As a Mac user, yes I'm interested in the next version of the hardware, but the software announcements are only useful to the users of their hardware.
If Apple came out and said iMessage is now an open platform, then discussed their new chat capabilities, it would be a different story.
- a new born, 6 months old who published an app
- "better, bigger, stronger than never before"
- iOS 45, we just introduced drag & drop lol
- a brand new app called "files"! You can now manage files! It's amazing!
- iPad Pro++ with a screen 2 times bigger than the Pro+ from last year
- iWatch, we added nothing because the screen is so damn small... who cares??
- We doubled our macbook memory capacity from 128 to 256!
- Now at $1299 instead of $1499
Looking at companies like Tesla, IBM, Nvidia, etc. What a boring event... Nothing but consumable crap.
My interest was waning for years, I didn't even realize until today around 6PM EST (way after the event was over) that there was a Keynote. Nobody though to text me asking about it, nothing happened in the keynote that anyone text-ed me about during it, nobody even mentioned it on our slack channel (which in years past, was a play-by-play of keynotes).
The magic, really, is gone. I'm quite sure Apple is going to stick around long-term, and they'll still be highly successful if not the most successful company, period, but, the unquantifiable magic is gone and I doubt it will return.
Now, something that would be more HN-appropriate would be a nice analytical breakdown of Apple's on-device ML strategy vs what everyone else is doing in the Cloud.