From DSC:
First, some resources:
- With iBeacon, Apple is going to dump on NFC and embrace the internet of things — from gigaom.com by Hari Gottipati
- Apple’s iPhone event: Everything you need to know — from fastcompany.com by Kit Eaton
Apple just held a splashy press event in several global locations to launch its new iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C. Did you miss it? Here’s everything you need to know. - Apple’s new iPhones simultaneously aim high, low — from finance.yahoo.com by Michael Liedtke and Barbara Ortutay, AP
Apple expands into low-end market with 1 iPhone while trying to set ‘gold standard’ with other - New iPhone to include fingerprint scanner: WSJ — from the verge.com by Sam Byford
- Apple: iOS 7 Will Launch On September 18 — from readwrite.com by Adrianna Lee
- Apple’s iPhone 5S camera shoots to kill: Big aperture, burst mode and more — from readwrite.com by Taylor Hatmaker
- Apple unveils the iPhone 5s, its “most forward-thinking phone yet” — from gigaom.com by Alex Colon
- 5 things designers need to know about the new iPhones — from creativebloq.com
- Let the music play on: iTunes Radio arrives soon with Siri support — from semanticweb.com by Jennifer Zaino
Secondly, some thoughts:
Given the extremely fast/breathtaking pace that Steve Jobs had Apple run while he was alive, it’s difficult to sustain that pace over so many years. He set some very tough and high expectations that are difficult to match. So when an Apple TV or an iWatch isn’t released, we think nothing happened. But there were some important things announced yesterday, including the biometric scanning situation, but I admit that I also felt a bit let down.
I think that Apple is being extremely cautious — afraid to mess up on anything, lest people will say, “See! Now that Steve’s gone, they can’t do it.” Not that it matters, but I would urge them “to go hard with it,” forget about “the score,” and let the score take care of itself. It’s ok not to hit a home run every time to bat. That’s something I think we all need to practice, given the current 180 mph environment that we live in.