Apple's September iOS Keynote

[Ryuzaki]

So this just wrapped up. I'm here to give the summary!

iWatch

• Customer satisfaction at 97%
• watchOS 2 has new features catching it up to iOS basically
• There's 10,000 watchOS apps now
• New watch bands so professionals might actually wear it

iPad

• iPad Pro is huge. It's two iPad Airs next to each other. 12.9 inches Retina.
• Has split screen feature.
• Has four speakers that respond to the accelerometer, 3x volume of previous models
• 80% faster chip, can edit 4k video
• New keyboard built into the flip covers with a new "Smart Connector"
• Apple Pencil, their new stylus, seems super legit for artists and designers
• 8 megapixel camera, 10 hour battery, now has the Touch ID fingerprinting feature
• $99 for the stylus, $169 for the keyboard.
• $800 for the 32GB iPad Pro, up to $949 for 128GB
• Prices dropped across the rest of the line-up

AppleTV

• Features the new tvOS
• Siri is involved now and the speech recognition is ridiculously crazy
• Developers can build apps for tvOS now for online shopping and games
• The controller is way diff with a touch surface plus a Siri button
• The gaming is iPhone style games, aka Atari and NES style.
• Siri can search through all of the apps you have, not just the active one, etc. Tons of new voice controls.
• Can do Pip screens where you can watch multiple TV channels at once, like Sports.

iPhone 6s

• It now comes in colors to satisfy the Chinese market.
• It has pressure sensitive controls now to function like OSX's "preview" control. Press harder and hold. Called "3D Touch".
• A9 chip 70% faster than A8.
• 12 MP camera. 50% more pixels.
• Each photo captures frames before and after the main picture, including audio, so you can have GIF / Vine / 1 second video style pictures. Called "Live Photos".
• Some new iPhone upgrade program since they are pushing new versions every year.
• iCloud storage just became crazy cheap. 50GB for 99 cents a month. 1TB for $10 a month.

That's it. I'm disappointed, not because some of that wasn't cool, but I was hoping they would say a little more about OSX and the workstations. That'll be the focus of the October keynote, thankfully. Hopefully they upgrade the Mac Pro, because I'm looking to purchase.

 

[turtle]

$99 for a stylus? Does it draw on it's own...?

No wonder they are valued at $700 B. But hey, good for them,right.

 

[CCarter]

Siri can search through all of the apps you have, not just the active one, etc. Tons of new voice controls.

I like the fact they gave her a face to help me visualize her better:

Best part of the event in IMO.