MacDailyNews presents live coverage of Apple’s ‘Wonderlust’ special event

Apple CEO Tim Cook and a team of Apple executives will host the company’s “Wonderlust” special event today, Tuesday, September 12th, at 10am PDT / 1pm EDT.
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MacDailyNews presents live coverage of Apple’s ‘Wonderlust’ special event
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Apple’s event will be webcast from the Apple Park campus in Cupertino, California.
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Live notes from Apple’s “Wonderlust” special event in reverse chronological order:

• End of event

• AAPL: $174.93, -$4.43 (-2.47%) @ 02:22PM

• Cook reviews today’s announcements
• Reminder: iPhone SE starts at just $429

• iCloud+ offers 6TB and 12TB storage options

• Available: September 22nd
• Order: This Friday, September 15th
• Up to %1000 off with trade in of iPhone 11 Pro or newers
• iPhone 15 Pro Max starts at $1199 (256GB)
• iPhone 15 Pro starts at $999
• iPhone 15 Pro can now capture spatial 3D videos for Apple Vision Pro
• Supports ACES for filmmakers
• USB-3 cable offer much faster transfer speeds – shoot from iPhone directly to Mac; shoot video directly to external drive 4K60 ProRes
• Macro photography
• Unmatched OIS autofocus
• iPhone 15 Pro Max: 5X optical Telephoto camera (120mm focal length)
• iPhone 15 Pro: 3X optical Telephoto camera
• Improved Smart HDR
• 2X better low light performance
• 24 MM, 28 MM, and 35 MM focal lengths
• 24MP photos
• Main camera can capture unbelievable detail
• 48MP Main camera – larger sensor
• Pro camera system: Equivalent to having 7 camera lens in your pocket
• High level gaming performance: Welcome to the next level of mobile gaming
• Hardware-accelerated ray tracing
• Mesh shading
• Pro class GPU: 6-core design; up to 20% faster for peak perfomance
• Brand new GPU: Biggest redesign in the history of Apple GPUs
• New USB-3 capable controller
• Neural Engine now up to 2X as fast as A16 Bionic
• Fastest smartphone ever; challenges even high-end desktop PCs
• 2 high-performance cores
• 6-core CPU
• 19 billion transistors
• Industry’s first 3nm chip
• Powered by Apple’s all-new A17 Pro SoC
• Standby stays on persistently
• Always-On Display
• Extreme Dynamic Range
• ProMotion
• Dynamic Island
• Assign your own uses to the Action button
• Mute switch now becomes the Action button
• 100% recycled aluminum substructure
• Apple-designed coatings: Black Titanium, White Titanium, Blue Titanium, Natural Titanium
• 6.7-inch iPhone 15 Pro Max
• 6.1-inch iPhone 15 Pro
• Ceramic Shield
• New contoured edges; thinnest bezel ever
• Lightest Pro models ever
• The most premium material ever used in an iPhone enclosure
• iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max now in brushed Grade 5 titanium case (same alloy used on the Mars rover)

• Up to $800 off (iPhone 11 or newer) in the U.S. via carrier partners
• iPhone 15 Plus starts at $899
• iPhone 15 starts at $799
• “Finewoven” cases replace leather
• iPhone 15 continues use of MagSafe
• AirPods Pro Charging Case and EarPods get USB-C
• USB-C comes to iPhone 15 (no mention of EU forcing this change)
• Satellite services free for two years with iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
• Apple intros Roadside Assistance via satellite; launching in US with AAA; AAA members get it as part of their membership
• Emergency SOS via satellite and Find My via satellite coming to Spain and Switzerland this month
• Machine Learning dramatically improves voice calls
• iPhone 15 connectivity: Ultra-wideband second-gen (just like the new Apple Watches); precision finding

• AAPL: $177.01, -$2.35 (-1.31%) @ 01:45PM EDT

• iPhone 15: A16 Bionic
• iPhone 15 makes it easy to take great-looking photos and videos every day
• Advance Computational Photography
• Smart HDR improved
• Focus and Depth Control – switch focus after photo has been taken
• Portrait Mode can be captured automatically; works with dogs and cats
• Next generation Portrait Mode
• Sensor-shift OIS
• 2X telephone option – optical quality (like having a third camera)
• Incredible image quality and double the resolution
• New camera system: 48MP main camera
• 75% recycled aluminum
• Ceramic Shield – built to last
• Texture matte finish
• 6.1-inch for iPhone 15; 6.7-inch for iPhone 15 Plus
• Super Retina XDR OLED display offers thinner borders, Dolby Vision, peak HDR brightness hits 1,600 nits; up to 2,000 nits in bright sun
• All-new design: Dynamic Island comes to iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
• iPhone 15 video being shown
• Cook: “Now, let’s talk about iPhone”

• Available Sept. 22nd
• Apple Watch Series 9 starts at $399 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 – $799
• Apple Watch SE 2 – $249

