I always watch it live and have done since the 1st iPhone.
We have seen all the leaks about the new phones and we know about the new airpods. I doubt there will be a new MBP so unsure what the OMT will be… won’t be a watch.
What else could it be 
I’m gonna go with Maps (Streetview)
Wild guess but HomePod refresh?
Mac Pro?
Anyone?
I always watch live too. If there is a OMT, it might be a Apple TV streaming service perhaps rather than hardware.
I’ve always watched live but a friend has very unhelpfully invited me to his exhibition private view tomorrow evening. I hope he doesn’t mind me constantly checking my phone.
Hoping for pre-orders to go live on Friday and deliveries the following Friday, I’m all ready to book a day off work so I can stay home and wait for it to arrive 
I’m hearing the release date isn’t until the 28th. Reliable source, but could be wrong.
You might be eligible to pay the early upgrade fee which is only a few bucks more if your contract is up the end of this month…I would suggest if you wait until the end of September the waiting list will be looooong.
Quite concerned with that as well. I’m on the upgrade program, but I think that won’t renew until 10th October and extra £63 just to upgrade early feels excessive 
That’s because I got unlucky last year and did not manage to get it with the opening of preorders…
I was going to watch live but have a few things to do tomorrow. Normally 9to5mac do a good overview of it squashed into 10 mins. I’ll probably watch that along with a browse of the Apple site.
Apparently they are live streaming for the first time on twitter.
This may interest you. It seems their plans for maps is quite open. I’ve seen a few Apple maps cars drive past me in recent weeks.
Yeah but we don’t have a release date though, I was thinking maybe a date and or demo.
I saw one parked outside my old job…3 years ago. Since then, no meaningful updates to Maps.
I doubt they will ever catch up with Google Maps tbh.
I actually think they have learnt from that massive cluster f**k when maps first came out and they will come back even better and I reckon better than Google… I also think they will in some way incorporate the fly overs that are used as screensavers on the ATV4
Second this,
Google’s core business is around gathering data. They are a search engine after all.
Apple don’t work in this field and so don’t have that constant influx of data to use / interigate.
Apparently there was an Apple maps van driving around Cumbria a week or so ago…
It’s the annual upgrade plan, the contract itself doesn’t actually end for another year, but you can upgrade to a new device after 12 months if you take out a new 2 year contract.
Liam
Dude. Really?
I wouldn’t be so sure… They’re not holding back. Changes might not come immediately, and they’re more focused on the US AFAIK.
For one, the vans they’re using are next-level. Higher quality imagery, 3D point maps… could be an investment in AR/VR as well.
Then there’s the iPhones.. 1b+ of them, which they’re tapping into for (anonymised) data. Hard for Google because of the fragmentation. 
Never thought of that… interesting if so
At the moment, Apple Maps is roughly on-par with Google, save for very very new roads, which Google seem to have before Apple (looking at you M1 junction 24 where I was “flying” a couple of weeks ago) and of course street view, which I don’t use very often any more.
However, Apple Maps until iOS 12 used a variety of sources for map data, particularly TomTom in the UK. Apple want to start using their own data so they have more control (one of the restrictions imposed by TomTom on Apple is that they can’t download maps onto phones for offline use, even in the super limited ways Google do). One of the reasons I have Here WeGo downloaded is because I can store map data for the whole UK so if I’m somewhere I don’t know and I have no signal, I can still get directions (I had friends in Garsdale where there’s no phone signal, for example).
So, my maps predictions would be:
As @nbgoodall suggested, the 3D models used in street view could be used in an AR mode in Maps on the phone, but also could be used with VR to go down streets more naturally than Google’s stuff in the Cardboard app.
I think this is only true for the US and UK (and perhaps some other places).
I’ve seen a hell of a lot of reports of Apple maps being next to useless in other countries.
I actually prefer Apple maps from a UI perspective - But I still trust Google maps more right now.
I think Apple will catch up - They are putting too much money into it for it to by a side project which never lives up to the hype (which is exactly what it’s been for most of it’s life).