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Live Coverage of Apple's March 2015 'Spring Forward' Event
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Well Apple's solid gold version of their car will probably be quite a bit.
The Sport Watch version is about 50% more expensive than not quite as nice Android Wear and Pebble smartwatches. So go with that for the car. About 50% more than your typical Toyota would be my guess for the Apple Car (if and when one exists).
Why even mention the gold watch? Wouldn't it have made more sense to focus on the more affordable watches and then just quietly add the gold one to the Apple store? It would have been less embarrassing.
UK strap prices:
Both sizes are same price, and all straps are £129 except:
Sport £39
Modern Buckles £209 (yes, the clunky chunky ones are 50% more than the milanese loop)
Link Bracelet £379 (I really can't believe this one)
Both sizes are same price, and all straps are £129 except:
Sport £39
Modern Buckles £209 (yes, the clunky chunky ones are 50% more than the milanese loop)
Link Bracelet £379 (I really can't believe this one)
Just fine
I don't really think people here hated the products today. The watch has a market. And the other announcements were good. I think we remember when just such announcements were made exciting, and they moved along so much quicker. As a 3 decade Apple advocate it concerns me that the passion is not about how revolutionary and life changing the original Apple concepts like human interface standards still are and how there is so much more terrible enforced Windowism is still out there to overcome. Now the events just seem self congratulatory about how many units they are selling. This used to be a movement, an ideology. I don't think Tim gets it. And so new people won't either.
I don't really think people here hated the products today. The watch has a market. And the other announcements were good. I think we remember when just such announcements were made exciting, and they moved along so much quicker. As a 3 decade Apple advocate it concerns me that the passion is not about how revolutionary and life changing the original Apple concepts like human interface standards still are and how there is so much more terrible enforced Windowism is still out there to overcome. Now the events just seem self congratulatory about how many units they are selling. This used to be a movement, an ideology. I don't think Tim gets it. And so new people won't either.
I have no doubt in the near future we'll all be wearing smart watches, especially when more health sensors are built-in and the price is lower. Long-term, everyone who has an iPhone will have one of these (as the iPhone's remote / health sensor), but I feel no hole burning in my pocket right now to buy one.
I've seen the benchmarks. The Broadwell Core Ms aren't as fast as the Haswell Us, but they're not bad chips in and of themselves. For what the new Macbook is going to primarily be used for, they're fine.
It's like the Yoga Pro 3 being slower than the Pro 2. Benchmarks makes it look disappointing, but it's not enough to make a noticeable difference in day to day use.
Sure. But Garmin's are specialised, relatively niche sports products. Not a hundreds-of-millions-sold "mass market" item like the iPhone.
Apple watch Prices
If you haven't noticed you can go into the apple store to view the price of each model and the sizing for the bands.
If you haven't noticed you can go into the apple store to view the price of each model and the sizing for the bands.
LOL, quite right. 6000$, the first Mac we bought.
Indeed. It's amazing how people forget, or they just weren't born yet, yet they insist on quoting things to make clever comments.
I use the high end MBPs for work purposes so I really don't care about that stuff. Give me those new USB ports and a significant performance boost (CPU and GPU) then I'll care.
It's not the original keynote I am referring to, it's the later keynotes discussing the iPhone after it was already announced. I doubt we will ever see the excitement we did for the original iPhone introduction again.
The later, detailed keynotes never really have the energy of the product introductions.
That said, I wished Apple would do their original introductions closer to customer availability, though I understand why, (FCC reasons for one).
They can arrange that by purposefully having low supply levels, no matter what the actual sales numbers are I'll be surprised if it doesn't sell out within a day or two.
What are you smoking? It only has 1 port, so if your laptop is low on battery, you can't watch a movie on demand and plug the charger in at the same time. The Core-M CPU's benchmarks are lower than the current Air's CPU's. And the new Air has 2 hours LESS battery life than the current Air. All 3 of your points are misleading. Are you a paid Apple employee?
It's a bad marketing strategy in my opinion because now that they released that price point it makes the consumer take a second look at the need for the lower-end models. At least that's what it did for me. It just made it seem like this is just a nice luxury to have, not a necessity. It will sell, but the numbers won't look as great as iPhone, iPad etc.