Apple Event 25/3

[DoctorX]

Anybody watching?

They’re ‘invented ‘ Readly. Shame they’ve only got 300 magazines...

[dundarach]

DoctorX said:

Anybody watching?

They’re ‘invented ‘ Readly. Shame they’ve only got 300 magazines...

[DoctorX]

dundarach said:

Keep up at the back, they’ve just invented the credit card too.

[petemurphy]

thought nothing could be worse that apple and goldman sachs

then i saw how shiny the card is..

want one

[anonymous-user]

Apple card has some good features

Privacy

Reward - 2% cashback is pretty generous

And shiny

[DoctorX]

Have they just made the Apple TV box redundant?

[dundarach]

Apple Card you're sh tting me....

Why would a tech giant announce a credit card?

I know I've already used it but....

Edited by dundarach on Monday 25th March 19:20

[abzmike]

dundarach said:

Apple Card you're sh tting me....

Why would a tech giant announce a credit card?

I know I've already used it but....

Apple are sitting on a vast pile of cash, why not make some more. With so much money they are virtually a bank anyway. All about another way to separate loyal customers from thier money. I’m a loyal customer, but don’t need another card, although 2% cash back is ok. The other stuff announced today, nothing for me at least to get excited about. Interesting to see how much of the content in News and TV survives the move over here.

[768]

Feels like they've completely lost their way. I mean, they're Apple so it hardly matters because they'll make a metric fk tonne doing anything. But I wish they'd sort out the Macs.

It is a very shiny credit card though.

[FourWheelDrift]

So when they scam customers out of unnecessary repair payments they can get the money via handy instalments with added interest?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2_SZ4tfLns&in...

[Burwood]

Lost their way.

[FunkyNige]

Was rather hoping they would announce an SE2...

[FourWheelDrift]

And brand new edition £1000-1500 iMacs and they still only have 5400pm hard drives fitted. Yay, Apple are so innovative.

[Narcisus]

DoctorX said:

Have they just made the Apple TV box redundant?

Bloody hope not I've not had mine long ! What have they said ?

[Zoon]

Narcisus said:

DoctorX said:

Have they just made the Apple TV box redundant?

Bloody hope not I've not had mine long ! What have they said ?

I don't think it's dead, after all what will the streaming service run on?

[DoctorX]

Narcisus said:

Bloody hope not I've not had mine long ! What have they said ?

You’ll be able to access the Apple TV from smart TV (new ones or upgrade?), Fire TV etc. No point dropping 179 quid on a 4K Apple TV when an Amazon job will do.

ETA not redundant in that it won’t work, just that there’s no need to buy one. I think.

Edited by DoctorX on Tuesday 26th March 12:28

[sjg]

Correct, all the streaming video stuff will be an "app" for the Mac, Roku, Fire TV - and presumably smart TVs that are powerful enough (Samsung, Sony, Vizio and one other mentioned).

Apple TV hardware still gives you Airplay video mirroring of your iphone/ipad/mac, Siri, the fancy remote, games, displaying photos from your iCloud account, etc. It's not the best choice for everyone but not a bad one if you're Apple-centric and need a streaming box.

[okenemem]

FunkyNige said:

Was rather hoping they would announce an SE2...

So disappointed was searching the net thinking they had spoke about it

[kev1974]

The Apple Card credit card appears to be an exact ripoff of Monzo/Revolut, I didn't see anything in the presentation that those cards don't already offer (well Revolut still don't do Apple Pay as far as I know, but Monzo does).

Small print says the credit card is US only, which isn't a surprise I guess.

[Narcisus]

Just about everything Apple does bugs me in one way or another I'll be amazed if I ever buy another Apple product. AppleTV was purchased mainly for my film collection many of which I could now watch in 4k for free :-) That didnt bug me !