Okay, folks, we all love Apple here but let us remember: This is Apple. It would be prudent for all of us to keep our expectations low. Like iPhone battery life low. Apple Watch sales low. MacBook ingenuity low.
Instead of making the phone heavier and thicker to accommodate a bigger battery while also improving one-handed use and comfortability they've settled on a target battery life of x hours and have chosen to design around that goal by focusing on software and hardware efficiency. What? That is not innovation. Why would a mobile device such as a phone need to be thinner and lighter? Just give us the iPhone 4 but with a five-inch display. Call it a day.
Instead we can expect a slightly better iPhone 6. Faster CPU and GPU are a given but Force Touch? The geniuses at Apple invested millions of dollars in developing a new technology that accomplishes the same thing as a long press? Ah, but then again, this is Apple, a company that "created" a new category of device called the "iPad." No, no, it's not a iPod touch at 9.7 inches. No. It's an "iPad."
Oh. And rose gold. To that, I quote a legendary visionary: "The one thing Apple's providing now is leadership in colors."
As for the Apple TV. I can count on a billion amputated fingers how many people are just dying for a new Apple TV. Apple is just fragmenting the television viewing experience. They're not solving anything. Chromecast is all you need. Apple TV is good but Chromecast is better and better is better than good. It just plugs right into your television. Could not be any more simpler. Apple, with all their pontificating on simplicity, couldn't figure that one out. Sorry, Apple, but boxes are dead and Google is innovating the way toward a brighter—and vastly more affordable—future.
"If it's not an iPhone (16 GB), it's not an iPhone (16 GB)." And exactly how is this a problem, Cupertino...?
