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95 votes
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Apple will reportedly release an iPhone without any ports in 2021
22 votes -
Phasing out passwords: Apple to automatically assign each user a Passkey
57 votes -
Was ditching the headphone jack a good idea?
41 votes -
Apple unveils iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max
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Apple Vision Pro was just announced. It's Apple's first foray into AR/VR headsets
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Apple Keynote Discussion Thread [September 10, 2019 @ 10:00 am PDT]
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...
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.
26 votes -
Steve Guttenberg: ”Apple AirPods Pro, it's $249, but sounds like a cheap, throwaway headphone“
19 votes -
Apple introduces AirPods Max
14 votes -
I just switched to an iPhone, what should I do to make the most of this change?
Basically the title. I've been an Android user since 2012, but have have an iPad and a Macbook that I really like, especially how well they work together. My pixel 5 was on its way out, so I...
Basically the title. I've been an Android user since 2012, but have have an iPad and a Macbook that I really like, especially how well they work together. My pixel 5 was on its way out, so I finally took the plunge and bought an iPhone 15 Pro earlier this week. I'm still getting everything set up, and I'm particularly excited to play with the different focus modes and shortcuts. I'm curious what apps and features should I be using to make the most of this switch?
38 votes -
Introducing the next generation of Mac - A new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro, and Mac mini powered by M1, Apple’s chip designed specifically for the Mac
31 votes -
Apple introduces iPhone 12 in smaller size and 5G, and iPhone 12 Pro & Pro Max with LiDAR, larger screens, and more capable cameras
30 votes -
New MacBook Pros
30 votes -
Is Apple's "walled garden" as bad as it was when the first few iPhones came out?
I've never owned macs for desktop use because of the expense and my general preference for windows pcs. I had a first or second gen iPhone and was incredibly frustrated by how limited it was - you...
I've never owned macs for desktop use because of the expense and my general preference for windows pcs.
I had a first or second gen iPhone and was incredibly frustrated by how limited it was - you couldn't set an alternate default browser, access your own file system, customize you home screen, etc, etc. So I've been an Android user since then.
I'm not really looking to make a switch for either phone or PC, but my brother bought an Apple watch which spurred a conversation that made me realize I don't really know if the issues that bugged me about Apple are still relevant in 2023.
Anyone want to weigh in?
32 votes -
Will the Apple antitrust case affect your phone’s security?
15 votes -
Your computer isn't yours
41 votes -
Survey: 83% of US teens have an iPhone, Android 9%
30 votes -
Apple event megathread: Impressions, reactions, etc
I figured a big thread might be better than smaller individual threads, so maybe we can centralise the discussion here. What are your impressions of what they've presented today?
27 votes -
Apple announces the iPhone 15 launch event
23 votes -
After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful
34 votes -
iPhone 14, 14 Pro owners complain about battery capacity that’s already falling off
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Apple Vision Pro review: magic, until it’s not
56 votes -
Apple cuts off Beeper Mini’s access after launch of service that brought iMessage to Android
64 votes -
Apple threatens to pull FaceTime and iMessage in the UK over proposed surveillance law changes
71 votes -
Apple plans to announce move to its own Mac chips at WWDC
22 votes -
Beeper Mini is back
45 votes -
Apple Event — April 20
15 votes -
iPhone SE (2020) review
22 votes -
2019 Macbook Pro review by Dave Lee
17 votes -
Appl still hasn’t fixd its MacBook kyboad problm
23 votes -
Frequent/long-term use of the Apple Vision Pro may rewire our brains in unexpected ways
17 votes -
How Apple's new Mac Pro completely misses the point
33 votes -
macOS Catalina is available today
22 votes -
Apple WWDC 2019 livestream
18 votes -
Apple Vision Pro headsets will require a head scan and vision prescription to customize the headset for each user
29 votes -
Linus Torvalds is using an Apple Silicon Macbook running Asahi Linux
26 votes -
Apple has acquired the Dark Sky weather app - Android version and website will shut down on July 1, API active through end of 2021
41 votes -
Let’s go further and hope for every last drop of joy to be drained from the world
11 votes -
Netflix, YouTube, Amazon and Apple accused of GDPR breach
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Having been on Android for over a decade, I just got my first iPhone! What should I know?
So far I have been having a surprisingly easy time learning iOS. It is incredibly intuitive! Though to be fair, my friend who has always been on iOS said the same thing about Android when she...
So far I have been having a surprisingly easy time learning iOS. It is incredibly intuitive! Though to be fair, my friend who has always been on iOS said the same thing about Android when she switched.
There are so many things that are basically identical on the two operating systems. But I am sure I am missing out on a lot of things that my iPhone 13 can do that my Samsung A50 could not do.
So far I'm really loving the switch, everything feels smooth. But I am very accepting of any tips and tricks that anyone might have up their sleeves! 😊
19 votes -
iFixit drastically and retroactively reduces ‘Repairability Score’ of the iPhone 14 because of error messages Apple sends if "nongenuine" parts are used
74 votes -
On the sad state of Macintosh hardware
32 votes -
iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro rumored to feature big boost in battery sizes
16 votes -
“The iPhone XR is depressing” — UnboxTherapy. TLDR: It has a low screen resolution only to artificially make it less premium than the iPhones XS and XS Max, to compel people to buy these two, instead.
22 votes -
What a bunch of A-list celebs taught me about how to use my phone
47 votes -
Apple formally endorses right to repair US legislation after spending millions fighting it
67 votes -
Apple's modular Mac Pro now available to order
13 votes -
Apple introduces iOS 12, macOS Mojave
23 votes -
Apple's $3500 nightmare
47 votes -
Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
66 votes