No, I think there's a bunch of people on here believe that Tim reads these forums and therefore that repeated moaning about the lack of Mac news will somehow goad him into releasing new product
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Tim Cook Says Augmented Reality is 'Larger' Than Virtual Reality
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No, I think there's a bunch of people on here believe that Tim reads these forums and therefore that repeated moaning about the lack of Mac news will somehow goad him into releasing new product
Sorry Tim, its education, gaming and porn. The latter will make it "very interesting" for a lot of people indeed.
For VR & AR, along with the increase in social media, why do I get the feeling we're slowly turning into the Borg from Star Trek?
It's possible that the speaker is behind the speaker grill that occupies the space where the headphone jack previously was. The space behind the other speaker grill can now be used for other stuff. The iPhone is definitely jam packed. In iPhone dimension terms, the jack does take up quite a bit of space.
Although, what I don't get is - if Samsung can fit a headphone jack AND a dual micro-sim/micro SD slot in a smaller form than the 7 Plus, why can't Apple?
It does require fewer points to seal, sure, but that's just a nice byproduct compared to all the precious real estate they freed up on the inside. The point is that they could have perfectly well made the phone water resistant if the jack was still there (case in point, the 6S was basically water resistant already in many tests).
more like whining comments get easy upvotes, and people likes upvotes.
What a wonderful example you are to us all. AirPods probably cost Apple 10$ to manufacture.
All this time I've did not event contemplate that porn had jumped on the VR ship. You are right, gaming and porn will make it very successful
I grudgingly admit that until the holodeck, Tim is right. Augmented reality has absolutely ridiculous applications and it will be delivered probably with something like google glass, but in 10-15 years. All the information in the world coming to you as you need it about everything you are looking at and doing now. Virtual reality will be a fun past time, augmented reality could be world changing. You go on a nature hike and see a bird and the augmented reality IDs the bird, or trees and tells you all about them. All that * 100. You are talking with a sales associate and have the body language app running and communicates they are nervous, determines their heart is racing - assesses they are angry. Medicine and all else. Could be huge.
Adding another internal speaker has zero conflict with an emphasis on wireless... Actually they greatly enhance the experience of using the iPhone without any external devices, which is a huge plus to the vast majority of users. Haven't you ever tried to show a quick youtube video to someone on a whim, only to be let down by how hard it is to hear? Reviewers have verified Apple's claim that iPhone 7 is literally twice as loud as the 6/6S, with front-facing stereo separation to boot.
Also you almost never use the watch while charging - you do want to use your phone or pad while charging all the time. Wireless charging removes that option and so is currently a bad fit for devices.
True, though I'm sure plenty of people would want to use their watch while charging if they could
With these last product releases and bugged software, I think Tim is living in "alternate reality"...
I'm guessing they considered it, ran the numbers, and decided the time wasn't right.
But if you offered to buy everyone a free set of AirPods, I bet you'd get a lot of applause. I'd even clap for you. I think you should do it. It would make you feel all warm inside.
AR is harder than VR. With VR, all you're doing is rendering a single 3D scene twice, from 2 slightly different angles. There's a lot of caching and optimizing you can do that makes it so that rendering it twice doesn't take too much longer than rendering it once, so it's possible that it's not much harder than an ordinary game. You need to render it really fast and at a high resolution... that's about all.
With AR, you need to do all the same stuff as VR, but ontop of that, you need to also take in a video stream and identify objects in real time. Computer Vision is far harder than 3D rendering.
