Indeed. You'd think Apple would know how to get this right by now, wouldn't you?
I went back to BBC's production of The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, having quit shortly after hearing the translator, and just listened to the address the following morning. Much better. Also annoying, as I'd carved out that day just for Apple. Ingrates! But I needn't have stressed. Apple is no longer the company it was. What, exactly, was for show? The AppleWatch can wait until it appears, and looks like it's going to end up being a smaller iPhone anyway regardless of potential; half the show was about technical specifications which Apple never indulged in the past regardless of merit, and the details which did matter were never revealed. You don't learn about LTE handoff, or how ApplePay actually works. You don't know if AppleWatch will work with VO--hardly surprising, but also surprising that it couldn't be easily guessed. The Apple Store app updated itself into inaccessibility. The U2 album didn't quite download itself properly. You just learn about how much better the iPhone is than its competitors. Yeah, sure, I'll buy that iPhone 6 plus, but only because it's got a bigger battery--a fact Apple didn't mention, either--and 802.11AC. Oh, yes, and a nice leather case. NFC is already here, just not on Apple devices. Macs are not mentioned at all, other than as a selling point. About the only nice thing about the whole keynote is that bit at the beginning, where Cook says he's not going to bore us with the numbers--which a sceptic might suppose is because they are, er, not all that great. People who haven't yet read "Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs" may like to download themselves a copy at this point. It's on iBooks, happily. Or maybe I was just in a bad mood, and the keynote wasn't as bad as all that. After all, there's a new iPhone in my future. :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
