New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Thing's hueg. Like "Is that the new U2 album in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?" hueg.

Regular 6. Just wanted to make a zing appropriate reference. It's not that huge.

Matt Yglesias ‏@mattyglesias 1m
Don’t understand why apple didn’t make iPhone 6 slightly thicker, with a bigger battery.

Bloop bleep yglesias, does not compute

F that, I like how thin my new 6 is. Helps make up for the largeness. (Which I by turns really enjoy and am getting angry at so I guess I'll just get used to it.)

yeah the thinness is great. If anything, I say make it wafer thin with a smaller battery, does this guy's house/office/coffee bar not have outlets or are we to believe he's outside for long periods of time?

So for those who have played around with iOS 8, does the music player still use that terrible menu where all an artist's songs are in one huge list grouped by album, instead of offering a submenu of album titles?

I lost my phone last weekend probably on purpose

yeah the thinness is great. If anything, I say make it wafer thin with a smaller battery, does this guy's house/office/coffee bar not have outlets or are we to believe he's outside for long periods of time?

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Friday, September 19, 2014 11:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the most n00bish thing ive ever heard anyone say, omg its really great and cool charging ones phone in a bar ive been to a bar before haha guys

i love my phone being one millimeter thinner and the way it strikes fear into people and ruins their life cause it literally wont hold a charge for a full day of use

I charge my phone all day long at work

fucked up world our premiere consumer electronics provider wont supply us with a phone that doesnt require a charging strategy to function

I was being kind of facetious about the battery. I've actually found that in my first half day of use the battery life is pretty good. I left work at 630 with the thing about 70 percent charged and have since listened to multiple albums and podcasts, made calls, used browsers, downloaded apps, and generally used it abou 5x more than I would in a typical 6 hour period and its down to about 50%. Hard for me to imagine a full charge won't last me a full typical day.

sup from 6 😎😎😎😎😎😎

Like Gruber or somebody said, a hair thicker and the camera lens would have been flush and it could have had a battery comparable to the enormous 6+. I'm sure battery life OK today, but give it a year of use. During which time maybe you forget to plug it in and are looking at 20% first thing in the morning.

A tiny bit thicker and people wouldn't be buying so many charger cases.

http://i.imgur.com/vA8Bz5X.png

wow cutting edge apple crazy idea

i have ios 8 installed

ibooks changed colors when i walked into a darker room

xps that's not new to iOS 8 anyway...

I love the "night mode" in ibooks (white text on black) but have no idea whether that's a new thing or not

i think it is

no, i've been using night mode on ibooks for a while.

Have really been enjoying the 6 so far -- hard to say how much of that is just the big screen/whether I would get the exact same pleasure from a Galaxy or w/e. But it was very pleasant to read a book on it on the subway this morning.

u talkin 6 or 6+?

6

Got the 6 as well, it's nice.

http://i.imgur.com/05sMazL.png

Now imagine if the 6 was just a little bit girthier!!

huawei knows wtf is up

According to Wall Street analyst Gene Munster and BI Tech Editors Jay Yarow and Dave Smith, the cost to Apple of 64 GB of memory vs. 16 GB of memory is small. Specifically, it's about $20. That means that, for every customer persuaded to spend an extra $100 to buy the 64GB iPhone 6 (or 6 Plus), Apple will make an extra $80 in profit.

fu

feel like that was a mistake on their part the base model shdve come w 32gb, noobs are always gonna go for the cheapest one and in this case end up with a not nearly as functional phone for two years, 16gb doesnt pass the "just works" test imo what with photos and apps getting bigger n bigger

They woulda made more if it was the old 16->32 progression, I bet

More interesting is how much they're saving by going with 16gb default

Feel like it's the most popular, if even half of the 10 million sold this weekend were 16gb units and supposing they save $10 per then that's 50 million in savings right there

Xp!

I have no music to speak of on my 5S and not that many photos, but it's damn near full just from apps and podcasts.

The real criminal charge against 16gb is that recording hd video fills that shit up real fast, plus pics etc

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster did a survey of iPhone buyers over the weekend and found that only one in five customers were buying the 16 GB version of the iPhone 6, about half as many as bought the entry-level phone in the previous cycle.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/business_insider/2014/09/22/iphone_6_apple_s_newest_smartphone_raises_prices_when_when_most_smartphones.html

Maybe apple was counting on iCloud to be more fully advanced than it is now

It's def interesting given that default hd size on most macs is 128 or 256 ssd, people are creating a lot of content that needs to be stored somewhere other than phone or comp

The real criminal charge against 16gb is that recording hd video fills that shit up real fast, plus pics etc

― 龜, Monday, September 22, 2014 4:46 PM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah its a device that demands to be managed just to function, apple made a shit load of money off this but for a company that hangs its hat on usability it def hurts the brand

Maybe the 16 gb buyers will be in the ""long tail"" xp

yeah prob

gene munster is an important person in the world of apple

I do feel kind of schemed by them in re the pricing, as someone who sprung for the 64gb. 16 seems way too small nowadays, with the OS alone eating up so much. Smart I guess from a makin' money perspective but doesn't leave me feeling good. I guess I'm a sucker though, by the time they released the pricing I was already so frothed up for a new one (especially since my 4s was falling apart) that I just jumped.

The honorable thing would be to make the entry-level 32gb. I think the similarly priced HTC One is 32.

anyone besides me read that tim cook interview

Maybe APPLEWATCH R&D blew their budget and Tim Cook needed to find a way to save them

https://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/513526107857879040

https://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/513530962701869056

https://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/513535650650271744

Wow, that guy is seething with resentment of people with the new iphone.

my iphone 5 just stopped charging altogether after being very finicky for a while, i ordered a kit to replace the charing port http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00COTUJBA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 and after a lil research concluded that i prob broke it via using cheapo third party charging cables, learn from my mistakes children

not upgrable for a few months ~~~~

http://www.theonion.com/articles/apple-releases-brief-fleeting-moment-of-excitement,36888/

we should split this thread into two, so people can talk about boring shit in one of them and then i & whoever else wants to can talk about the more important shit in the other one