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So, about that Apple event….
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[Bill Davis] “”I didn’t see the presentation, nor have a clue what was shown or discussed – but I’m sure it’s terrible and Apple hates all of us.”
That was the tenor of your post.
Only in your head Bill.
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[Bill Davis] “Ignorance is purported to be bliss. So in this matter, you must be happy now.”
As the resident expert I bow to your superior experience in this.
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[Michael Gissing] “… changing semi standards is never about selling new headphones or adapter cables. […] Embracing change for its own sake and not when change actually makes improvement is perverse.”
Right. That’s ALL it is. No question. Nailed it. Pure brilliance.
“We’re trying to make great products for people, and we have at least the courage of our convictions to say we don’t think this is part of what makes a great product, we’re going to leave it out. Some people are going to not like that, they’re going to call us names […] but we’re going to take the heat [and] instead focus our energy on these technologies which we think are in their ascendancy and we think are going to be the right technologies for customers. And you know what? They’re paying us to make those choices. […] If we succeed, they’ll buy them, and if we don’t, they won’t, and it’ll all work itself out.”
– Steve Jobs (on Flash, but applies 100%)“We do understand that this might be a difficult transition for some people who love their wired headphones,” says [Phil] Schiller. “But the transition is inevitable. You’ve got to do it at some point. Sooner or later the headphone jack is going away. There are just too many reasons aligned against it sticking around any longer. There’s a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can’t let that stop us from making it. If we did, we’d never make any progress at all. The question we ask ourselves when making transitions like these is, have we done all the right things to mitigate it and to explain it and to make what’s on the other side so good that everyone is happy with the change? We think we’ve done that.”
Choosing to do what you know will be unpopular in the short run but you believe will prove correct in the long run takes courage. Courage of one’s convictions, not running-into-a-burning-building-to-save-a-life courage, but courage nonetheless.
You disagree? Guess what? You’re not actually required to like, let alone BUY anything. Crazy, huh? No one actually cares. :-))))
And guess what I’ve been getting into my phone for over a year now thanks to the Lightning port? 96kHz 24bit audio from my lav. Care to show me that with any other phone or port? What was that about “actually makes improvement”? The audio connector is more than 100 years old. It had its last big innovation (i.e. “actual improvement”) about 50 years ago. You know what that was? They made it smaller. Hoo… ray… It hasn’t been touched since then. It’s a dinosaur. No clue how anyone could defend its existence given the vastly superior alternatives.
Unless of course the name APPLE shows up somewhere…
I couldn’t be happier that they finally got rid of that ancient nonsense. Yeah, I’m SO incredibly bummed that I won’t have to fish my corded earbuds out of my bag anymore, that have worked themselves into what looks like a bad hair-day. Damn. All that for the sake of faster adoption rate of wireless headphones? Bah humbug!
I’ll give you ONE guess at what the next Samsung phone will have i.e. NOT have. Will you be back here ranting over that then (without actually having even seen anything) as well? Of course not.
– RK
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[Dominic Deacon] “I fall asleep every night with the phone charging and headphones in my ears. Have to buy another adaptor I guess and not lose that one too…”
Or you could just get (one of many) what’s been around for years?
https://apple.co/2ciGvxm[Dominic Deacon] “less water resistant than many android phones with the headphone jack.”
Do tell. Which phone that you’d actually want to carry around in public, fit in your pocket and use all day has a higher rating than IP67? And exactly what do you intend on doing with YOUR PHONE that you need it (completely unusable) under more than 1m of water?? Never mind that the iPhone 6 and 6S already offer that without being officially rated, let alone that if it were rated higher, then you couldn’t possibly have anywhere near the same quality audio over its stereo speakers, aside from having to make the phone even more expensive. Things that are in fact more relevant to 99.999% of owners/buyers rather than the 0.001% that are just trying to impress their friends at the pub without practical rhyme nor reason. Ergo: red herring if I’ve ever heard one. Unusable and ultra-fugly… but hey, I can drop it in my beer!
And then there’s this: https://bit.ly/2cML7B6 That’s what IP67+ will get you.
[Dominic Deacon] “Isn’t this just the same as the Samsung Gear nonsense or am I missing something key that Apples done?”
I’ll let you know when I get them. But regardless of quality, the CASE by itself is most definitely a first as well as the far superior ease of use, way of connecting AND automatic switching of source on the fly. What has Samsung done in that respect? I sure don’t know of anything.
– RK
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Every tech site was talking about September being an iPhone 7 event. The rumor sites have already pointed to a possible October event, where presumably new Macs and MacOS will launch.
I’m interested in the iPhone 7 Plus because of the potential augmented and virtual reality possiblities.
For the past few years, Apple bought a few interesting companies:
PrimeSense, which made the original Kinect for Microsoft Xbox, which is a depth sensing camera.
Metaio, an AR app developer.
Faceshift, a facial motion capture company. Their software was used to drive some of the puppet animatronics in the latest Star Wars movie.
Flyby Media, which provided image-recognition software for Google’s Project Tango.I bought a Tango dev kit last year. It’s a platform Google is developing for AR, 3d mapping and indoor navigation.
