Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Thanks again Kirth, A 256 evo could be good in terms of price and speed so. I'll sleep on it and check out the 850 series Pro.

Much obliged.

Indeed, what an omission, I'm definitely referring to a Macbook Pro! :-)

Can't be fucked to Google, apologies in advance, best deal on an SSD for my early 2012 MBP? It's time to upgrade...

Bigger is better AFAIC, but is a 512Gb SSD still silly money?

This looks good...

Thanks for that info, i think we've managed to get my mums lock button and battery replaced!

@CheBeef

Don't worry too much about the fastest possible SSD for 2010 MacBook Pro - internal bus speeds on the motherboard are not up to scratch and read/write times won't be any different (PRO vs EVO).
But definitely do the SSD upgrade. Start-up times can be measured in seconds and app launching and saving is generally snappier. And MAX OUT the RAM.

Unfortunately your render times are unlikely to change - that's all processor grunt.

lots of pocket fluff (eww!) which eventually came out with a bit of careful safety pin maneuverage

same here

what a load of shit (they've released today)

i'd happily laugh at apple's demise

Camera doesn't seemed to be that much of an improvement, which is the only thing that's important to me.

Battery look surprisingly impressive on the 6 Plus though.

That's cuz the battery's bigger, Ed...

That explain why your iPhone last for a very long time.

Did you get that 'joke' out of a cracker, Ed?

Still tempted by a iPad mini retina, but that's really only for gaming. My 5s is solid, ios 8 looks interesting though. We'll see...

Only just discovered that Bioshock is available for iPhone/iPad too, can't imaging how much harder it is to play it compare to the console.

Apparently controls aren't great on touchscreen.

I wouldn't call it shit, but it was a bit uninspired. The watch smells of Mark Newson, and that's not a good thing

I'm going to have to see the watch in person to pass judgement but I'll be getting the phone.

It'll be interesting to see how PayPal react to apple completely screwing their business model.

The watch in the images looks like it was designed by Storm Watches, it is ungainly just like Newsom's Ikepod watches. I just don't know if I need another screen that also requires my iPhone to be nearby to work. It's a very expensive fitness tracker.

It'll be interesting to see how PayPal react to apple completely screwing their business model.

Apple Pay is sort-of a completely different thing from PayPal, isn't it?

It's a digital wallet. That includes online payments through apps and websites.

Sounds exactly like paypal except more convenient.

It'll be interesting to see how PayPal react to apple completely
screwing their business model.

Please expand!

Alll looked good to me. Watch looks well done but I can't help but think a touch screen slider bar thing would feel less trite on the side, but whatevs... also dont feel a need for one.
Phone looks great as ever.
I am more impressed with the website redesign though, thank fuck they finally updated that awful trans menu bar. SO 90's.
Now, ATV and Macmini?

It's a digital wallet. That includes online payments through apps and websites.

I was under the impression it's mostly for (to quote wikipedia) "one-touch checkout" at retail locations -
buying apps on iPhones etc. has always been through apple id's - and that Apple Pay can be used on websites, like PayPal, is new to me.

I sort of did, a little bit at least, above....

Anywho;

Aside from eBay who will almost certainly not let Apple Pay into their mobile app, all mobile retailers (which is pretty much every retailer now) want to make mobile payment easier. Paypal facilitates this with an offsite login followed by a couple of quick forms to buy something. It's fast and convenient but it's not as fast as Apple Pay.

Of the people who own Apple devices, somewhere in the region of 90% have iTunes accounts. Of those, i would guess most, if not all, have an active credit or debit card already attached to them.

That means that Apple Pay already has 400 - 500m potential users (assuming they go on to purchase TouchID devices. In 2013, Paypal had 140m active accounts.

Obviously the NFC part of Apple Pay is limited to the new iPhone and Apple Watch but the iPhone 5s has the TouchID so we can assume that they will bring the digital part of the payment system to those at some point. There are also clear signs that the iPad Air and Mini will see TouchID upgrades before the holidays. With tablet devices quickly becoming the defacto mobile shopping device (in any household that owns one) this means more shoppers using the service.

On top of the convenience of digital payments, it adds NFC and real world payments to the mix. Something Paypal have struggled to break into with Paypal credit cards etc.

As the service is supported at device level, Paypal will find it almost impossible to compete with the adoption rate of Apple Pay.

On top of that, Google (who have Google Wallet in the US already) will be looking to expand that to Europe and Asia as Apple look to expand their service.

I don't see how Paypal can compete with an integrated service such as Apple Pay and Google Wallet. All it takes is a retailer like Wallmart or Amazon to integrate either and they'll struggle.

http://www.apple.com/apple-pay/

Scroll to 'in apps'.

Both Target and Uber are already integrating into their apps for launch. With Uber, they'll be accepting apple pay without even needing to register for the Uber app or service.