Think they will bring out night sight but won’t claim it as such...just say improved low light pics
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Apple Invites Media to September 10 Event at Apple Park: 'By Innovation Only'
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Think they will bring out night sight but won’t claim it as such...just say improved low light pics
The stock market (owners of the company) likes Apple's increasing focus on services revenue. The iPhone is an annuity providing nearly assured upgrade cycles on average of under 3 years, up a bit over the past 3 years. So users perceive iPhones as lasting longer or having a longer useful life. Device speed has moved from "good enough" to "more than good enough" and battery life is AFAICT the determining factor in upgrades now not responsiveness to new software.
I think AAPL should have gone private at $88. But since they didn't, now the stock price is subject to the world news flow as well as the product upgrade cycle. Anybody not fixated on their own personal wish list of product features, can clearly see that for the steadily growing ecosystem users that want to upgrade, Apple offers what they want. Very little brand switching is happening, even though Android devices are also largely "more than good enough" for their users too.
I expect to see more software and service announcements than astounding new hardware. Incremental hardware improvements are "more than good enough".
I think AAPL should have gone private at $88. But since they didn't, now the stock price is subject to the world news flow as well as the product upgrade cycle. Anybody not fixated on their own personal wish list of product features, can clearly see that for the steadily growing ecosystem users that want to upgrade, Apple offers what they want. Very little brand switching is happening, even though Android devices are also largely "more than good enough" for their users too.
I expect to see more software and service announcements than astounding new hardware. Incremental hardware improvements are "more than good enough".
To me, for at least the 1st 3 or 4 years of home automation... it was a MESS.
Should I get devices that use bluetooth, wi-fi, zigbee, some blend of those?? Do I need a half dozen hubs? How will this ever all work together?
Now it’s fairly mature, seamless, & painless...
Now sure, that path was “boring”, there was no HUGE announcement that suddenly everything was perfect. You probably zzzzzzz’d quite a bit during that time... but I’m sure glad they kept with those snore inducing incremental improvements.
That’s EXACTLY where AR is right now, imo! What does it do? What can it do?
I don’t see it becoming immediately widespread the second Apple releases an iPhone equipped with a 3rd camera w/ some time-of-flight goodies & hot on the heels of the impressive 2nd gen neural engine, a brand NEW “matrix” coprocessor... but I think it’s almost certainly the most significant step towards that tech becoming as ubiquitous as home automation now is.
I think if you just step back & look at things in a slightly longer timeline than ONLY ever year over year, it can allow you to appreciate each incremental step towards the future!
Like, to me... it’s honestly fun remembering buying a ZIP drive because of its MASSIVE 100mb disks, lol- then feeling sooo cool w/ a dvd burner able to write almost 5gb! I’m not frustrated and bored that it didn’t go straight from floppies to thunderbolt 3 drives!
The journey through incremental tech can be fun. I don’t act all mopey like Eeyore & think “sigh, this probably isn’t going to be as good as whatever comes after it”. Of course it won’t be! But it’s the level best offered currently! I’m going to try to get the most out of it...
The pace of innovation has clearly slowed and this year’s new iPhones won’t blow anybody’s mind that’s for sure. Clearly most of the low hanging fruit in terms of features have been picked. That means new features now require much more engineering (and by extension more time) to fully implement. I can respect that it’s damn hard to develop new things in such a ridiculous space budget. But at the same time, we gotta take a step back and see the big picture. The flagship phones are already superb pieces of technology. I have an iPhone 7 and i’d be hard pressed to find anything I can’t do with this phone. I always appreciate updates in camera performance, speed and efficiency, but i can’t complain about what I have already.
I’m not sure about this. It’s easy to say when some of the details have been leaked to death. Nor does anybody know the full extent of the reveal.
When was the last time an iPhone blew anyone’s mind, since the intro? If that’s the criterion for innovation, then almost nothing is innovative.
