Hey, how it's going,
Dave2D here.
So Apple just announced their new iPhone
and a bunch of other hardware
So I thought I would do a quick video
kinda talking about my first impression and all this stuff...
I'm gonna skip the Apple TV
I mean it's really cool. 4K, HDR, great hardware in there
But... TV is not how I consume
most of my media anymore so it just doesn't interest me
personally, I'm just gonna pass on that. the Apple Watch... I've always liked the
idea of a smartwatch. I've tried several and I've always found them. I don't know...
the battery life on smartwatches is what ruins it for me, like having to charge
them every day or at best like every two to three days for a flagship smartwatch
That's just that's just not my thing. This new one, the Apple Watch Edition 3
the same idea I still have to charge it frequently but because it has cellular
capabilities, it could theoretically replace a phone for certain users, now I
don't think this is gonna make everyone switch over to Apple watches and dump
their phones, in fact I don't think that you even can, I still feel like you need
to have a phone, but I think it kind of breathes new life into the whole smart
watch job right now. This isn't the first time we've seen cell capabilities
in a smartwatch, I've tried a couple I've even tried to use a Samsung smartwatch.
as like my only cellular device. It went terribly, but I feel like because Apple
has big market share in the whole smartwatch industry... I don't know, I feel
like this could be a good thing for them. The big thing though is the iPhone
announcement and I got to be honest, going into this thing, I thought the
iPhone 10 or the iPhone X as people thought it was called originally,
I thought it would be way cooler and way better than it actually ended up being.
So the iPhone 8, the regular-looking iPhone, I feel like that thing is... OK, in
2017, every single flagship out there has a better screen-to-body ratio to the
Apple iPhone, so it's so weird that Apple is pulling out another, like thick bezel
phone right now. It just, it makes me die a little bit on the inside when I see
that thing but it is what it is. Now the specs on the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus are
significantly better than the specs on the 7
and the 7 Plus. That's just the nature of a next-generation product, but
the bezels on the iPhone 8, it just looks so thick to me. I don't know, I- I'm in a loss
of words but I'm sure the phone has great hardware. It seems to have a
significantly faster processor especially for multi-core stuff, where I
was charging, the slightly better screen, all good stuff but because of the bezels
I just feel less enthusiastic about that phone. The iPhone X however, really cool
looking phone, I mean we saw this thing all over the internet, it was leaked like
crazy but it still looks really cool when they did the official announcement
Now $1000 for a phone feels insanely expensive to me, it's like what, 200 bucks
more than the iPhone 8 Plus... Is it worth it? I don't know, I haven't used it
but I will say this, I made a video a couple weeks ago that talks about how
the Note 8 was a poor value because you can get an S8+ that was almost
identical in everything, except for the pen and the dual camera thing to the
Note 8 and so I said that the Note 8 wasn't a good "value"
because you get S8+, a great phone for so much cheaper and had so many
similar characteristics. With this thing, the iPhone X, you can't get anything
like it. If you want to, you mean like you can't get an iPhone 8 Plus trim
off the edges and be like, hey I have an iPhone X. That's this is why it costs as
much as it does and this is why I don't feel like it's a quote, unquote
"poorly-priced phone". It's expensive as HECK and I don't think that it's a good value but
I don't think that Apple mispriced the phone. Granted, it's a terribly expensive
phone. So, with this expensive price tag comes, I guess some neat hardware, the
camera features on the front seem pretty advanced I guess, but after watching the
keynote and seeing what those cameras can do, okay yes, Face ID seems kind of
interesting, I don't think I would prefer it over Touch ID if I had to choose
between them I feel like there's no way that in its current iteration, Face ID
will be as fast as Touch ID. But, that's to be see. But the big thing for me is
that all that camera hardware, they're showcasing stuff that I would never use
like animated emojis and other AR stuff for the front-facing camera. It's neat
and the hardware is very impressive, but how often am I going to use that, like
for the first couple of days and then the
novelty for that kind of stuff is gonna wear off, real quick, for most people. So
is there that much value in that front-facing camera tech? I don't know.
I do love the way that the phone looks though, like the rounded edges,
the bezel-less look, I love that.
I mean the Essential Phone which is what I'm using a lot of
recently, like that bezel-less look is really cool. Now there's one thing that
bugs me, when they show the iPhone X displaying videos, the black bar cuts off
the video screen, which I thought was really weird because on the Essential
Phone which is another bezel-less phone, they leave a black bar where the video
is so you don't cut off any part of the video. And on the iPhone X, the video
just runs right behind that black area, so maybe you'll get used to it but I
think that's a little bit strange. See, the thing for me is for developers like
if you're an app or a game developer, you're gonna have UI elements that like
often go on the left side of the screen, whether it's for games or for like you
know, a calendar app or whatever it is, you'll sometimes have stuff there and
now if you want to make your app or your game compatible with an iPhone X, you
don't have to reconfigure that whole side of the screen, and if you have like
an existing game like an older game, you'll have to go back into that stuff,
redevelop it so that you kind of shift everything over. And the other thing is
like if you adapt your game so that it looks proper on the iPhone X on the
regular iPhones or on an Android device, you now have a gap on the left side
where those UI elements used to be, just so it look proper on the iPhone X.
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