If anyone wants a itunes/ibookstore/appstore $100 giftcard I will be selling mine for $90 after I purchase my Macbook so just PM me and hopefully we can jsut setup to meet at the apple store.
Agree - For the first time since I first got on board the iPhone wagon, I'm seriously considering looking elsewhere. The only problem is I haven't felt, in my limited use of other phones, that they are as polished as iOS in a useability fashion. I'm hoping that by the time I'm up for hardware renewal in October, someone has built a kick butt Windows phone I can move over to.
I don't entirely understand Apple's fascination with Siri - what percentage of the time do even hardcore Siri users spend interacting with their phone via Siri? 20%? And how about the casual Siri user? 1-2%
That's a lot of work spent on a marginal portion of the iOS experience.
That being said, I'm greatly looking forward to Apple's mapping and turn-by-turn navigation - Navigon and TomTom both suck (in their own special ways) and I'll be glad to be rid of them.
Agree - For the first time since I first got on board the iPhone wagon, I'm seriously considering looking elsewhere. The only problem is I haven't felt, in my limited use of other phones, that they are as polished as iOS in a useability fashion. I'm hoping that by the time I'm up for hardware renewal in October, someone has built a kick butt Windows phone I can move over to.
I agree, but I don't like the Android experience. I too am waiting to see what MSFT comes up with, but the app support won't be there to start.
A lot of corps have iPhone apps to get access to your work email and calendar. They don't have a Windows Phone version yet.
I'm ordering the new "retina" Macbook Pro but I have a few reservations. I don't like that they took out the mic input. Hopefully the built in mics are a decent replacement.
I don't mind that they took out the ethernet port. Hopefully someone makes a dock that includes an adapter.
I have the hires 15" and it doesn't get anywhere near 7 hours of battery life. I don't know how well the new one will do pushing that many more pixels. I guess I'll see.
I don't entirely understand Apple's fascination with Siri - what percentage of the time do even hardcore Siri users spend interacting with their phone via Siri? 20%? And how about the casual Siri user? 1-2%
That's a lot of work spent on a marginal portion of the iOS experience.
That being said, I'm greatly looking forward to Apple's mapping and turn-by-turn navigation - Navigon and TomTom both suck (in their own special ways) and I'll be glad to be rid of them.
I think it is because Siri is what they see as the future on everything. Phones are just the test bed for something like Apple TV.
That is why you see Siri is an iterative development. It is getting closer and closer to something that can be embeded in all electronics.
I don't use Siri because it doesn't work half the time, and you look like a dork doing it. But once it becomes perfected, and more socially acceptable, it'll take off.
I look forward to being able to launch apps via voice command. That's the #1 function it was missing.
I think it is because Siri is what they see as the future on everything. Phones are just the test bed for something like Apple TV.
That is why you see Siri is an iterative development. It is getting closer and closer to something that can be embeded in all electronics.
Exactly. Siri is still in beta afterall. It's about to get a lot more useful for Canadians, too. "What's playing at Sunridge tonight?" and "What's the score of the Flames game?" are just around the corner.
Im really stuck now. Was set on a 27" iMac (once processor boost comes out) but now the Retina MBP and a Thunderbolt display for a desktop environment are looking good.
I wonder how long before we see Apple starting to use the data that goes through their servers to do targeted marketing. All requests processed by Siri go through Apple's servers, so they can build a pretty accurate profile of the each Siri user. Add to that that they know exactly which device is sending the request and we have a marketers dream come true.
Exactly. Siri is still in beta afterall. It's about to get a lot more useful for Canadians, too. "What's playing at Sunridge tonight?" and "What's the score of the Flames game?" are just around the corner.
Yeah. It's just me being curmudgeonly. I've tried voice recognition all the way back to the earliest versions of Dragon Dictate and IBM ViaVoice (and subsequently..ViaVoice integrated into OS/2 Warp 4...), and never got comfortable with it.
I love my computers, but I don't like talking to them.
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Dammit, no updates whatsoever to the iMac? Not even anything internal? I've been holding off buying one for months. And they're not being updated till 2013? What a letdown.
I wonder how long before we see Apple starting to use the data that goes through their servers to do targeted marketing. All requests processed by Siri go through Apple's servers, so they can build a pretty accurate profile of the each Siri user. Add to that that they know exactly which device is sending the request and we have a marketers dream come true.
I don't see it happening anytime soon as it's just not in their business model. They make their money in other ways, they make tons of it and they know the user experience is imperative to that working. What you're describing is Google, and I think Apple is fine leaving Google to do that.
As for Siri, I'm incredibly excited for the changes to come. While it was mentioned before that a power user like myself may only use it 20% of the time, Siri is paramount to my daily workflow and I couldn't have a phone without it. As it gets more and more fleshed out I can see somebody like my dad (who's eyes have been getting worse every year) using it more and more. I think Canadians will be using it a lot more once it can do location services.
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David Pogue says those updates are coming in 2013... with predictions like that though, I should be in the business too.
I wouldn't be surprised if the iMac quietly received an internal spec boost (CPU, GPU, maybe RAM) in a month or two and then we get a completely redesigned model in 2013.
