Apple Event (October)
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- BusterBoy0
The iPads are very nice indeed, but give the "revolutionary", "2 times this", "three times that" and "ground breaking" a fucking rest. That type of presentation has had its day.
- then don't watch itmonospaced
- No, watch and critiqueformed
- autoflavour0
i hate the fact that SSD are the only options now days..
sure the speed is awesome, but 256gb storage? are you fucking kidding me.. i have 200gb of photos alone..are we living in 2003? since when has that little storage been useful at all.
i live in hope that my new macbook pro, which replaced the fucking old one which died 2.5 years in lasts longer than 2.5 years.
i am not going to start lugging around an external drive everywhere i go just so i can hold a decent amount of data.their endgame is to move everything into the cloud. but honestly, and i say this from being a mac user since 1998, if that is their solution, i dont think i will continue to buy macs.
- You can go to 1TB. Flash is really fast. The compromise is definitely worth it for me.inteliboy
- Larger SSD upgrade is my plan within the next 6 months.mg33
- dont get me wrong, i know SSD is fast.. its just for 1TB i can buy a small carautoflavour
- fadein110
^ okay they have 1 year to release something new.
- or else? and then? what?monospaced
- ;) you guys are funnymonospaced
- utopian0
Tech stocks: Investors not moved by Apple
It seems Wall Street wasn't too impressed by the latest iPad tablets unveiled by tech giant Apple. However, investors are still waiting for Apple to launch another revolutionary product, such as the long-rumored Apple TV.
- monospaced0
Well, they will be, if what Tim says is true:
"We are really excited about the upcoming releases of iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks, and we are laser-focused and working hard on some amazing new products that we will introduce in the fall and across 2014."- iPad Phat?
MacBook AirBiscuit?
fadein11 - only kidding - cannot wait to see what they are going to do with TV if thats one of them... Television as a medium needs an Apple kick up the arsefadein11
- an Apple kick up the arse.fadein11
- Hopefully it's not a TV or a Watch or anything people are predicting. That would defeat the purpose.monospaced
- They can keep on 'refining" their lineup and focus on entirely new marketsmonospaced
- iPad Phat?
- monospaced0
@fadein - Ive said in Sept:
• ”I would love, love, love to show you what we are working on now, but I’d lose my job.”
• ”I’ve been here for years, and the way we’re working is the same. Nothing’s changed in terms of that. We’re trying to solve problems in terms of future products that are incredibly complex, whose resolutions have no precedent.”
- ernexbcn0
The next big thing are supposedly the TV sets, I'm intrigued at what they have planned for that. Hopefully they come out in 2014.
Other than that, I don't care about a watch but I when the iPad came out I thought I won't have a use for it until I was given an iPad 3 as a birthday present and I can't stop using the thing.
- mg330
WOW - holy crap - After installing Mavericks my available space on my SSD went from 18GB to 31GB!!!!!!
Anyone else finding this to happen?
- utopian0
When is that Apple TV going to really kick in?
- chossy0
I'm not really sure what is wrong with TV at the moment? It is probably one type of media that has developed and adapted incredibly well over the years.
- monospaced0
Except for a line in Isaac's Jobs bio about how he had cracked the TV problem, there really isn't any evidence "from Apple" that a TV is in the works at all. Analysts and speculators love to insist that that's what they think they're doing, but that shouldn't be confused with what they're actually doing.
That being said, the way we consume media is changing so fast. Going online and finding video on-demand, streaming and downloading, is the new trend. Cable is antiquated, it is limited, and it is overpriced. Finding a medium between the two is definitely the holy grail of future media, but it's going to be a huge effort to wrangle the content from the cold, strong greedy grip of the cable empires.
- People are willing to pay, but only if access is simple and streamlined. Cable is anything but right now.monospaced
- who said a tv as such? I was thinking more a platform and method of delivering and viewing content. TV schedules will not exist for much longer.fadein11
- will not exist for much longer.fadein11
- we are agreeingmonospaced
- aliastime0
^ Really? I find navigating my cable box/dvr clunky and painfully slow. Channels/titles are difficult to find, and I only use a fraction of the buttons on my remote. Not to mention the button layout of most universal remotes is random as hell.
- in reply to chossyaliastime
- We are agreeing. Cable is clunky and anything but streamlined.monospaced
- sorry, though you were replying to memonospaced
- and I only watch a fraction of content that I'm paying foraliastime
- precisely... the change will happen only when we can get what we want, when we want, but cable won't give it upmonospaced
- aliastime0
^
"investors are still waiting for Apple to launch another revolutionary product"Apple isn't going to release a new product just to release something. There was a six year gap between the first iPod and the iPhone. Three years later came the iPad, which wasn't a giant leap from what the iPhone is.
My point is people don't realize that "revolutionary" products don't simply get created year after year. It's a shitload of work to recognize a common problem, go through endless rounds of R&D, then actually release a product that not only solves that problem, but is affordable and easy to use.
- But Apple has dirt cheap child slave labor in China, what gives?utopian
- finally, someone who sees it like I domonospaced
- Bullitt0
I was hoping they would get a FaceTime call at some point...
- utopian0
soon.
- mekk0
You know I'm a hater but this Mac Pro seems to be a reasonable deal actually. At least it looks like.
But what were they thinking when putting 6x Thunderbolt and 4x USB 3.0 in there? For pro use? C'mon.