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Apple Announces Event On September 7: iPhone 7, Apple Watch 2 Expected
New iPhones are coming, Apple hinted today. The Cupertino-based giant announced on Monday that it will host an event on September 7. The rumor mill suggests that the company would announce as many as three iPhones -- the iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, and the iPhone 6 SE. Recent reports suggest that Apple may also announce the second-generation of Apple Watch. No new iPads are expected. The company is widely rumored to refresh its Mac lineup -- though they are likely to be launched at a later point. The biggest talk point around the iPhone 7 has been the headphone jack -- or its lack thereof.
We already know what's coming...
New macs will suck just as bad with ports removed.
It can be as bad as max 2 usb-c / TB 3.0 ports with no 3.5 jack or power only jack and you want to use the old ports that will be $29.99-$49.99 more. want an power + usb-c / tb3 one that will be $19.99.
as the iphone se already has the guts of an iphone 6s (an dno number in it's name) it's successor won't be called iphone 6 se.
Apple has always included plenty of ports in the pro models, and they will continue to do so...
Yes they are removing ports on the lower end models but it's making the laptop thinner and 99% of the people using them do not need the ports they are taking out enough that it matters they are gone.
There's nothing wrong or odd about having multiple lines of product that serve the needs of different users.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
For suckers who upgrade every year.
No 3.5mm no sale
Apple iPhone7 + Watch 2 = Apple 9.
Since M$ skipped Windows 9, Apple should skip (7+2) too...
Or else the numerology Gods will get angry!
Like when Eve took a bite of an Apple.
Apple watch should jump right to three, Just like windows 3.0 came after 1,0
Now all my superstitious ducks are in a row....
I need to wear my pointy hat now
amen
no tv 3.0, tb 3.1 is already more or less confirmed. i'd guess, they'll have 4 of those usb-c ports and maybe an sd-card reader.
So far, Apple had been promoting itself as a fashion company, but now, w/ this range of watches, they should really get into the jewelry market. Their rivals ain't Google or Samsung or Microsoft: they are Swarovski or Zales. Indeed, Swarovski should buy Microsoft and add an LCD screen w/ Windows 10 IoT to its wrist bands, and promote the value in the LCDs, as opposed to the software
But having 2 USB-C / TB 3 ports and 2 USB-C non TB is very unapple. Also the thin push may force them to cut usb-A ports.
When Steve was alive Apple shipped new products when Steve thought they were ready, which was a pretty high quality bar. Today Apple ships whatever compromise they can to make sure they hit the Xmas season, like any other shareholder driven corporations (nobody with Steve's position to oppose them). This is why Apple product quality is now no better or worse than all other major players. I miss the old Apple where products actually worked and someone had the guts to say "This is a crappy user experience, go back and fix it!".
Finally I can dump my iPhone 6+ in the trash! It was getting pretty old, I've had it for over 6 months now.
Lots of people thought a new Apple Watch was coming out at the beginning of this year. Nope! Apple will wait until they have a good set of updates for the second model - though the UI overhaul with WatchOS 3 makes the old ones even more useful and speedy...
I'm still not sure they will deliver a new Apple Watch until next year. No need to rush.
As for the phone, they have a relentless machine that's not rushing anything to market, just incrementally improving the phone year by year, with whatever can fit in with a high level of quality. That's not rushing anything. If they find something doesn't work well they just leave it out until the next model (as they have done in the past).
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
...is the Cult of Jobs. It's a lot creepier, and you must always remember to run the other way when a cultist appears. Fortunately the true believers always telegraph themselves by referring to him just by his first name, as if they went to the same high school together and were best buds for decades.
If Apple continues their trend with the Mac mini, the 2016 model will be a single-core CPU clocked at around 800MHz with 512MB of RAM and a 4200RPM, 250GB hard drive connected via IDE.
Why does every article about a tech company have to give their address out. Who gives a shit.
If the rumours of Apple moving to a three year cycle for the design of the iPhone are true then I'd be surprised if they brought out the iPhone 7 this year. Especially with next year being the 10th anniversary of the iPhone which will probably bring a big design refresh.
Not that I care because all I want is the smaller screen with all of the features that the larger phones have. Since Apple isn't making that phone I'm staying with my 5s.
My prediction is that they're going to come out with a new line that is even less repairable than before, and they'll make sure you need plenty of expensive adapters to use all your old peripherals!
I don't know why people continue to buy these machines. They're often inferior spec-wise unless you go to the top of the line models that are generally overpriced and all you're really getting is OSX which isn't that great.
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A dingo ate my sig...
Don't call me, I'll call you when I need to replace what I have now, as it works just fine.
Total non-event for me.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
A long time ago I used to wait for these events with a quite a bit of excitement. I remember one event in particular when they practically created a new industry overnight by releasing the iPhone. Then at the next event they really wowed me with the all new iPhone. The next event was pretty spectacular when they released the iPhone. By then I had stopped paying attention. I was really only invested in OS X, and by then they had pretty much mutilated the interface as far as my own usability concerns go. Last year they released something called the iPhone. It looked interesting, if not a bit on the Fisher Price side of things as far as the interface goes. Besides, I'm happy swapping sim cards between multiple devices as I please. I gather there was a tablet in there at some point but Apple product releases have been pretty lost on me.
I'll just ask my watch.
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"Everyone, we're releasing the same phone again, but with slight differences that don't really matter and we're taking away a port. Also, here's a watch. Okay, go."
