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realSean_Murphy
Sep '16

Apple unveiled them yesterday and if you want to read the most important announces click here
It's too expensive in my opinion and if you want a high end phone at a cheaper price there is the OnePlus 3
They also announced that Pokemon Go was coming to the Apple Watch but the wearable is coming out next week1 for $35 USD.
Am I buying either? No, they're way too expensive.
What do you guys think? I don't care about the headphone jack being removed and it does come with a lightning to a headphone port so it's not necessarily gone just yet but I am dissapointed that the Apple Watch is still square'ish. I was hoping it would be circular and actually look like a watch.

I know this may not be a comic or even Tapastic related discussion but I'm sure most of you view comics on either your desktop or on your phone.

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jono_thompson
Sep '16

I think apple hasn't been innovative since Steve Jobs passed away. The eight or so products that Jobs oversaw before his passing could have been counted as innovative, but once that line-up was finished the following product and software updates have just been market catch-ups. Make the phone thinner, lighter, faster, bigger screen, better battery, camera, fingerprint etc. are all just evolutions of the product and nothing revolutionary. Don't get me wrong, I like apple products, but nothing has stood out to me over the last several years, and yesterdays announcement was no different.

I was originally sooo keen on the apple watch, however after purchasing a second hand one I tried it for 2 weeks and found it more annoying than useful. I just use a pebble watch, that works much better.

Apple really needs a new revolutionary leader like what they had in Steve Jobs for them to get back into the innovation stage, because so far, over the last 3 or so years, nothing in the product line-up has made me want to purchase it.

The idea of Apple being too expensive, well that's been there from the start. They make polished products, and so therefore they put their price to reflect that. In reality you are really paying for the experience of the product, rather than the features - as there are many competitors that have better hardware than what apple offers.

The only thing from that line-up that made me remotely interested was the new Air Pods, but they are quite expensive, so I don't think they are worth it at their price.

realSean_Murphy
Sep '16

Those things look ugly as hell.

Eh, they overprice their products in my opinion. Xiaomi makes polished products just as well and prices them at a fraction of the cost.

Actually the features make for the experience of the product.

Herofeeder
Sep '16

random question but do people really buy one phone a year just bcs its a new version?.i had my alcatel one touch for 3 years before i was forced to buy a new one for my job

joannekwan(ง ˙o˙)ว here to help~
Sep '16

Not me, I only get the new version when my current one (usually 2 or more years old at the point of upgrade) breaks or my phone contract allows for an upgrade. So my first smartphone was an iPhone 3, then I got the 5, then 5s (because I hated how big the 6 was).

efdvorsky
Sep '16

Yeah I don't get the need to buy phones yearly either.

I think getting rid of the standard audio jack is...really dumb??? I got so mad the macbook pro I worked so hard to get apparently got rid of CD-ROM and ethernet cable box. (If you want to use em, they're sold seperately even if the machine is still over $2K.)

The $170 wireless headphones could get lost so easily, and I use the headphone jack for those radio-interruptors and listen to music on my old 2004 car, so unless I have a specific radio interruptor or a car that takes bluetooth I can't even listen to my jams while I do my long drives to work.

Apple continues to become so exclusive, I honestly hope it bites them in the ass so other companies don't try to copy.

Herofeeder
Sep '16

thats what we call in our country"taxing an idiot" .i saw what apple offered when they exploded in 2008 and just went with cheaper products from other companies ,later to find out that you cant even charge an iphone bcs they are special and have special needs ..to me it feels like buying a phone with special needs only to look kewl( no diss to anyone who owns it btw its just me venting from a bad game i had 10 min ago :P)

eleoza
Sep '16

Yeah... I feel like I already lost the wireless headphones by just looking at them....

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indagold
Oct '16

I really hate that everyone is trying to go wireless. I bought a new mac 4 years ago with a wireless keyboard and mouse. You have to turn it off and on constantly when you're done with it, it never registers and I work in 3D which is a pain because the stupid wireless mouse doesn't have the damn buttons a regular mouse has. Finally the batteries ran out right away and I gave up and just attached my old keyboard and mouse to the computer.

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lintvar85
Jan '17

I'm not fun Apple. But smartwatch is unnecessary device.
SUCH a hassle to have to get something from your pocket. (are people really that lazy or so pressed for time that even 2 seconds to reach into your pocket is too long, i seriously doubt it)
maybe it is saving us 2 seconds but does that really matter to the vast majority of people?
smart watches , more pointless gadgets just for the sake of it, its not an innovation its just something old put into a new form factor that is not making anybodies life easier by enough to warrant making them.
i bet 99% of people will only ever use it to check the time
and do most other things on the bigger screen of their phone.
They will mess around with it for a few hours thinking its cool to be like dick tracey, when the novelty wears off it will be business as usual. looking at their wrist to see the time. getting their phone out their pocket to check email or texts or whatever.
So thanks but no thanks,
I'll be sticking with a stylish quartz watch http://jonsguide.org/best-top-watches-under-1000-reviews/ that ticks reassuringly like a watch should and my phone in my pocket thanks.
not everything has to be digital. (to be fair tho the LG one doesn't look too bad as a watch)

realSean_Murphy
Jan '17

I think smart watches appeal to health and fitness users for the most part. Android 2.0 is launching soon and it's adding a draw/keyboard function which seems pretty pointless in my opinion.