“September 9 was a massive day for Apple. As I sat in the audience watching Tim Cook and Phil Schiller launching product after product, it struck me that Apple had really focused on the details with all of its latest releases—both software and hardware,” Jim Dalrymple writes for The Loop. “That’s important for Apple because I believe that’s where one of the company’s main competitive advantages lies.”
MacDailyNews Take: It’s also important when you want to listen to your Ozzy tunes.
“When I started thinking about the keynote announcements and talking to people about the products, I noticed that many were taking the announcements as separate, individual releases. You can certainly do that, but with Apple, it’s the entirety of the ecosystem, and therefore the announcements, that make the difference,” Dalrymple writes. “Each product on its own is impressive, but when put together, the enormity of what Apple released is truly stunning.”
“Perhaps one of the greatest new features of the iPhone is 3D Touch. I say that because I see this as a new way to navigate iPhone. We look to Apple for clarity in the user interface. What they did with 3D Touch is save us time when doing simple tasks on iPhone,” Dalrymple writes. “I will be the first one to buy Apple TV because the experience is going to be so much better. Apple once again solved a navigation problem that I welcome with open arms.”
Much more in the full article – recommended – here.
MacDailyNews Take: 3D Touch is an amazing advancement. Apple TV is clearly waiting for its content subscription component to be unveiled, but it certainly offers enough as is. We’ll be fighting Jim (and millions of others) to get the first Apple TV units. Hopefully, unlike with Apple Watch, Apple made enough units for launch.
If Dalrymple says it, it must be so. Kick back and watch Apple stock soar like an eagle. Soar so high the eagle becomes invisible. Hey, you can retire now! Yippee!
On the other hand maybe Dalrymple should look up the word “enormity.” I do not think that word means what he thinks it means. I think he means enormousness. Enormity implies evil.
Wow. I thought you were wrong, but just meaning huge in scope is a distant third definition after primary defs of hugely monstrous… …who says comment threads aren’t educational… 🙂
I’m here to help. Carry on.
enormity
noun
1 the enormity of the task: immensity, hugeness; size, extent, magnitude, greatness.
Yes indeed meanings of words develop over time and I suspect almost everyone using it now will use it in the way he meant.
Whose to say he didn’t mean “evil” (for the likes of Samsung, anyway)… 🙂
Who’s to say
@Sum Jung Gai – you raised an interesting point, that enormity did originally only refer to the vastness of a crime or evil event, but the etymology of this word has evolved – and it is now accepted for it to be synonymous with enormousness. I like the original distinction, but language is often not constrained by such purist notions, and it’s also true that both words derive from the same Latin ‘enormis’.
True, in the same sense that pi used to mean 22/7, or that cousin used to mean eligible bachelorette.
Just saying’.
Words mean what the general public thinks it does. Words evolve and change over time. Dictionaries eventually catch up. They are even getting better at it thanks to the digital age.
Enormity is a quality approaching the unthinkable, far beyond common fear and flirting with awe, yet within the grasp of reason—but only just.
Sorry but no. The word has a more general, non evil, use as well.
I glad they have not gotten into the content subscription. Being able to easily choose what you want on several services is great. Having a new OS and App Store will be a lot of work. Let them get the music right before they expand into video.
Apple Touch is bound to move to the coming MB Pros with the new Intel chips within some months now.
Good move!
Now, if the MBPro trackpad just becomes an iPhone 6 Touch screen (or wider) sideways, we will have one incredible MB Pro.
No one has commented that this is the year when Apple doesn’t update the 9.7-inch iPad… Will this mean this iPad model will be updated every two years?
It think that it will probably get a pre-Christmas spec bump. Not worth adding to the presentation, as long as it was already
“Apple TV is clearly waiting for its content subscription component to be unveiled”
It was. It’s apps.
Dalrymple gets it. The effectiveness, value proposition, of a product is not its feature list, it is how easy it is to access and use those features. Nobody does it better than Apple.
This is why all smartphones look like the original iPhone (where none looked like it before). This is why all tablets look like the original iPad (where none looked like it before).
At least the part in the title is spot on.
Dalrymple is somebody’s bitch and you are, too.
Gawd, the quality of trolls around here has plummeted. Minimum req is that you at least be provocative – just can’t phone it in like that.
Can’t ever please a fanboy.
Still scratching my head trying to figure out how they got the iPhone to record and edit 4K videos in realtime, and they can’t get the Apple TV to playback 4K. All these new products have the same CPU and graphics, don’t they? I guess the iPhone is not actually viewing 4K, since it is a smaller screen. But still…
I was impressed with Siri on the new Apple TV but I didn’t see anything great. Reviews hands on say you have to use certain keywords or Siri starts over with the request.
And I see Amazon prime is missing and doubt we will see that as they tend to fight with apple. I think the Apple TV needed a redesign and not staying with the black box we have seen for years.
I like the idea but considering I see no way to install kodi so I can play my 2tb library of movies and shows not purchased on iTunes it’s a no go for me.
Apple seemed to lie allot during the presentation and come on $99 for a dam stylus. It better write itself.
And I don’t know with the current fire TV being better on most stuff now and a new one on the way worried the Apple TV will just sit again.
Honestly unless you are a iTunes buyer/renter what purpose can the Apple TV do that you can’t do now? For less!
Apple’s focus upon Apple TV’s gaming capabilities saw the company essentially focusing upon how users could play their mobile games on their TV, a feature that we’d already forgotten about on the Amazon Fire TV but Apple drilled it into our minds as though they were the first company to ever come up with the idea. Meanwhile, a listing on the FCC website has stated that Amazon will be bringing out a 4K version of its Fire TV, which is good because people who buy digital media players typically do so in order to watch digital media, not play Crossy Road on a 50-inch screen.
Indeed… And yet it will take the morons at wallstreet quite a while to digest and comprehend the enormity of the material presented .
Enormousness 😉
Enormity refers to an awareness, or premonition, of profound change to come; one that is lost to conventional thinking, particularly to a mind obessed with short-term pecuniary advantage, and one contemptuous of mortality and blind to fate. As you said, morons.
Apple TV is still all about Apple. Where’s the TV? I’ll let Dalrymple have my place in the line.
Oh there was enormity all right, enormously bad. Tim “the steward” Cook outdid himself in slavishly copying Microsoft surface with the keyboard, stylus, and multitasking. Soon he will be sticking out his tongue, sweating everywhere, and jumping over chairs. Hopefully the board fires him and his lapdog Ive soon.
I’m sorry Joe, is Apple making too much money for your needs?
Looks like their new flying saucer headquarters is being built just in time. 🙂