Apple Announces iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, OS X Yosemite and More

Many outlets are reporting on Apple's iPad event today. Highlights include:

• Apple pay will launch Monday.
• WatchKit -- a way for developers to make apps for the Apple Watch will launch next month.
• iOS 8.1
• Messages, iTunes, and iWork updated and many more new features in OS X Yosemite.
• You can send and receive calls on your Mac if you have an iPhone with iOS 8 that's signed into the same FaceTime account.
• iPad Air 2: New camera, 10 hour battery life, 12x faster than the original iPad.
• iPad mini 3.
• iMac with Retina display.
• And a Mac mini update: Faster processors, Intel Iris graphics, and two Thunderbolt 2 ports.

Comments

Yawn

[vux984]

A big bunch of nothing exciting.

Oooo... an ipad 12x faster than the "original ipad" ... gee... what kind of bullshit marketing is that? Maybe Intel should do that, the recent i7 4770K wasn't impressively faster than the 3770K... maybe they should have compared it to the original Pentium D or something.

Oooo... an imac with a retina display... only reason its even theoretically interesting is that thanks to there being no way to buy a half decent desktop mac without buying that ridiculous tube is to get stuck with their lousy all-in-one form factor.

I'm not especially anti-apple, but this isn't really news. Oh, look, Dell announced an new 13" XPS laptop, and $20 off on Inspirons under $500 ... we should put that on the front page too.