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Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by nzealand »

I posted this a few days ago....

What would todays presentation would have looked like if Steve Jobs was still around? -There would have been fewer leaks before the big unveiling.

-There would have been fewer features mentioned in the presentation.

-There would have been fewer features in the product in favor of a faster ship date.

-There would have been fewer choices in terms of colors, straps and models.

This is a totally unfair comparison, especially as I don't work at Apple and have yet to wear the device.

But I think we are all wondering, can Apple continue to innovate as successfully without Steve around?

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by k-mcgrady »

ThePhysicist wrote: post #119

"What we want from Apple isn't new technology. We want human warmth — a possibility of living a more fulfilled, meaningful life." I think this sums up nicely what's wrong here: The belief that technology will make your life more fulfilled or meaningful. I didn't watch the live keynote (I don't have the required Apple gear) but saw excerpts on Youtube, and frankly, I find the level of religiousness surrounding this ev…

>> "Take the metro / subway in any big, affluent city these days, and look around youself. What do you see? People whose eyes are glued to their phone screens, oblivious to the people around them, looking for "human warmth" in their virtual companion. That's really not the society I want to live in."

I agree with a lot of what you said but this isn't correct. True we all have out faces buried in our devices but before that we had them buried in newspapers. [0][1][2] No matter the decade people don't look for human warmth on public transport. They want to get on, look down, and get off.

[0] http://img.qz.com/2014/01/baghi49cyaaz2ps.jpg?w=1024&h=714 [1] http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/01/article-2137695-12... [2] https://www.wodumedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Riders-...

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by mozilla »

thats actually pretty good

i too believe in the single device. and explaining why its been made. otherwise, apple is another samsung.

heck i dont even own any apple product but thats still something i liked and respected.

turns out my next phone is the ze compact. close to the perfect size. :p

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

#125

Post by prof_hobart »

catshirt wrote: post #92
beagle3 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

First, "old" in this case is "older than 3 years", which is about 3 years older than almost any other phone manufacturer; my almost 3-year old iphone 4S is still getting updates the same day a new phone does. (Yes, my more-than-5-years-old iphone 3G does not, so?) 2nd, they don't care about older-than-3 iphones. But they care about getting old iphone owners to feel good about themselves and to upgrade to a newer one.…

> "2nd, they don't care about older-than-3 iphones" great, so we agree.

> Apple doesn't give a shit about old iPhones

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> my almost 3-year old iphone 4S is still getting updates the same day a new phone does

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>great, so we agree

No. I don't think you do.

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by danbruc »

ThePhysicist wrote: post #119

"What we want from Apple isn't new technology. We want human warmth — a possibility of living a more fulfilled, meaningful life." I think this sums up nicely what's wrong here: The belief that technology will make your life more fulfilled or meaningful. I didn't watch the live keynote (I don't have the required Apple gear) but saw excerpts on Youtube, and frankly, I find the level of religiousness surrounding this ev…

Couldn't agree more, but when you have to sell a phone that is just like every other phone, you quickly run out of other ways to advertise it.

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

#127

Post by honestlyCurious »

fndrplayer13 wrote: post #23

This article is _fantastic_. Nailed Steve Jobs, as I remember him anyhow. The presentation that Apple gave sounded a lot like something you would hear from Google, not Apple, in my opinion. Too many options, too many stats. Not concise. Not moving.

My thoughts exactly. The keynote given by Cook felt dull and overdone. He tried hard but he had big shoes to fill.

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by Htsthbjig »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #17

Steve also claimed that Apple would never do a video iPod until the day it launched. You should read the entire article. Steve said a lot of stuff that he later (not so much recanted as entirely) ignored. http://www.wired.com/2010/02/steve-jobs/ When Mossberg in 2003 asked Jobs whether he planned to put video in an iPod, the CEO said he was turned off by the idea. “I’m not convinced people want to watch movies on a t…

He was totally right:

"I'm not convinced people want to watch movies on a TINY SCREEN"

Later they created a device with a much bigger screen(at least six times bigger) and called it IPOD, but it had not a tiny screen.

The same could be said about small computers. When I got my first laptop I considered at least 17'' necessary, which was very bulky, I told everybody that.

Then I got lots of complaints from people when I got a 13'' macbook air:"You said you will never use anything smaller than 17 inches".

But I didn't say that. I said that given the resolution they had at the time, I needed 17 inches, but obviously I wanted the same screen in a smaller size at a reasonable price.

The 13 inches macbook has more pixels on it than my old laptop.

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by drblast »

gbhn wrote: post #73
GuiA wrote: post #18

Hacker News: your premier source for Steve Jobs fan fiction. (laughs) Does the author really think that Steve Jobs would have ever said "When I open up a website on Safari, I don't have to strain my eyes anymore"? They're still selling 5S and 5C! Not even Asus would disparage their previous products like that. The rest of the piece is just as bad and devoid of substance. (Steve rolls in his grave)

The adulation is a bit rich. Wasn't 3.5 inches claimed to be "the perfect size" by this same individual? Part of being Steve Jobs is knowing when you have a breakthrough and knowing when you've got an incremental improvement. He did plenty of the latter as well as the former.

There are a lot of Apple fans who are about to suddenly discover that their thumbs are actually longer than they previously thought, or have grown in the years since the first perfect iPhone was released.

Re: Steve Jobs Introduces the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch

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Post by nb1981 »

It's a, what, 7th, or 8th generation product? Let them move on. Of course it's going to settle into a more MacBook style cycle of steady, measured updates (no pun intended). Going bigger is clearly a 'we've done what we came here to do, now lets mop up what we can from the high end to fund our other projects'. I struggle to knock them for that.
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