New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Tracer: It's a bug. Some suggestion it happens if you're syncing with Exchange as well as iCloud. Are you using the mothership's email?

it looks like the 13" Mac Air has a bigger screen, better battery, is lighter and cheaper than that new 12" Macbook. So ... why would someone get the new Macbook over an Air? Just for retina?

The Macbook is a pound lighter than the Air and the screen is much much better: the Airs have pretty poor screens, especially the 13". I still wouldn't buy a MacBook with my own money, certainly not over the 11" Air, which I think is my favourite portable Mac ever. If only it had Retina.

My advice is to wait on the MacBook until they release an ARM version running on an apple processor, which, if not better in any meaningful way, will at least be more interesting.

the airs are capped at 8gb of ram too, which could be a limit depending on what you're doing.

stet i'm using an ISP email server + a gmail account. not that niche i would have thought.

not sure what that has to do with SMS anyway though..?!

It's the contact sync part: it treats your Gmail account (and iCloud and Exchange accounts) as a potential source of contacts. Then the notification system needs to look up your contacts to put a name to the number, and the bug lies in there somewhere. Seems to happen more for people with Exchange and people with multiple contact syncs

You're probably gonna have to do some manual merging in Contacts.

Kind of a dumb question, but this has been bugging me for four years now: when an iPhone alarm goes off and you hit "Snooze," is there a simple way to cancel the snooze before the alarm goes off again? The only way I've found is to go into the Clock app and switch the alarm off, but it seems like there should be a quicker method. I know the best solution would be to just get out of bed when the alarm goes off the first time, but with a teething child making my sleep schedule somewhat erratic that's not an option at the moment.

maybe my next MBP will be the Last x86 Macbook Ever

how poignant

I wonder if VMWare will run on some custom Apple chip. My guess is no :/

H just got a new MacBook Air after her macbook pro became borderline unusable. The Pro was 5-6 years old, and it struck me as odd how little different the new one seems to me, whereas I feel like 5-6 years used to represent more palpable leaps in personal computing.

I checked out the ipad pro today it was pretty cool https://twitter.com/synth_sax/status/664476038546726912

thank you for your timely coverage

It actually had not occurred to me that that might be a big reason for promoting force touch right when Apple is also making a big push in China, but it probably is

Early rejecter, if you press the screen when the alarm goes off it goes on to snooze. If you slide, as you do when you activate the phone, it stops the alarm without a snooze.

when an alarm is snoozing, the lock screen will show how much time until the alarm goes off again. you can swipe left on the countdown to cancel the snooze

I need someone to show me the right way to use Reminders. I keep getting like 10 week-plus old reminders on my lock screen and half the time I can't properly set one up unless I use Siri.

The only way i can figure out how to make a Reminder go away is to mark it completed, then tap "Show Completed" then tap it again after it turns into "Hide Completed"

For such a simple app it's a little wack

My feeling is that Apple is really good at product design and hardware and not really good at apps or the Internet

It makes sense, b/c product design is the purview of about a dozen people, and yet you need large and politically competitive software development orgs to make all this software.

that's a good point, and as long as they're making bank on the beautiful products, there's probably not that much added benefit for them to try to up their app game to the level of a google compared to how much it would cost, especially since they don't want to go the data-mining route

basically they need most of their apps to work well enough not to be embarrassing (maps!), a few flagships to dazzle (garage band?), and everything to be easy enough to use for the crowd that's minimally savvy and isn't going to download a lot of other apps (old people)

Brought one home, couldn't stop laughing at how ridiculously large it is

Portrait browsing suddenly possible

http://i.imgur.com/OBiV8Hx.jpg

looooooooool

$99? ...

;_;

I like how the last picture is all like the iphone just got out of the shower and is gonna have to call you back

http://cdn.pursuitist.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/J.Crew-Wool-cashmere-cable-shawl-collar-cardigan.png

- iPhone support for the USB Camera Adapter to import photos and videos

whoa I didn't think they'd ever get around to this

what's better for e-reading and manga, the air or the mini

ipad obv

Comics better on air, you're not occasionally pinching and zooming to read dialog.

oh man i wonder what marvel unlimited is like on ipad PRO

i just realized there must be a good joke format somehow where you manipulate someone wearing an apple watch into explaining how the pedometer works and at a certain point they explain there is an accelerometer and you say "ok so basically that thing detects jerks" and they answer in the affirmative and then you take it from there.

Let us know how it goes

haven't had a chance yet :-(

will keep u posted

that case kind of looks like they forgot to put the battery inside

People with an iPhone 6 or 6s who go caseless: Why caseless? Are there cons to going caseless? Do you ever put your phone down on a surface camera facing downward despite the fact that the thing sticks out? Might it fuck up the camera to have it in direct contact with whatever surface you’re putting the phone down on?

Please tell me about the caseless experience. (I use a case and have been for the majority of the time I’ve had my phone. I have an Apple Leather Case or whatever it’s called in black on there right now.)

caseless on a 6+ seems legit insane

i dropped one in the toilet and a case did not save it. it had one job!
life is fine without a case. the camera nub is pretty durable. rest it on rocks, gravel, salt quarries whatever.

Main con to me about going caseless is getting the back scratched. Really hate when that happens

i am caseless (on a 6). i am not a dropper.

i put it down camera-down all the time. the camera lens cover is made of sapphire and is basically unscratchable iirc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE0cqxBJJTA

The camera lens is sapphire glass, nothing ia going to happen to it.

The 6 is the first phone I've considered using a case on because it is just too damn slippery. iPhone 5 was the perfect form factor as far as I'm concerned. Thinking of getting the 7+ this fall because the 6 is already unusable with one hand so why not.

seems like the 5s form factor might get an update in a month or two? http://www.macrumors.com/2015/12/29/iphone-6c-larger-battery-vs-iphone-5s/

how many times has that been claimed? seems semi-credible, but it seemed semi-semi-credible last year

can't believe they dropped the headphone jack two years ago!!

it's not a secret that apple's definitely testing smaller form factors. when/if they ever get released though...

I dropped my 6S and fractured the camera lens (which I didn't realize until I wondered about light smear in photos.)

(Now I have a case)

baah using the lightening port for a headphone jack seems like such a shitty idea, just keep the goddamned jack you don't need to invent an new kind of headphone cable you fucks