Face ID On the iPad Pro means no sale. I do not want it and do not want to pay for it. The notch screen is also a no go. Some of us do not want a digital map of our face stored locally on a device or remotely on Apple’s servers. The lack of a physical home button is also not a plus.
As to iPhones, if I cannot buy one without Face ID, I will say pass. I’ll just buy a new battery for my iPhone 7.
Face ID On the iPad Pro means no sale. I do not want it and do not want to pay for it. The notch screen is also a no go. Some of us do not want a digital map of our face stored locally on a device or remotely on Apple’s servers. The lack of a physical home button is also not a plus.
As to iPhones, if I cannot buy one without Face ID, I will say pass. I’ll just buy a new battery for my iPhone 7.
With Apple, change is guaranteed. I have the X at this point. After 3 or 4 days I wished I had never had a home button. And its a royal pain to use my iPad or my wife phone which has the "button".
No. They are not going to make a round watch, FFS.
Exactly lol, not going to happen.
And if they were, they'd say, "Time to gather round."
"Gather round" is probably just a convenient graphic/phrase, and possibly hinting at another round product to be released: another size of homepod.
As an aside, it's a shame that the siri still makes the homepod virtually useless for anything other than rote homekit commands, which it still manages to screw up more than it should.
The thing I'm most looking forward to hearing about is the Maps development, finally!
Face ID On the iPad Pro means no sale. I do not want it and do not want to pay for it. The notch screen is also a no go. Some of us do not want a digital map of our face stored locally on a device or remotely on Apple’s servers. The lack of a physical home button is also not a plus.
As to iPhones, if I cannot buy one without Face ID, I will say pass. I’ll just buy a new battery for my iPhone 7.
Ummm, you know Face ID can be turned off, right?
Also, please explain how the lack of a physical home button is a bad thing.
I’m with the crowd that thinks the graphic is a bird’s eye view of Apple Park. When was the last time Apple’s invite graphics actually had some hidden meaning that became obvious after the event?
I applauded the lack of leaks, so of course there are several coming out all over the place immediately after I opened my big mouth. Although I'm not too sure of the gold color iPhones "leaked" on 9-to-5 Mac.
Face ID On the iPad Pro means no sale. I do not want it and do not want to pay for it. The notch screen is also a no go. Some of us do not want a digital map of our face stored locally on a device or remotely on Apple’s servers. The lack of a physical home button is also not a plus.
As to iPhones, if I cannot buy one without Face ID, I will say pass. I’ll just buy a new battery for my iPhone 7.
With Apple, change is guaranteed. I have the X at this point. After 3 or 4 days I wished I had never had a home button. And its a royal pain to use my iPad or my wife phone which has the "button".
I have an original iPad Mini that serves its intended function well. It doesn't have touchID. Funny how I really got used to, and now expect that function. Swipe is so last decade.
Face ID On the iPad Pro means no sale. I do not want it and do not want to pay for it. The notch screen is also a no go. Some of us do not want a digital map of our face stored locally on a device or remotely on Apple’s servers. The lack of a physical home button is also not a plus.
As to iPhones, if I cannot buy one without Face ID, I will say pass. I’ll just buy a new battery for my iPhone 7.
No, no, no. Get educated. Neither Face ID nor the very established Touch ID store jack shit on Apple’s servers.
All the speculation about every year's invite graphics winds up an epic fail. Apple plays games with us every year. Not going to even guess what the invite means. I'll just say there won't be a round face on the new Apple watch(es) as that would be impractical.
I'm pretty happy with the lack of significant leaks. For the most part, we've only gotten vague rumors from the usual suspects. Unless I somehow missed them, no leaked parts that are likely in the next iPhones.
It’s funny that leaks happened after you posted this comment—the same day.
While a round watch face makes sense for the sweeping hands of an analog watch, a digital watch - whose purpose is to provide a wide variety of data - is most usefully delivered via a rectangle. A flatter and larger (viewable), not overall rectangle is what I'm still betting on.
Of course, Apple may have "solved" the inefficiency of a round display for data, but I'm struggling to see how...
I'm thinking it's a multiple allusion to Apple Park, the Steve Jobs Theater, a new iPhone camera subsystem.
(and a new round Mac Mini Pro???)
Every year people analyse these things to death and never do the wild predictions come through. I remember the bubbles on one invite were analysed something special and basically they were literally nothing but a new wallpaper or iPhone marketing graphics. The ring on the keynote to my eyes is simply an aerial view of Apple Park. Nothing less; nothing more.
Oh god! Please not the round computer screen thing again. Please no.
Here's a reveal of the new desktop MacPro AIO. Can't innovate my ass.
Hell, I'd buy one.
You realise that the Apple Communications and Marketing Department spend ages coming up with invites that are just enigmatic to fuel crazy speculation about what they mean, partly as an exercise to generate publicity by getting people talking about it, and also partly to see what crazy BS people come up with?
Then again, maybe they just put their coffee mug down on the paper again.
(Insert that Dilbert strip about the "Brown Ring of Quality" that I can't be arsed to go looking for.)
If you make the watch round, then where do you put the complications? To me, the corners are the perfect place for them. I have three watch faces I swipe to depending on which complications I'm going to be using (working out, cooking, normal).
Mac_128 said: The complications go where they've gone successfully for over a century in round and square watches alike -- inside the dial. Just like the Hermes Apple Watch does now:
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Some of us do not want a digital map of our face stored locally on a device or remotely on Apple’s servers. The lack of a physical home button is also not a plus.
As to iPhones, if I cannot buy one without Face ID, I will say pass. I’ll just buy a new battery for my iPhone 7.
Here's a reveal of the new desktop MacPro AIO. Can't innovate my ass.
Also, please explain how the lack of a physical home button is a bad thing.
I’m with the crowd that thinks the graphic is a bird’s eye view of Apple Park. When was the last time Apple’s invite graphics actually had some hidden meaning that became obvious after the event?
Nope. Not sinister at all.
Hell, I'd buy one.
You realise that the Apple Communications and Marketing Department spend ages coming up with invites that are just enigmatic to fuel crazy speculation about what they mean, partly as an exercise to generate publicity by getting people talking about it, and also partly to see what crazy BS people come up with?
Then again, maybe they just put their coffee mug down on the paper again.
(Insert that Dilbert strip about the "Brown Ring of Quality" that I can't be arsed to go looking for.)
And Apple seems to agree with me!! Ha!!