It's time to accept the truth: The prices you're paying for your super-high-tech toys is flat-out unsustainable; your hunger for these things, coupled with your refusal to pay a fair price for them, is causing them to be produced on the backs of workers that are nigh-unto slave labor; they're getting paid next to nothing, treated worse than most people treat machines, and it's utterly de-humanizing to them. With every passing year I begin to see more and more why it is that so many non-first-world countries and peoples hate the U.S. and so many other first-world countries: we're spoiled rotten with all our toys, and stamp our feet and throw a fit if the price goes up even by a few dollars. It's got to come to an end. You want a new iPhone? It should cost a thousand dollars at least. You want a new tablet computer or laptop? Pay several thousand for it. Don't want to pay that much? Live without it. Face it: You do not NEED these things to start with, not really. We're painting ourselves into a corner!
The thing is, jewelry usually is durable.
It's nice and shiny and expensive today, and it's supposed to continue being nice and shiny and expensive in the future.
(Unlike fashion where, after a couple of months, the clothes are just good to be thrown away and you certainly wouldn't like to risk be seen with things on you which are "so last season" !)
Whereas, with the current hardware in smartwatch (similar to circa when Apple introduced the world to a smartphone that can only handle charge for a couple of hours and needs to be constantly docked), current smartwatch will be completely worthless in a couple of months.
You still need to wait a couple of years until Apple's smartwatch are at the point where their current phones are (sure there's going to be an even better out eventually, but for most people, their current device works for everything they need most of the time, so why bother changing ?)
- That explain why Apple (and other smartphone manufacturers) has jumped so soon on the smartwatch bandwagon. It's not only to have a piece of the Pebble's cake, it's also that they finally have a new product that they can again force their sheep-customers to rebuy every year.
- That means that Apple can't yet partner with jewelry makers. Their customer want long-term value storage. Something that they can buy now and that will still hold value a couple of years later. Whereas a potential Apple Jewel would cost a lot today, but in a few years down the line it would be just an expensive platic/metal trinket attached to a somewhat valuable bracelet.
(And that's not only my opinion. That is the actual market analysis of a couple of swiss luxury watches makers who have looked into it)
The only way a jewelry smartwatch could be popular now, is if the jewelry make sold the bracelet as the primary product, with the possibility to upgrade the electronic timepiece as model generations come and go.
That might be possible with a manufacturer like pebble where the form-factor seems more or less stable.
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I miss the old Apple where products actually worked
You mean like the first iPhone, that had a battery that barely held a couple of hours, and certainly not to the end of the day ?
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At the time they released their crap, I had :
- an old EPOC-running Ericsson stupid phone. With which I could go on vacations *without* taking a charger.
(Similar to all the Nokia that people still have, lost somewhere at the bottom of a drawer. Still in working order. With the battery still at ~30%)
- paired over bluetooth to a PalmOS 5.x running PDA, that could do anything that the iPhone did back then (web, e-mail, calendar, contacts, notes) and more (ssh, and other 3rd party apps), while holding charge for 1-2 days of heavy use, or up to a week of light use.
- and I was complaining loudly a lot, because since the switch from m68k to ARM processor, battery life had massively sank (the previous PDA could hold for a week of normal use, and I could safely go on vacation without a charger), and I found ludicrous to need to buy a power-sledge for my newer device.
Apple didn't announce products once they were good. Apple announced product as soon as Jobs could bluff his way through an impressive demo (while needing to remember the exact order of clicks/taps to avoid the product crashing on scene like Gates' demos)
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They're often inferior spec-wise unless you go to the top of the line models that are generally overpriced
Which by the way is also the case of any non-beige box PC...
(Self-built hardware is the king !)
and all you're really getting is OSX which isn't that great.
Compared to what ?
To Linux ? Yeah sure. (OSX is the "bargain bin" of Unix, but with a nice coat of paint).
To the craptastic clusterfuck called Windows 10 ? Your mileage may vary...
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Hopefully they'll replace that POS "trashcan" with a worthwhile computer design again. I'd love to buy a new, high quality Mac Pro. If they'd just start making one. :/
iOS > Android.
That won't go away until I get my phone. And then some!
I absolutely cannot wait to pay for this privilege.
As long as you get to define "pro model" and "plenty of ports" then sure.
I guess it wasn't clear to you but the context is obviously laptops... and it seems pretty obvious a pro-model laptop IS the one with a lot of ports.
Or, duh, is called a "pro". In fact that alone would be definition enough for me, whatever laptop model Apple felt like attaching Pro to will have a lot of useful ports.
Of course, the topic was Macs, not just Mac notebooks,
The main topic was, not what I responded to. But then as we'll demonstrate in a moment you have no reading comprehension...
the current "Mac Pro" is the very definition of "not plenty of ports"
Well since you are obviously an idiot what's the point in saying anything further?
Mac pro ports:
"Designed with built-in Thunderbolt 2 (6!), USB 3 (4), Gigabit Ethernet(2), and HDMI 1.4 ports"
Who would not consider 6 thunderbolt2 ports alone "a lot of ports"?
Come back when you are substantially less retarded. I know I won't be waiting up.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It's going to take me a lot to upgrade. I've got an iPhone 6 Plus now. It's two years old but man, I've never had such a good phone. The phone battery has never actually run empty, and regularly I come home after a day with still 75% left. The screen is large and bright. All apps launch fast (except Facebook, which I deleted and now use in the browser). I can set the font nice and small, while still readable. The fingerprint-unlock is amazing, and it takes real great pics and optically-stabilized movies of my kid.
Not sure how they can improve it.
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