stevedownunder

I have only good comments for the Apple staff. I've shopped in Apple stores in various UK, UK and Australian cities and they've always been helpful. I usually know what I want but on my last visit whilst out of country on business I needed to replace a bricked iPad (motherboard failure) which was out of warranty (my kid's iPad) & they offered me a refurbed at a great price. I replaced a MacbookPro power supply which was 3 years old and had just died on the road (my spare was at home) and the sales person showed me some neat features on the iPadPro absolutely relevant to my business when I made an enquiry . No company is perfect, but I've never seen any signs of disrespect at a Genius Bar and if someone is being obnoxious I'd expect the management to back up the staff and kick the customer out.

Normal customer service call : Normal Customer : "Apple can you help ?" Apple : "We've had a look, the answer is No we can't help." Normal Customer : "Ok, thanks for trying." This 'normal service call' US Government : "Apple can you help ?" Apple : "We've sent people down, we've given you advice and you ignored it. That's all we can do." US Government : "Tough, we want in & we're gonna lie to the Media and Public, until you relent and sue you because we want to spy on the world." US Government to everyone : "Our quadruple billions of NSA money used to spy on everyone in world can't get into the iPhone and we really need to look 'just this once'. Trust us we won't ever need it again (other than all the other cases we're pursuing quietly), we're the guardians of liberty and privacy." Everyone : "I think Not, we've heard this before and heard testimony to congress that you promised you weren't spying on us, then we found out you were. Once bitten..."

This a fantastic series featuring a couple of Britain's best actors, the characters are believable, flawed and the plots complex, twisty and interesting....

 No James Bond gadgets or ridiculous stunts, just really good TV.

I agrees with the other 2 posters so far.
I would prefer reviews on the apps on VP than the negativity.

We remember the iPhone initially only had Apple Apps.
The iPad was going to be a niche product.
The Apple Watch wouldn't appeal.

Let's have some serious reviews of the hardware, the experience and the current apps and new ones as they arrive.

My last upgrade from 5 to 6 was $44 AUD.
6 to 7 is $39 US

People do not remember the prices we used to pay for software (PC and I know Mac's had similar pricing for the major titles)

Copy of MS Excel ? $795
Copy of MS Word ? $795
Copy of dBASE ? $795

You would have to buy it from a reseller or computer store and they of course include shipping fee and the retail mark-up plus local tax, and there was stuff all you could do about it.

Gimme a break, the App Store dropped the prices of software like a stone but created a global market for small software developers to concentrate on their products rather of having to pay huge amounts on finding a publisher or advertising in computer magazines. This platform has allowed creative people to make a living without having to worry about finding someone to carry their product and pay for advertising,

Apple created this market from scratch under intense competition, no-one helped them, no-one said here's a billion dollars build a safe, reliable distribution & delivery system that we can all use.

Don't like paying the fee to use the App Store for global delivery to millions and millions of potential customers?
It's very simple, there is another platform for you, it's called Android, build for it and go away, we don't need you.

Agree with the other people - AirFly is terrific...been using it the last year

DAalseth said:

I’ll update, but really only to keep currant. Everyone is crowing about Focus. I don’t use DND so an improved DND is just of no interest. The Privacy improvements are good. I never turn up my nose at improved privacy/security. TBH the rest of the list is interesting but I doubt I’ll use them much. 

EDIT: To make it clear, I hope that this ends up being this decades Snow Leopard. Refined and rock solid. The standard we compare the next ten or so releases to. I don’t see a lot of the new features as being of much interest, but I am pleased by all the talk about back end improvements, and refinements. 

Agreed Snow Leopard was one of the best releases

My preference is always a 2 release cycle, 1st release new features, 2nd refines the features and optimises performance so the changes are more gradual but the OS says solid.

I got my watch a couple of weeks ago; for the apps I use it's working out great. It's just a matter of figuring out which apps and business uses are suitable for a watch or not. If developers are not seeing an uptake of their app it's probably a design fault or their model does not work on the platform. I'd rather see a small number of high quality apps where all the developers make a ton of money for getting it right, rather than a whole pile of garbage apps.