to do in order to keep all of this really secure is use a token, a one-time token that actually transmits the data from your phone to the receiving device at the business, and once the token\u2019s used, it\u2019s invalid and is gone into the ether and therefore people nearby can\u2019t steal your credit card data. They\u2019re gonna have to do something like tokenize this. <\/p>\n

They just can\u2019t put your credit card numbers over the air, either NFC or Bluetooth, whatever. So I suspect that\u2019s how they\u2019re gonna do it. And if they pull this off, they\u2019ve got 800 credit cards on file with iTunes and they\u2019ve already made a deal with American Express and some others. So they could pull this off. That might be what is the historic aspect of this, according to ABC. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I saw enough of the Apple Watch intro, it does look compelling, I have to say. It looks like a marvel of engineering. It does more than a hundred watches combined, it looks like. I still don\u2019t know if I want one \u2019cause I already know I\u2019m out of shape. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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