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10+ Announcements Apple Could Have Rolled Into a February Event
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Sorry, but I use my Mac outside of social media and I have a very good overall experience. I think Safari has never crashed recently. Xcode, uncommonly yes, but once again, not more (probably less) than in the past. Can't speak about Mail.
Apple has never been good at dev documentation, this is not new, there is no golden age to go back here.
I need a new Apple TV, AirPods Pro 3, and AirTags (kind of an actual need at this point, I don’t want to buy any of these because it’s been so long since a full refresh). I know a lot of people that are waiting on a new MacBoom Air.
You know the two hour long presentations where they go over every new or upgraded thing like they are the greatest things on Earth, it does get a bit tiresome. There's only so many times you can get excited about a processor being 20% faster than the old one and how cool OLED is. The new iPad M4 was radically new, it needed a lot of explaining, like how they achieved the peak brightness on an OLED, how it can be so thin, how did they get an M4 chip in it. An iPhone SE doesn't need any explaining, and usually signals a major form factor change for the regular iPhone coming up.
Honestly, the smart home hub is the only thing that really appeals to me.
I love how they still call it an "event" when it is really just a pre-recorded YouTube infomercial.
You’d fall asleep if he presented the whole keynote though…. Hard to listen to him for more than 5 minutes. Every interview sounds 100% scripted, even the half jokes, there is zero spontaneity there. And he is not passionate about the product. None currently at Apple is. The last one was Ive.
The company is now ran by marketing people and sooner or later they will hit a wall.
"Apple has never been good at dev documentation", completely wrong. os9 was very well documented. As were very early versions of osX because Apple wanted adoption. Documentation went to terrible when Apple started replacing all of the BSD code with their own and not documenting it. Also the current remaining BSD code is decades old without any updates. I could go on and on about the crumbling state of iOS and macOS code. Just because you don't see it does not mean it is not present and causing problems. Because I very much do see it.
I also remember going months without a reboot and upgrade immediately on every point release (which was the only time my systems rebooted). Neither of which can be done now.
The ironic thing is that to get the level of polish and spontaneity that Jobs' presentations had, you have to put in the kind of rehearsal work that only a mad workaholic like Jobs would put in. There was no presentation more scripted than Steve's, but they seemed absolutely fluid and spontaneous because he had such a fierce attention to detail that by the time he took the stage, he'd already done the entire presentation 20 times and ironed out every single wrinkle. That is also why the few times something didn't work (I recall one presentation where a camera or something had a dead battery), he'd literally throw a mild fit while on stage and then a much bigger fit afterward (and likely fire people).
I’ve heard many complain about the overly flashy and less personal release videos they push out.
I bet in the coming years the more personal on stage demos and talks will come back. The live aspect with an audience is a big miss these days.
I’ve lost interest in the flashy unveils now. I always feel like I’ve wasted an hour or so.
Never used to feel like that watching them present and demo live on stage. There was always something special about it.
I bet in the coming years the more personal on stage demos and talks will come back. The live aspect with an audience is a big miss these days.
I’ve lost interest in the flashy unveils now. I always feel like I’ve wasted an hour or so.
Never used to feel like that watching them present and demo live on stage. There was always something special about it.
I think they will need half a decade for ehat
every interview out there is scripted yes don’t take me wrong, but I said that he does sound scripted. Like if he was reading the answers. And the answers are also always the same to be honest.
how was your day Tim: I love Apple, I love it! We are always innovating, it’s so exciting!
Do you use a Vision Pro Tim: I love it! It’s such a revolutionary device. I use it every day. At Apple we are constantly innovating!
What’s your typical day Tim?: I wake up and I read emails from our happy customers that tell me how Apple changed their life. We are all about innovation at Apple!
What do you eat Tim?: I eat apples all day, we grow them at Apple Park because we are all about pushing boundaries here! I can’t show you where we grow them though because at apple we believe privacy is a fundamental human right!
The best announcement of all would be...
"I couldn't be more excited to tell you that at midnight tonight, February 19, I will no longer be CEO of Apple. I will have no connection to the company whatsoever."
T. Cook
I don’t think he would have rehearsed it that much.
His talent was as a showman and visionary of sorts. He had a natural talent for communicating in his own unique way. I think it just came natural to him and he was so well briefed and versed in the hardwares features that he could do it in his sleep.
I’ve been corrected on this, I had no idea he practiced his presentations that much! Practically an actor in his own show 😀
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He did rehearse it that much. Quite famously, actually.
Time is money, why would Apple go back to live? There’s literally no reason to
I got a Mac mini m4 a few months ago, first Mac for around 3 years and every time I go to use it (it’s always in sleep mode) I have to restart safari before it’ll even function. I swear, I had this issue on my last Mac as well!
Why would a musician go on a concert tour when they could just make more studio recordings?
Are there really people complaining about ANY M series Mac being slow? Even the base models are absolute beasts
Ah yes, cos Apple is losing so many sales by not doing so. Get real haha
Because they make more money from touring than studio recordings.
I've been wondering whether "new member of the family" actually is the iPhone SE 4, as in "new member of the OLED family", joining the rest of the current OLED iPhone lineup. The abstract fluid image used in the promos for the announcement is along the lines of those Apple has been using for years to promote new iPhones and iPads with better displays than their prior models.