Because Touch ID is existing tech and this is 'under development. Apple doesn't market on what they hope to do or plan to do, that's Samsung etc. Apple markets on what they are doing and have done
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Apple Working to Leverage New 'M7' Motion-Sensing Chip for Mapping Improvements
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Because Touch ID is existing tech and this is 'under development. Apple doesn't market on what they hope to do or plan to do, that's Samsung etc. Apple markets on what they are doing and have done
did you expect anything else from the company that thought siri was something to brag about?
Not true. There are many ways to find out more info. Getting it directly from city and state sources like they were able to do in China. Getting it from the various companies that can tell them where stores are located and if one closes is another.
As you intimated, get developers onboard with apps to make use of it which will then work with the watch when it's released ("Look at all these great apps already available for it!").
yup.
Also imagine the extra capabilities that come with two M7 chips on the same person coordinating their data with each other over blue tooth.
The one application I want to write with such setup is along the lines of tracking the limb movements of dancers ( say classical, ballet etc. ) in their practice. The possibilities are limited only by our creativity.
There will be more use for this at first glance... as well as that thumb scanner thingyyyy!!!
(Now you will be getting speeding tickets via your iPhone...)
More like creating tech that knows when you are driving and doesn't allow you to use your phone, say teens texting or drivers holding phone up to ear to talk rather than having both hands on the wheel.
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You answered your own question. They didn't do it before because of the battery life and instability it could cause by straining the processor. Dying batteries and constantly crashing apps are two things even the biggest noob can see and freak out about. Apple wasn't about to do something they knew would likely cause such things. So they wanted until they had the tech to do the tricks without the issues, or as least as much of one.
I think its a great feature. But in the cases you describe, you should still be focusing on driving, and your surroundings, not your phone and its screen.
Knows when you´re on a moving vehicle?
Hopefully with this there can be an app or a way to automatically disable texting while driving. It would save a lot of lives.
Hopefully with this there can be an app or a way to automatically disable texting while driving. It would save a lot of lives.
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Only do it at stop lights. Sometimes, even pull over completely. Never while car is in motion.
I have. These are known networks. The optimum network is through the cable company in my area, and they have public hot spots.
For the record, this hardly ever happens and is hardly a huge deal, its just nice to see a new feature that I've thought about. Sometimes the ipad does that when the kids are on a long trip and netflixing a movie. It then stops the movie until a better connection is remade. I always have to explain to them whats happening and explain why the ipad is not broken. Ah kids!
A feature that I have been hoping for a long time: your phone being able to sense when you leave home, and turning wifi off for your. Or sensing when you arrive at work, and turning your phone on silent automatically. These things have been technically possible for a while (ever since gps geofencing) but would have killed your battery in no time. Now, they're certainly possible. Excited to see what Apple can do with the M7 chip. Unfortunately, I get the feeling all this stuff is going to come in iOS 8 once they've had time to stop focussing just on the look, and more on features they can add
Additionally. I wonder if they will market a car charger. They never have and left it to third parties. Doesn't mean the couldn't though.
Imagine a car charger with a usb port, from Apple, with an integrated iBeacon. The iBeacon could use BT4.0BLE to mark you cars location when it connects/disconnects.
Obvious reference to iWatch. Apple having M7 in the wild will be great for feedback on accuracy and more importantly battery life.
Apple probably would have preferred to keep M7 quiet, but with them needing developers to put it to use they were stuck between a rock and a hard place.
And here was me thinking my fitBit Flex had at least another year of use. FitBit/Jawbone etc - time to start panicking!
Apple probably would have preferred to keep M7 quiet, but with them needing developers to put it to use they were stuck between a rock and a hard place.
And here was me thinking my fitBit Flex had at least another year of use. FitBit/Jawbone etc - time to start panicking!
You realize that every phone with a GPS could already track your location right?
The future will be interesting.
The M7 chip, fingerprint scanner, and 64 bit processor don't exactly blow my mind right now. But two or three years from now when they provide a lot more functionality, we will see apple start to pull away from the competition.
This is the first major fork in the road. Apple knows what path they are on. They are going to leave everyone else behind
The M7 chip, fingerprint scanner, and 64 bit processor don't exactly blow my mind right now. But two or three years from now when they provide a lot more functionality, we will see apple start to pull away from the competition.
This is the first major fork in the road. Apple knows what path they are on. They are going to leave everyone else behind
Cool. Yet another category of apps rendered irrelevant.
First, the "flashlight" app category with the built-in flashlight feature in Control Center.
Now the "find my car" app category.
Keep it going, Apple!
You can't patent a concept like find my parked car. It's how the device remembers where your car is parked and how to help you subsequently find it that can be patented. It's the details. I'm sure Apple is not planning to willfully infringe on automatic's or anyone else's patents.
Good point. Because up until now, and moving forward for the time period you specify, no other company has done/will do these things.
I'd say that Apple's custom 64-bit A7 is the first fork in the road.
(And, as an aside, a future quad-core 64-bit AX chip could power a MacBook Air.
Don't forget that OS X started life on PowerPC RISC-based processors.)
But yes, Apple more than ever controls their own destiny in terms of hardware + software integration.
You missed the core of Apples event.
"iPhone 5S, the most forward thinking phone we have ever made."
This isn´t just some useless tech to save a couple of % battery in 5S, it´s part of a much broader strategy Apple is yet to unveil in new products. It´s part of building the ecosystem.
I´ll bet you my two cents that they will announce this new product category within the fall. And it will use the M7.
But that happened before everybody was overly cautious about privacy, so it's okay. Apple should have waited with this until everybody forgot about that privacy thing again, in like two months, maybe three.
People are kind of stupid sometimes.
