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Last-Minute Apple Event Rumors: No Two-Way Charging on iPhones, 10.2-Inch iPad Expected, and More
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No tile like tracker. No bilateral charging. Weak sauce indeed.
I always hear how great the"competition" is doing. Any particulars? The cameras and new A chip were fairly impressive.
This wasn't a bad event, but it wasn't really energizing me to open up my wallet.
I imagine Statler and Waldorf would have had some choice words for this one...
I imagine Statler and Waldorf would have had some choice words for this one...
One of the biggest glaring difference I've noticed between Steve and Tim-era Apple is that when Steve handled keynotes, he would tell everyone, in SIMPLE terms, why you needed their new product. The keynote today was a mess of tech specs and Applecentric buzz terms rattled off at lightspeed. The biggest techies are still left with questions, and the casual viewer is just left going, "Huh?"
The keynote was an absolute mess.
The keynote was an absolute mess.
My point was... A10 isn't bad. It's plenty powerful for what it is.
Remember... this is still the entry-level iPad. The people's iPad. It's not supposed to be "too exciting"...
It's got a bigger screen... and now keyboard support. For the same price.
I'm not seeing the problem. Old Apple would have kept the same model for another year. Or longer!
But here we are. Upgraded. This is good news. And I bet they'll sell a ton of them for the Holidays.
The camera and the chip are always getting minor upgrades. This is not the first phone to get a triple-camera lens. I am sure the chip is great, but they are not innovating anymore. Particulars? Sure. Phones with much smaller bezels. Phones with zero notch (notice how in some of their 'Pro' phone screenshots, they purposefully used a wallpaper to hide the fat ugly thing). Phones with reverse charging. Phones with industry-standard ports (iPad Pro has USB-C, yet the iPhone doesn't follow suit). Phones with facial unlocking and under-screen touch ID.
I couldn't care less about listening for 10 minutes about the technicalities of a chip and how it uses machine learning. Save that for a geeky event. The fact that they padded this conference with pointless videos, crappy games and technical detail is testament to a new line of products with very little innovation.
The OS may still be the mot user-friendly, but that is no excuse for them to slack on the hardware every year.
I was referring to the Samsung commercials for this feature. They show somebody intentionally charging a stranger’s phone wirelessly. Nobody snuck over to a Samsung phone and plopped theirs on top of it in the commercial.
The commercial is totally unrealistic. "Hello complete stranger; I was staring at you using your phone and somehow I noticed your phone is low on battery - set it on top of mine to charge it!" If this is truly the use case for this feature, then it is one that will almost assuredly never be used.
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My point was... A10 isn't bad. It's plenty powerful for what it is.
Remember... this is still the entry-level iPad. The people's iPad. It's not supposed to be "too exciting"...
It's got a bigger screen... and now keyboard support. For the same price.
I'm not seeing the problem. Old Apple would have kept the same model for another year. Or longer!
But here we are. Upgraded. This is good news. And I bet they'll sell a ton of them for the Holidays.
The cpu/GPU are probably fine in and of themselves, except unless Apple changes, it’s only got another 2 or at best 3 years left.
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They’re not. It’s still easily the best hardware out there. The only issue-and it’s a huge one-is the lightning connector is garbage. There should have been a forced recall in 2013 and instead they’re STILL shipping most iOS products with the defective port.
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I missed the show. But skimming through the front page and posts suggests there was nothing notable, and this 'one more thing' tracker was supposed to be the titular innovation of the event!
OK that's a good wish list. I guess I'm just a sucker for chip and camera upgrades. The other things just aren't that important to me. I really don't notice the notch or the bezels although I know they really bother some people. And an OLED screen should make it nice to look at. Maybe because I am old(er) I'm grateful for the advances that every iPhone brings me. I won't even consider Android because of all the data mining.
I am massively integrated into the Apple ecosystem, not to mention my only phone is my work phone which is an iPhone. However, it does bother me that Apple doesn't innovate the hardware enough to appeal to the mass market. There are those who love the upgraded chips, better cameras etc. But most of the public (myself included) want something more substantial feature-wise. I don't ask for it every year, but the iPhone has been in 'refinement' mode for quite some time now. Not to mention it gets tremendously uglier every year. Those three cameras at the back look absolutely hideous, as if the phone has acne.
I'm all in too and have been for a long while. I understand your frustration but I guess Apple is going in a different direction. It looks like they're stressing AI. I don't worry much about the look of the back of the phone, honestly. I don't see it. Different strokes. The show was lots of flash but the Watch was what I was most interested in.