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Apple has a big, big event happening tonight, as you know. What you may not have known was that Steve Jobs and friends plan a special Apple live stream for the event. This is actually quite remarkable, because it is Apple’s first live stream in a long, long while. But you’re not invited to the party if you’re not an Apple customer.

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You’re out of luck if you want to watch the Apple live stream on any device that is not made by Apple. Apple’s statement regarding the live stream reads: ‘Viewing requires either a Mac running Safari on Mac OS X version 10.6 Snow Leopard, an iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 3.0 or higher, or an iPad.’ Man, where’s the love? What’s worse is Apple is even punishing those Mac users who are still on Mac OS X version 10.5. Not cool.

New iPod Nano, FaceTime Touch, iTV

Apple’s autumn show has been greeted with tons of speculation, with the obvious being the iPod lineup will see some form of an update. Reports indicate that the iPod Nano will get a brand new interface, minus a click wheel.

In addition, the iPod Touch will reportedly get a rear-facing and front-facing camera, with Apple’s proprietary FaceTime software baked into the OS. FaceTime seems to be Apple’s big thing now – what, with all the iPhone 4 commercials showing it – and it would make sense for the company to spread its tentacles even further out.

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The big, big deal may be the long-rumoured Apple TV refresh (expected to be renamed iTV). Various agreements with film studios have been discussed in finance publications, with all being curious on whether Apple can change the media centre game the way it did the personal music player, smartphone and tablet computer game.

Alternatives

For those of us who aren’t burning to watch the Apple live stream, you can catch the full video on Apple’s website a few hours after the event, or you can read the many live blogs across the web during the conference.

Surprisingly, I’m not as excited for this event as previous Apple events. How do you feel about it?