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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by Atlassian what is up guys brawn pretty here from TechnoBuffalo and if you guys have been paying attention monday was the Apple event it's up in Cupertino we're located down in Southern California and I've never been to an Apple event so while John covered the new iPhone and the new iPad I wanted to do a little vlog style video covering my trip in my experience as a first timer at an Apple event and share that with you guys considering a lot of you probably haven't had that opportunity either so we are located in Southern California meaning we had to fly up now while I thought fly I meant commercial flight that being said we got to go private which was crazy I've never flown private before it was such a cool experience a little bit trippy looking over your shoulder and seeing the pilot amazing nonetheless we got up there and drove up to the Apple campus got there pretty quickly and we're immediately taken by our hosts to the executive floor now it sounds self-explanatory but I did trip out a little bit when she was like yeah Tim's office is up here what she meant was Tim Cook Apple CEO and Steve Jobs off is also used to be on this floor so lot of history and speaking of history that's kind of the gist I got from Apple Campus as you walk around you see a ton of massive black and white photos of Steve Jobs quotes that he said really really cool stuff we made our way to the town hall in the infinite loop of one which is where the event was hosted and immediately Tim Cook took the stage now we were very lucky and got close to front-row seats we got second row seats because from rows for executives only and so right in front of us was Phil Schiller at EQ Tim Cook just awesome group of people who you normally always see on stage those kind of trippy seeing them in person couple cool things that happen during the event were not the product announcements but a woman named Lisa actually announced Liam who is a robot he deconstructs old iPhones in their effort to treat the environment better and go 100 percent renewable energy they said that over the last two years they've gotten to 93 percent renewable energy so good for them next stop is the press room where we get our hands on with the devices now this is mayhem in here people who are in the press are very very thirsty for products and so it's very hard to maneuver around that being said I managed to do so my thoughts on the iPhone se er the it's a really cool device for people who are coming in at a low budget and for new emerging markets across the world that being said for us it's really nothing new or interesting it's an iPhone 5s with some upgraded innards from these 6s so that is that as per the iPad pro it's never really been the device for me and part of what I understood was that what made the iPad pro pro was the large display along with the process and what they've done is shrunk it down now to the nine point seven inch essentially cannibalized the iPad air 2 which has now been demoted to a sort of last gen device I don't mind the features being added to the iPad pro now I just don't like the way they pitched it as this is a full-on pro device during the conference although if you guys want more on my beef with Apple and the word Pro check out the link above on my rant about it one thing John didn't get to mention in his two videos were the Apple watch bands now Apple just came out with their new nylon band and a couple other colors and combinations of leather and other Melanie's bands the black Melanie's they all look pretty cool they all look fine I don't really want to comment in the looks because it's really such a personal preference thing and there's so many different options people have different tastes when it comes to fashion so do what suits you but as a whole everything felt high-quality the nylon bands I've heard are gonna be coming in at $50 which is a little bit overpriced or a lot overpriced for nylon bands then again it's Apple so what do you really expect the black Milanese band will be priced at a hundred and fifty dollars just like the silver one so that pricing stays the same so that was pretty much it those are my experiences at the Apple event as a first-timer the event was really cool flying private was awesome once-in-a-lifetime experience the event itself asked for the products were pretty underwhelming if I'm honest we did get to hit up the Apple Retail Store on campus on our way out which is the only retail store where they sell merchandise branded by Apple's so Andrew did pick up a Apple mug I resisted and the rest of the story ends with me sitting editing recording this voice over and trying to get this video to you guys so let me know what you think in the comments below do you guys like this sort of story oriented videos we get to do a lot of really cool things working in tech journalism and you guys don't really get to see it or experience it so sometimes I just think it's cool to share these unique experiences with you guys but let me know if you're interested if you're not if you hate it please let me know in the comments below be sure to check out John's coverage of the Apple event as well I'll see you guys in the next one thank you so much for watching I'd like to do a quick second to thank our friends over at Atlassian which is a mouthful at Atlassian they're an awesome company that essentially built collaboration software's to help teams work at their highest efficiency and work together collaboratively and to accomplish awesome things they have 4 tools 0 which allows you to assign and manage tasks within a project and within team members confluence which allows you to create and share content and organize results to bring new team members up to speed which is always a challenge for any of you who have worked within a group of people they've HipChat which is there I am and video chat device so everybody can stay in touch and stay in 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