I'm surprised more people don't buy the SE's. They are half the price of the other iPhones.
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The biggest problem I had with SE was the tiny battery. It is a capable phone but knee capped by small battery
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Where it go.
To the sides?
Oh boy, I can't wait for a completely boring corporate introduction devoid of any creativity due to the last ipad's controversy!
I’m out of the loop. What was the last controversy with the iPad?
People got pissy because, in an effort to show all the things the new iPad Pro can do in an insanely thin form factor, Apple made an advertisement in which a bunch of paint cans and musical instruments and books and other stuff were crushed by a giant hydraulic press, and when it rises up, we’re left with a crazy thin iPad.
I thought it was creative. And the new iPad Pro is WILDLY thin. Discounting the camera bump it’s the thinnest device Apple has ever made, thinner even than the iPod Nano.
But the internet got all butthurt because it was disrespectful to art and music or something. They thought the ad was saying we don’t NEED paint or instruments anymore. But obviously the point of the ad was that all of that stuff is squeezed into this device, not that we can destroy everything else.
You know how the internet is. Someone will always be mad about something.
Edit: For the record, I’m a musician myself. I’ve sung with a professional orchestra for fifteen years. I’ve played violin (albeit not very well) for most of my life. And I use an iPad for my sheet music. Before anyone tries to tell me that I just don’t get it because I’m not in the offended demographic.
As someone who is not a musician - crushing all those instruments into one crazy thin form factor may allow me to play around with music but I’d never claim to be a musician
As a software engineer, I appreciate that crushing all sorts of dev tools into a graphical representation like Scratch, let’s many people get some taste of programming, but I’m not worried that they’re somehow implying it will take my job or my creativity
As someone who is not a musician - crushing all those instruments into one crazy thin form factor may allow me to play around with music but I’d never claim to be a musician
Sure. Although I wouldn’t say someone who creates music entirely on an iPad can’t be a musician.
This is similar to other forms of art. I’ve played around with visual arts on the iPad in ways I otherwise never would, but I wouldn’t call myself an artist. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t artists whose entire medium is iPad.
I was so frustrated by the controversy over that introduction. I thought it was a great way to represent how much the device can do in such a thin form factor. If I were more conspiracy-minded, I would think Apple created the controversy themselves for extra attention. It just seemed so ridiculous.