StryderxX
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Tim Cook just jumped the shark singing with James Corden. This is truly a face palm moment...
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So this is the first time in a few years where I came away interested in the iPhone. Sick work updating and upgrading the platform in meaningful ways.
But damn, has Apple officially stopped being a computer company? No iMac, MacPro or macbook announcements; all platforms that desperately need updates or at least meaningful refreshes.
Of course. Herp a derp on my part... Here's hoping they make as many changes and updates then.They never announce those at the same time as iPhones. I think they usually do that in October.
Nintendo announcing mobile games and mobile games on iOS first: megaton.
iPhone 7 looks like a great upgrade, but rumors of next year's phone being a total makeover leave me hesitant to drop coin on an iPhone 7 this year.
I'll be downloading the GM versions of iOS 10 and macOS Sierra asap.
The first point, probably big for a lot of people but I've played Mario games for years using the GBA profiles on iOS and Android. But this will make an official version that probably works better so cool.
32GB starting storage size on the new iPads was nice. Too bad the base storage increase almost took 2 years...
Except when they skip a year, I guess.They never announce those at the same time as iPhones. I think they usually do that in October.
At the end of the day it's still going to be a polished turd because their sensors are nothing special, and I'm not convinced their optics are either.
For a phone, the sensors are fantastic. Might be the best hardware Sony ships. These days, that's not saying much, though.
I usually watch these keynotes and events knowing I'm going to have a lot of laughs and this one of course was no exception - guess I should take a cue from Apple itself and say "It is the most hilarious event Apple has ever put on" since each year they just love repeating how whatever they're babbling on about is their best ever.
Anyway, I usually look for something that I'd consider to be the "jumping the shark" moment and this year it happened pretty late into the event itself. That moment was when Phil Schiller was going on about the iPhone 7/7 Plus audio and he mentioned the stereo speakers - when he said "there's stereo speakers, one at that top, one at the bottom..." I pretty much lost it.
There's never been a company in the history of the world that can speak so much bullshit about the silliest and most basic aspects of a device like it was the invention of sliced bread or something. I also love the fact that they're years behind other companies with so many aspects: dual cameras (LG and others), true tone flash (LG and others), a quad core CPU that has some cores that are more power efficient than others (I'm sure Qualcomm was laughing at that), LTE-A (been around for a while now), "stereo speakers, one on the top, one on the bottom..." (I mean really), and of course that infamous "Retina HD" display. IP67 status... been there, done that, years and years ago (Samsung Galaxy S4 Active and others).
The AirPods don't do anything for me - for that kind or price (and for the fact that the headphone jack is now considered to be deprecated) I'll stick with what I've been using for the past few decades, my PortaPros and my Sony V6 which sound better anyway.
As for the Apple Watch, never cared about it at all and still don't so I had to skip that portion of the event entirely.
Thanks for the laughs, Apple, they were absolutely your best ever.
It's a good sensor for the size of what they are using, but it simply can't hang with other phones that have larger sensors or better optics in front of them.
Stereo means two speakers, if you want to laugh at definitions be my guest. There are more effective stereo speakers, but these are stereo nonetheless.
Basically your post is a bunch of "I will/have never bought Apple and have no interest in any of their products" filled with a bunch of nonsense that requires a couple minutes of Googling to figure out.
Which phones are these? You make reference to them without identifying them.
I personally feel like I've seen far better pictures come off something like a note 5 than I've ever seen come off an iPhone.
I'll quote myself:
Note 5 a friend has, my Lumia 928 still took better low light pictures than the 6s does. Nothing still holds a candle of what comes off of a Lumia 1020. I'm sure we could go down the rabbit hole and people can post DXO "benchmarks" or optimized photos where phone A,B,C is some how better than phone I posted. I'm just saying flat out, with phone in hand I've sat in someone's office, or at a table at a restaurant, or took outside photos of something and the iPhone tends to disappoint compared to whatever other phone I'm comparing it to.
You're missing the point: the fact that Schiller said "It has stereo speakers, one at the top and one at the bottom..." was meant to convey the fact that he felt it necessary to explain to people where the two speakers would be physically located in the device - did anyone in the audience or watching the event stream ever dare consider the speakers were built into the sides of the device or something?
He explained it as if people had shut off their brains or something. Does that make it clearer?
I've owned plenty of Apple devices over the decades from the original iPhone to the 6S (second hand most of the time, I won't pay the overpriced premiums for Apple hardware brand new), doesn't mean any of them are "the best ever..." whatever they happen to be 'cause they just ain't. Ever.
Your reading comprehension is lacking, seriously.
I ordered my 7 Plus 128 in Silver this morning. Direct from ATT since it's on my company plan. All things considered I'm surprised my ship date is this month. My 6 Plus was ordered in the first 5 min two years ago and arrived in November. That's a big change in available phones or an indication they aren't selling as well. Since Apple won't release sales numbers, in the words of Mr Owl "The world may never know"
I ordered my 7 Plus 128 in Silver this morning. Direct from ATT since it's on my company plan. All things considered I'm surprised my ship date is this month. My 6 Plus was ordered in the first 5 min two years ago and arrived in November. That's a big change in available phones or an indication they aren't selling as well. Since Apple won't release sales numbers, in the words of Mr Owl "The world may never know"
Hence the either or.