I miss Jobs. These prerecorded presentations are soulless and almost embarrassing at times.
Happy to see USB-C on the iPhone (thanks EU) and no price hikes.
Happy to see USB-C on the iPhone (thanks EU) and no price hikes.
Looks over to me.
I've never owned an iPhone, and mainly think of the phone I do have as at best a minor addition to my life, but put a battery-efficient modem in my mac and I'll be all over that, because it lets me keep my phone off almost all the time.
Aside from that though, it's always neat to see incremental innovation anyway, but it would all be superfluous to me even if I was in the iPhone game.
It's like coke: "Why advertise Coke? Everyone drinks it."
It’s good in many ways, but also hard to ignore just how obvious that effort is once you realise it’s there. That’s true for all presentations, including the dev talks at WWDC.
It is hard for me to push aside the impression that nowadays the speakers - regardless their background - are entirely chosen for optical reasons. My only favourite moment in a recent big presentation was the M1 chip part with Srouji. That guy is not made for the camera but man he lives hardware with every fibre of his soul.
Everything else is "politically correct" according to this segment.
Some middle ground between Tim Cook and Steve Ballmer would bring more excitement into the game, and make it a little more human!
And now, back to Tim.
And, yet, ~20% of the population will see this news release, and talk about how clean the lines are, and how perfectly worded every sentence is, as if it was handed to us from God himself on stone tablets.
Cultism is a very interesting thing.