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Apple Byte: The week’s top news from the Cupertino-based company
A weekly byte-sized listicle from Deccan Chronicle which summarizes the top Apple stories from the past week.
The past week would have been the most happening one this year, for Apple fans across the world. With the Apple launch event on the 10th, we saw 5 new products entering the market- the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max , the Apple Watch 5 and a new 7th Generation iPad.
However there were a slew of disappointed reactions that emerged after the launch of the new products. Where rivals Samsung and OnePlus roasted the phone, there was the general public who had their trypophobia triggered by the phone.
However, ardent followers of the brand maintained, they were disappointed by the lack of inspiration seen in the new devices.
For the firm however, this week encompassed a face-off between Wall-street firm Goldman Sachs and Apple Inc. over Apple TV’s financial impacts. App subscribers could also breathe a sigh of relief as apple announced a ‘grace-period’ for subscribers. This shall help in cases of changes in billing addresses, expired cards and so on.
Here are the still four most important stories from the Deccan Chronicle’s technology team which you should read to bring yourself up to speed on everything that’s happened since.
Samsung roasts the iPhone 11 with brutal ad
Earlier this week, Apple’s arch nemesis Samsung took its new phones head-on with an advertisement seemingly roasting the iPhones. The video calls out Apple’s latest flagship for missing a cool feature that the Note 10+ boasts of, called Live Focus in video recording. Samsung’s Live Focus mode helps users get the bokeh effect in videos.This helps keep the main subjects in focus on the Note+ and blurs out the back, in videos.
Respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claimed that for the 2020 iPhone, Apple will be employing an ‘all-new form factor design’ which is said to be strikingly different from whatever we have seen thus far.
This led to speculation that Apple may launch a Galaxy Fold rival to challenge Samsung and aim to recapture their lightening which has lost some lustre in the past few years.
However, with this news surfacing, we look back at a concept video that came out earlier this year which portrays a foldable iPhone and its finished with Apple’s refined touch. The creators of this video left absolutely no stone unturned and have even added a price for it.
At the time the new iPhones were unveiled a lot of attention was diverted to the new ultra-wide rear camera as the handsets come with three lenses that are fitted closely together. These lenses are located besides the LED flash and audio zoom microphone. Now, hundreds of viewers who have seen the handset say that the new design has triggered their trypohobia; which is an aversion to the sight of clusters of small holes.
As per a report by the BBC, “The term "trypophobia" was first coined in 2005 in online forum Reddit and it has since become widely talked about on social media.
Apple iPhone 11 Pro is absolutely horrible for entire tech industry
Like we said, many apple fans felt disappointed and let down by the Apple Launch event. Bigger phones, larger screens and better cameras it seems might be all this launch had to offer, it seems. Expressing the same disillusionment, users took to medium.
A report by OneZero on Medium said, ”The original iPhone in 2007 was the equivalent of Apollo 11: an accomplishment so audacious, so apparently impossible and yet so successful that it changed how we thought about phones forever. The capacitative touch screen with its gestures was a revelation, though it took Steve Jobs to persuade people who had been used to mobile phones with five-day battery life to accept one that lasted just a day. That’s the audacity you need to pull off a moon landing.”
Ultimately this was the sentiment communicated- "As of now, the entire world is begging for smartphones to evolve and Samsung, Huawei and certain other brands are moving in the right direction. Foldable phones could be the future but not yet mainstream. The breakthrough could come in the form of batteries improvements such as graphene-based; which Samsung is rumoured to be working on. However, that day is still some time away."
