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So they are showcasing Super Mario and Pokemon Go.
Seriously? This is what Apple calls keynote material?
This just seems...awkward.
Edit:
So that was...weird. The iPhone looks really nice. A nice evolution. It's the same phone, though. Water resistant, forget charging your phone while using headphones for handsfree, and an even bigger lump on the back. Better home button, faster and more battery life...but still the same phone. But nice.
Earpods - well, no, not really. I'd like to do a survey after 5 months and see how many people only have one of them left after losing one.
The watch? Again, it's the watch. Beautiful, but I'm not keen on square, thick lumps on my wrist. Still, I do think the Samsung Gear S is the best looking, Gru-style watch[^] ever, and I hate Samsung for hobbling it then killing it.
...and then an awkward music moment and a sudden "K, thanks, bye" and everyone just shuffles off.
No passion. No joy. No...direction? I just kind of feel a little lost and awkward after that. It's weird.
cheers
Chris Maunder
modified 7-Sep-16 15:30pm.
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That's iMario, and iGo.
Toyota may sue.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Chris Maunder wrote: This just seems...awkward.
You mean, more than usual? 
Last year they had a watch ffs!
And if you're not a middle aged woman with to much money to buy a fitbit, you're not in the aiming group.
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...except the Watch series 1 is now $269, which has just put it in reach of a lot more people.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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And that's why I referred to middle aged women.
Had it still been $1000 I would've referred to a certain group of middle aged men.
I would never be seen in public with one of those. If I was serious about it I'd buy a Garmin or a Polar watch and if I wanted it to be stylish I might take a look at a Withings or possibly a Mondaine.
But ALL I want from a watch is for it to tell me the time without breaking or having to charge it all the time. So at the moment I have a Tissot (since many years), but it could've been a watch from any of a dozen brands.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: But ALL I want from a watch is for it to tell me the time without breaking or having to charge it all the time.
I would have agreed with you, a while back, but feeding music to my headphones via bluetooth from my watch is just so damned Cool!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I have a phone for that. Maybe not as cool, but works just as fine.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I have a phone for that.
Wait! You feel your watch should only tell time but you're OK with your phone streaming music? What kind of Luddite are you?
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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Me, I was shocked when I discovered that phones can still be used for making phone calls.
I mean, who uses that antiquated technology, any more?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The kind that needs reading glasses.
I can see the time on the watch, and I can see what music I'm playing on the phone because of the larger screen.
But using the phone for selecting music just wouldn't work for me.
(pause/play, forward and back I have on my headset cord ... Oh, I see)
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"up till now nobody has taking on the challenge to deliver audio wireless"
euhm what??
I'v had wireless earbuds for months now ...
Just do a google search for it, there are hundreds of them.
(didn't want to start a new thread for every stupid thing they say, would clutter up the lounge to much  )
Tom
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No one can do a reality distortion field like Steve. It just rings hollow now. We didn't actually believe it back then, but it was fun to let ourselves be carried away for the hour and believe it.
Tim Cook is running a no-nonsense, grown up business and unfortunately for him that's how we all listen to him.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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It's like when they had the *Great* *Innovative* *Idea* of putting cameras front and back -- like everyone else was already doing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I heard Apple introduces the new AirPods. This year, I got 5 earphones and I keep misplacing them. Looking forward to misplace 10 individual pieces.
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You just need to grow a couple of extra left ears.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm actually very close to becoming an apple fanboy. Recently ported some android apps to iOS and they seem to run better on apple devices.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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I have been disappointed with the Microsoft world of late.
I too feel Apple will continue to lead markets in future not in terms of volume but in terms of quality.
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If the big news is Super Mario and Pokemon Go then I can skip buying the latest tech from Apple.
I still use my earbuds from the first iPod I got from 5-6 years ago. Good enough for audio books and podcasts.
Chris Maunder wrote: square, thick lumps on my wrist
Better have a doctor look at that.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Apparently, they had 13 billion set aside to do an amazing presentation but someone got their hands on it.
This space for rent
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cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: No passion. No joy. No...direction? I just kind of feel a little lost and awkward after that. It's weird
I hope everybody will finally realize that their technology has never been so amazing, but was only expensively sold quality hardware marketed by a ... marketing genius. Steve really was Apple.
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Everyone thinks that about Apple products until they start using them (I was the same some years back). The key to Apple products is consistency - every device works as designed, something that we've never been able to say about Windows PC's or Android, for example. Because they make the hardware and the software, they're in full control of what their end users get.
I agree though that Steve Jobs was Apple. There's been little exciting stuff coming from them since he stepped down; Tim Cook just doesn't seem like the right guy for the job. Some things have got worse (e.g. the music app in iOS, which IMO is awful to use these days - it didn't use to be bad, and we see a lot more bugs these days than we used to - the attention to detail seems a bit lacking lately).
I'll be sticking with my iPhone 6 for now, there's little in the 7 that makes me want to change.
I came into this game for the action, the excitement. Go anywhere, travel light, get in, get out, wherever there's trouble, a man alone. Now they got the whole country sectioned off, you can't make a move without a form.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: every device works as designed, something that we've never been able to say about Windows PC's or Android,
Exactly.
Apple may not have the best OS or nicest apps (will they ever work out how to write a UI that doesn't lockup due to network or resource requests??) but they take what everyone else has been doing for years and they just...make it work.
I deal with Google's services a lot and frankly the difference between Google and Apple is the difference between an engineer locked in a room with lots of other smart engineers, and that of a designer who sits down and watches how people function. Google wants to be praised for the genius under the hood (which no one can see). Apple just wants to be beautiful, even if it's just skin deep.
I honestly thing that basic psychology needs to be part of Comp Sci courses these days.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I still have my 4S 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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