A friend of mine works in development for VR and AR tech and I’ve had fun testing the kit he works with. But it seems so solitary compared to my usual hobbies.
I suspect once again I’ll be disappointed that they’re probably going to ignore their icloud portal. They gave it a fresh lick of paint recently, but it would be good if they could actually launched some new services on there (things like Apple News+ for example - that’s not exactly a roaring success anyway, but maybe if they could introduce it onto their, they’ll get people who use a Windows PC for work, for example, more likely to use it as well).
I really hope Apple bring some other innovations and improvements to the party. I feel they’ve been stagnant for quite a while now.
The headset really doesn’t interest me, I am looking for more innovation on the phone front, maybe a flip phone. iOS is good but still pretty vanilla and not very customisable.
I’m looking forward to seeing what they come up with. It’s pretty much the first big product announcement that can be disassociated with Steve Jobs. Tim Cook has impressed on the business/inventory/finance side of things - will be very interesting to see whether he can pull something out of the bag that really innovates like Apple has done in the past.
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Is it though? iPad Mini, AirPods, Silicon Macs to name just three…
He was a great salesperson and I agree that under the Tim Cook Realm we’ve gone down the slow and steady vs radical transformation route (mostly) but I think this is not cognisant of the great stuff Apple has been doing since he passed.
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Absolutely. Those product categories all existed under Jobs.
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I think it was said at the time that it was the last product he was involved in. Of course he died before its release by some years, but he was involved in its conception for sure.
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The HomePod may well be - but hardly an innovation. It’s basically a knock off Sonos speaker that fits it into the Apple ecosystem.
I suppose the other difference with this upcoming release is not having any influence from Jony Ive, who was very much part of the new product releases that were first going into development towards the end of the Jobs era.
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can i ask what’s made you switch from alexa? i personally find as a smart speaker alex to be way ahead of siri and in terms on reliability alexa seems to always be accurate
Siri is poor for general asking questions that you don’t want to Google, but otherwise HomeKit/Siri is leagues ahead of Alexa.
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If I could put Alexa in my homepods I would, Alexa is just far superior with the queries you can give and how quick the responses are.
Siri always has to think for a good 4 seconds before replying if not longer.
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That is an easy accomplishment though when it is is so limited in what it can do.
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That should be getting easier now that Matter has launched - so more devices are launching which will interoperate between all 3 ecosystems (you can even now setup your Google Nest thermostat to talk to Apple Homekit).
I switched away from an Echo Dot to a Homepod Mini around the time Amazon decided it would be useful to start giving me 'reminders (ie ads) about other Amazon services I’m not using when I asked it do something. Not sure if it’s still does that or if there was a big backlash against it and they stopped doing that.
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Ok, who’s watching?
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Ooh, Max Pro
Kinda had to do it after that MacStudio presentation with the M2 Ultra. Definitely not expected though.
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I want that stand that is in the Standby showcase
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well that was probably one of the most lacklustre ios updates 
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Hopefully, macOS Sonoma has something good!