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Live Coverage of Apple's October 2014 iPad and Mac Event
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CBS announced the same today and said they will be doing the same with Showtime shortly. Obviously ABC, Disney and ESPN will likely fall in line with Apple given who Disney Inc's largest stock holder. So this may happen fairly soon, which would be great, except I am not sure the cost saving is really going to be as much as many think it will be.
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Yeah I was hoping for the 3X pixel density as well as lamination, but lamination alone will improve image quality more than pixel density alone.
A good comparison is the iPhone 5S display versus the iPhone 6 display: same density, but the 6 is laminated. The quality improvement is IMO breathtaking.
Of course it's easy for me to spend your money, lol. The iPad 3 is a great tablet, I see why you're reluctant to upgrade.
The iPad Pro is supposed to be the multitasking power house iPad, but it's going to be 12-13". It's also going to cost a lot more, and nobody knows when it will launch. I would say not before March.
Isn't it stunning how the product lines have multiplied since Jobs' death? IMO it betrays a lack of focus and possibly some confusion as to why iPad sales are not as Apple hopes. Such a shotgun approach confuses customers and dilutes Apple's reputation for premium devices.
Like you said, Apple need only two or three iPad models: the Air, the rMini, and maybe a crappy cheap mini.
Especially when you figure in the data cap and extra fees that Comcast is likely to implement due to lost customers. I think we'll find out that our monthly bill will be roughly the same with a huge monetary increase in high speed data instead of a cable package.
Companies like Comcast are going to get their money so if you pay Comcast $150 a month for internet ($50) and cable ($100) and think that by dropping cable you will save $100 per month I think you're wrong. Instead of paying Comcast $100 a month for cable your internet package will increase to $150 a month due to data caps and extra fees. Either way, Comcast is going to get $150 a month from you.
Companies like Comcast are going to get their money so if you pay Comcast $150 a month for internet ($50) and cable ($100) and think that by dropping cable you will save $100 per month I think you're wrong. Instead of paying Comcast $100 a month for cable your internet package will increase to $150 a month due to data caps and extra fees. Either way, Comcast is going to get $150 a month from you.
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All very impressive stuff and certainly will all sell well, but I'm still bummed.
It was the FIRST keynote ever where I did not find anything I really needed or could talk myself into buying. Boo Hoo.
New iMac? Nope, already have a Mac Pro.
New iPad? Nope; I have three of them and they are all perfectly adequate for what I do with them.
New Mac Mini? Nope. Have an older one that works fine for what I ask of it. Administrative stuff.
Yosemite and IOS 8.1? Ok, yep.
I am really waiting for that new 5K monitor that I sure hope is coming!! And, of course, the Iphone 6 plus that's back ordered forever...
It was the FIRST keynote ever where I did not find anything I really needed or could talk myself into buying. Boo Hoo.
New iMac? Nope, already have a Mac Pro.
New iPad? Nope; I have three of them and they are all perfectly adequate for what I do with them.
New Mac Mini? Nope. Have an older one that works fine for what I ask of it. Administrative stuff.
Yosemite and IOS 8.1? Ok, yep.
I am really waiting for that new 5K monitor that I sure hope is coming!! And, of course, the Iphone 6 plus that's back ordered forever...
My guess is that they were being cheeky since they just had an event just over a month ago.
Indeed, I can't believe that they still dont have a 4k or 5k display for the flagship Mac Pro. The LG TB monitor seems to have had some teething issues, but absent any equivalent Apple product...that is who my money will go to.
I'm with you on the no compelling products for me at least.
(though the $499 mac mini is tempting just for how cheap it is)
The biggest announcement today was for something Apple isn't even selling: iOS 8.1 coming Monday. Can't come soon enough.
As for everything else, does Apple really need to give a keynote for product speed bumps? There really wasn't anything presented today that needed a presentation. Will they keep doing this in perpetuity? Seems silly, especially since Jobs isn't doing them.
