The thing I look for in an Apple announcement these days is … nothing stupid.
Don’t try to sell me a revolutionary maps app that sends me to Pakistan when I try to get directions to an Indian restaurant.
Don’t sell me revolutionary speech detection software that has some sort of personal vengeful vendetta against me, thank you HAL.
I am perfectly happy with the same device, twice as fast with a significantly better performing camera, in low light.
The fingerprint sensor, unlike speech comprehension, is a solved computer science problem. Technically, it can be implemented in such a way that the majority of users can use it effectively to solve a real world problem, namely the crappy “ilovetwerking” Apple password they all seem to be using.
Overall, I am happy with the iPhone announcement.
