Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “iPhone 15 Event Reactions: Sneaky Updates!”.
All right so Apple’s Wonder list event happened. It was uh. It was pretty interesting, honestly, not that much stuff actually got announced. I mean we knew it was going to be iPhone. Apple watch USBC, not that much other stuff, but it was.
It was more the stuff in between the lines that was kind of interesting and some other random stuff that I don’t think a lot of people are talking about. So let’s talk about it now. First of all, I got to say it was a complete surprise to me when one of the first things that they did was quote my MacBook Air review. So you know like the beginning of the Keynotes. They usually do where they sort of recap, a bunch of stuff. That’S previously happened.
One of the things they did was talk about the MacBook Air, and this happened and Mark has brownly said the 15-in MacBook Air is going to instantly rock it to the top of the lineup to become the most popular 15in laptop. We love the new Macbook Air and the entire Mac lineup, and that was pretty cool. I got to say they didn’t tell me they were going to do that. They didn’t ask, they didn’t pay for it. They just kind of did it so so shout out to Tim.
I guess in this case it’s totally fine. I guess there’s just an element of Pride knowing that, like it’s come a long way since the beginning. I remember like six seven eight years ago when there were zero YouTubers at any of these events, and then there was one and then there were three or four and then there were 12 or 13 and just now we’re all just a part of the media, independent Creators doing our thing, so I feel like it’s kind of a cool moment to see that come full circle, but anyway, after that they just got right into the announcements, the flagship of which being the new iPhone.
So I made an entire separate video on the iPhones. My first Hands-On and impressions of all the little details and my first thoughts of everything so I’ll link that below the like button. If you want to check it out if you’re interested but I’ll just do a brief summary here for you, so the iPhone 15 gets the a16 bionic chip from last year’s iPhone Pro. It gets the dynamic island, of course, from the pro as well.
Some new colors and a slightly updated design with a little better curve. Radiuses radi slightly nicer feel on the hand and a satin soft touch back and a a slow USBC Port same starting price and screen sizes as last year $ 7.99 for the iPhone 15 and $ 8.99 for the iPhone 15 plus. So then, the iPhone 15 Pro gets a new 3 NM a17 Pro chip. There’S these new brush lighter titanium rails to replace a stainless steel, a faster USBC port, a customizable action button on the side to replace the mute, switch, a new set of cameras and just the 15 Pro Max gets a new 5x telephoto camera and the prices are Kind of sneaky, so it’s still $ 9.99 for the 15 Pro, but the pro Max now starts at $ 1.99, because it’s also starting at 256 gigs, there’s a lot more details and interesting stuff about the iPhone in that Hands-On video. So you know where to find that, but then there’s the other stuff of this event also, I thought it would be cool to shoot here, since this is part of where they shot some scenes in the keynote, but now I’m realizing that it’s a real place, there’s Like chainsaws in the background, so sorry about the noise anyway, uh we’ve got apple watch, stuff right so series 9 and Ultra 2, and one of the most interesting things about these new watches is that visually just looking at them? There’S almost no way to actually tell that you’re looking at the new watch, it’s very unlike Apple, so I think there’s a new pink color with the series 9, but other than that looks identical to the series 8 and the ultra 2 looks identical to the ultra.
But instead, under the hood, there’s a big process update to this new S9 system on a chip which is more powerful and more efficient and that’s allowing to push the watches to a higher Max brightness, while keeping the same coded battery life. So the series 9 is going to get up to 2,000 nits Max brightness now, and the ultra 2 is up to 3,000 nits, which is actually now it’s. The brightest display ever on any Apple product and they’ve also moved all Seri requests on the watch now to stay on device.
Instead of always having to do a round trip to the internet, which I think could help cuz, there’s a lot of instances of Siri, where you like ask it what’s the time in Cupertino and then it like goes hold on a second wait for it. I’M thinking about it, I don’t know yet, and it’s just frustrating and it doesn’t work so that should be faster and more efficient. It doesn’t means Ser is going to be good, it just means it’ll be bad but faster, but then there’s also a new Ultra wideband chip that can talk to the iPhones to make find my iPhone way more precise and actually point out a direction to help. You find your phone instead of just playing a sound. I think that’s going to be super useful for a lot of people, but the most sneaky interesting update here to the watch is this new double tap gesture, so so, okay you’ve got the new watch on uh and basically it’s always able to detect. If you do this double tap of your thumb and your index finger together, and so I got to try it a bunch of times at the event with a demo watch in the Hands-On area, it actually seemed very accurate, like you.
