Eric_in_CT

I like the comment here about Apple training us to be ready for no-moving-part keyboards.

Consider the iPhone home button. 
All glass, not an actual button, but has a taptic engine to shake when pressed.
Feels EXACTLY like a button that clicks.
Only rarely is my phone ever OFF. 
Press your home 'button' when the phone is fully-OFF.  It turns to stone!  It's like a marble counter top!
Power back on?  Button!

No doubt people are in Cupertino right now typing on glass-top (like an electric stove) keyboard prototypes, with iPhone button circles for every key, with individual taptic feedback engines, under each key.  Nice.

I still remember the glass trackpad intro videos on the 3 months they spent getting the texture of the glass right, or asking "what does a click FEEL like?"

It would be fun if they hired me to type:  "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" all day!

Cheers!

Eric.

Edit 1 :  The touchbar is practice for what flat-glass keys should LOOK like, and the Home Button is practice for what flat-glass keys should FEEL like.
Edit 2:   Perhaps in System Prefs -> Keyboard, one can dial up and down the haptic feedback on keys, and vary one's own "click-feel", just like mouse-speed.  Niiiiice.

Someone gave us an iPad 2 (pretty sure it's 2).

With a hiccup or two we got it to run iOS9, and use it only for our 4-year old to have a few movies on and play a game or two (two 4S's:  same job).
Still has good battery life, and surprising standby battery life.  It can sit for 2 weeks and then still have use-able life.

I follow AI for the really good discussion on the latest/greatest, tech/life-philosophy, tech-history, etc etc.

But for apple products I fawn over what they can do compare to nothing, so I geek out about an iPad 2 with a beautiful-screen playing "Frozen" for my little one.  "wow look at that!".

Our old Macs are still soldiering on:
Just for bare-bones home-use of web surfing & e-mail, and home photos:
     Main machine:  2009 iMac:  High Sierra.
       2007 iMac:  SSD + 4GB:  El Cap:  Yay iFixit.
       2008 iMac:  SSD + 4GB:  El Cap:  Yay iFixit.
       Late 2008 Macbook, SSD + 4GB, El Cap
       2009 MacBook pro:  El Cap (SSD coming!)

But I also enjoy reading people's demands for 3D-holographic-augmented-reality, full holo-deck expected for "the next i-something."

Heh heh.

Cheers!

Eric.

The funny part to me is the (when-working) unfolded phone, showing a widescreen movie, with 2 giant black bars:   top & bottom.

"Hey look we can show a phone-shape movie in the middle of a big almost-square screen!"

How about show some ?useful? use-case stuff, like GPS-map on an upper half, and something-useful on the bottom half, while holding it almost like a micro-laptop (think sideways TXT-ing on an iPhone, with another iPhone hinged up with a map.  User could text "I'm almost there!" on lower, with upper-GPS-map showing 1 block left to walk).

Perhaps they have.  I only know about the Fold from AI stories!

Cheers!

E.

I'd be tempted by the magazines.  At different times in my life I've had Car & Driver magazine, and/or Men's Health.  Like them both, but eventually let them expire  Those are usually $9 to $13/year initial sign up for one magazine.  As a soon-to-be-old-geezer, the concept of $10/month but countless magazines is very tempting.  Surely they'd have many categories:  cars, mens-health, outdoor-stuff, and something-I'm-not-thinking-of-that-will-be-more-interesting-to-me-then-all-of-them. 

Would be worth getting a $329 base iPad and up my mental-stimulation by reading more.  Refurb & Clearance iPad 128GB = $309.  Nice.

I assume Family Sharing would work (???) and my wife could have her several magazines as well?  That doubles the value right there.  [On her $329 iPad btw (what a miracle)].

Cheers!

E.

fastasleep said:

tyler82 said:

I ordered the gold 32gb (was the only one left) I will be selling my 7 plus hopefully at a reasonable profit. I tried the large phone thing and it's not for me. An SE will fit nicely into my car's console when using carplay. I will definitely miss 3D touch though

Profit?

Tyler may mean the iPhone 7+ is worth more now than today's price of the SE, not that the 7+ is worth more than buying 7+ new.