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The showmanship really feels like it's run out. Even when it was the post-Jobs Ive and Cook it was still captivating, but this is just tiresome.
by plantain 8y ago
The showmanship really feels like it's run out.
Even when it was the post-Jobs Ive and Cook it was still captivating, but this is just tiresome.
- adrr 8y agoI just wish they would stop saying "the most advanced X ever made". Every new revision of a product is the most advanced version of the product.
- nailer 8y agoJust read your comment and hit play on the livestream to hear Jonny Ive immediately say "the most advanced LCD in a smartphone"...
- AdamJacobMuller 8y agoI understand that to a degree, there theoretically could be a better screen in a competitors phone, though I still think its tired out. The constant "This is the best X that Apple has done, or the best X in an iPhone/iWatch" was seriously grating. Well, duh, new year, new products. If this wasn't better then apple wouldn't be releasing it....
- chooseaname 8y agoWhy would they stop? They have people like Rene Ritchie who live and breathe what they say and repeat it on their website for other people who live and breathe it.
- SiVal 8y agoAnd the most expensive. Maybe they could get J. Ive to use his best "I'll be your server today" voice and purr about how, "We think you'll agree that this is the most expensive iPhone we've ever made."
- Ataraxy 8y agoWould you say they just phoned it in?
- TheOtherHobbes 8y agoIt would be noteworthy (amazing, beautiful, best ever, etc, etc) if they did that, with (e.g.) a live presentation out and about around the world, instead of running the stock The Ghost of Steve Jobs Says Wow script generator macro. But I guess if you're a trillion dollar company you don't have to try all that hard to think different.
- minimaxir 8y ago(the previous poster was making a phone pun)
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- toasterlovin 8y agoPhones just aren't as exciting anymore.
- agumonkey 8y agoI wonder how phones were pitched before the iphone... 300 instead of 250 contacts ? I guess it was mostly aesthetics..
- pjmlp 8y agoAesthetics for the regular people. Geeks would go though which feature set from J2ME, or Symbian OS were being made available, specially on Nokia and Sony-Ericson models.
- mistersquid 8y agoThe Apple Watch announcements were intriguing. The iPhone announcements were, I agree, quite tiresome. So much so, I closed the window a few minutes into Schiller's discussion of the chips in the new models. I suspect it's because I can only do so much with a phone and nothing in the "smartphone" space jumps out to me as "revolutionary". It seems that innovational leaps in mobile computing will depend on what software becomes available.
- TylerE 8y agoThe thing that really annoyed me was that after virtually every segment it was "I have a video I want to show you" that was just regurgitating the precious segment. Either/or, not both.
- colechristensen 8y agoI send and receive text, sound, and images on my phone. I don't need a revolutionary anything to do that, and the only thing keeping me upgrading is eternal bloat of applications. What would really be revolutionary is a phone that wouldn't shatter when I drop it.
- singularity2001 8y agoEspecially the iPhone xr was a very annoying tiresome repeat of a repeat. After 15 minutes they named about three specs that are different: color, lcd, camera, size.
- 394549 8y ago> but this is just tiresome. Especially the exaggerated adjectives. Everything's "gorgeous," "beautiful," or "stunning," even if it's just a featureless black slab like every other phone for the last 5 years.
- Shivetya 8y agoI could do with less video presentations, they break the flow too much for me. It is almost like intermission during a movie.
- oh_hello 8y agoThis presentation gave the this feeling more than any other I can remember. However, thinking about it now I realize this is a relatively minor event compared to many or most in the past. This was a year of an "s" iPhone model with minor spec bumps, a new lower-end model, and an updated watch with a design that is not radically different. You really can't compare this with unveilings of technological leaps or massively new products.
- matwood 8y agoBecause at this point phones are kinda boring. The new chips seem cool, but look completely wasted on a phone. Where is the iPad Pro with the new chips? What about the long rumored MacBook with A-bionic whatever? Nothing in todays announcement makes me want to upgrade my current iPhoneX. Better graphics on a tiny screen? Yawn. The basketball tracker demo was neat, but those are very specific use cases. The Apple Watch looks like it is really coming into its own. They should have closed with that. EDIT You know what would have really blown the doors off the one more thing? If the iPhone Xr started at $499. That's how you grow the market.
- megy 8y agoYou sound like the sort of person who shouldn't be watching the live feed, and wait for the articles, like me.
- Corrado 8y agoAgreed. And I thought the applause was very...scripted? It seemed like everyone was waiting for the appropriate time to clap and when they did it was very lack-luster. Almost like it was a bunch of Apple employees responding to cue cards or something.
- whywhywhywhy 8y agoMight be just me but Cook felt like he'd had lessons on coming across more passionate and excited, he was over-emoting so much at times. Previously he's felt a bit dry at times.