• Apple Watch Ultra 2 features 95% recycled titanium (“Carbon Neutral” with Alpine Loop or Trail Loop)
• Great for running, cycling, diving, etc.
• Modular Ultra offers myriad complications – the most ever
• 3,000 nits display – the brightest display Apple has ever created
• Ultra 2 features S9 and U2 chips
• The most advanced Apple Watch
• Apple Watch Ultra 2

• Nike bands use recycled materials
• Hermes bands will now be woven or rubber
• Apple “Finewoven” is Apple’s leather replacement – feels like suede
• Apple will no longer use leather in any Apple product including Watch bands
• Apple Watch Series 9 is Apple’s first “carbon neutral” product
• Smaller packaging for Apple Watch Series 9
• Apple Watch Series 9 charging, Apple will match expected energy use by investing in renewable energy worldwide
• All Apple Watch manufacturing powered by 100% clean electricity
• Sport Loop band now made with 82% recycled yarn
• 100% recycled cobalt in the battery
• 100% recycled aluminum and more
• Apple Watch Series 9 maximizes recycled materials
• Apple VP Lisa Jackson continues with environmental commitment review

• AAPL: $177.61, -$1.75 (-0.98%) @ 01:21PM EDT

• Mother Nature says, “Good.”
• Review of Apple’s environmental initiatives
• Phasing out leather in iPhone cases
• Mother Nature (Octavia Spencer) visits Apple to talk “carbon footprint”

• AAPL: $177.17, -$2.19 (-1.22%) @ 01:16PM EDT

• Double Tap video being shown; available next month
• New Apple Watch Series 9 gesture: Double Tap – just tap your index finger and thumb together twice on Watch hand to answer a call, end a call
• Edge-to-edge Always-On Retina Display – 2,000 Nits
• Apple Watch close to HomePod – media suggestions automatically appear
• Precision finding of iPhone via Apple Watch
• Name Drop shares contact info among Watch users
• Siri can now access Health data
• Siri Dictation is up to 25% more accurate
• 4 Core Neural Engine, up to 2X as fast as previous S8
• 60% more CPU transistors
• Apple S9 SIP is the most powerful Watch chip, yet
• Apple Watch Series 9 introduced
• Jeff Williams: Apple Watch

• Big news of the day: Apple Watch and iPhone
• “Response to Apple Vision Pro has been amazing” – Cook
• Cook covers Apple Vision Pro features
• Cook reviews recent Mac updates
• Apple CEO Tim Cook begins his pre-taped presentation
• Cases being shown that prove Apple Watch saves lives
• Apple Watch promotional video being played
• Apple’s “Wonderlust” pre-taped videostream begins

• AAPL: $177.07, -$2.29 (-1.28%) @ 12:55PM EDT
• AAPL: $177.02, -$2.34 (-1.30%) @ 12:44PM EDT
• AAPL: $176.32, -$3.04 (-1.69%) @ 11:10AM EDT

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17 Comments

      1. It’s over the top. Loved how they had some idiot speaking about how wonderful they are for the environment while standing in front of a large beautiful area destroyed by silly solar panels. They’re cultists doing their rituals to appease their gods.

    1. The environmental stuff was cringe. Although.. it looked like Tim was cringing right along with us.. They weren’t happy and cheerful about it, they were afraid of ‘mother nature’. (I.e. afraid of not getting good ESG scores, which we all know are BS: Exon has a better ESG score than Tesla, for example). It also seemed significant that they made a point to say “quality carbon offsets” that actually rebuild habitats (vs planting a few trees that are left to die, or worse, carbon sequestration).

      Given the extent to which the globalist communist technocrats have institutionalized carbon reduction, I’m not sure I’d do things much differently if I were Tim. That said, getting rid of leather seems way over the line, particularly since it’s much more hygienic than the plastics they replaced it with. The recycled bits bands are so garish and ugly, it’s almost as if Apple is making a mockery of it; ugly af bands that are there to check off a box to placate the neurotic nutjobs that have bought into the establishment-promoted farce that CO2 is somehow bad for the planet.

  1. Too many boring diversity, climate and insignificant people on screen. Can’t stand any longer Tim’s Apple agenda. All the same “woke” messages, year after year. “And now back to Tim…”

