Apple Keynote - 9/9/2015
3Didn't see another thread dedicated to discussing the keynote, so I figured I'd create one. What do you guys think? iPad Pro, Apple Watch, new AppleTV, iPhone 6S (difficult to say), iPhone 6S Plus (even more difficult to say), 3D touch, 4K video. Lots of stuff announced. What do you guys think? Excited or Meh?
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A bit too much. I am super excited about most of the announcements, it just felt like they threw too much at me. I am so intrigued by this new iPhone every year program.
@conandlibrarian The CNET livestream commentary was actually better than the event, because I didn't have to hear the clapping, and they jumped on implications I missed.
I think I'm excited for the phone if it has the proper T-Mobile LTE Bands... but... I'm probably not going to upgrade... I should... but I don't think I will... The phone isn't that cheap as I'm no longer on contracts...
@sohmageek actually cheaper than when you were on a contract plan, if you look at the math... almost all the carriers "payment plans" come out better for the consumers bottom line.
@sohmageek the 6 does, I'm assuming, seeing as a friend of mine regularly hits around the 100Mbps mark.
@armchair the 6 has 1 of the 2 lte bands that T-Mobile uses. (Band 2) There is a 2nd one they they are working on deploying that penetrates buildings better (band 12). But I know that the iPhone 6/6plus are lacking in the secondary band they want.
@sohmageek Band 12 is on the specs page: http://www.apple.com/iphone-6s/specs/
@armchair yes. But it's not on the 6 so that was something to be excited about!
I'm just waiting for this darn "concert" to end and see if there's anything else worthwhile..
I'm still very excited for my iPhone 6s Plus
It's time for me to shell out the $900 bucks or whatever to upgrade, and now I can upgrade into pink, so... I guess that makes up for how goddamn gigantic the 6* phones are.
The iPad, Apple TV and Watch don't interest me, but the iPhone 6S does. It sounds like there are a lot of changes to what I thought would be an incremental upgrade.
Too bad I got my 6 in December. I'll be waiting for the 7.
@jsh139 The phone may make me cross to the dark side. I thought I saw 'rose gold', and at least 32 MB.
@OldCatLady Yeah, Rose Gold was one of the new colors.
@jsh139 I always hold out for the S.... so your on the whole number cycle, and im on the S cycle ;)
@thismyusername I'm on a 5. I skipped a tick (or a tock?). I feel like a badass.
@thismyusername my last phone was 4S. I wanted a 5S but it was a company phone and they made me hold onto it for another year. I have a new job now and the 6 is a personal phone. So yeah, I jumped to the whole numbers. I had planned on sticking to the "S cycle" tho ;)
two words. Apple (mother fuckin') pencil. Fine, four words. At a low, low, low price of 1428.57 times the cost of a single standard pencil on Amazon.com ($100)
@thismyusername While I, too, enjoy the irony, I think there's a big difference between 'having the option to use a stylus for precision tasks like handwriting and diagramming' and 'needing a stylus to do any-and-everything effectively.' And, at that point, styli were pretty much a guarantee of shitty resistive touchscreen tech as well.
The Apple pencil may sound appealing now, sure, but history has taught us to wait for either the $79 Apple Pencil Air or the $179 Apple Pencil Pro.
@editorkid @Bogie it bothers me more than it should that Apple claims it is Entirely Revolutionary; When, in fact, it is not. It has the word pencil, like, right there in the name. Pencil is not revolutionary. mostly revolutionary, sure... entirely -- no.
@connorbush what about the Apple Pencil Air Pro?
@robson I think you mean Apple Pencil Air 2 Pro with Retina Pickels
Why can't we merge things here? Actually there is another topic. https://meh.com/forum/topics/scavenger-hunt-apple-announcement-day
meh!
I want a smart phone with a 3.5 to 4 inch screen (bigger is not better) and a friggin' microSDXC slot so I can expand the memory.
USB 3.1c for both data and rapid charging would be a nice feature too.
The new Apple TV reminds me a lot of my FireTV or the Nexus Player. It all really just depends on your eco-system at home, if it's central around iOS or Andoid.
The Fire TV and Nexus Player both support gaming, with full controllers. But hardly any new games developed for that platform. (Apple will also allow third party controllers)
Nobody is going to pay for a higher end game for these devices, at least not as long as console and Steam are around. So developers don't see value in creating new games, just porting over (maybe tweaking up) current games in the app markets. The games you will see are indie games like Transistor, which was launched on Steam. Since it was an amazing game that did very well, they ported it over to the app market.
The new Apple TV is neat, but not that different from what is already out there.
The iPad Pro seems like them responding to the popular Surface Pro. Something that people can take more seriously as a fully functional professional device. It's kinda big and bulky, very narrow market compared to the rest of the iPads. Maybe good for design people who can't afford a new Wacom tablet and Mac.
@The_Baron I agree with you about gaming on these streaming boxes - largely pointless and easily replaced by a console or Steam.
The exciting thing that sets the new Apple TV apart from FireTV is the ability to use voice search across multiple apps. I was stoked about using FireTV's voice search until I realized it ONLY searches Amazon, not Netflix/Hulu/HBO Go/etc. If the voice search works the way they intend it to then I might just have to switch from the FireTV.
I want an iPad Pro but a lot of that comes from not having any iPad at all and wanting one for the more intensive iOS games and screwing around on the couch or working in bed. Unfortunately I don't have an extra $800 just burning a hole in my pocket so it probably won't happen for a while.
@JonT The FireTV kinda does search across Nexflix/Hulu, depending if it's made available on Prime. It would be great if it was a full feature, the voice search works well.
The Apple TV search might be similar, centering around items available on iTunes, secondary with streaming apps. The demos are always the most ideal scenario, how it's designed. Not really how it actually works. It's designed to direct you into the iTunes store, so you will spend money. The secondary apps are just a feature to boost up the search.
For the iPad Pro, the last line you said, "Unfortunately I don't have an extra $800 just burning a hole in my pocket so it probably won't happen for a while".
Similar to the expensive Surface Pro, this will be a major factor with a lot of people. You can make a super tablet that does a ton of neat stuff, but if it costs just as much or more then a laptop, people will be very reluctant to buy. (For the home retail market).
Businesses will be the ones picking this up. Large companies will pick up a couple to demo and see if there is a use or benefit with the new hardware. This is where they will actually sell. Them bringing up Microsoft during the demo shows they want people to take this as a serious professional product. This is their target market.
Surprised no one else has posted this amazing comic which predicted the iPad Pro correctly:
