I thought I've seen it all, this was by far the most boring Apple event ever.
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Currently have an Apple watch series 3 - tempted to upgrade as I've held off upgrading the last few years. To be honest the series 6 doesn't sound like a huge upgrade over the series 5, but will be a very nice upgrade from my series 3.
Fitness+ seems completely irrelevant for me. I run outdoors, don't currently have access to a treadmill (I don't go to the gym in these days of COVID), and am not interested in fitness classes. So that's an easy pass for me.
I have an iPad Pro 2020. The new iPad Air looks pretty good, but I'm still happy with my iPad Pro 2020 and I really needed to use it for the last few months. If I didn't already have an iPad Pro I'd be tempted by the new iPad Air. The power button touch ID would be pretty sweet if they put it on an iPhone though (but I'm not looking to upgrade my iPhone this year).
Still no love for the iPad mini I see!
Fitness+ seems completely irrelevant for me. I run outdoors, don't currently have access to a treadmill (I don't go to the gym in these days of COVID), and am not interested in fitness classes. So that's an easy pass for me.
I have an iPad Pro 2020. The new iPad Air looks pretty good, but I'm still happy with my iPad Pro 2020 and I really needed to use it for the last few months. If I didn't already have an iPad Pro I'd be tempted by the new iPad Air. The power button touch ID would be pretty sweet if they put it on an iPhone though (but I'm not looking to upgrade my iPhone this year).
Still no love for the iPad mini I see!
If COVID didn't exist (so they would not have had the virtual event process) it likely would have been. I mean this is a press release when you think about it. Just one with accompanying video (like they did for the Smart Keyboard).
Wow, what a disappointing Apple presentation.
A waste of my time
A waste of my time
Time does fly. That was all totally forgettable. Could have been a press release or a newsletter.
a friend of mine is a iOS developer and he is freaking out cuz no one was informed and there isn’t even a GM yet to run their latest version against.
i think Pokémon Go ,which is a huge game, doesn’t even support iOS 14 yet
I guess my disappointment is the fact that the main focus of this event was a really unsubstantial Apple Watch upgrade as well as being bombarded with “services”.
The world is changing. In the old days, you were excited to watch because you were getting a machine, a tool, that worked right out of the box. It specifically let you do things that were a pain to do on a Windows box, for instance.
Or a music player that held all of your music.
Or a cellphone that was actually competent.
Now the hardware is the portal that allows you to access Apple services. The focus has shifted from your digital life to Apple’s digital life.
The world is changing. In the old days, you were excited to watch because you were getting a machine, a tool, that worked right out of the box. It specifically let you do things that were a pain to do on a Windows box, for instance.
Or a music player that held all of your music.
Or a cellphone that was actually competent.
Now the hardware is the portal that allows you to access Apple services. The focus has shifted from your digital life to Apple’s digital life.
I actually went into this with a very open mind looking forward to an Apple Watch with blood oxygen monitoring and the tracking tile.
In my case, acting like a rubber band is some magical new invention from Apple and describing it like nobody has ever seen one before was a huge turn-off, that left me so disgusted I never recovered. The frame of mind that idiocy left me in left me viewing the whole whole rest of the presentation in a very negative point of view, so yeah, I hated the whole thing.
responsibly manufactured.....it's made in china....so no
What a waste of time get down the online store if at this moment do not have the new products "enabled"
Edit: Yes, it is updatet now in Spain
Edit: Yes, it is updatet now in Spain
It looks like it will be a great service, Ill definitely check it out, but none of us have used it so I’m not sure how we can make claims about its worth or how great the workouts are yet.
I like Fitness Blender’s workouts. I use a lot of there strength training routines with PowerBlocks. They have a huge library to choose from and it’s all free.
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I'm normally the naysayer, but I thought the presentation was quite fun and one of their best post Jobs era.
How exciting could it honestly be considering we knew most of this going into it? I think these were solid updates.
For you. My wife had said earlier this week that if they announce a series 6 with O2 sensor she would be upgrading (coming from a series 3) and I should too next year (coming from a series 4). She's an RN and I've had asthma my entire life. The fact that it has an always-on altimeter (we hike in CO) and 2x brighter always-on display is just icing. We would've upgraded without those.
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Yes, they said Watch available today but the 6 is not there...
What an almighty disappointment, and waste of time that keynote was. They should have really justed done one big announcement, when the new iPhones are ready.
If the way Spotlight Search works in Big Sur is intentional, which turns simple one-step searches into three or more steps, I will not upgrade to it.
I really don't want to upgrade to have my OS look worse and have one of its best features gimped.