I can't believe they named a phone X[s]. How can they not see everyone calling it "iPhone excess?"
and xs is not flagship-like. I'd be Apple I'd have named it SX so bad. I'm still betting that people will nickname it SX.
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#82The 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.
Would you say they just phoned it in?
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#83I can't believe they named a phone X[s]. How can they not see everyone calling it "iPhone excess?"
Everyone thought people were going to make tampon jokes about the iPad Pro ("maxipad"), but as far as I know it hasn't caught on. I don't think this will either, for the same reason. People who buy the phone won't call it that because they sunk so much cost into it. The only ones who might call it the iPhone excess are die hard android users, but those don't communicate much with iPhone users (at least not in such an…
There were feminine hygiene product jokes about the iPad when it came out. It was too obvious to be funny.
That said, all the super duper max promax naming seems lame to me.
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#84FDA approval to market the new Apple Watch as a medical device is a huge deal.
I wonder if that ECG feature might change the market perception of the device - maybe that was the intent. With the ECG and slip and fall detection, I sort of thought it makes the Apple Watch sound like the most consumer medical alert bracelet ever.
For people with aging parents that don't really use mobile phones, I could many watches purchased as safety devices. (Though the battery life doesn't make it ideal for that...)
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#85>This will be the first ECG product available over the counter to customers.
The AliveCor Kardia has been available for a while. I got one for a family member with atrial fibrillation issues and it works really well and sticks on the back of their cell phone.
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#86It's now possible to change the depth of field after taking the photo. I wasn't paying close enough attention to know if this will also be possible on older iPhones. EDIT: sounds like it's just the new iPhones. But it includes the less expensive Xr.
Not really. It just finds what’s closest and then blurs everything else with a depth-independent uniform blur.
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#88Does anyone have more information or insight into about Apple’s GPU design? The Apple A12 chip has 4 GPU cores vs. 3 cores in the A11, but GPUs from Nvidia have orders of magitude more (3584 CUDA cores for the GTX 1080 Ti, each of which can run 2048 threads). How do these numbers compare?
Notably, you’re comparing the gpu inside an iPhone to a gpu that is more than twice as big as the entire iPhone.
Unfortunately, I’m not sure about how the actual numbers measure up though.
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#90FDA approval to market the new Apple Watch as a medical device is a huge deal.
I wonder if that ECG feature might change the market perception of the device - maybe that was the intent. With the ECG and slip and fall detection, I sort of thought it makes the Apple Watch sound like the most consumer medical alert bracelet ever. For people with aging parents that don't really use mobile phones, I could many watches purchased as safety devices. (Though the battery life doesn't make it ideal for th…
Yeah, agreed. I have never thought of buying an Apple Watch for myself or as a gift, but after seeing that, I would at least consider buying them for my mother and mother-in-law.