Re: WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
Okay so here is the long and short summary of the Apple event. Some of the quips in here are courtesy of Walt Mossberg and Lauren Goode. They had some nice comments during the live cast yesterday compared to the fanboys from The Verge.
Apple Watch - New leather bands from Hermes and Product RED color bands. Yawn....
Apple TV - Interesting and nicely presented. But a new OS to run a TV console? MSFT is going in the One OS on all devices and Apple is busy creating more OSes. I think their reasoning is more apps, more revenue for developers because there might not be cross platform support across Apple devices. That will not prevent the people who don't mind spending more than once on Apple services. But I think it will impact the cost conscious crowd and that is where I believe if MSFT gets its act together they can win, buy an app once in the Windows store and enjoy it across the entire ecosystem of devices. While I like the new Apple TV or Super Roku as called out by some reviewers I cannot justify the price of that device (as usual). The upgrade to Apple TV was long due but a 70% in price absolutely is not justified for what is now being offered in terms of functionality with the new Apple TV.
iPad Pro - Imitation is the best form of flattery. Microsoft deserves kudos for once making a product that Apple felt compelled to copy. The keyboard is overpriced and is not as functional as the Type Cover 2. The Pencil (err....stylus...) looks great but needs charging and seems to have no latency versus the Surface Pen and has tilt support built in. I hope MSFT solves this with the N-Trig Pen and Surface 4 Pro. But I wonder if people realize that an A9 chip is no match for a i7 Skylake Intel processor right? I mean the MBP comes with that processor built in and runs OS X. MSFT offers the same processor, much more RAM and a full desktop OS for the same or cheaper price. I really was not at all impressed with the iPad Pro despite what the iSheep crowd would like us to believe.
iPhone 6S and 6S Plus - No fast or wireless charging? 3D touch is great but in essence is right click for a mobile OS. Do we now need that level of interaction on something that should be very simple and easy to perform specifically with regards to a mobile OS? I think a better approach is to be able to accomplish task(s) with voice commands and I think both Google Now and Cortana will overcome the gimmickry on iOS Force Touch if executed in a meaningful manner. Live Photos, seriously this is an invention, after you poach away the PureView folks from Nokia once MSFT acquired them? On a bright note for us WC members, copying MSFT twice in one keynote shows us that MSFT is finally onto something right!
That in a nutshell is my $0.02 on the fruit stand event.
Time to go drink some apple flavored fruit punch laced with....
lol 
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