      1. Libturd stupidity has caused:
        -Lying, corrupt, racist, pedophile, dementia patient and whore installed in the White House
        –complete unquailed VP who is unable to form a single sentence
        -two completely unqualified judges on the Supreme Court place there because of their race and sex instead of qualifications.
        -Burning cities
        -Occupy movement
        -Doubled gas prices
        -Gas pipeline shut down
        -US emergency oil stockpiles drop to lowest level since 1983
        -Unaffordable healthcare insurance
        -Legalization of marijuana
        -Baby killing
        -Wants to ban gas stoves to save children but has no problem killing unborn children
        -Destroyed economy
        -Crashed stock market
        -Upcoming recession
        -Highest inflation in 40 years
        -Weaponized IRS
        -Destroyed school system
        -Open border crisis
        -Illegal aliens getting drivers licenses
        -Illegal aliens getting free medical insurance
        -Illegal aliens getting tax-payer money
        – National Guard pay delayed after congress celebrates itself for spending $1.7 Trillion
        -Trading a useless, athlete for a notorious arms dealer (Merchant of Death), while leaving behind a USMC veteran, because she is an anti-American, black lezbo.
        -Releasing a notorious arms dealer (Merchant of Death) while trying to deprive Americans the right to defend themselves with gun control so we can protect ourselves from violent libturds
        -Red flag laws
        -Voter fraud enabling
        -No voter ID
        -Illegals allow to vote
        -Illegals given drivers licenses
        -Labeling all non-libturds as domestic terrorists
        -Labeling all non-libturds as racist
        -“Extremists” used to be real terrorists, now it people who want to secure the border or keep pornography out of elementary schools
        -Electric car mandates during electric crisis
        -Woke bullshit
        -“Identify as” bullshit
        -“Inclusion” but only what libturds want to include
        -Kneeling for National Anthem
        -Woke hirings preferred over actual competence
        -Obese, mentally ill person installed as head of health
        -Mentally ill, genderfluid ‘puppy’ thief installed at Department of Energy
        -Jill Biden gives biological male “Women of Courage” award
        -320 genders
        -It/that, them/they, and WTF pronouns
        -Misgendering bullshit
        -Epstein client list hidden
        -Russia collusion bullshit
        -Destruction of free speech
        -Transgender perversion forced on children
        -Drag queen story hours
        -Boys in the girls’ bathrooms.
        -Tampon dispensers in the men’s room
        -Boys in girls’ sports
        -Mentally ill man pretending to be a woman on a beer can
        -Mentally ill man being a model for women’s underwear-
        -Cancel culture in the name of “tolerance”
        -Not OK for a child to pretend to be an Indian for a game, but OK for a man to pretend to be a woman in real life
        -Men can get pregnant
        -Record underemployment
        -Defund police
        -Soft on crime policies
        -Zero bail laws
        -Record high crime
        -Obese, ugly men winning female beauty pageants
        -Food shortages
        -Corruption of Legislators
        -Corruption of Judges
        -Corrupt FBI
        -Corrupt CIA
        -Corrupt media
        -Corrupt social media
        -Acceptance of Socialism and rejection of Capitalism
        -Election and reelection of incredibly stupid, mentally unfit politicians: AOC, racist Omar, We have to pass it to find out what in it, Pelosi, Guam will tip over Hank Johnson, brain damaged Fetterman, Dementia Joe—just to name a few.
        -Ukraine gets: $200 billion, Congress gets: 41% pay increase, Taliban gets: $85 billion, Iran gets: $200 billion, American get: $7 eggs, $4 gas, 50% increase on electricity, free crack pipes, open
        borders, fentanyl crisis, toxic spills

        -The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and…

        And you are so fucking stupid that you think you are the smart ones!

        You want to start a revolution, but you can’t even start a lawnmower.

        The next civil war will be fought between Americans and libturds. One side has 300 million firearms and trillions of rounds of ammunition, the other has strap-on dildos and toilet plungers.

        Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck libturds

      1. Or rather more sales for the people who cared for “diversity” in color, whatever that means.
        As a Apple user from the Asian market, I’d say the whole “diversity” is a the American Left’s ultimate tool, if they get in the White House, they’ll use it like any other American cultural imperialism would.
        It inevitable that, for better or for worse, a country that is made up of different groups of people would be more susceptible to the call for “diversity”.

        It’s true that most Asian countries are homogeneous, as result of that, some called us “uneducated” to these issues, but truth is, we have our own life and internal domestic politics to worry about, but American Imperialism won’t leave us alone, so they kept showing the solution to a problem that doesn’t exist here, through “foreign policy”, shamelessly at that.
        Any foreigners, not from the U.S., regardless of ethnic group, that watched the “Mother Nature commerical” would get scratch our head around and become uncomfortable, due to the lack of proper manner these globalist American Left has. I know it, because I literally felt so disgusted watching that.

        Just recently in June (the month of rainbows), the Biden Administration’s Ambassador to Japan was criticized for supporting the sexual minority campaign, in doing so crossed the line of not interfering with Japan’s domestic politics, in the heights of the LDP’s Kishida cabinet steamrollering the sexual minority’s protection bill as well.

        The people in the U.S. need to know how much their imperialism would reach the global world, and the limitations it has, letting the Left control all for “diversity” is a doomed vision, since there is no “one size fits all” solution, if we, and our country don’t need “diversity”, then the American Left can shut the f up.

        1. Well said, @J.

          It is truly DISGUSTING the American woke leftists think they can self righteously control climate in the first place and second, tell the whole world and all its ingenious people how to live and accept only their one lifestyle full of abortion, drug use, gender manipulation, freedom for criminals, support looters and out of control mobs and on and on.

          Unfortunately, its Timmy’s pet project and goal to embarrass a great company with such BLATANT virtue signaling rubbish that at the end of the day, amounts to a drop in the ocean…

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