Links
- Apple Events - Keynote September 2018 - Apple
- Apple iPhone XS and XR 2018 event in 12 minutes - YouTube
- iPhone Xs Event from Brian Mitchell on Twitter
Outline
00:00 | Intro
01:57 | Apple Watch Series 4
- $399 base model, $499 base model with cellular
- The watch bands from the past are compatible
- The watch bands from the future are compatible with older models as well
- The sizes increased
- 40mm/44mm
- Smaller bezel
- Thinner
- Rounded corners of the screen
- Some watch faces have full color backgrounds because they look good now
- Health
- Fall detection
- Low heart rate detection (to add to high heart rate detection)
- ECG monitor
- First over the counter
- FDA approved
- US only for now?
- New sensor module on the bottom
- It looks really cool HAL9000
- Symmetric now
- Digital Crown ticks/scroll feedback
- Microphone moved to the other side
- S4 SoC
- It’s faster than ever
- Cool
- Up to 2x faster
- Louder speaker
- Better cellular reception with the case allowing more signals in and out
iPhones
12:19 | iPhone X🅂
- Starting at $999 at 64GB for X🅂 and $1099 X🅂 Max
- The larger model is cheaper than I thought it would be
- Storage bumps are $150 still, but it’s not terrible
- New chip: A12 Bionic
- It’s 2 powerful core - 4 efficient chips
- 4ish cores for the GPU, which is faster too
- It’s 7nm, for what it’s worth
- Cameras
- Each phone has the same camera module, so there’s no camera differentiation
- Smart HDR
- It’s supposed to be similar to how the Pixel processes images, we’ll see it in the field soon enough
- Dynamic bokeh, you can change the aperture after you take a photo
- IP68 (maximum depth of 2 meters up to 30 minutes)
24:02 | iPhone X🅁
- Starting at $750 at 64GB
- Lots of colors; Product(RED) out the door
- LCD screen as expected
- No 3D Touch
- Single camera
- IP67
30:13 | Entire iPhone Lineup
- iPhone 8/8+ and 7/7+ remain in the lineup
- Price updates are
- $449 for iPhone 7; $569 for iPhone 7 Plus
- $599 for iPhone 8, $699 for iPhone 8 Plus
- Reasonable pricing all around for these old models
- My dream of having only a single phone shape to design for going forward was shattered; but it’s the Tim Cook way (and the price umbrella)
- Price updates are
- There’s a neat new iPhone Comparison page
- Compare the footprints
- No iPhone SE for those that like smaller phones
- Speaking of which, the iPhone SE looks like it has been removed from the Apple website broadly
- This means the iPhone 7 is the smallest currently offered iPhone; will we see the SE2 at the next event for fun? Or in Spring?
- Speaking of which, the iPhone SE looks like it has been removed from the Apple website broadly
- No new iPads or Macs today
- AirPower mysteriously removed
What are you buying?
- Brian: thinking about iPhone X🅂 Max
- Ryan: Grandpa might need an X🅁
