New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

yeah its easy to forget their are other parallel parts of the internet where ppl dont have training in not getting owned by wisenheimers

Nilay Patel is an American technology journalist and former copyright lawyer. After serving as managing editor of Engadget, he left in 2011 and went on to become managing editor of The Verge.[1] In 2014 he left The Verge to join sister site Vox, but later returned to become the new editor-in-chief of The Verge, replacing Joshua Topolsky. [2]

copyright lawyer > corporate blog management is not the typical internet person trial by fire

yeah but c'mon he left Engadget in 2011, meaning he'd already been in tech blogs by then. four years ago!

idk man he was in a zone where noone wld think to make fun of his bracelet

I like that after 15 years of wearing the spiky bracelet, he doesn't have a better term for it other than spiky bracelet

he prob really bought it like two weeks ago

If Apple isn't putting together a spiky punk rock version of their phone right now then they are dropping the ball.

phone watch

I don't wear jewelry, man, just this spiky bracelet

dying

since they took on that oz bloke for design their products have been looking fucking awful. i6 is probably the worst looking phone in years. they used to be slick.

what are you even talking about

agreed its a pretty bad visual design, also too big, or they shdve at least continued to offer a smaller one

Enjoy gawker's slug URL vs what the headline actually says on the website.

who is going to take anyone seriously wearing an iwatch

I kind of assume he's trying to blame Marc Newson for shit that was already in production when he was hired as a part-timer

I only take spikey bracelets seriously

apple have totally lost their way. no one is looking at a £500 klunky komputer wristwatch as cool. they used to only do cool produtcts. Jobs would never have stood for this shit.

Auk, please post a picture of your wrists and any adorning bands, watches or jewelry or I will refuse to take you seriously

oh cool, so the iSpikyBracelet displays your various text messages on the individual conical frustums or

apples success is mostly predicated on on making products that work better than the competition whatever cool they have (a pretty dubious claim for a consumer electronics company) come from that

iphone 6 is pretty sloppy compared to its predecessors tho

idk I had a 3g, 4s, 5s, and 6 and imo the 6 is best

IMO I rank the phones I had:

4
6
5
3G
3

apples success is mostly predicated on on making products that work better than the competition whatever cool they have (a pretty dubious claim for a consumer electronics company) come from that

― lag∞n

apples success comes from them figuring out how to make tech stylish and sheek, and trapping users into restrictive software. only at that point did apple take over the world.

I was going to respond to this until I noticed "sheek"

idk I had a 3g, 4s, 5s, and 6 and imo the 6 is best

― mh, Monday, April 13, 2015 2:07 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i dont own one so i cant speak from personal experience but: antenna lines on the back, raised camera lens, the thing thats the worst tho imo is how the edges curve out for like what reason its the oddest nonsensical use of space espcailly for a device that is already big (compare to the 3 where they gently sloped in to rest peacfully in the hand), also just generally looks kinda generic and bad

i was making some interaction mockups the other day and the software i was using has an image of a hand holding the iphone framing the interactions and i was all why do they have this generic phone image some sort of copyright thing i guess i have to paste an image of the real iphone over it then when i googled to find an image i realized that is the real iphone lol looks like an samsung

I agree the antenna lines and raised camera are incongruous but I think they've finally settled into the fact that people put cases on these things and used that as an affordance
flat edges suck imo

apples success comes from them figuring out how to make tech stylish and sheek, and trapping users into restrictive software. only at that point did apple take over the world.

― Daukins (Arctic Noon Auk), Monday, April 13, 2015 2:12 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i assure you as usual u have no idea what youre talking about and are repackaging the least insightful received wisdom as bold truth telling

cold takes

flat edges suck imo

― mh, Monday, April 13, 2015 2:18 PM (22 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there is def a good argument against flat edges but these are not good rounded ones, general shape of the 1-3 was obvs the best

also spelling chic as "sheek" is pretty good

no I had the 3 and used the 1 a lot, the rounded edges were the exact size as a bar of soap when it reaches maximum slippery droppability imo

lol i thought he was trying to say sleek

the ol bedrock "bar of soap" product design colliery

i mean as long as its not actually made out of wet soap

this is why I use shower gel now, it's well documented on ilx

iphone should come with pubes on it

to improve grip

and mouthfeel

why do i suddenly wants paella

the ol bedrock "bar of soap" product design colliery

― lag∞n, Monday, April 13, 2015 1:22 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

But phones don't Dial anymore.

there's a "Don't Go Makin Phony Calls" -> "Waterfalls" -> soap commercials with waterfalls joke here somewhere

3gs still the best shape imo, if only it wasn't so plasticky cheap feeling

I just don't care that much about the form factor. As long as the new model is faster, got a better camera, some other new feature, etc, then I'm happy.

I tried selling my 3gs to one of those mail-in services and it got rejected due to a crack in the plastic down the back

lagoon otm about iPhone 6

5/5s is my favorite in terms of design

tbh I even like the 5c design