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crowley said:

Touch controls?  No thanks.

Why not? I've actually been hoping Apple would eventually add a touch-control volume slider since the first gen AirPods. It just seemed to make so much sense, especially with the stem. I'm pleased they actually did it!

Ofer said:

redhotfuzz said:

zimmermann said:

So far I have read commenters mostly saying meh, about te new stuff Apple produced. Am I the only one that is truly impressed?

Welcome to every Apple announcement event ever. The naysayers always fill their traditional role. Even the original iPhone event (greatest product announcement event in history IMO) had its doubters. That said, the iPhone is now a mature product in a mature product category - the major revolutionary moments are behind us. I know some people think the folding phones/screens are the new shiny, but I for one don't understand the need/appeal.

Frankly the only feature upgrade I'm really yearning for is a higher optical zoom range for the camera. 2x is so...meh. 

It actually has both 2x and 3x optical zoom.

That being said, I agree that I’d like to see a higher zoom range. Maybe we’ll get it with next year’s rumored telescoping lens?

Actually, none of these lenses are zoom. In the Pro, there are three fixed focal length lenses. With some software manipulation, it creates digital “zoom”, which isn’t real zoom. A zoom lens has variable optical focal
lengths. The 3x lens in the iPhone 13 Pro is a 3x fixed focus TELEPHOTO lens. There are no optical increments between the standard wide and 3x setting, hence not a zoom lens.

Rogue01 said:

slurpy said:

Too bad, Apple only gave the whiners a day to shriek and holler and whine. I had this issue, a restart fixed it, and knew it would be patched. Didn't see the need to screech online about it. 

Only Apple would create a display hobbled by iOS

plagued with quality problems. Lousy hardware camera

bricked by the first iOS update,

speakers that fail and the fix was to completely disconnect and pull the power cord

Apple had to patch it because of their lousy quality control.

While I agree with some of your sentiments, your excessive negative tone suggests an anti-Apple bias. Addressing your criticisms:

1. Do you know what, in entirety, iOS does for this display? It may sound counterintuitive that a display needs an OS to operate but, as we know, Apple makes choices for such things for a reason. To describe it as "hobbled" suggests it's something designed to limit its functionality. But that isn't the case, is it? But you'd be correct if you suggested that Apple needed to do more to ensure the software wasn't buggy before release. But that's something different that "hobbled" wouldn't you say?

2.  Plagued suggests wide-spread. There were issues with the software that controlled the camera. Fixing the software corrected those issues. This means the camera hardware wasn't at fault. To describe the problem as "Lousy hardware camera" is not factual.

3. My display wasn't bricked with the first firmware update. Most weren't. To describe it as you did suggests it happened consistently and all the time. Again, that's not factual.

4. The speakers didn't fail. The software allowing the computer to communicate with the display speakers was faulty, requiring a disconnect and reboot to resolve the problem. Yes, a power button would have made the power-down and reboot easier. Is that necessarily a reason to add hardware to the display? Just in case at some point there's a software glitch that needs to be reset? Debatable. In this case, from a simplicity and design standpoint, it actually doesn't make sense to build in hardware for the possible need of a reboot. The fault here is in the software/firmware which should absolutely have been perfected prior to release.

5. This was absolutely lousy quality control. However, it's lousy software quality control, which is easily correctable. Lousy hardware quality control would be an entirely different matter. Keep in mind, as with Tesla, software on technology like this means the possibility of new features being enabled in the future. Who knows. As mentioned, Apple has a reason for most things. You may or may not agree with those reasons but that doesn't mean those reasons don't exist or aren't valid.

By the way, I encountered the sound issue for the first time just last week. Audio would play for a second or two and then stop. I'd go to a different app or file and audio would play and then stop. To discover that a simple unplugging and reconnecting would resolve the issue meant a pretty simple fix and knowing it was a known issue meant knew a fix was coming. I could have chosen to be really pissed with the inconvenience of having to unplug my display and while annoying, it really isn't a big deal. A week later, a software fix was released. I would have been happier if the software engineers were more careful to ensure these bugs didn't exist in the first place and I'd agree this doesn't look great for a big company like Apple to allow simple glitches to be released. Mistakes happen. The fact it was promptly addressed, to me, was the important part.

We should all call out Apple for these mistakes. But if you're gonna criticise, at least focus on the problems. Blowing your criticisms out of proportion makes you sound like you're on a mission to bash the company and actually delegitimises your arguments. It makes it incredibly hard to take you seriously.

rattlhed said:

KBuffett said:

So it doesn’t have the flat edges, as the rumours suggested 

Ya, I like this look much better.  Flat edges would have been weird.  Love to see the leekers get it wrong!

The “leaker” renderings were ugggggly!! So happy it was just wrong.

wwinter86 said:

But not on the Apple TV box?

Already announced for next major TVOS update. Apparently, currently only works with iOS and M1 Macs due to hardware that allows the devices to recognize relative direction. A software implementation is being worked on.