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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > Apple Event - September 9th - Pre-, Live- and Post-Discussion Thread
 
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Froist
Jun 6, 2004

Michael Scott posted:

It's just really quite cool. Have you felt it on the newest MacBook yet?

It's an eerie and unique feeling to feel a button when there is no button.

The "force touch" on the phones will just be varying levels of pressure resulting in different actions, not haptic feedback from the display.

(I own the MacBook and it is really cool there, but I'd be amazed if that's what we get on the phones. It hasn't been rumoured in that regard anywhere.)

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Froist
Jun 6, 2004

 Kenderama: Please take this as intended (internet fun and games, not trying to call you out), but I think you'll be wrong on quite a few points:

Kenderama posted:

OS X 10.11 Launch Date - Likelihood: 100%
Tim will disclose this and maybe give 5 minutes to this.
I think the closest we'll get to a release date is "later this year"/"fall" which we knew already.

Kenderama posted:

New iPhones - Likelihood: 100%
I'm not quite entirely sure what will make these stand out - a processor bump, low-end being 32gig or 64gig storage, or maybe the lack of a physical touch-ID button.
I don't think we'll get a storage bump or the non-physical button; Apple were quite defiant about moving data to the cloud meaning 16gigs was enough last year, and this year they've made pushes towards reducing app size, so I can't see them stepping up the low end. As for the button, I can't believe we'll see any hardware changes these days without them leaking months in advance.

Kenderama posted:

I do not expect a new iPhone '6c' though.
I don't disagree, but this is the only place I hope I'm wrong. I've used iPhones for years and my day job is an iOS developer, but this is about the only thing that will stop me jumping ship to an Xperia Compact. I'm still using an iPhone 5 and really don't like the 6 size/design.

Kenderama posted:

I think we'll see launch dates as "Available to Order on September 25th"
I'm pretty sure history suggests availability the Friday after the announcement, i.e. Sept 18th.

.. Let's see who's right! :)

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