The showmanship really feels like it's run out. Even when it was the post-Jobs Ive and Cook it was still captivating, but this is just tiresome.
Phones just aren't as exciting anymore.
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#122I can imagine Apple has quite a few linguists on its payroll; They are still beating the words “beautiful” and “best” to death in their keynotes. It’s tough to not be excited about new features that are debuted upon each release, but it’s also getting monotonous to hear, “Product X is the _best_ version of its kind. Product Y is the _most_ we’ve ever created and its pictures are simply _beautiful_.”
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#123Something to note on the market: AAPL was trending well up during the Watch announcements, and well down during the rest.
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#124iPhone pricing tiers: - XR $749 - XS $999 - XS Max $1099 Yikes. And that's for the lowest storage available.
Yup, and the lowest tier is 64Gb vs. the next tier at 256Gb. So $DEITY only knows what the phone you'll actually buy will cost. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this to be the largest gap between tiers yet, with the lowest being four times smaller than the next tier.
EDIT (all prices US): for the big one:
256: $1249
512: $1499
Little one:
256: $1149
512: $1349
R:
128: $799
256: $899
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#125They killed the SE! Now we're stuck with screens too big to use with one hand. I really really dislike this.
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#126How have privacy concerns over the facial recognition panned out?
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#127The showmanship really feels like it's run out. Even when it was the post-Jobs Ive and Cook it was still captivating, but this is just tiresome.
The Apple Watch announcements were intriguing.
The iPhone announcements were, I agree, quite tiresome. So much so, I closed the window a few minutes into Schiller's discussion of the chips in the new models.
I suspect it's because I can only do so much with a phone and nothing in the "smartphone" space jumps out to me as "revolutionary". It seems that innovational leaps in mobile computing will depend on what software becomes available.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
How can they not see everyone calling it "iPhone excess?" Is that necessarily bad? Up to a point, the more meme-ing and acrimony around your brand, the better. "There's no such thing as bad publicity."
Calling your $1100+ phone the iPhone Excess Max is a great way to get every talk show to discuss an update that appears to be little more than an incremental speed bump.
Is it just me, or was there not a very specific arab overtone to the marketing in the videos on this announcement: In the sand, the desert, the oasis village, the gold...
They must really want every Saudi to overspend on the 512gb S Max gold++++
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#130I had a HUGE expectation on a new MacBook Air! I've watched til the end expecting "one more thing" (which would be unlikely, given it isn't a exactly a new product)