It's a tablet (minus the touchscreen) on a stand. I don't see any innovation in that product.
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The new Apple: Lacks innovation, Loves your money
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It's a tablet (minus the touchscreen) on a stand. I don't see any innovation in that product.
I stopped using my 2nd generation iPod Touch as the latest OS for it made it too slow to be usable.
For me, I think Apple's products are amazing. I am glad they are around (when they are freaking available of course) for me to buy & use.
What bothers me is the lack of communication within Apple itself regarding when products like the new line of Mini's will actually be in the stores. That there still isn't a new Mini in a Apple store in the state of Florida is astounding to me. Oh they managed to get the new retina MPB's in just fine. SMH... Add to that the reality folks in the Apple stores were told NOTHING about when new lines would be arriving for customers (like me) to purchase. I don't blame the good people working in the stores for this. I blame the folks much farther up the food chain.
No one knows what they should know about when products, that were announced as "ready to ship" will be shipped.
IMO, it's a bad sign for Apple. Brilliant design & awesome products are wonderful ONLY if customers can get their hands on them to purchase OR are given ACCURATE information about when they can do so.
What bothers me is the lack of communication within Apple itself regarding when products like the new line of Mini's will actually be in the stores. That there still isn't a new Mini in a Apple store in the state of Florida is astounding to me. Oh they managed to get the new retina MPB's in just fine. SMH... Add to that the reality folks in the Apple stores were told NOTHING about when new lines would be arriving for customers (like me) to purchase. I don't blame the good people working in the stores for this. I blame the folks much farther up the food chain.
No one knows what they should know about when products, that were announced as "ready to ship" will be shipped.
IMO, it's a bad sign for Apple. Brilliant design & awesome products are wonderful ONLY if customers can get their hands on them to purchase OR are given ACCURATE information about when they can do so.
Apple has given a lot to be frustrated about. That's not it, though. It's the desktop users that actually have something to be frustrated about. Since most tablet makers have been a wonderful alternative to what Apple puts out there, most people have a choice. Mac OS X, however, has many features that people aren't really seeing in other OS's. So, they still have to pay a much larger price for un-updated machines, and they've been choosing Apple for over a decade.
Like "Retina Display" is a marketing term for a display with so many pixels the eye cannot distinguish them, "Fusion Drive" is just a marketing term for a hybrid drive.
As explained in the keynote, the Fusion Drive is a 1TB hard disk drive + 128GB SSD. The operating system, core applications and the most used files/applications get put onto the SSD for faster access, while the rest of the files that aren't as speed sensitive get put on the 1TB hard disk drive. That is pretty much a hybrid drive. There are many hard drives on the market that have combined SSD with HDD for better performance and storage space.
Actually, according to an article here on Macrumors claim it's an auto-tiering situation, rather than a normal hybrid drive.
* Retina Display on the iPad 3 providing super sharp text for the first time.
* Airplay and Mirroring(industry firsts really)
* Airport Express is a nifty networking device to enable Airplay to powered speakers
* Passbook I guess?
But yeah I feel these days the biggest innovations are coming from Google, Intel, Microsoft, Amazon.
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Wrong, I think with the MS Surface they are defining computing now. No longer is it a tablet OR a laptop. Microsoft has single handedly made the hybrid popular. Sure they didn't invent it(Asus Transformer Prime) but look at the crowds of people lining up at MS Stores to buy thing underpowered/underapped thing.
Industrial design is king. I'm sure Johnny Ive is peeved he didn't think of VaporMg.
You cherry picked one Microsoft Store. I've seen and heard reports of massive lines at many stores today.
http://www.wpcentral.com/people-lining-us-microsoft-surface
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...I think I just broke the talking part of my brain.
Do we really need yet another apple is doomed thread? Can't these all merged?
I struggle to understand all this pessimism. The iphone 5 in particular is very clearly a huge change and improvement. Yet folks don't see it.
I think it's strictly the distortion reality field is failing. Non technical people do not understand the new products are different because Steve Jobs is no longer there to explain it to them in simple understandable terms.
Steve used to focus on simple user scenarios. Showed the clear benefit to people who couldn't understand the technical details and didn't want to. Jobs sitting in a chair on stage during the iPad announce. Now Tim et.al. fall into the spec trap.
There's no way to convince people that the products are new and better because their favorite person who personified apple is gone and no one else can explain it as well.
Bottom line, I think the iphone 5 is clearly a huge improvement over the 4s, yet people don't see it.
It's a different culture at MacRumors, ever since so many trolls started posting threads that quickly become just so much flotsam and jetsam, get waterlogged after a few hours and then sink to the bottom, only to be replaced by yet another set of wasteland-ready threads, ad infinitum.
The band Outrageous Cherry once did a song titled "What have you invented today?"
It's a great question to ask an Apple-bashing troll when you get the chance.
Two possible answers: spurious complaints and exaggerated tales of woe.
Never understood why they felt the need to do that anyway. The iMac is a desktop computer. I'm not going to be picking it up on a regular basis. And by thinning it down, still using laptop GPUs, removing certain hardware features and removing RAM slots, Apple have lost my sale unfortunately.
Is thinness really innovation? In a laptop, I'd say yes. A desktop, it is nice, but really not needed and deffo not worth £2000+.
Apple's SoC designs are widely regarded as tops in the industry. Also the magsafe connector, AirPlay, Mirroring, Exposes, Spaces, dictation, Siri, Thunderbolt, liquidmetal, FusionDrive, on and on.
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In this day and age of Apple innovating new stuff like Retina display, and thin design, its strange all this time they still can't get the screens on their Mac's and tablets/phones "finger print resistant"
Wonder if they ever will?
I'm just waiting for this one ...
(Thats probably why Apple includes the cloth with their products), but they don't need do if the screens would only resist smudges & fingerings/dirt etc..
oh well...
In this day and age of Apple innovating new stuff like Retina display, and thin design, its strange all this time they still can't get the screens on their Mac's and tablets/phones "finger print resistant"
Wonder if they ever will?
I'm just waiting for this one ...
(Thats probably why Apple includes the cloth with their products), but they don't need do if the screens would only resist smudges & fingerings/dirt etc..
oh well...
The iPhone 3GS was the first Apple device to sport an oleophobic coating.
Some phones that have had cracked screens replaced with something other than an Apple part would not get that coating.
As far as a cloth is concerned.
You are not supposed to be poking at your laptop screen, that's what the trackpad is for.
If its really a bad issue, you might want to consider washing your hands.