mjtomlin

Soli said:

I hope that the one small grove of trees being placed in a grid-like fashion is an outlier. The original mockups had a more random-looking dispersal of trees, which I think looks nicer.

The original mockups always contained fruit trees in a grid pattern... that's how orchards are usually planted.

OfficeGlenn said:

Might this also have enhanced camera applications?

Yes. Depending on how fast a "scene" can be rendered, you may not need a second camera to determine depth of field. Ideally, every pixel within an image could not only contain color information, but also distance. 

Currently, using stereo optics, depth of field is determine by the amount of "shift" in the image. The more shift, the closer that area of the image is to the camera. If you know the viewing angle of the cameras and the distance between the cameras, you can determine the distance to the object by how much it shifts in the image.

macxpress said:

sog35 said:

Wireless charging is a huge, big, waste of time, IMO.

But I'll trust Tim Cook's judgement in the end.

I mean, how much effort is it to plug my iPhone? 1 second?

What if the iPhone X doesn't have any ports? Why would you need a port if you can wirelessly charge it? I'm tell ya people this is coming soon...as soon as Apple gets wireless charging down, that lighting port will be a thing of the past. You can sync it wirelessly, connect bluetooth devices to it (wirelessly)such as EarPods and now charging wirelessly. No need for a lightning port anymore. I know this will piss people off just like the headphone jack, but people will get over it just like they did with the headphone jack missing. 

Of course it'll have a Lightning port. You will still need to charge it via a cable when you're not around a wireless charging transmitter. 

eightzero said:

andyshannon3 said:

My favorite thing is going into a store and paying with my samsung gear S3, and having the cashier go "oh we dont do the apple pay thing" and then it goes BEEEP, and a receipt spits out and they are like huh??? Samsung pays works EVERYWHERE, so amazing to not have to carry a wallet ever or worry about whether a place accepts samsung pay or not. I am sure apple will get there eventually, in a few years......

I'm curious: are you saying that there are contactless NFC terminals that will take Samsung pays, but not Apple Pay? I too have had the experience where the clerk doesn't know what they take or how it works, yet I complete the transaction from my Apple Watch and Apple Pay.
 

No. Samsung uses a technology that can wirelessly transmit credit information directly to the reader, just as if you've swiped your card.

This poster is obviously completely unaware the main reason for using something like Apple Pay is for security and privacy. Samsung's technology is actually less secure than swiping your card, because the data that is normally stored on the back of your card is being transmitted. So someone could pick up the info without the consumer even realizing that their CC has just been stolen.

Gotta love when when people comment on unofficial "reports" and start to lay blame where ever they can. 

I have first hand hand knowledge that Chris was planning on leaving Apple after Swift went open source and was "finished". Which was version 3.0.

This ridiculousness about secrecy is pure speculation. All of his projects are opened sources.