Apple put on a good show on September 9, and on Friday, many lucky people will be the owners of a new iPhone 6 or 6 Plus. Now it's time to start gearing up the rumors for Apple's next event. According to AppleInsider, citing a source who's given accurate information in the past about forthcoming Apple announcements, Apple's next event will be in the second half of October. Everyone is expecting an update to the iPads, of course, and October has been the month for new iPads in the past. According to rumors, the next-generation iPads will likely come with Touch ID and the same A8 processor that's in the new iPhones. There have also been rumors that the new iPads will have an anti-reflective coating on the screen, and that there may be a gold-colored option, as with the iPhones. I personally doubt the latter. I can't imagine a gold iPad. There's some question whether we'll see a new iPad mini this year, with some rumors have suggesting it won't get an update until 2015. But that doesn't make sense to me.
What else might we see next month? Many people are expecting an update to Apple TV. There were even rumors that we would see an update this past March. Despite tons of rumors, though, nothing has materialized. If Apple does announce a new Apple TV, the betting is that it will now have an App Store. Also, it's been rumored that it will include gaming. And possibly new ways to control it, including via gestures and Siri. However, it's known that Apple has a goal of offering a la carte TV channels (in which you only pay for those channels you actually want), and that it's been trying hard to make deals with the content providers. But so far, no deal has been forthcoming. Some rumors suggest that we won't see a new Apple TV until Apple has finally negotiated these deals, which likely won't be until 2015.
Tim Cook has said that new product categories are coming this year. So far we've gotten an Apple Watch, and even that won't be available until next year. One can only hope that we'll get something more than an iPad update in October.
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The DailyDot is reporting that the event will be held October 21 and will feature updated iPads and the release of the new version of the Mac operating system called Yosemite.
Eager to upgrade to iOS 8, I connected my iPad to my computer and booted up iTunes. The iTunes software automatically backed up my iPad to my computer, as it usually does whenever I connect my iPad. Then I clicked on the update button and confirmed that I wanted to update to iOS 8. The update downloaded just fine, but then when it was installing I got a message on my computer that there was an unknown error. I looked at the screen of my iPad and nothing was happening in the progress bar. Basically it seemed frozen. I had to press the power button and home button simultaneously to force the iPad to shut down. Then when I restarted it, I got a message that I needed to restore to the original factory settings. Which I did by selecting that option in iTunes. Then once the iPad was restored to its original state, iTunes asked me if I wanted to set it up as a new iPad or to restore from the backup. I chose the latter, and when it was done, things were back to normal — and my iPad Air was running iOS 8.
So far the reviews for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus verge on the ecstatic, and huge crowds lined up Friday to purchase the new phone. You can see a roundup of photos and videos of the crowds from around the world on 
Apple broke their previous record and sold over 10 million iPhones the first three days. And according to CEO Tim Cook, they could have sold more if they had had a greater supply. He said the company is working hard to fill the orders. In addition, Apple could also have sold more if they had been able to simultaneously launch in China, but that country won't see the new phones until 2015 because they haven't yet been approved by Chinese regulators. One result was that Chinese scalpers flooded the Apple Stores on Friday, arriving by the busload. Reports say that the new iPhones are selling for as much as $3,000 in China. But even without the phones going on sale in China, Apple took in some $6.5 billion, which is pretty amazing.
Throughout each of Can You Steal It?'s 24 levels, you tap around and uncover various secrets; clues unlock other clues which eventually lead you to the object you're tasked with taking. While there are a few title cards explaining that you're playing a thief who only steals for noble reasons, the plot isn't important at all; the meat of the game is its puzzles, which are consistent enough that you can start to anticipate them as you play through. Each level usually has at least one picture you need to complete by rotating all the squares into place, drawers that are missing their handles, and boxes locked either by alphanumeric or color-based codes. Some of the answers require clever thinking and observation, such as noticing the arrangement of three different-colored photographs on the wall, or finding two coffee orders scribbled on a napkin and adding their menu prices together to obtain a safe's code. But while the puzzles may be weird at first, they are very internally consistent, so the learning curve is pretty steady. Plus, you can only click on certain hot spots that will lead to clues; so if all else fails, you can usually resort to tapping around wildly until you find something new. Descriptions of the objects you inspect will usually tell you what you need to find.
