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jume said:

So the new PRO now at Apple means "a little bit extra features" to justify this huge price tag?

I don't like where this Apple boat has been steering in the last years, it's crazy.

And also what is Apple Design doing lately? That triple camera design looks like from a students prototype class.

fastasleep said:

anantksundaram said:

fastasleep said:

anantksundaram said:

Basically, the dullest Apple keynote I can recall. I said some weeks ago that I expected one that was somewhere in the spectrum of ‘blah’ to ‘meh’: that turned out to be a wildly optimistic prediction.

Apple appears to be currently in a holding pattern vis-à-vis its products and services. Looking on the bright side, the stock was flat.

 I’ll wait for 2020.

What a shock. Maybe next year you can delight and surprise us by not complaining so much in advance?

Will do. Oh, I should have added (as I mentioned in another thread), the format of these keynotes is getting to be quite stale. It needs to be reimagined.

As an aside, what the heck happened to the 16" Mac, RFID trackers, etc?

LOL, now the keynotes themselves aren’t innovative enough? “Reimagined” hahahaha what a joke. 

Nobody expected Macs today. Nobody knows the timeline on the Tag, for all we know that’s a 2020 product. October event with both these and iPad Pros is more likely. 

After starting out fast the keynote dragged a bit. There wasn’t a ton to talk about with the Pro phones. Whip is why they spent so much time on the camera. 

Looks like Apple’s night mode is more realistic. They didn’t mention it much on stage. I’m guessing that’s because others already have it. I like that both the 11 and the Pro get it. I like that it’s more realistic. Google’s looks like you turned on a light and then snapped the photo.

gatorguy said:

rogifan_new said:

mjtomlin said:

rogifan_new said:

GeorgeBMac said:

So?   That seems right to me:  If I am looking for an app -- say a spreadsheet program -- I will want to see what Apple has to offer more than anything else.

If someone is searching for a spreadsheet app the first one that should pop up is Excel. 

Wrong! When you buy an iPhone and it says it comes with “Numbers” many people will search for it driving it up the list. 

It does if you search for Numbers. If you search for spreadsheet Google Sheets comes up first, then Excel. Which I guess makes sense as I forgot there is no free version of Excel.

All the results may differ from what they were 30 days ago. At one point a few weeks back if you searched for "Music" the first 8 results were all Apple apps, with Spotify for example kinda buried down at #11 I think, tho that may not be 100% accurate. 

In any event Apple has made a couple of changes since July besides the grouping by developer tendency which was claimed to be one reason for Apple apps surfacing so prominently. 

If I worked in Apple public relations or communications I’d be telling Tim Cook Apple is starting to look reactionary, like they’re only doing things because they got caught or were outed by the media. Take this story for example. One gets the feeling Apple was alerted it was coming so they made changes because of it. And then of course the Siri changes that were announced after the Guardian published its story. Apple making changes after they got caught doing things that weren’t disclosed to users. It’s not a good look. Especially for a company that prides itself on being different/more ethical than every other tech company.

GeorgeBMac said:

rogifan_new said:

GeorgeBMac said:

So?   That seems right to me:  If I am looking for an app -- say a spreadsheet program -- I will want to see what Apple has to offer more than anything else.

If someone is searching for a spreadsheet app the first one that should pop up is Excel. 

Why?  Because you use Excel?   Few independent users -- the type who use the App Store do.   It is mostly a commercial product due its high cost.

Who uses numbers? If anything people that want a free product are using Google Docs.