This week: the iPad Air 2 reviews are in, and not everyone’s feeling the love; Cult of Mac spends a day with Apple Pay; Yosemite and iOS 8.1 Continuity features delight; a potential cure for the painful #6PlusPinch; some welcome changes rumored for Beats Music; and we wrap with our favorite movie trilogies of all time on an all-new Get To Know Your Cultist.
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Links to today’s stories
Early reviews of latest iPads praise new hardware, but wish for more
Cult of Mac’s day with Apple Pay
Everything you can buy with Apple Pay starting today
New iOS 8.1 features you need to know
This store will enlarge your pockets to fit your new iPhone 6
Apple and GT Advanced Technologies amicably part ways
Apple aiming for $5 Beats Music streaming subscriptions
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Alex Heath – Cult of Mac writer.
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Erfon Elijah – Cult of Mac writer and host of The CultCast.
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4 responses to “Reviews are in on iPad Air 2 and our day with Apple Pay on The CultCast”
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“…the iPad Air 2 reviews are in, and not everyone’s feeling the love”
It will •never• be possible for •everyone• to feel the love of anything. That’s what makes life interesting. The iPad Air 2 is incredible my my standards, but I suppose someone expecting the power of interconnected Mac Pro computers, able to run full bore for a week on a single charge, with a 4K display and all for $199 may be disappointed. For its price-point and features the Air 2 sure looks stood this non-greedy user. Then again, I like the Retina Mini 3 as well, and it’s being criticized, too. Hey, some people just can’t be satisfied.
My iPad Air 2 review:
“Apple just released the thinnest, fastest, most powerful tablet computer on the planet. Meh, I’m bored already. Why doesn’t it have a bigger screen so I can watch a movie while reading e-mails??!! That’s it, Apple can’t innovate anymore. They’re doomed without Jobs!!!”
I have both the iPad Air One and the iPad Retina Mini and can tell you that the new Air 2 blows away both of these amazing tablets in terms of image quality, weight, and speed.