Everything Apple Announced Today in Five Minutes

[PowerMacBook]

wireless charging with a Milanese Loop on a AirPower: anyone?

 

[dilbert99]

I’m waiting for the first site to do an “Everything Apple announced in 15 seconds” video.

Abba could do it quicker too - Money Money Money...

 

[DaveWotzit]

Lots of new shiny things but no comments about AirPod or iMac Pro?

 

[frifra]

Great video, but only the LTE Apple watch series 3 has a red dot on the crown, the non-LTE version does have a normal crown.

 

[mtbdudex]

"There's a new A10X Fusion processor in the Apple TV, but design wise, it's identical to the fourth-generation Apple TV."
except the optical out is missing, and issue for those with a non HDMI 2.0a AVR ..... as you could run HDMI to 4k TV and optical to AVR for audio ...

 

[Popeye206]

I really don't agree.
Yes, this pattern has been going on for a while, especially with some of the self-proclaimed "power users" who frequent message forums like this one.

But there's really a sense over the last few years that the new products are more incremental improvements than "amazing".

Back in the days of OS X 10.3 to 10.4 to 10.5, the changes really were exciting. I don't recall people, on the whole, finding anything underwhelming about what was announced? Other announcements after that were a big deal too.

But the track record in recent years just isn't so great. The Mac Pro cylinder was a LONG awaited "big deal" until it came out, disappointing many people initially and further disappointing even those who bought it, as time went on! The touch-bar feature on the new Macbook Pro? Again, underwhelming, even long after the Keynote tried to talk it up. If it was so innovative, why don't we even see it on a high end machine like the new iMac Pro? It feels like an Apple R&D experiment to see what users thought about it more than a real innovation Apple knew would change how we used computers.

Apple is fortunate that it has a line of products that were so good on the whole, they can sit back and do relatively small updates to them and yes, people will keep buying them. Too many millions of people are heavily invested in the whole Apple ecosystem and don't want to start over just because the latest products don't absolutely "wow" them. But the thrill is gone, to a large extent.

People don't give Apple enough credit for what they are doing in Chip development. The A11 Bionic chip is amazing. The Apple Watch 3 is packed with technology... amazing work there. These sort of advancements don't look like anything, but they really are opening the door for more and more capabilities that we once only dreamed of.

Now the question is... upgrade to an 8 or hold out for an X?

 

[Gasu E.]

Your profile pic goes well with your reply.

LOL. I was thinking the same!

 

[M.PaulCezanne]

Nice vid MR!
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I think the Apple Watch is worth a look now

What if I told you...

Battery life for cell calls is about 1 hour?
[doublepost=1505310933][/doublepost]You forgot to profile Angela's "Genius Groves". I mean, come on. She comes up with the idea to get rid of a desk, calls the vacant space a "grove" and earns over $70M for it.

I guess getting Apple to believe her talent is worth $70M is pretty genius.

 

[mikecorp]

I do love the size and thickness of the 5SE. Imagine full Oled screen on iphone 5X double cameras completely in flush. That would be the ideal phone. Will have to wait a year or two ;( I just can not see myself spend 1399 euro for a telephone. I'm not doing it. NO NO NO.

Next generation Apple watch with FaceTime, i'm ditching telephone all together.

Apple TV. I was surprised that no Dolby Atmos, Is that possible to add via Update?

 

[Essaux]

I am a bit annoyed that the price in the UK will be the exact same as the price in dollars. When you go on the exchange rate it would $1327.50 for the 64GB and $1526.82 for the 256GB.

Why are we being ripped off so badly?

US prices are typically shown before tax. So after tax it will be closer to the U.K. Price.

Why they do it that way, is beyond me. I want to know the full retail price, no before tax nonsense.

 

[FenrisMoonlight]

US prices are typically shown before tax. So after tax it will be closer to the U.K. Price.

Why they do it that way, is beyond me. I want to know the full retail price, no before tax nonsense.

The amount of sales tax charged depends on the state and the city within the state where the item is purchased which makes it pretty much impossible to specify the actual price you would pay in any advertisement for a product. Sales taxes in the US are generally lower than VAT in the UK.

Taking taxes into account the UK price is about £80 more than the US price - so it is more expensive but not by as much as it first appears.

 

[Essaux]

The amount of sales tax charged depends on the state and the city within the state where the item is purchased which makes it pretty much impossible to specify the actual price you would pay in any advertisement for a product. Sales taxes in the US are generally lower than VAT in the UK.

Taking taxes into account the UK price is about £80 more than the US price - so it is more expensive but not by as much as it first appears.

Ah okay. Kind of makes sense.

Prices anywhere in Europe are always shown including tax.

But, yes generally this is what throws people off when they are comparing US and EU pricing, not realising the former is without tax.

 

[spiddyman007]

I'm sure when they set up the demo iPhones, they tested them many times that FaceID would work on both phones.
Leaving the "main demo unit" freshly restarted without entering the passcode would have been very dumb. I believe it crashed or something.

It was the one killer moment that Face ID would be used the first time in front of the major audience and everyone was watching closely.... and they blew it.
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You mean H.265.
In reality 64 GB still is too small. I like to make many movies now at FullHD 60. Now compressed with H.264.
My current iPhone is iPhone 7 with 128 GB.

On my last holiday I had to remove apps to free up some storage as Photos wasn't able to upload them to iCloud for automated storage recovery (the Wifi in South Africa wasn't able to handle the data).

So, 4K 60 with H.265 uses 2x the amount of FullHD 60 with H.264.... 256 GB storage is quite necessary if you like to shoot your movies @ 4K.

Yeah. I'm talking about people living in America. Not Africa. I think that's the intended audience. Why would you use ur iCloud to transfer 4k video in Africa though. Haha. Ughhh. Yeah 64gb is plenty for people that don't play call of duty zombies on their phones.