Live Coverage of Apple's 'See You on the 7th' iPhone 7 Event

[citysnaps]

"Courage, the courage to move on"...

no... COWARDICE... the cowardice to not stand up to Ive and Dre. This isn't about a magical experience, or improvement for customers... this is 1000% about selling wireless Beats products. DON'T tell me about "Apple and the Floppy Disk". The floppy was already obsolete when Apple removed it.
Headphone jacks are FAR from obsolete. There is a reason that the 3.5" jack has survived since THE 80's!!! Those Airbuds are going get lost 4 times a day, and not be charged when you want them... but... BEATS !!! Apple cares more about Dre than it's customers. Apple has now fixed another things that was not broken. That's not innovation, it's money grubbing. The winner here is clear... Beats and Samsung.

"back when Apple was a computer company...." Eddie Cue - 2016

No worries, mate. Sanyo, Acer, Samsung, etc have plenty of phones that will make you happy.

 

[KJL3000]

Sia compares to lady gaga like the iPhone 7 to the iPhone 6.

 

[ActionableMango]

I don't understand a single word. Is she singing in English?

 

[iLog.Genius]

I'm digging the black and jet black colours but nothing really interests me to spend the extra money on the 7. My 5S is pretty much dead so it looks like I'm saving a bit of money on the 6S.

 

[Thunderhawks]

Who the hell is this artist lol, never heard of her!

Writes tons of hits (Rhianna) and lately decided to keep some and sing a few herself.

 

[bpeeps]

Why did anyone think Macs would be at this event? It will be attached to the iPad one.

MR members can be somewhat delusional in their expectations. It was fully realized what this event would be about months ahead. Barely any of it was new information.

 

[crescentmoon]

Apple is just gadgets now....

 

[Enygmatic]

If only there was some magical way for you whiners to still use your 3.5mm headphones... Hmmmmmm.......

Seriously...

And when EVERY OTHER OEM is doing the exact same thing with their products, what will they complain about then?

 

[mi7chy]

Dancing is embarrassingly bad. Music and costume seem to be a Lady Gaga rip off.

 

[ssl0408]

She sounds awful....

 

[Kona45]

That is one, big, bow.

 

[rGiskard]

Yeah, $159 for AirPods... not for me, especially since I expect them to be not so comfortable and only come in white....

And from the looks of them, VERY easy to lose.

Very stupid choice to go proprietary on the wireless audio. A proprietary wireless chip combined with overpriced Apple/Beats headphones so either no 3rd party headphones or only insanely priced ones.

Not at all what people want. Apple will stick with it and profit some but it's ultimately a dead technology.

What would serve people best is if Apple and Google cooperated to design a new wireless audio format with wired-quality sound. It could be like the WiFi of audio.

 

[KdParker]

WTF is that? So this great "artist" just stands there with her damn hair in her face? WTF Apple... WTF

Hey...the kids like it.

Times change.

 

[pacalis]

I'm excited about the new adapter!

 

[paulvee]

I don't really need any more Sia. Tell me about a Mac Pro.

We've been twisting in the wind for too long.

 

[MarkusL]

Okay this schnitzel is creepy. I'm familiar with Sia. Looks like all that illuminati cover one eye crap I'm always hearing about. And she must be crying over the lack of headphone jack. I know I am.

The iPhone has lost the headphone jack, but it has more than 400 flying monkeys so it's all good.

 

[kazmac]

Some interesting under the hood specs. $20 price hike on the + and I'd have to get a new charging dock...so at least $70 more.
Won't comment on any of the headphones / airpods as I am not using them.

 

[oftheheavens]

how can the ceramic be this years addition for 1249$ and not have a link bracelet...

 

[6836838]

So did Apple implement a truly lossless wireless audio technology? There was zero mention of this, so I suspect it's a definite downgrade from wired in-ear monitors.

 

[greytmom]

Really should have had someone more upbeat... I'm getting more depressed by the minute.

So, I'm with AT&T. I usually just do a two year contract (I have one line that is a year old that I hand down to my daughter, and then I upgrade her line - that way I always have an upgrade available). Are the contracts dead? Only options are AT&T Next, Apple Upgrade, or full cash payment (which I can certainly do, if needed). Still holding on to unlimited data - not going to lose that, I hope?

Edit: Yep, I just checked - I can do Apple Upgrade, Apple Installment (no upgrade every year), ATT Next and pay in cash. I like handing my year old phone down to daughter and selling hers, so will likely just pay cash.

 

[apolloa]

Well get on Twitch now to watch Sonys PlayStation conference, far better games and no God awful live artists....

 

[alexwei]

Sia please stop. you're making me feeling worse than it already is.

 

[Suckfest 9001]

LOL at this ridiculousness....almost as bad as Lady Gaga's nonsense.

Yeah well we can't all be listening to Led Zeppelin forever or whatever you old people are used to.

Nothing close to EDM is happening right now lol.

He doesn't understand music at all.

 

[Nr123*123]

Lol you're a moron

How? I've had a 6S for a year. Apple hasn't done anything "wow" in years. The screen still has the same ridiculous 720p LCD from the iPhone 4. Sure, it's improved in various aspects, but it just doesn't cut the mustard in 2016. I've given objective facts and you've acted like a child.

 

[deany]

What about for a usage case, which is literally every single day for me where I listen through Aux (3.5MM/3.5MM) (2008 BMW) and need to charge (USB/Lightning) at the same time? Just run my phone battery into the ground while I drive now? Thanks but no thanks. And the dual cameras are hideous. Without question the worst iPhone event of all time, and not just because of my personal usage case, but just awful.

same, I bought a £75.00 128GB Moto E android and offline download from my Google Play Music account - brand new unlocked, just for car use, but also spare backup phone (to my iphone 6).