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New iToys released. Thoughts?

As a admitted fanbear of Apple, I watched today's keynote with interest. Apple Arcade for me was a midly interested meh, Apple TV+ sounds better at $4.99 a month rather that the $9.99 folk suspected it would be (I wonder if Disney's monthly price forced Apple to reduce the amount). However given that I also have concerns how much else it'll have in the back-catalog, I'm reserving judgement for now.
New iPad? Looks good, but not enough yet to force me to replace my aging 9.7 iPad Pro.
New iPhones? Hey, at least they stopped harping on about all that augmented reality nonsense. This bear has enough issues with real reality, without augmenting it! Nice cameras, decent battery, very nice sound. But Meh again. I may have to hold out one more year before replacing my 7+.
Now, the Series 5 watch? I wanna, I wanna! I can definitely see myself upgrading my Series 3 LTE for one of these new "timepieces". Between the always-on feature and the increased screen real-estate (compared to mine) I'm exceptionally interested.
So, what say any of you other Fingish folk out there who also use Apple devices? What are your thoughts on today's presentation?
New iPad? Looks good, but not enough yet to force me to replace my aging 9.7 iPad Pro.
New iPhones? Hey, at least they stopped harping on about all that augmented reality nonsense. This bear has enough issues with real reality, without augmenting it! Nice cameras, decent battery, very nice sound. But Meh again. I may have to hold out one more year before replacing my 7+.
Now, the Series 5 watch? I wanna, I wanna! I can definitely see myself upgrading my Series 3 LTE for one of these new "timepieces". Between the always-on feature and the increased screen real-estate (compared to mine) I'm exceptionally interested.
So, what say any of you other Fingish folk out there who also use Apple devices? What are your thoughts on today's presentation?
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The watch of all things also interested me. The always on display my main draw. I have a series 3 which has been my go to for a couple years. Now I have to figure out if it’s worth upgrading for that one feature.
Ipad is ok and nice entry point. The keyboard is a plus and I use one on my current pro. With mouse support coming in iPad OS, this could be a game changer.
I bought an XR when it came out to replace my aging 6s plus. Great phone and nothing compelling enough on the new ones except the camera to make an upgrade worth the cost. Plus, over 1k for a new phone? Dang that’s a lot...
Good to see apple iterating it’s products and services, just kind of a shame there are no true game changers or innovations being introduced. I guess at this stage in their corporate lives they don’t have to, but I do miss the days when they could pull a laptop out of a Manila envelope and just wow their audiences.
Rick
Other than being more powerful, the main focus for the new iPhones seems to be the camera - which was already good enough.
Big fail, as far as I'm concerned, is not yet dropping the Lightening connector for USB-C. I know there's outcry when users existing accessories won't work with their new phones but I believe the Lightening connector is the worst connector ever invented. I'm an Android man but my family goes through cables - even Apple ones - as the connector is so flaky
That said I have 2 watches - a Series 1 I wear at night for Sleep tracking and the Series 3 that I wear during the day, so I'm never without a usable watch.
The watch battery is definitely usage dependent. My 3 gets around 2 days on a charge but I’m not listening to music through it. But I do use it to track my road bike rides and that does not take a huge hit battery wise.
@Gidster I had a pebble too. Miss it but saw the writing on the wall when the Apple Watch came out. As for the c cable, Apple will get to it eventually like they did with the iPad. It’s just going to have to trickle down from the high end first.
I really am not, but it look like that because I'm critical of their products and their "innovation" (you see xD).
Nothing they present yesterday have catch my eye; they really loose their track of been, as once were, innovative.
The media says than next year will be the real change... I only can hope it will.
BTW, I have no user needs (mine first hand nor families) to use apple products so that's why I can be so apart of them, I am sure this wasn't the case I have a complete different point of view.
Well, I am currently running a XR + watch series 4
I love the XR mainly for its battery life and fluidity
The screen is not OLED? I don't mind, I don't watch videos or play games. I preferred to spend some bucks for a OLED 55" TV...
It is only too heavy to keep in my pockets.
The watch series 4 is a nice piece of technology, I can read notifications even without glasses, which is what convinced me to go with it.
My battery life is about 1.5 days.
Would I upgrade? Maybe.
IPhone 11 weighs about 20 grams less then my XR and watch 5's always on could be interesting.
I wait to taste them in the nearest Apple store ...
