Apple has announced a range of new products, including a new larger iPad, two new smartphones and a long-awaited update to Apple TV.
In a now traditional September event, this time held at San Francisco’s 7,000 seater Bill Graham civic auditorium, 2,000 engineers, advertisers, executives and journalists saw Apple’s marketing chief Phil Schiller reveal a new 12.9-inch screen iPad that the company hopes will appeal to both professional creatives and committed tablet users.
— The Guardian
With a $799 price-tag, the new iPad Pro could offer a more affordable option for creatives than a MacBook Pro or a desktop. The tablet will have a 10-hour battery life and a faster, more efficient A9X processor, as well as a 12.9-inch Retina display. In addition, the iPad was introduced alongside "Apple Pencil," a smart stylus.
The announcement included a revamped AppleTV with a new, native operating system and Siri. Two new iPhones were also announced, with features such as a 3D touch gesture (like a pressure sensitive, responsive multi-touch), 4K video, and "Live Photos," which are like gifs capturing "the moments just before and after your picture," and then put into motion.
Probably the most exciting news, the stylus and iPad Pro could have the potential to greatly bridge the distance between traditional pen-and-paper and digital designing, with intuitive technology like tethering line weight to applied pressure. As such, it could offer a lot to designers who still bring out tracing paper before launching inDesign or Rhino.
On the other hand, even with its new smart keyboard, it's hard to imagine a tablet completely replacing desktops in design – particularly as long as there's a sizable gap in processing power. What do you think? Do you plan to get an iPad Pro for your studio?
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APPLE INVENTS A PENCIL. SUCH INNOVASHUN!
GIVE US MORE MONEY FOR MORE STUPID, OVERPRICED GARBAGE!
I use iPad for design presentations. New Adobe software is really good.
Not for architecture design though
Re: Apple Pencil ...
"Obviously, this is prima facie hilarious. And yes, every single day, modern Apple whips another dong into the face of Steve Jobs’s principles of interface. (“If you see a stylus, they blew it.”) But for a minute, just stop and take in the scene of these morons reverse-engineering a pencil and paper, and getting something that costs $1,300 and very likely works only barely."
^quoted from the only coverage I saw of "Apple Day" that didn't bow down to everything Apple and praise it as genius: A Layman's Guide to the New iPhones, and Apple's Other New Crap.
I love my iPad.
did you love your one button mouse?
https://senselblog.wordpress.com/
This comic was published 3 years ago. Seriously.
Apple's new Smart Keyboard, released this week.
What kind of f---turd..... nevermind
"Do the monkey dance"
Classic.
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