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Live Coverage of Apple's 'Let Us Loop You In' iPhone SE and 9.7" iPad Pro Event

Wow. I cannot believe how ungrateful you people are.

Did you not read the information? Did you not see the incredible technological and design achievement?

Apple Watch now comes with a nylon strap. Not just some ordinary nylon strap, no sir. This one has -- and I'm quoting here -- over 500 threads woven together in a unique, colourful pattern. Yes, you read that right. Over 500. Woven. Colourful pattern. Unique. No-one else has ever done stripy watch straps before. Made of nylon. In colourful patterns.

It gets better. Monofilaments connect four layers of the weave to create a single durable strap with a comfortable, fabric-like feel. That's right: monofilaments. Four layers. Durable. Comfortable. Fabric-like.

I'm buying ten. In each colour. Right now.
 
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Ah, yes. The curse of selective memory. Apple does two or three dog-and-pony shows every year, and most of them are about incremental improvements and updates to existing products and software. Yet somehow, expectations here are always that the ghost of Steve Jobs will appear and do what the real Steve Jobs never did, which is stand up and introduce brand new game-changing product categories several times a year.

Funny thing is, even when Jobs was alive and occasionally introducing new game-changing product categories, the contemporary peanut gallery would ridicule those things as uninteresting, derivative of other products, and doomed for failure. Buy music from iTunes? Who's going to pay to download music? The iPhone? Who's going to use a smartphone with no keypad? The app store? Who's going to write apps that only sell for 99 cents? The iPad? Isn't that a SNL joke about feminine hygiene products? Didn't apple fail with tablets once already? Didn't the Newton prove nobody wants a tablet computer? The list goes on.

Check back into reality. Most of these things are incremental improvements. Most of the game-changing new product categories weren't even recognized as that when they first came out, because even those things were really recombinations of existing ideas. (It just turns out that the reimagined thing was the innovation itself.) Face it. This presentation was the same as what Apple always does, and the response here is the same as it always is. Still, somehow people will continue to buy these things, Apple will continue to be successful, and today's detractors will show up to lament some future presentation, negatively comparing whatever is introduced then to the great halcyon days of 2016.
 
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Something very bad was going on there... did anyone noted the long faces? this was the most boring sparkless keynote ever... I guess FBI and government is really touching Cook ass (no easy jokes here please)
 
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loopmein said:
You didn't "tune in" AT ALL - you don't "tune" the internet :p
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Don't be a dork.
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loopmein said:
Wow, all naysayers have now is old comments. Everything inside anything is a year or more old. Every other intelligent person is already on the next subject, Naysayers are serving nothing. Old comments inside old comments.
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loopmein said:
You turned on, tuned in, now please - drop out.
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Welcome back, Tim.
 
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AppleInTheMud said:
BUT - Many people don't feel comfortable using a tablet for these things... Here the much cheaper (and better for those things?) chromebooks come in. I love my Chrome Book and use it more than my MacBook. MacBooks have a to small screen for pro work. There I use my 27" iMac.
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That's fine... and that's more a discussion on willingness to change, as well as ecosystem and continuity. I've never used a Chromebook.
 
Everyone here is forgetting the fact that Apple did not mention the battery life of the new 9.7 inch iPad Pro and how thin it is!!

Makes me wonder will the battery life stay the same???? 10 Hour battery life???? o_O
 
Jetfire said:
Damn it why they have to come out with 256GB now I have to sell my iPad Pro 128GB
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I noticed that I have so much cloud space between Box, Dropbox, and Onedrive...my 128 GB LTE iPad pro still has most of its memory available...no need for 256 GB although I"m still feeling disenfranchised by Apple and their greed especially with the newfound releases.....
 
profmatt said:
Wow. I cannot believe how ungrateful you people are.

Did you not read the information? Did you not see the incredible technological and design achievement?

Apple Watch now comes with a nylon strap. Not just some ordinary nylon strap, no sir. This one has -- and I'm quoting here -- over 500 threads woven together in a unique, colourful pattern. Yes, you read that right. Over 500. Woven. Colourful pattern. Unique. No-one else has ever done stripy watch straps before. Made of nylon. In colourful patterns.

It gets better. Monofilaments connect four layers of the weave to create a single durable strap with a comfortable, fabric-like feel. That's right: monofilaments. Four layers. Durable. Comfortable. Fabric-like.

I'm buying ten. In each colour. Right now.
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If it comes with an Apple Watch sock , I'm IN!!
 
This might be the last event I will watch live. Talking about watch bands, selling "innovation" as "Pro" products for high prices, forgetting about the Mac (retina is a pain in the budget), 16GB iPhones, (realy?!) and all that BS about health and environment. Sure, way to go Apple, but stop boring me with this. When you think it cant be worse... That was the most boring keynote ever.
 
Wow, that was underwhelming. Sorry Apple, but you're losing my interest. I own tons of your stuff. But I need to upgrade my laptop. The Surface is actually looking like a much nicer hardware than the iPad Pro, of which I own. There is no actual new feature innovation here, only tech improvements which the majority of consumers are not aware of. We need an iOS Pro version, a back-lite iPad Pro keyboard, a better Watch, Mac Pro… come on, is the car taking all of your attention?
 
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ChrisNM said:
Personally, I don't think it is whiny or unreasonable to expect Apple to introduce MacBook Pros with the new Skylake processors when all of their competitors did it 5 months ago. I think it is a legitimate criticism.
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Expect all you want... HOPE, even... we're not entitled to anything (and we vote with our wallets). There's likely a good enough reason why they don't have anything ready - maybe they're trying to set themselves up for a leap - like they did with the original rMBP.

Anyway, my comment was aimed at the "Apple has jumped the shark..." and "If I were a shareholder, I'd be concerned blah blah blah" comments that were cascading in the thread.
 
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