Libor Kubín "Wow" I exclaimed several times yesterday. After several previous lean and unsalted keynotes that would put even a snake to sleep, a big change has taken place. The old cracker Tim Cook was relaxed and cracking jokes at the audience, the whole thing had a lot of edge to it. The second "Wow" escaped me at the introduction of the iMac. Few expected such radical slimming. I muttered a third “Wow” at a thing called Fusion. And the two new iPad models were just the proverbial icing on the apple cake.
I will look forward to the next keynote. Apple is back in the game after a year.
Before drooling over the "Fusion" drive, I recommend typing "Intel Rapid Storage" into Google, it already exists somehow. Of course, Apple made it up a bit again, so it doesn't provide a 32GB SSD as a cache, as is customary with ultrabook manufacturers...
IMHO a completely different implementation: Apple's Fusion Drive does not appear to function like an SSD-backed disk cache, but rather seems more like a file-level implementation of a feature that has existed for some time in big enterprise disk arrays: automatic tiering.
In a caching solution, like Intel's, files live on the hard disk drive and are temporarily mirrored to the SSD cache as needed. In an enterprise auto-tiering situation, and with Fusion Drive, the data is actually moved from one tier to another, rather than only being temporarily cached there.
Phil Schiller didn't make a single reasonable argument for why I should buy an iPad mini - holding it in one hand was damn near convincing. The HW is identical to the iPad2, which will be here with us for 2 years in a little while. The final recap of the iPads that Cook got stuck on and couldn't remember all the models also says a lot...
But the fart got stuck. He simply misspoke when he should have said after 3rd generation – faster 4th generation iPad. If you know English, you know that the number "fourth" in English is not easy to pronounce. Phil also contradicted himself several times during the keynote.
Damn little? But nowhere. Its true size, the preservation of the aspect ratio of its older brothers and, hand in hand, the same resolution as the iPad2, are really decisive factors for such people, for whom the iPad was traditionally just big, but the ordinary reader could do too little. Of course, no one expects that there will be such a demand for it as for a large iPad, but it will find its place and sales will be, as has been the case lately, unexpectedly high...
High sales? The iPhone 4s also triumphed in pre-orders, and in the spring of this year, its sales fell significantly, and Apple had to do something about the situation. We will see…
I agree, I have exactly the same opinion...finally Keynote that had the right "drive"!
I agree, great keynote :)
I agree, great keynote :)
Circus across America…
Information for ten minutes. If every manufacturer had to present their products like this, there would be nothing but "Keynote".
Just a joke.
And self-praise also stinks….
Nokia also announced on every corner "we are nambrrrr van" and is in the "lastprrr..."
Fast, concise, clear, interesting, finally I didn't record the keynote as usual but I read it from start to finish. :) GOOD JOB!