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Live Coverage of Apple's WWDC 2017 Keynote: iOS 11, macOS 10.13, Notebooks, iPad Pros, and More
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They are completely tone deaf on this issue. And I found it hilarious.
$250 for this is a high high price. It's a borderline unaffordable for what it is. $350? Classic.
Business as usual. Prices went up.
Dark mode relevant?
And that's just the base model. I'm scared to know what the top-specced iMac Pro would cost.
THIS is the issue many of these companies truly need to solve if they're want to ram digital assistants and voice control down our throats. So far my biggest issue is with Microsoft's Cortana. PCs with it enabled plus an Xbox with it enabled and all listening for the same trigger phrase means every single one chimes in creating a crowd of yelling devices. Compound that with often getting recognition wrong means just turning it off everywhere because its not worth it. Being in the same area and same network I would imagine a possible solution is for them to actually work together to sort out the closest, pertinent device and handle a query there then just everywhere it picked you up.
All that said. Being stuck in the Apple Ecosystem with just my iPhone and all the music I have in iTunes, plus my desire to setup a smart home with my first home purchase this fall, if this speaker truly delivers great sound and solves the issue I've seen with the Google Home where its own volume ends up blocking the microphone I could see myself picking one up. I often have a podcast or music going in my pocket when doing stuff around the apartment. I'd love to have a plugged in speaker handle that instead of my tinny and crappy battery BT speaker, or draining the battery on my phone. But man that price tag means its a total wait and see what (trustworthy) reviewers think.
No kidding. I'm looking to get a wireless 5.1 system (maybe). Apple would've been smart to compete with sonos. It's exactly the kind of stuff they SHOULD be doing. Expand the ecosystem.
In fairness, the Play:1 only has one tweeter versus the Homepod's seven. That being said, the expandability and echo integration for the win.
But what sound quality do you espect from compressed Apple Music audio files? They did not mention any flac or hi-res support.
Sonos at least can play flac from a nas.
5,000 for an Easy bake oven? Cook your computer until done in three years.
And a Dell Dimension cost $4,000. Computer's were considerably more expensive back then.
Well, the Power Mac 9500 was also upgradeable. As for the iMac Pro, we'll see (probably not)
We're 6 months into soon. Is that an it's it depends on what the definition of the word is is?
I had a full size receiver and a pair of Energy RC Minis for a bedroom system. Replaced the system with a Bose Revolve, and it's great for what I use it for. Even playing relatively loud, it's pretty good, unexpectedly good, in fact. I'm really quite impressed with it. And I love having the receiver and separate speakers off the dresser. Then there's the portability of it and its ability to act as a USB speaker for my PC, which could come in handy if my main stereo system conks out.
You're getting a premium 5K monitor with workstation components. What's all the hubbub about?
The iMac Pro will run the crap out of Final Cut Pro, ought to be a dream device.
Apple has become the company of greed that tries to trick his customers any chance they have
really bad overpriced products, Apple is not longer an honest company
really bad overpriced products, Apple is not longer an honest company
iOS 11 Beta is out on dev portal.
- Searchable handwriting is available for English and Chinese only.
- Keyboard flick is available on all compatible iPad models except iPad Pro (12.9-inch).
- Person to person payments and Apple Pay Cash are available only in the U.S. on iPhone SE, iPhone 6 or later, iPad Pro, iPad (5th generation), iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3 or later, and Apple Watch.
- Amount of storage saved depends on specific photo content used; actual results may vary.
- Translation requires Siri language to be set to U.S. English.
- Friends feature requires an Apple Music subscription.
- AirPlay 2 may require a software update to existing speakers or new hardware depending on speaker manufacturer.
- Features are subject to change. Some features, applications, and services may not be available in all regions or all languages.
It's funny what different reactions people have to this keynote. Many saying worst keynote ever, I thought it was one of the best ever (from a consumer perspective, they spoke very little to developers but that's what the next week is all about). I guess probably because there's a whole bunch of products I need to replace (or add) but have been holding off on for various reasons:
- new Kaby Lake iMacs with faster GPUs (including interesting Pro option with 8+ cores).
- updated MacBook Pros with Kaby Lake, H.265 hardware support, lower price (in some cases).
- new iPad Pros
- Sonos-stlye multi-room high end speaker system with great Apple device integration and Siri.
Also will be in the market for 2 new iPhones. My wallet might be hurting soon, but I've now got a whole bunch of good options now.
- new Kaby Lake iMacs with faster GPUs (including interesting Pro option with 8+ cores).
- updated MacBook Pros with Kaby Lake, H.265 hardware support, lower price (in some cases).
- new iPad Pros
- Sonos-stlye multi-room high end speaker system with great Apple device integration and Siri.
Also will be in the market for 2 new iPhones. My wallet might be hurting soon, but I've now got a whole bunch of good options now.
When was the last time that Apple announced the next iPhone at this event? That will be in September, like it's been for the last number of years.
I don't care what Phil said before about the Mac Pro this iMac Pro IS the new Mac Pro. If this machine starts at $4999 how much will a Mac Pro start at? $5999, $6999?
Keynote was really clunky, god i miss steve jobs right now.
Um what did I just watch? Other then the welcome iOS update that was disappointing. Was really jazzed to see what I could replace my 2009 Mac Pro and MacBook Pro with, guess its a hackintosh and a ,<shudder>windows laptop "</shudder>