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Happy_Noodle_Boy said:

SpamSandwich said:

22july2013 said:

I watched the explanation of this service and I still have no idea what it is.

Apple just put millions of gyms and yoga studios out of business permanently.

I'm guessing the impact on gyms and yoga studios will be close to zero. A basic gym membership doesn't include any sort of fitness programming and yoga studios are more of a lifestyle sale than simply a yoga class. If anything this has the potential to dive memberships as people really don't have treadmills, spin bikes and weights sitting around their place. It is a great complement to gym membership since a lot of folks really don't know much about structuring a workout to meet their goals. It will likely impact other services that provide fitness programming. 

I agree that the service supplements gyms and yoga studios in the same way that other home workout services (and Youtube videos) do. For these other home workouts this is serious competition, though, because of the integration with the Apple Watch.

For me, Fitness+ was the most exciting reveal of today's event. I wish it were available in Japan...

One thing I was left wondering is if there is any feedback to the metrics on your Apple Watch by the trainers. It looks like they are simply pre-recorded videos that we won't be able to interact with. It will be interesting when they are replaced by virtual avatars you can interact with in the future.

DAalseth said:

The SE seems to have all the sensors as the 5, fall, heart rate, and such. Anyone have an idea why it doesn’t have the EKG feature? Just a certification issue or maybe they dropped it to differentiate the SE from the 6?

It also doesn't have the always-on display of the Series 5 which suggests to me that is more like the Series 4 (performance of S4 and S5 is also identical if I'm not mistaken).

That Apple is releasing the A14 iPad Air at an unspecified date in October suggests to me that it is waiting to have its release coincide with that of the A14 iPhones.

That Apple uses the A14 in the Air also makes an A14X iPad Pro release in the next months very likely to differentiate the Pro models further.

I also wonder if there is anything about the A14 that Apple hasn't told us yet. The raw performance boost seems less impressive than in the previous years.

@22july2013 ;

I am somewhat sympathetic to this hypothetical argument on a general level.

I do see a few problems with it, though, as expressed in the following statement:
"the founding principles of general purpose computers were to give full control of the computer to the user"

1. While I like the idea of giving full control to the user, I wonder how this ideal would be relevant to a legal argument since it is not codified anywhere nor promised by Apple (or is it?)
2. Is a smartphone really a general-purpose computer? (could apply to iPad, though)
3. Censorship by private companies, including Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, is probably done not because it's an internal priority to these companies but because it is mandated by law  or at least discussed under the issue of platform responsibility/liability (to block illegal content).
4. The critique of censorship (as in approving apps) in these broad strokes also apply to Epic's store or any other App store.

As I understand it, Facebook basically wants to allow small businesses to receive donations through the platform, without taking a cut and wants Apple to do the same. It doesn’t seem like an unreasonable suggestion to me. Are there no App Store fee waivers for donations?