Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I thought they were going to show the iPhone?
Next month. Covid caused some delays.
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Apple Event September 15 [Watch Series 6, Fitness+, new iPad, iPad Air]
- Thread starter dorkimoe
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Next month. Covid caused some delays.
TTOOLL
Member
Well, they add features to their products every year and prices normally stay the same
Trogdor1123
Gold Member
How do you charge it then?
TTOOLL
Member
As I understood they just removed the "brick", the magnetic cable is still provided.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
There is not wall brick on Apple Watch. Just USB-A ended plug.
eddie4
Genuinely Generous
yeah just plug it into one of a thousand USB ports you have.
-Arcadia-
Banned
Really tempted by the new iPad. As someone with very little interest in paying $800 or so for an iPad, it’s really awesome to see the Pro features trickling down to the old $600 price (which I am super glad exists again).
I hope it stays like this, with the Pro being for ultra-premium stuff, and the Airs having most, or enough of the features.
I hope it stays like this, with the Pro being for ultra-premium stuff, and the Airs having most, or enough of the features.
Come On Tars
Member
whelp guess im buying the airpod pros right now after all
.hacked
Member
and no new AppleTV
well I got one of the 64gb 4K AppleTV to hold me over, need another 2 for other TVs in the house but I’ll hold out till next event.
Liberty4all
Banned
IOS 14 drops tomorrow? My IPad air 2 not supported 
My longest supported apple product I still use daily.
My longest supported apple product I still use daily.
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LordOfChaos
Member
Hmm. Basically since they were comparing it to the last iPad Air's A12 the whole time, which the A13 was already notably faster than, if you work backwards it looks like about a 16% CPU gain and 8% GPU gain vs the A13, which would be one of our smaller generational upgrades. Particularly the GPU, usually with smaller nodes and more transistors to throw at them, those are easier to scale in performance.
I wonder if the A14 was aimed more at lowering performance with both 5G and ProMotion having been expected, even if the latter didn't make it in. Makes it more of a shame it didn't make it if so. Because otherwise this is the smallest performance jump generation since they started making their own chips, which is odd with all the extra density 5nm offers.
IOS 14 drops tomorrow? My IPad air 2 not supported
My longest supported apple product I still use daily.
Ya it is?
iPadOS 17
iPadOS 17 makes iPad more personal and capable, with a redesigned Lock Screen, interactive widgets, enhanced PDFs, and seamless sharing in Messages.
www.apple.com
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Endless Fluff
Banned
I'm just really glad that they're ditching the old design which is flawed to hell. My iPad Air 3 is 14 month old and has developed the same "white spot" (always above the home button - lots of people online complain about it) issues my old iPad Pro from 2017 has.
I guess I'll bet getting the new Air then and give my old iPad away. Took Apple way too long to give us stereo speakers in landscape on the cheaper iPads.
Liberty4all
Banned
Hmm. Basically since they were comparing it to the last iPad Air's A12 the whole time, which the A13 was already notably faster than, if you work backwards it looks like about a 16% CPU gain and 8% GPU gain vs the A13, which would be one of our smaller generational upgrades. Particularly the GPU, usually with smaller nodes and more transistors to throw at them, those are easier to scale in performance.
I wonder if the A14 was aimed more at lowering performance with both 5G and ProMotion having been expected, even if the latter didn't make it in. Makes it more of a shame it didn't make it if so. Because otherwise this is the smallest performance jump generation since they started making their own chips, which is odd with all the extra density 5nm offers.
Ya it is?
iPadOS 17
iPadOS 17 makes iPad more personal and capable, with a redesigned Lock Screen, interactive widgets, enhanced PDFs, and seamless sharing in Messages.www.apple.com
My bad I was sure I had read the iPad Air 2 was losing support. Great news is still supported!
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Hari Seldon
Member
I didn’t watch the event, so the new iPad Air is the premium one compared to the regular iPad, but not the Pro? When are preorders open? I’m in the market for an iPad that can use the pencil.
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Stiflers Mom
Banned
I remember in the late 90ies and 2000s when there was a freaky mindbending great new design almost every year coming from Apple instead of little bullshit in the same chrome cases year for year.
I miss Steve Jobs.
I miss Steve Jobs.
LordOfChaos
Member
It sits between them, iPad Pro screen design but no ProMotion, two speakers instead of four, not using a X/Z chip but for now should be a bit faster than the Pro on single threaded performance. I think preorders start in October?
They sure featured this date very close up
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Hudo
Member
I still marvel at the "sunflower" iMac. Such a fucking cool design. Or the G4 Cube, which I still consider one of the sexiest computers ever made.
VincentMatts
Member
yeah, me either. nada
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I am d/l'ing now for both iPad & iPhone. Watch is pending phone update.
LordOfChaos
Member
The whole app library/pages setup was not discoverable at all I thought. You have to enable it in settings, then go to edit the homescreen, and THEN the jumbo page indicator is a pressable action to set up your pages. Feel like most people are never going to find that and most iOS home screens will look the same as always, which could be part of the point I guess.
MaestroMike
Gold Member
lionelhutz
Member
Is it possible to control the Apple Music and Podcast app on a MBA through the watch? Just looking for basic controls.
MaestroMike
Gold Member
Dang how'd you break it ??
Thaedolus
Gold Member
Slid out of my pocket while putting the kiddo in the car seat the one time I took it out of its case to clean it, broke the camera enclosure. No longer water proof, I forgot it was in my pocket and went swimming. Doneso. First time I’ve had either of those things happen and just a little bit apart from each other.
eddie4
Genuinely Generous
The all-new iPhone, the FASTEST ever iPhone, over 30% FASTER, 5 cameras, 4k screen, 3 new features, only for $1999. Charger $199, USB cable $99. Box $49.
I'm really hoping they can pull some tricks out of the bag, because if not, it's all the same shit, a bit faster, 1 or two new features, yet ridiculous prices.
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dream
Member
Yeah, we’ve really hit the point of diminishing returns. I used to buy a new iPhone every year, but I’m still rocking an iPhone X that is, holy shit, 3 years old now, mostly because it’s still relatively fast, has lots of space, and does everything I need it to do.