As for everything else, does Apple really need to give a keynote for product speed bumps? There really wasn't anything presented today that needed a presentation. Will they keep doing this in perpetuity? Seems silly, especially since Jobs isn't doing them.
Hmm reviews from CNET, Anandtech, and others don't seem to have as much issues as these people are, and also the latest customer satisfaction rating came in and iOS users are once again the happiest, every year it's the same old "launch issues" that's expected, iOS 8.0.2 works great on my iPhone 6, it's just some 3rd party applications that I am still waiting for them to update, you didn't get anything lmao. It's the same exact thing every year, "x amount of issues here, is Apple falling? Is Apple doomed?"
Yes 8.0.1 was a terrible botch, but hey guess what one day later 8.0.2 came out, I appreciate that, and it's been solid for me and 8.1 is right around the corner , only one month after the launch of the new iPhones.
Boy oh boy, I can't wait until the iPad Pro is announced on January 20th, 2015, releases January, 21st, 2015 with:
Then for the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus to be announced on September 10th, 2015, releases September 17th, 2015, with:
Can't wait for the iPhones to be ****ed over next year!
Tim Cook said:
Then for the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus to be announced on September 10th, 2015, releases September 17th, 2015, with:
And then for the iPad Mini 4 and iPad Air 3 to be announced on October 14th, 2015, releases October 15th, 2015 with:Tim Cook said:
Tim Cook said:
Can't wait for the iPhones to be ****ed over next year!
The event overall was nothing unexpected.
It's up to the Apple Watch now to keep things interesting. The watch has the most room to grow in capability and impress customers.
I never said it had battery issues. However, thinking that you need to have battery issues in order to increase the battery life is ridiculous.
especially with the heaping piles of hyperbole.
I suppose they were trying to make up for the botched presentation last month.
I am using my iPad over 90% of the time at home, with no direct light. So the Air 2 improvements are less useful for me.
Until Saturday where the A8X leaked, I never considered buying a Air 2. Next iPad is the Pro.
I still have my iPad 2, bough on launch day and it remains a great tablet. It's only now I'm contemplating upgrading to the air 2 or mini. Oh, and I use my iPad all the time at home!
I blame Craig Frederighi. He obviously thinks he's got a job as a standup if this all goes pear-shaped. Somebody should tell him that if nobody gets the joke then it does't count as a joke. "It's roadtrip" - now that was funny!
You didn't find me a 27" 4K monitor for $2,500. They stated in the keynote that a 4K monitor will run you $2,500. They lied. It's a simple as that. 5K monitors, however, are expensive as balls.
And no, it isn't a 2014 desktop computer. The only thing desktop about an iMac is the monitor. The computer itself is using mobile parts with a mobile GPU. I question the performance this new iMac is going to get with that monstrously high res display.
Are you seriously still going on about this. The monitor shown on the slide was the Sharp PNK321. Guess what, its a UHD/4K monitor AND it IS $3000. Ditto for the Asus PQ321Q.
Also, the iMac uses desktop CPU and HDD. Only the GPU is mobile and increasingly, its top-end mobile.
I'm bored with this argument so this will be my last reply. If you don't like the product. DONT BUT IT.
Have a nice day.
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You're wrong... again. That's a 32" monitor, not a 27"... and so is the ASUS. You can be bored all you want, but you're still wrong. The DELL 5K monitor is the only thing that makes sense to compare here. I don't know why Apple was comparing to a different sized monitor... probably because the price quadruples when adding 4-5 inches so it makes Apple look significantly better. That was marketing, not a realistic comparison. DELL's 5K 27" will run around $2,500 ... any 27" 4K will run you between 400-600 dollars.
And nowhere did I say I wouldn't want it... it was just an incredibly stupid comparison by Apple. Go get a $600 4K display and you still have almost 2 grand to play with for the desktop. 2 grand will build a PC that takes a steamy dump all over this iMac spec-wise.
Yes the iMac has a very nice screen, just trying to make an obvious point.
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