Apple Keynote Discussion Thread [September 10, 2019 @ 10:00 am PDT]

WinterCharm
2019-09-10T18:40:51Z

The Apple Keynote is on September 10th, at 10am Pacific Daylight Time (daylight savings is in effect). I'm making this thread as a place to discuss the announcements here on ~tech.

TIme:

10:00am PDT (California / Apple time)

5:00pm GMT (Greenwich time)

Livestream Links

Apple's website stream -- requires a browser that supports both HLS and HEVC (safari and edge)

Apple's Youtube stream -- first time Apple is streaming on youtube. Should work anywhere that Youtube works :) They'll probably break the stream record.

Tl;Dr of actual announcements (updating right now)

Apple Arcade announced

$4.99 / month and one month free.

100 indie exclusives on launch

Apple TV+ announced

$4.99 / month, launching November 1

New originals every month! 100 countries at launch

Including 1 year free with device (iPhone, iPad, or mac) purchases starting today.

New base model iPad

10.2 inch display, Runs A10 Fusion chip, (optional) smart keyboard

New iPad is made from 100% recycled aluminum (like the new MacBook air)

Starts at $399 (competing with chrome books). $299 for education customers.

includes Apple Pencil support

Apple Watch Series 5!!!!

Health and Fitness video

3 New health studies!!!
- Apple Hearing Study
- Apple Women's Health Study (How cycles affect various health conditions)
- Apple Heart Study
- Enrollment is voluntary. OPT-IN by downloading the app and getting enrolled.

Apple Watch Series 5
- ALWAYS ON LTPO OLED display, with Dynamic Refresh Rate (1Hz - 60Hz VRR)
- Same 18 hour battery life
- International Emergency Calling on all cellular models
- 100% recycled aluminum.
- Stainless Steel, Titanium, Ceramic
- Series 3 watch starts at $199, Series 5 starts at $499

iPhone 11!

Aluminum and Glass, comes in a bunch of colors

Spatial audio + Dolby Atmos for next level smartphone sound

New Camera -- 120º FOV Wide angle camera, 12MP with 100% Focus Pixels
- 0.5x Optical Zoom out :)
- New Image processing pipelines, with semantic rendering and adaptive tone mapping
- Portrait mode improvements (wider portraits, and more) (yay, now for pets!)
- Night Mode has adaptive image slicing and fusion for reducing blur in long exposure.
- 4K HDR video at 60fps (was previously 30fps!)
- Front Camera is now 12MP wide angle
- 4K 30fps HDR video, Slowmotion Video for front facing camera! :)

A13 Bionic processor
- fastest GPU and CPU ever in a smartphone
- Game demo showing off Metal 2 Shaders, Bloom, and AA in realtime at 60fps
- Battery is now 1 hr longer than the previous XR
- U1 Chip? (on slide, not mentioned)

Wifi 6 support!

2m water resistance for 30 minutes

6.1 inch Liquid Retina display

Priced sanely at $699

iPhone 11 Pro

3 camera array

Matte Textured Glass

Super Retina XDR Display.
- 2,000,000:1 contrast ratio
- 1200 nits of brightness
- 426 ppi
- Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos

A13 Bionic Chip Design
- Machine Learning Matrix Multiplier Accelerators make matrix operations 6x faster on iPhone
- Best ML platform of any Smartphone
- Lower power design using 7nm+ lithography
- 8.5 Billion Transistors
- 4 High Efficiency CPU cores
- Hundreds of Voltage domains and clock domains
- Each region of the chip is at least 20% faster, and uses at least 20% less power

3 camera system
- 4x zoom range (0.5 to 2x)
- 53-13mm focal lengths, and f1.8 to f2.4
- Deep Fusion camera system - stitches together burst photos + long exposure to maximize detail and reduce noise.
- Filmic Pro demo -- allowing multiple camera use at the same time.

iPhone 11 Pro at $999, Pro Max at $1099

iPhone 11 at $699 and XR at $599 and iPhone 8 at $499 to complete the lineup.

Apple Store Updates

Apple Watch Studio - pair any watch with any band of your choice. Configure as you want

iPhone trade ins can now be used for a lower monthly rate if you buy an iPhone, rather than simply taking off the purchase price.

5th Ave Store is being redesigned and re-opening Sept 20th!

Other miscellaneous / fun stuff

Apple Keynote Bingo Card -- 5 in a row to win! :)

Upgrade Podcast Draft Card -- the hosts have predicted what they should see at the event. Person with the most points wins.

Edits:

fixed part about browsers with HLS support, and added a table showing compatible browsers.

remved "what we're expecting" section, and started updating the event live feed.

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