Other announcements:
- Moving to 40 stores in China
- Apple Pay
- Triple the participants since the last announcement
- Vending machines are starting to take Apple Pay
- CarPlay - more...
- HomeKit - more...
- ResearchKit: NEW
- For Medical Research
- Lets researchers work with many people in many places, who have information and apps to work with (iPhones and perhaps Apple Watch)
- Open Source - to encourage involvement and adoption (and possible future cross platform involvement?)
- Enabling two-way communication, integration with Health Kit
- Apps:
- mPower - Parkinson's research with the University of Rochester
- GlucoSuccess - Massachusetts General
- MyHeart Counts - Stanford Medicine and the University of Oxford
- Asthma Health - Mount Sinai Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College
- Share The Journey - Breast Cancer research with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, UCLA School of Public Health, Penn Medicine, and Sage Bionetworks
Product announcements:
- Apple TV - price down to $69 (from $99) but otherwise unchanged
- HBO Now - HBO streaming, without cable - $14.99/mo available starting in April, exclusive to Apple.
- Macbook 12"
- 2 lbs!
- 13.1mm thick at the thickest point (down from 17.1mm for macbook air)
- New keyboard
- Edge to edge of the laptop
- with all new stable butterfly mechanism with shorter travel
- led per key
- thinner
- 12" retina display - 2304x1440 - thinnest ever
- trackpad - force touch trackpad
- force sensors
- taptic engine (instead of clicks, feedback)
- new force click gesture
- TIny new logic board - no fan!
- 5 watts! max 1.3Ghz new-generation Intel
- USB-C (USB 3 speed)
- Starts at $1299
- Silver, Space Grey, Gold
- Updated Macbook Air
- Updated CPUs
- Thunderbolt 2
- 13" has double-speed flash storage
- Updated 13" Macbook Pro
- force-touch trackpad
- double-speed flash storage
- updated CPUs
- more battery life
- Apple Watch - what is new news?
- We now know prices - smaller is cheaper, larger is more expensive
- Apple Watch Sport - $349 for 38mm and $50 more for 42mm
- Apple Watch - $549- $1049 for 38mm, and $50 more for 42mm
- Apple Watch Edition - $10,000-$17,000 (prices different not necessarily by size)
- So the total range is $349-$17,000
- Pre-order on 4/10/15
- Arriving 4/24/15
- Apple communicated anew and in a more focused way about the 3 areas of value and focus for use:
- Time keeping
- Select different faces
- Not sure I saw something new
- Communication
- Can do the Dick Tracy thing and answer calls on your wrist
- Listen to music with bluetooth headphones, without your iPhone
- Any notification on your iPhone can make it to your watch
- Nice Uber integration app
- Fitness
- Great but I'm not sure I saw something new
- Rumors and/or facts after the fact:
- 9to5Mac says that, "
Apple Watch includes 8 GB of storage, allows 2 GB of music and 75 MB of photo"
- Apple Insider says that the Apple Watch is rated to the IPX7 standard, which means, "the Apple Watch will be able to withstand immersion in water up to 1 meter for up to 30 minutes" - good for a shower, but not a swim, they say.
- TechCrunch says the Apple Watch battery is replaceable, and may have a roughly 3 year lifespan.
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