New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

how's stability/battery life?

Stability seems fine. Haven't noticed a change in battery life either, but only been using for about 6 hours so far

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2016/06/16/ios-10-apps-fast-af/

If you’re scrolling through an app like Airbnb, there are a lot of ‘cells,’ or blocks of data. If you scroll fast, you’ve likely seen apps jitter trying to keep up. That’s commonly called ‘dropping frames,’ and makes apps look a bit worse than they are.

During a session at WWDC, Apple noted the reason for those dropped frames was that content is loaded just before it lands on-screen. Those cells you’re about to scroll to were loaded milliseconds before you got to them.

Now, Apple is loading those cells well ahead of the time you scroll to them to make sure that when they do land on your screen, the scrolling performance and load times aren’t noticeable. Apple says 60 frames per second is ideal, but existing scrolling performance often misses that mark.

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2016/07/28/apple-tv-network-negitiations/

the reason we don’t have actual TV channels on the Apple TV is because the company tried to strong-arm networks — and failed.

Apple’s Senior Vice President Eddy Cue is said to have taken the wrong approach. In one meeting, he reportedly told TV executives that “time is on my side.”

Cue is also accused of bluffing executives by claiming other networks — specifically Disney and Fox — were already signed up.

I WAS gonna upgrade my iPhone this year (currently still using a 5S) but w/ more and more reports of another incremental change instead of a redesign should I even bother??? Or should I finally just sign up for that ATT plan that lets me get a new phone every year? Sheesh!

5S -> SE should actually be a pretty decent upgrade if you like small phones, and that definitely won't get an increment next month.

Would you like a new iPhone 7? It is only...wafer thin.

I'm just moving to the plan to get a new phone every year.

anyone here spent time with the "smart keyboard" + IPAD pro? finally have the € for the latter, thinking about the former so that I can leave the mbp home more often, but I need to be able to write while out.

same q for pencil: anyone here used one for annotating pdfs e.g.?
+ is there any reliable info on m/l rt text recognition w/ one?

the only complaint I have about the smart keyboard is it feels a little "looser" in fit than it did originally and it's not ideal as a stand when not using the keyboard portion since it's at a set angle

as a keyboard it's pretty good, imo, although not as good as using the apple bluetooth keyboard, which I've done previously

the iPad pro is very nice hardware

My iPhone 6 has a cracked screen now and charging has been wonky, although it improved a lot after I literally cleaned dirt out of the charging point with a knife. Need to order the 7 the second it comes out.

exactly same thing happened to me - it was still under warranty so Apple just gave me a new one

my 5 (not S) finally stopped sending audio to the ear speaker so i have to either have headphones plugged in or use speakerphone :(

i have the option to update my iPhone 6 to the 7 this fall, but 7's looking like a pretty incremental upgrade. essentially a 6S v1.5. may just wait until fall 2017 when the big redesign is supposed to happen.

i assume no updates to the SE

which is what i would want

tbh i am considering going featurephone, and using my speakerless iphone as an ipod touch.

is apple still going to be dumb and get rid of the headphone jack

yes.

figure they'll one day take off the volume switch, make you adjust it from inside the OS or on your Beats cord.

Via Siri.

is the jack going away with the 7 or with the one after that?

So will they be offering some kind of wonky adapter for 1/8 inch audio connectors? Trying to figure out how that's going to look/work coming out of a single lightning jack. Honestly I hate the lightning cable so much -- having an exposed connector is the stupidest shit ever and I've had to throw out tons of cables, including "apple-licensed" ones, because they corrode so easily.

I am definitely not buying new lightning adapter headphones, nor am I going to get Bluetooth headphones -- fuck having another device to charge.

maybe they'll make you have to use a apple watch to listen to music (do those dumb watches have headphone jacks, I assume so)

that's the idea. they don't want you to use a different wire. they want you to stop using wires.

what is an "exposed connector"?

that was xp

Trying to figure out how that's going to look/work coming out of a single lightning jack.

Think of it as attaching to the end of the cable, not the iPhone.

Alleged photo here:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/08/31/alleged-iphone-7-packaging-reaffirms-32gb-model-lightning-to-headphone-jack-adapter-in-the-box

I hate this idea so much.

what is an "exposed connector"?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, September 2, 2016 10:46 AM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't know the technical term, but on a lightning connector, the actual part of the connector that makes contact/conducts power and data is directly exposed, whereas in something like a USB cable it's shielded.

xp oh god that is awful. So you can't listen on headphones while charging?

I really am starting to think that the Company's product design is suffering without Jobs.

They'd better have at least improved battery life, I'm starting to require two full charges per 24 hours.

I don't know the technical term, but on a lightning connector, the actual part of the connector that makes contact/conducts power and data is directly exposed, whereas in something like a USB cable it's shielded.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Friday, September 2, 2016 11:54 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so like a headphone jack?

the headphone jack thing is my dealbreaker.

It's frustrating, because Android still totally sucks, but yeah - what's with all of the dongles?

oh god that is awful. So you can't listen on headphones while charging?

Yeah, this seems to be the key drawback. Maybe Apple will do special headphones that let you daisy-chain to a power source, ha ha.

so like a headphone jack?

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, September 2, 2016 11:00 AM (seventeen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for whatever reason, headphone jacks seem to last decades and lightning cables last like a year. The Amazon Basics cables I bought stopped working in about 6 months.

I mainly use bluetooth headphones now, but yeah, charging sucks.

tbf, as it is I sometimes just use a bluetooth speaker when I charge my phone because charging and headphones at the same time is already annoying. But at least a bluetooth speaker can stay plugged into the wall.

lightning cables get a lot of abuse (a ton more than regular USB which only get used in the home, and then only rarely). they're no more or less robust than what preceded them, or the micro usbs on android phones, etc. in my experience.

just saying this again: apple doesn't want you to switch to lightning headphones. they want you to stop using cables. they didn't get rid of floppy drives to encourage you to use zipdisk.

also if you keep breaking amazon basics cables then get these https://www.amazon.com/iPhone-charger-Anker-Lightning-Certified/dp/B00K4VQZCM/ref=sr_1_11?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1472833328&sr=1-11. they're the ones wirecutter recommended based on a ridiculous teardown of the construction. they're the same price as amazon basics.

ok but charging them in addition to charging the phone 1, 2x per day, is uncool

the wires on headphones do suck though, mine are always getting caught in turnstiles on public trans etc

Apple also wants you to use icloud but I hate icloud.

It's good now

I'm super jazzed to annoy my friends with iMessage stickers and embeds and whatever other bullshit they add

The only reason I've stayed wedded to iPhone is bc I spend an inordinate amount of time composing music/making synth patches on it, and androids os has inherent latency issues. Android please fix your latency issues before I have to face this jackless future.

Despite a lot of abuse (thrown in bags, the device end is often dangling on to my unswept floor, the cat has been playing with one of them) I've had zero lightning cables die

btw the new iMessage is very good imo, although I might be biased in that it auto-expands twitter urls into the little tweet summary which is what I want

i have had zero lightning cables die, but i somehow short out/break approx 2 pairs of earbuds per year, bring on the shiny evil future i say

I've had a lot more wired headphones die than I have lightening cables.