New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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

because i like apple, but this thread disappoints

THERE'S INTERESTING STUFF GOING DOWN AT APPLE AND THIS ISN'T IT

Ay it's almost 2015

you could try saying something interesting markers

yeah def just so it can be ignored

half of the people in here half probably like a passing interest in apple at best

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-19/tim-cook-q-and-a-the-full-interview-on-iphone-6-and-the-apple-watch

THIS TOO

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-17/tim-cook-interview-the-iphone-6-the-apple-watch-and-being-nice

cn u summarize

i was gonna quote excerpts from the cook interview on twitter, but decided against it. there were at least two or three things he said in there that were interesting though

quote them here

markers maybe you should start the new thread

fyi, my iphone 5 got increasingly finicky with recognizing the charger being plugged in and (it doesn't sound like a good idea but folks online were swearing by it) scraping out the back of the port with a paperclip solved the problem. tons of lint and whatnot crammed up in there.

xposts to lagoon

Do you worry about adding distraction or adding unnecessary technology to people’s lives?

I think it takes away instead of adds, because what you’ll find out is, like … Today, to know what time it is—unless in this room and I look up there [pointing to wall clock]—I’m doing this [pulling out phone]. And once I do this to see what time it is, I’m saying, “Well, I might as well check my mail, and then I might as well check my Twitter (TWTR) stream to see if I’m getting bashed about something or other.”

Where on this [holding up Apple Watch], you’re not doing that. You’re not doing, “Oh, I’ve got a call,” and I see who it is. “I can do that one later.” You know? It’s also a bit more socially acceptable, I think, to do this [looking at watch] than it is to do this [pulling out phone]. You know? So I’m not saying anything bad about smartphones. They’re unbelievable. But I think this is a nice complement. If anything, if you wear it for a week, you would find yourself less distracted than more.

This is actually a subtle thing about the watch that I think could really turn out to be meaningful -- the google people kept saying that glass was going to make mobile tech feel "less in the way", but somehow wearing it on your fucking face was not a convincing way of doing that. Having it on your wrist seems like a happy medium between glass and having to reach into your pocket for something. Just a thing that lets you know what's up so you don't keep awkwardly checking.

Also, I hope it shoots a single, tiny tranquilizing dart when you double-tap the crown.

i suspect he has it backwards and the phone being in the pocket is a feature not a bug

fyi, my iphone 5 got increasingly finicky with recognizing the charger being plugged in and (it doesn't sound like a good idea but folks online were swearing by it) scraping out the back of the port with a paperclip solved the problem. tons of lint and whatnot crammed up in there.

― circa1916, Monday, September 22, 2014 5:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya i did extensive cleaning, which i was hoping was the problem but it wasnt

fyi, my iphone 5 got increasingly finicky with recognizing the charger being plugged in and (it doesn't sound like a good idea but folks online were swearing by it) scraping out the back of the port with a paperclip solved the problem. tons of lint and whatnot crammed up in there.

i tried it with paperclip and failed, so then someone did it for me with like a bright light, magnification and really fine tweezers and it worked