It's incredible how CRINGE these over-produced events have become. Everything is totally cliche and looks like some Hollywood idealized view of the world garbage.
Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
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Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
#82Whoa, what's with the huge bezel? My only Mini is a 1st-gen, but that has a tiny bezel on either side, with somewhat larger ones top-and-bottom, and I really like the resulting overall size & proportions. Did the top and bottom bezels shrink a ton so it just looks like the whole thing's bigger all around because they all match now, or did they widen the sides? Looking at the dimensions on WP it looks like the height…
That was what struck me first as well. Reminds me of one of those kids edition tablets.
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Sometimes the alternative isn't much better, so instead of trying to punish myself and get a pixel, degoogle everything, etc. I voted with my wallet. Do I just keep my iPhone and let them get away with the CSAM on device scanning? I chose not to, even if the privacy is worse on android. Some may think that's ass backwards, but it was a solution for my beliefs.
It does seem ass backwards. Google scans your content for CSAM on their servers. And they scan your content for demographic and advertising data and god knows what else. I do not see your logic here. It appears to be an ill-decided knee-jerk reaction.
It's perplexing really.
It's a bit like saying you don't like how the government spies on you, so you're moving to China.
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If Apple didn't do it above and beyond not just what is normal but what is reasonable without an eye roll, then it wouldn't appear in every announcement, would it?
Everyone overhypes their product releases. But the reality is that most of us just don't pay attention to them. Microsoft talking about Windows? Eh. Samsung announcing something? Neat. Apple announces something, however, and the detractors just have to flood in and give their hot takes. I suppose that speaks to the influence of Apple now.
No need to get defensive. People are allowed to be unimpressed with Apple's marketing speak.
Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
#85Is anyone else annoyed that like 70% of the keynote (so far) is camera camera camera. Is there really nothing else to talk about?
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While the wording is hyperbole, going from a A12 to an A15 is quite the performance bump.
And what will I be able to do with that performance bump? I use a tablet mostly for taking notes, email and looking at websites. I can’t see how the former can get any quicker. The latter is slow mostly because of the websites themselves. Will games or office apps get faster or have new possibilities?
Then buy a lower end device. Some of us rely on these things to do productive work, or play resource hungry games.
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#88Everything looks nice, but I really don't mind these devices if I can't install my own desktop software on them. Seems nice for things like casual content consumption though
This reads like a comment from January 2010. When have you ever been able to install your own desktop apps on a device running an ARM-based SoC?
Raspberry Pis have been around since 2012. Sure they're not really portable but they do have an "ARM-based SoC".
Re: Apple unveils new iPad mini with breakthrough performance in new design
#89I love how everything has to be a "revolutionary breakthrough" with apple. Wow the 73rd version of the 19th variation of the ipad gets better performance. What a break though.
Every single company that sells things does this. You are talking about an Apple event and promo page where they are quite literally giving a sales pitch for their new products. That they (over)hype their own products is not only not notable or interesting, it's entirely expected. It is a bit bizarre that your comment, or variations of it, appears for every single Apple release. For those people so jaded and annoyed…
Apple also lies
Steve Jobs with his distortion field used to say RISC was better than Intel right up until they switched to Intel, then the story switched.
They acted like they invented the omnibox for safari browser…
Also they used to tout the size of their phones as perfect, then unceremoniously eliminated that size for nearly a decade (until this year!)
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And what will I be able to do with that performance bump? I use a tablet mostly for taking notes, email and looking at websites. I can’t see how the former can get any quicker. The latter is slow mostly because of the websites themselves. Will games or office apps get faster or have new possibilities?
Things will be faster for a little bit then will bloat up to be just as slow as soon as the new hardware is standard
Yep. Not much inventive to keep their software fast - if it gets slow, people buy more hardware from them!