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2019 iPhones to Include New 'R1' Sensor Coprocessor Codenamed 'Rose'
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Except it's exactly what would be fantastic for AR use... And it's not like anyone care what the T1 chip does ,for example, outside developers... it is just a thing makes your device better.
seriously, i had fanboys arguing that apple made so much strives on ssd speed and TB3, meanwhile these are toshiba/samsung/intel innovations.
Bingo. R = Relativity / Realtime (Reality?) (my wager) Yes, spatial awareness will be mighty significant for a major future project. Gotta get the infrastructure pieces out and stabilized first. iPhone X-series and beyond are merely "public realtime test platforms" for what's coming. FaceID on the phone is just a "(very) public beta" for the spatial tracking that's coming. Apple is laying out all the breadcrumbs right now and hiding it all in plain sight with some oogly-googly distraction tactics (Animoji, MeMoji, etc.). All of that is just building blocks...
More like “the new iPhone has the new R1 processor, which means it can do this and that.”
You're wrong.
https://www.bluetooth.com/about-us/board-of-directors/
Who do you think co-develops Bluetooth? It's a collaborative process by industry heavy weights.
No, still using Intel for another year
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What's your source that the single Apple member happens to be responsible for these innovations in Bluetooth 5.1?
Rose... as in Rosetta Stone? The basis for a universal, real time, translator? - Yes I know there are devices and apps for that but imagine it being on your phone so you call someone in say China and your conversation is translated to simple Cantonese on your way to them and from whatever dialect they are speaking in to your language on the way back.
This is a very tunnel-visioned way of looking at this. It's not meant to be popular like "look at the new camera and screen!" but it's supposed to support things just "working" like the "apple magic" a la airpods as an example.
Tomorrow we'll actually get a better idea, but this isn't going to be "marketed" anywhere except for something like:
"Apple Tag: attach it to anything important, and when you lose it, iPhone will find it for you through the Find My app. And with the New R1 sensor coprocessor, tracking your keys and wallet has never been easier."
done.
How do you think your CURRENT iPhone knows to light up when you pick it up?
Just because you don't understand how this tech works doesn't mean that other people (even you) won't appreciate what it can do.
But what will be appreciated will be "I know where my things are" not "my phone has UWB".
Let's not pretend these rumored "Tiles" are going to be the "One more thing..." announcement, folks. Recall the last couple products in these types of announcements were the iPhone X and Apple Watch - not a silly product like an item finder.
It would be rather anticlimactic: a collective audience gasp at the "One More Thing" screen followed by a collective sigh.
Your original post implied that it was 100% Bluetooth and 0% Apple. The fact is Apple contributes to the Bluetooth standard, as do several other technology companies. This makes your original statement a lie (100% false).
Now you're trying to shift the goalposts again by asking someone to prove Apple is the only one responsible for these innovations, which @mdriftmeyer never claimed. In fact, he specifically stated that Bluetooth is "co-developed".
Time to let it go, the headphone jack is not coming back
Sounds like interesting tech. I don't know how useful it would be to me at this point, but that is really for developers to figure out.
Well then maybe we'll get a headphone-to-Lightning adapter included in the box with our $1,000+ phones this year.
I was thinking Rose as in Rosetta so we can run OSX PowerPC apps! You gotta start the merge somewhere.
Doubt it’s UWB only. They already boast about Find My being able to find phones anywhere using Bluetooth, Apple Tags will likely share the same features, otherwise Find My will be fragmented.
I agree that this is a tunnel visioned view but I think this whole thread is maybe missing the point, a tile type device could just be the start, the tech could quickly be applied wider.
Imagine a tile type device attached to a drone that now has much better spacial awareness of its exact location, then combine with 5G data transfers and automated movement in small spaces would be much easier / safer, who knows where it might go.. probably Amazon drone deliver to start with but after that?
Why would someone buy a $1,000 phone that doesn't have a headphone jack if it is that important to them?