Basically, you raise it to wake. Give it a split second and then double tap to press the primary button of whatever app you’re in that’s on your screen at the moment. So it can accept or reject an incoming phone call or stop a timer or scroll through the smart stack of widgets. On the watch face and yeah it was, it was working really well for me very quickly. This would clearly be super helpful, if my other hand is busy or I’m holding something, or I just want to quickly do something. Ordinarily, honestly i’ would be trying to do that with my nose, so this is much better now.
The reason I say this is sneaky is because I don’t know if you remember just a few weeks ago or months ago. This is the same gesture used to select things while you’re wearing Apple VIs Pro in the VR headset. Selecting things is like this, and so now on the watch. Selecting things is like that. Now some of you have already pointed out on Twitter. This isn’t exactly new completely if you’ve ever dug through the accessibility settings on the Apple watch before you’ve probably found by a slightly different name.
Basically, the exact same feature and you’ve been able to double tap and do all kinds of other things. Now, why isn’t this new double tap to select primary stuff feature coming to other Apple watches? You might be asking Apple says that, basically, this new S9 chip is much faster at processing. All the info from All Those sensors and so you’ll be able to do it more readily, and so that’s why it’s only coming to the new S9 powered Apple watches convenient. But let’s talk about airpods, real quick, because this might actually be the ultimate sneaky update.
So the fact is these barely even got mentioned during the keynote right, like they just casually dropped that there would be a new USBC case for the airpods Pro 2 in, like one fleeting slide, and that was basically it. So you could be led to believe that there’s just nothing new with the airpods themselves and they’re exactly the same, but you’d be wrong, so basically, for all intents and purposes, airpods Pro 2, with the wireless charging lightning case and airpods Pro 2 with the wireless charging Usbc case are the same product with a different port unless you have apple Vision Pro, in which case the USBC version will be capable of doing lossless audio with low latency, with this new codec that Apple’s created just for this purpose. This awesome immersive experience.
So if you don’t have apple Vision, Pro then they’re, basically the same product with two different ports, but there is actually new hardware and new architecture to make this feature possible with the new USBC version. I don’t think they want to talk about that too much to not make people who just bought them last week feel too bad about it, but they’re actually different headphones. So that’s a sneaky update right there from Apple behind the scenes on one of their most popular products, but that’s a good transition just to get to the the last seemingly big pillar of this announcement, which was carbon neutrality and the environment.
So Apple couldn’t stop talking about the environment throughout this keynote, including one huge, overly self- congratulatory like 10minute skit in the middle of the keynote video, with, like Tim Cook and Apple employees, talking to Mother Nature about how much progress they’ve made with their products environmentally. I I I just basically want to dig more into this later. I would say: I’m not an expert on this, so there’s no way that I can fully appreciate now and fully understand now everything that was said there’s a lot of specific language used. Some of it is very clear, like just straight up not using any leather anymore in any Apple products, uh using recycled materials instead of new virgin materials. Things like that having more sustainable energy sources, but then there’s other things that they I mean there was a lot. There was a lot going on, and some of it is not quite as simple, but they have clearly made a lot of progress and change, and they eventually landed on this moment where they were like.
The Apple watch is the first fully carbon neutral product that Apple’s actually shipping on their way to ideally being fully carbon neutral as a company by 2030, and so there’s a lot of progress that they still need to make. And as much as we’ve talked about. How much Apple still needs to do? I kind of feel like I can’t get mad at this, like you know what it feels like you ever see. Those like YouTube videos, where, like a YouTuber will on the street they’ll, be miked up and they’ll like give a homeless person, a 100 bucks or something and like half the comments are like. Oh you come on, you clearly didn’t have to do it on camera like if you really cared, then you would do it not on camera, and that’s probably all mostly true, but also that person in need still did just get a 100 bucks. So it’s like some net positive was still done, and this kind of feels the same way to me like okay apple, is actually doing a bunch of stuff to use recycled materials and to make less of an impact on the environment and then they’re doing a big Song and dance about it, so everyone can see it so that everyone sees it and so you’d say: okay, if they, if they really cared, they would do a whole bunch more stuff and that’s still true, but I can’t get mad at the improvements that they are Actually making, hopefully that makes sense either way. Like I said, I’m not an expert. I I want to dig more into this. I want to talk to some people who actually are experts on it. Who can help me out and maybe that’s a future topic for another video, but that’s just my thoughts and reactions from the Wonder lust event of 2023. Let me know your thoughts are below there’s a lot to talk about and a lot of random sneaky stuff and uh.
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