Apple Event thread - New iPads etc. - Oct. 16, 2014

[Eug]

On Pheran's suggestion I started a new thread for this. I'm at lunch so I'm not watching it live but I'm following live updates.

So far Apple Pay. Meh.

 

[Pheran]

Blah, blah, blah about stuff that's already out. Move on.

 

[Oyeve]

He keeps going on about ios8. Why?

 

[Pheran]

He keeps going on about ios8. Why?

These events always start with a bunch of useless marketing crap.

 

[Childs]

He keeps going on about ios8. Why?

Yeah, who cares. hahaha I wish someone in the audience would yell "You said this shit last month!"

 

[Pheran]

OK, at least they are putting Camera Roll back, that's good.

 

[LightPattern]

Swift Apple programming language https://developer.apple.com/swift/

I haven't heard much about it before... anyone have any experience with it yet?

 

[Eug]

Yeah. I really miss the camera roll. And new Klingon keyboard. W00t!

 

[HN]

i'm going to update my snow leopard macbook someday

 

[HN]

""Now, you can AirDrop to any Apple TV without having to connect to your Wi-Fi network." "

interesting...

 

[Eug]

Yosemite is supposed to give much longer battery life for Netflix. This is presumably with the new HTML5 extensions. However I haven't been able to get it to work in the beta without Silverlight.

 

[Eug]

Yum. The combo of an Apple event with dim sum is great.

 

[Oyeve]

My god, I want to slit my wrists watching this stupidity. I shut it down. I'll google the new products later. Apple took assholisity to a whole new level.

 

[HN]

will be able to use apple watch as remote for apple tv

 

[HN]

OSXY out today.

ios 8.1 coming monday (remember, if you use the date trick for some apps, don't upgrade to 8.1)

 

[Eug]

iPads on deck.

 

[HN]

38 minutes in, finally ipad...

 

[HN]

no one has ever complained about an ipad mini retina ("100% customer satisfaction rating")

 

[HN]

ipad air 2 - 6.1mm thick (original ipad -- 12.7mm)

 

[Eug]

My complaint: The original iPad mini Retina has insufficient RAM for happy multi-tab Safari surfing.

 

[Eug]

A8X confirmed

180X gfx compared to original iPad

 

[Pheran]

Hmm, I wish Apple would stop always choosing ridiculously thin at the cost of battery life.

 

[Aikouka]

Hmm the anti-reflective thing sounds nice. I've always noticed how bad the glare could be -- especially since it causes you to see the smudges a lot easier -- but I never thought much about them "fixing" it.

 

[HN]

ipad air 2 -- lasts all day if your day is 10 hours long

 

[HN]

A8X confirmed

180X gfx compared to original iPad

and includes motion co-processor. why?