Don’t watch then....and don’t bother replying in this thread if it doesn’t interest you.
Not a hard concept.
I think under screen fingerprint is kind of useless until it can be anywhere on the screen. Until then, you still have to identify where to place your finger, which kind of negates the point and Face ID would already be unlocked by then. Night sight would be cool, I'd be happy to have the option.
Yes, I did mean “black” background, haha...sorry about that.
Also, if you do make another wallpaper with the words “Innovation Only” and with the black background, can you make the resolution for an iPhone XS as well, please?
Thank you very much!
I got that they were doing a play on words, however, it just doesn’t sound right...especially as you said “without the context.”
When my friend first saw the invite, he said: “Did they spell invitation wrong?” Though I must admit, he is not the sharpest tool in the shed, haha.
I just think that the very simple “Innovation Only” sounds much better.
There’s a better chance of that than the guy who called the Apple Car for the TV+/Arcade/Card event
It remains to be seen how haptic touch (as rumored) compares against 3DT. I'm with the, I like 3DT crowd, but if it's gone it's gone.
I bought my 1G 12.9 Pro from a fire sale last year. It’s amazing how good it is for a 4 year-old device.
I know we’re expecting 3 new phones but has there been any strong rumors on AW5? I haven’t seen leaks or anything yet
I don’t get it??
I was chuckling along during your whole setup... but then there was no punchline. =/
On the wildly offhanded chance that you’re NOT kidding & truly think that Apple is behind in specs, to that I say: “ha!”.
These things are the new (even more) personal computers... personal computers made mobile & thus, more intimate. I don’t know if you are old enough to remember ACTUAL computers... but they were a pretty big deal, back in the day! You could get one & talk/brag about specs to your buddies. The most important spec of a computer was absolutely NEVER that it had some silly little add on gizmo, or the bezel width on the monitor (if it even came with one!)… rather, the most important spec was the processor. And not by a little bit... by a country mile!!! You see... a processor is like the “brains” of the computer. Faster = better.
I know this may seem crazy- and a be a bit hard to wrap your head around.... but today, that is still true! An iPhone XS Max’s processor, packed in a teeny tiny unappealing iPhone 4 size mobile would still be a much, much, much better user experience than the A4 processor running a mobile with a XS Max size screen.
Make sense?
To use another analogy.... why don’t you try to imagine the processor like an engine, in a car. Do you think you could be taken even vaguely seriously if you were trying to talk car specs and said to the fellas: “yep, yep... well that one might be be the fastest thing on the road... with higher speed, quicker acceleration, more torque, & more horsepower- but they’re YEARS behind these other guys- I mean look, they’ve got a bigger windshield that curves more!”.
Anyways, respectfully.... that’s what you sound like to me. I can’t think of any spec I’d consider REAL that Apple is years behind in. Back before iPhones were waterproof, that I’d have considered an actual spec that some android phones (albeit, an INCREDIBLY minuscule amount) had that Apple was yet to offer. Battery life is a real spec... but I think most mobiles are within 10% or so battery life with each other. Wireless charging is standard I believe on all currently available iPhones... Discounting software trickery, and # of them... I think actually specs-wise, cameras on most high end phones are remarkably close. I think phone calling is a real feature, but outside of those that’ll work themselves into a tizzy, describing how inferior an Intel broadband chip is compared to a Qualcomm... I think most would agree there’s no company years behind in phone calling.
I’m kinda running out of hardware specs here, trying to think of what you could possibly be talking about that’s “years behind” in Apple hardware.
I don’t really play chess much, but I think this makes it your move...
Apple aren’t behind in anything anymore apart from picture in picture and true multitasking
Everything wise that matters they are on par with while running a better OS
Everything wise that matters they are on par with while running a better OS
I believe the only thing Samsung has better is USB C ( and give you fast charging for free) and the screen is way better looking than Apple. Other than that there really isn’t much. OS is much better than android of course