Does anyone want to speculate what the next new phone will look like..
At some point soon, someone is going to make this iphone or the latest samsung look like prehistoric garbage. And I'm wondering what you guys think that might be. I have my own ideas, but I'd like to hear yours first.
As for the iphone 6s, there is no reason why a phone should be that expensive unless you can use it as a work station. It's also buttery smooth and thin, so dropping it is almost guaranteed unless you get a case, which is ironic considering the reason for making it thin in the first place.
As for the interface, there's only so far you can go with touch on a glass surface. Until they're able to make things feel rough or smooth or feel like it's bulging or dimpled, basically allowing you to operate the phone while not looking at it, it's not going to matter how you operate a phone while looking at it. It's all just tiny tweaks. And until they have a conference where their showing someone buying clothes through their phone and actually feeling the fabric first, everything will still be a small improvement in UI.
Pressure sensitivity is a novel idea, but simply having it on the screen pretty much just makes it a third button. Just another way to 'click'. If they actually put it to use on say...the entire phone, like I could squeeze it to silence an incoming phone call or simply letting the phone know exactly how I'm holding it and where my fingers are, that's a unique source of real time information that could be used for a host of ideas, including a more accurate tilt sensor, using the sides as shoulder buttons for games, triggering a panic button by squeezing hard, and knowing if you're left or right hand on the fly. Maybe Apple, in true Apple fashion, will slowly roll out improvements. Consumers and loyalists don't need much to buy a new phone after all, but I still think it's a wasted opportunity to 'wow' the industry.
The gif images are cool and pointless. It's cool that it's automatic, yet how can you share it. Unless it's being sent to another iphone, no one is going to be able to trigger the animation. Still I like the idea of recording video and photos simultaneously, and switching from either one on the fly. Hopefully someone cracks it and allows you to record more than a second, since the average gif is 5x longer than that.
The iPad pro is the fucking stupidest thing I've ever seen...unless they give to elementary students. That's the only way it would be useful. The real iPad pro should be a desk/workstation, where you can draft projects on a giant touchable screen. If you've ever seen Black Mirror, they have an episode where a chick is working at a tilted desk, drawing on it with a variety of tools to digitally draft illustrations for a children's book. That's the iPad pro. Otherwise, the other iPad's are still extremely useless in a way that owner's actively have to make excuses to use it. Especially now that their price is so high that getting a Macbook Air, still the best laptop ever, would be the wiser choice.
The apple TV was easily the best part of the conference. They finally changed that fucking remote, which we all hated, yet you'd still want a keyboard in some cases. It's great that their bringing games to the system and even wiser that they're allowing third parties to bring controllers to it. That's bloody brilliant. I remember talking about how Nintendo needed a system that was lighting fast and played games right away. Apple TV is pretty much that system. Give it one more upgrade, making it as powerful as say a ps3 or wiiU and it could spell trouble for the games industry. Especially because you can bring any controller you want to it.
Overall a C-. An A would be revealing an nano-sized iphone, that fits on your keychain and is generally indestructible/waterproof, and sends a signal to a 'shell' phone that is little more than a screen and hardware inputs/outputs and can be very cheaply replaced.