- Apple TV+ maybe $5 per month is nothing for Tim Cook. Maybe it is really price of single cheap movie in iTunes... but you need to pay it month by month, by motnh. For ONE show at start, that I'm not even sure if I'll like it. Crap.
- Apple Arcade. Well I'm not really game guy... I like to play ocassionally, but if I decide to spend my money on game then it goes to AAA title like whole Tomb Raider series... I played each and every one of these, some few times and enjoyed it. Spending $5 per month to play Frogger... Thank you Tim. I'm much more adult than that.
- Apple Watch 5... I sort of regret buying Series 4 last year. To me Always On display is BIG thing, I was hoping it arrived last year... Is it enough to upgrade? No... I'll wait wait another 2~3 year, until my Serier 4 depreciates and then I'll get Always On display and many, many more features that are even not yet defined.
- iPad 7... I wish I could have one. Fully featured device with reasonable price. But since most of work I do with any sort of computer requires high level of interaction with keyboard/pointing device I just can't imagine having iPad as my working device. When I'm at home I use my Mac Pro. When traveling I use my old laptop, that is sufficient to browse. Sure iPad with external keyboard (and now it even possible to use mouse) would do the similar job... but would it be ergonomic enough? Sorry, I'm not watching movies on iPad or iPhone, I'm using proper TV for this.
- iPhone.... well, my aging 6s Plus battery is screaming for replacement. Same for storage... I will buy 11 Pro Max... but not because I'm overhelmed by features, I just need the replacement and I need a decent phone. Even if after 4 years, since 6S was originally released there are tons of features that were added to iPhone, I do not see any od these as real must have. Frankly speaking only new camera system sounds really appealing to me... finally I could get rid of my old DSLR. I hope, it soooo heavy :-)
Bottom line; I really enjoyed the show. I really like the products and I strongly believe that people will make use of these... I like that Apple is making progress deveoping new features and developing theit OSes. It is just hard to sell all of this to guy like me, who stands hard on the ground and always asks a question; if I buy it, even if my heart say I LOVE THESE FEATURES, will I really use it?
P.S. I really, really miseed 'and one more thing' that would be really standing out :-(
Watch - I'm interested that people find their Apple Watches don't last a full day. Perhaps because i'm not doing long workouts in the gym, constantly checking the time, using it to make voice calls etc, my watch is at 28% close to the end of my day today after being fully charged last night. Often it can be eked out to 2 days with care. I don't mind not having "Always On" with my Series 4, so long as I can convince it to display when I want to know the time. Maybe I don't use it to the same extent that others do but its a damn good piece of kit nevertheless.
Apple Tile - This is what i'd really like to see and it probably means I'll have to get an iPhone 11 because of the Ultra Wide Band technology. I hope it'll be coming soon, as other technology offering similar functionality doesn't do it for me for various reasons.
I worked for a well know camera company for several years and I’d say this new step forward Apple has made with iPhone cameras is amazing. There were still 2 main reasons someone non pro would really buy a camera for: taking pictures in low light and wide angle. They made it.
Just as an observation, @Gidster , I put my fully charged 18 month old Series 3 LTE on my wrist when I woke up at 3:30am this morning. In that time I've used it for Apple Maps twice, taken 2 calls on it, read multiple iMessage and Slack messages in it along side all the other daily usages (checking weather, calendar and even the time!). It's now 8:30pm at night, 17 hours later and I've just put it back on to charge - 63% battery left
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
I started off with a Droid Incredible & a Motorola Xoom, then a Samsung S3, Nexus 7, HTC M8 & finally a Nexus 6.
Learning from my mistakes, I evolved into iOS wielding fanbear
(Pooh runs for the door before the flu ridden KLTaylor can catch up and kick the bears butt)
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
Had my iPhone 7 for coming up to three years now, my iPad Pro for 4 and both are going strong (my Xoom lasted 2 years).
iOS has it's faults and I do miss the customization; but I find the devices, as expensive as they are, to be a lot more reliable than any of my 'droid devices ever hoped to be.
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
As per the iOS "evolved" bear (
I think the tinkerers just love complicated things.
-Warden Anastasia Luccio, Captain
Joke apart, the durability of a device is related to the company than make them, Apple is not the only one, but, is one of the best on making hardware reliable.
Today, just a shadow of what they ware, are at least continuing their security driven approach and doesn't go bad...