The 7 Plus dual lens camera system looks like it could be the beginnings of a depth sensor that could be very useful for AR apps like Pokemon Go. Apple even teased an upcoming app that can change focus on photos after the fact. I’m also interested in the fact it can shoot RAW in Adobe DNG.
As the camera system gets better, I can see it being used for 3D scanning and motion and gesture capture, since Kinect has already been hacked for those tasks. When this system hits the iPad Pro, I’ll be even more interested.
I’m also interested in the AirPods. They have a wifi chip, accelerometers for motion and voice control, and IR sensors. I bet some developers could use those for head tracking for future VR applications.
As far as the Mac. I think Apple isn’t abandoning the “Pro”, but thinks the “Pro” is more middle of the road, than high end.
I personally work in a mixed OS environment. It’s not easy to manage at times, but I feel I’m not beholden to one side or other.
While I always thought about setting up a hackintosh, I don’t have the knowledge or friends with the knowledge to deal with the troubleshooting. Also isn’t it kinda illegal based on the EULA?
I can relate to the need for dealing with ProRes. If Telestream is going to the cloud with Episode Encoder, maybe that could be an option. Maybe even cost effective.
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[Tim Wilson] “To answer your rhetorical question with another one, what it would it even look like for Apple to Think Different anymore? What would it look like for Apple to surprise us again?”
I wonder, and I was alluding to this in the last post, if you miss Steve Jobs. I know, it’s a well worn meme at this point, but I wonder if Tim Cook’s ‘Think Friendlier’ campaign isn’t as compelling for us battle tested cynics? Steve Jobs had some edge, you knew he was probably a pretty smart guy because he kinda told you so, Tim Cook is much the opposite and the press preys on this friendly attitude and says that Apple is somehow falling behind itself. But is that true or does it just feel true?
I will admit, I find the watch to be really boring. So. Boring. I’m so glad the $17,000 golder than gold watch fell off the face of the earth.
That aside, how many other giant tech consumer tech compaines get up on stage and talk about what you can do with a depth map that is created from the dual camera system? How many people even know what that is?
There is a ton of sophistication packed in to that phone, but Apple isn’t selling that, except for the manufacturing process of the new shiny black case. I feel like Phil Schiller was taking straight to developers while trying to educate consumers on depth of field. Instead of coming right out and explaining the technology in more detail, they glossed over it with a definition of bokeh. In fact, Schiller was the last edgy presentation that Apple has done. About the new MacPro he said, “Can’t innovate anymore? My ass.”. If Apple spoke like that all time, I believe it would certainly help to create a more fun atmosphere?
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Hmm. Maybe that was why my 3.5 mm plug broke off in my iPhone 4, turning it into an ipod only, in spite of a superglue fishing expedition. Still recharging headphones would be a pain. Left my Apple Watch behind going to Asia because it has to be so frequently recharged. Maybe Apple could and some solar cells like my Citizen Watch that runs for years.
Apple does seem to be not revolutionary and maybe not evolutionary with the departure of Steve Jobs. May be headed for the junk heap like Sony in the 90’s.
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[Robin S. Kurz] “Or you could just get (one of many) what’s been around for years?”
Yeah isn’t that what I said? Have to buy a new adapter. Another US $40. I wouldn’t mind the expense if there was a point to it.
[Robin S. Kurz] “Do tell. Which phone that you’d actually want to carry around in public, fit in your pocket and use all day has a higher rating than IP67?”
It’s direct competitor the Samsung 7 has an IP68 rating. I don’t really care about the level of waterproofness but Bill seemed to be saying that Iphone need to ditch the audio out so it could be waterproof but Samsung has it and is more waterproof.
[Robin S. Kurz] “What has Samsung done in that respect? I sure don’t know of anything.”
No idea. Don’t use ’em. I’m not here to fly the flag for Samsung. I use HTC myself and feel no loyalty to them either. Bill was just putting forward that this was new tech that would lead to professional applications while to me it looks like Apple has just invented a Bluetooth headset. Haven’t they?
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[Robin Kurz] “You disagree? Guess what? You’re not actually required to like, let alone BUY anything. Crazy, huh? No one actually cares. :-))))”
So angry Robin. You seem to take umbrage at anyone with a different point of view. Just as well I don’t care. Not sure why you do??
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[Dominic Deacon] “Bill seemed to be saying that Iphone need to ditch the audio out so it could be waterproof but Samsung has it and is more waterproof.”
Just to be clear, I doubt that there’s a “more waterproof metric” out there – since that’s kinda oxymoronic.
Apple only claims water resistant. What is interesting to me is that instead of trying to seal everything totally – like I can with a waterproof external case right now (I bought a pair for my wife and I for our recent Hawaii Trip cuz rain and general beach time) Apple engineered a way to actively expel water from the connection if it gets compromised. That’s interesting thinking. Those waterproof housings were a bit meh – I do think the switch to a single lightening connector ala the new MacBook is a way to keep things thin and simple. I bought one of those for my wife, and I have to say it’s a lot of capability for something so light and thin. Plus I’m eyeing it for my voice recording work, because it’s completely fanless – which means it makes no sound at all when you’re working with an open mic.
Sometimes the new thinking improves things in ways that might not be totally obvious – that’s all. : )
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