Apple's 'Let's Talk iPhone' keynote liveblog
engadget.com
engadget.com
* a term of art meaning "certainly"
Apple are leveraging a culture of paying attention to detail to overcome technical handicaps, but it's hard to quantify or A/B test that, and most firms aren't comfortable with a budget line item called 'magic.'
Indeed; hence Apple confirming its interpretation of the reminder with you before committing anything.
Might be implemented as:
while (get_location() == work) { sleep(1min); }
go_back_in_time(10min);
trigger_reminder();
time.h certainly got a lot more features since the last time I used it...
Siri: Eat up Martha.
Now contrast that to a company where anyone can watch the announcement live. I think most places you'd just get an article or two at the end of a product announcement, because the people who really care will just watch the announcement themselves.
ars is still up at least: http://live.arstechnica.com/Event/iPhone_5
Do we have a summary so far? There's an iPhone 5, I assume? How does it differ from the iPhone 4?
heh, they didn't ripoff that guy that did the watch version of the nano, but instead complemented with "16 new clock faces."
EDIT seems to be fixed now EDIT2 yet, there seems to be a darth of images again... engadget still has them EDIT3 OK, engadget is offline EDIT4 engadget is back (am I really blogging bloggers?)
by Jacqui Cheng 1:24 PM
(ok, images seem to be going through again, hang tight)
by Jacqui Cheng 1:25 PM
...nope, back to clicking refresh and killing live blog servers.
apparently ars is down accept for the liveblog
http://live.thisismynext.com/Event/Apple_iPhone_5_event_live...
Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.apple.com/ on this server. Reference #18.cc896783.1317755134.6ee996bd
Edit: That only lasted a minute... it is back up.
The iPhone 4 seemed like a huge step up from prior models to me thanks to a 326 PPI display, a much faster processor, and a variety of other reasons. I guess even Apple acknowledges this given the naming convention of going from 4 to 4s. Not enough of a change to warrant iPhone 5.
This is just like the iPhone 3G > iPhone 3GS transition. Doing a new enclosure every year would be pretty taxing, so they take a year off. Incremental hardware improvements meanwhile. The funny bit is they barely needed to do this much — iPhone 4 was still selling steadily.
I think I would prefer an iPhone if it were on T-mobile or if not that, at least the option to buy an unlocked iPhone at a reasonable price that worked at reasonable speed on T-mobile. Not so with today's announcements. An iPhone 3G can be purchased unlocked for $375, or an iPhone 4 for $549 but both are very slow on T-mobile at EDGE data speeds.
An exciting announcement for me personally would not have been a new enclosure, but rather the ability to run on T-mobile at fast speeds, all at a reasonable price. Wishful thinking, I guess.
I suppose I also had a good idea about what would be announced thanks to MacRumors accurate reporting, so I wasn't let down that the phone is called 4S instead of 5 (besides, I love the iPhone 4 external design).
This cycle is pretty clever as it pretty much guarentees majority of iPhone 4 holders will upgrade to iPhone 5, whilst simaltanously giving a decent bump in sales to people who have had there friends talking up the iPhone 4 for a year a chance to one-up them.
All the Australian networks are moving to 4G, so IMO it's a good time to wait for the next gen of LTE handsets. As with the original iPhone, I suspect it was just too early for Apple to switch.
1:26PM That got applause. People seem desperate to clap for something. That was it.
Pretty much sums up what we have seen so far
Wow. "Guys, this is awesome! Our new phone is just as fast as an Android phone that came out a year ago!" (The Atrix, about to be supplanted by the Atrix 2).
He was pretty clearly using them as examples of "4G" phones when it comes to data transfer speeds and nothing more.
a) Siri won't work at all, or will degrade to something like Voice Control, if the server is unreachable or you're out of coverage; b) all of your dynamic data (address book, calendar, etc.) needs to be synced to iCloud for Siri to see it; c) third-party extensibility won't be available until iOS 6+.
The unlocked iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S will not work with CDMA-based carriers such as Verizon Wireless or Sprint.
Sounds like that's a no-go for the 4S. Which sucks because my wife wants to replace her Android phone, but we're not upgrade eligible from Verizon yet. So that means I'm going to have to pay same price as the unlocked phone, but it's going to have the GSM side locked out if I ever want to sell it.
Footnote 2: CDMA available only if iPhone 4S is sold and activated for use on a CDMA network.
Oh well.
the total views is going up at like 1500/second
The best camera is the one you have with you. And on that front, it's a good camera.
- backlit sensor = better low-light pictures, with dramatically less noise
- faster lens, hopefully with better clarity (less haziness that's characteristic of phone cameras)... but we'll see how well it actually works out
- and most importantly, fast. I know I hate using my phone's camera since by the time I pull it out and the phone lets me take my first picture, the moment's already passed. The whole "1 second to first picture, 0.5s between shots" I think is going to be HUGE. It's going to get people using their cell phones as cameras a lot more than than they are now.
Except its called iPhone 4S and not iPhone 5!
Easy to say in hindsight and based on the rumors, but still they didnt really have a tick-tock release cycle before.
sharing your location for a set time is really useful
I clarified that I am actually more worried about the public reaction to this rather than legitimate use cases. Not really worried, just, why not leave it at a third party app?
To answer my own question, Apple's solution has probably both more polish and more lock-in power, just as with iMessage vs WhatsApp & Co.
Err, no, I really don't believe it has.
Idly, I wonder if they're getting a sufficient cut from the carriers to make the 3GS at no cost profitable, or if rather this is what they mean to do with their cash hoard: chase market share AND increase profitability.
DISCLAIMER: I used to work for Apple. I have no specific knowledge about the phone.
The presentation was a little bit sloppy, because previous presentations would have footnoted that these were with a new 2 year contract prices, not "we're selling these phones at these prices".
Also, Gates hasn't been working at Microsoft full-time since 2008.
http://digitizor.com/2011/06/17/microsoft-kinect-sdk-windows...
Strong point of MS was integration of different technologies but ever since Gates stopped taking interest in MS they have lost it. Now they have uncapitalized half assed implementation of technology laying around in silos.
Note: I am well aware of when Gates stopped working with MS. Even before stopping to work, he stopped taking interest in MS's future vision atleast years before that.
and Kinect voice commands are of equal sophistication.
Microsoft has had dominance over personal computing for so long because people aren't by and large nerds, and computers weren't fashion statements until recently.
and Microsoft's still trying to catch up with "computer fashion."