tshapi

it’s sad he lost his job, but Companies create NDA’s for a reason.  He unfortunately violated his.  Apple can’t afford to tolerate that.  The next person who gets fired because of there nda can sue and use this person as a possible example. 

racoleman29 said:

Get a discount and get locked into some absurd cellular plan for 24 months...no thanks.

Your only locked In til you pay it off. You can pay it off at any time 

jd_in_sb said:

Steve would have approved of a stylus accessory as long as it wasn’t a required part of the user interface.

I think Apple will just make two sized Apple pencils that will be purchased separately. 

ihatescreennames said:

cali said:

Of course it’s more than Face ID. Shopping is gonna be huge with AR kit. Don’t be surprised if we see FaceID 2.0 next year also. 

What about ARKit will make the shopping experience different/better? Not that I’m doubting you, I just don’t see what change ARKit will bring. 

(To be fair, so far I’ve failed to understand quite a bit that others seem to be excited about regarding ARKit. The 3D characters on the sidewalk and games played “on” a table just seem like “we did this because we can”)

Look at if this way,  imagine needing a part for your car. You don’t know what it is: now imagine being able to use AR to to picture the part on let’s say auto zones app. And it pulling that part up... 

or the shopping on ikea and being Apple to drop an item into your house to see if it fits. 

Then theres the ability to measure real life stuff with your phone. Like if you want to buy a new 6 tv but arnt sure if it will fit in your living room or . Or you want to mount your tv to the wall and need make sure it’s truly level.   

I suspect face id is a bi product of the true depth camera. I suspect apple really developed the 3D truedepth camera for 3D AR purposes and possible gestures.   

After all, do you think Apple purchase Matiao and face shift and all those machine learning companies just so they can create face id? Or do you think they purchased them so they can create an improved and better AR platform and product that they can subsequently profit from! I vote for the later. I think stuff like animoji and other ar things are the real reason behind the purchase. 

Also consisder, Apple innovative products incrementally.  Touch ID was released in the 5s so they can perfect it and work out all the bugs  before they launched Apple Pay with the 6/+  and so on. This is released this year and next year Apple will build upon it and probably reveal a wider purpose.