Those new prices are a little eye watering, but with a shitty dollar I suppose thats to be expected.
My wife had no desire for the iPhone 6 over her iPhone 5S, this year she loves the idea of a 12MP camera so I’m in for at least one unit. But then I have the iPhone 6+ 128GB already and there doesn’t appear to be any really compelling reason for me to upgrade. Yes lots of nice to haves, but nothing I see worth dropping over $1500 on.
Now the big wild card will be carrier plans. Both phones were bought outright so are out of contract and the current plans offer more data than I currently have, so that in itself is an incentive to upgrade (*yes I know I could just switch plans… but shhhh). If the subsidies are anything approaching decent and I can get new handsets for a low change over (after selling the old ones) I could be tempted.
Docks. I love a nice dock and have had all the Genuine Apple Docks, but that design just worries me balancing the iphone on the connector like that. Supposedly it’s OK, but I’m still not convinced.
On the Apple TV, I haven’t seen anything about the old units (or haven’t noticed if it’s out there). Will any of the older generation units get any love? Or is it only the new ones that do the new shiny things? It will be interesting to see if you can get Plex or Kodi onto one of these new beasts?!
Watch OS2 will be nice to play with when it comes out but lets face it, it’s all about the apps. Just like the phone, it’s a shame Apple wont allow use of the NFC chip for things like Opal/Miki/Contactless payments etc.
iPad… meh. Not a real computer, yes it’s a powerful tablet and yes there may be some good apps made for it… and while I love my rMBP and wouldn’t use anything else at home. I do like my Surface Pro 3 quite a lot too.