New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

American 5S and 5C iPhones on Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile can now access each other's LTE. And I was all set to go with Sprint, which can't use LTE anywhere in Canada, or in the US anywhere but on their fledging LTE network - and Sprint's 3G is s-l-o-w.

is it just me or is there a subplot behind this rollout where T-Mobile is trying super hard to eat Sprint's lunch

Part of what made the design of those iMacs so striking wasn't just the color but the fact that it was this all-in-one, space age plastic TV looking thing, when everything else was a big cumbersome monitor hooked up to a separate big cumbersome CPU.

also they looked like tasty candy

mh is saying its what mh was implying!

― lag∞n, Thursday, September 12, 2013 9:25 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel so wanted, someone gets me

xp, wait really? So if I switch to T-Mobile does that mean I no longer have to worry about inferior coverage (for internet service at least)?

you could probably sell a significant portion of the population anything if it works halfway decently and looks like it's made out of Jolly Ranchers

next year we will probably get an all clear iphone

It doesn't work like that, you only roam on to another carrier's coverage if you have zero t-mobile signal of any sort

So you'd get t-mobile 3g or even 2g before it'd roll over to AT&T

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9t6efbYFM1qjd7k7o1_400.jpg

I would amputate a surprising number of appendages for a clear iPhone

Some show I was watching recently basically had people using clear iphones. Orphan Black? idk, probably a different one.

I really want to drink Crystal Pepsi again.

http://i.imgur.com/osFB36p.png

john sculley worked at pepsi before he was the ceo of apple

re those colorful phones^^, xiaomi has been blowing up in china recently, might provide some insight into apples thought process

dayo's also right though that apple has had a thing w/ color since the og bondi blue imac. the early ibooks, ipod mini, now the whole ipod line minus the classic.

it'll be interesting to see if they ever take that to the ipad. right now you basically do that via smart covers, but you could always do that same thing w/ iphone cases, and apple obviously felt like that wasn't enough

as far as xiaomi goes, they also sell those things relatively cheaply i think?

those things are like half the price of the 5c

yup

I think maybe the perceived benefits of Apple products that its fans have in the US (the idea that Apple products just "work better" and are "easier to use" in an intangible sort of way not attributable to particular features) maybe hasn't quite caught on yet in China? Or at least the idea that you should pay a lot more for a product like that, when you can't say on paper why it's better? I'm pretty much talking out of my ass here.

its my understanding that iphones are pretty popular there amongst those who can afford them

Lack of a subsidized up front cell phone contract makes chinese ppl a lot more price sensitive

I read some article about a cultural shift toward recognition of quality design rather than acting like knockoffs are acceptable but idk, there are a lot of intellectual property laws that people don't seem to give a shit about

Knockoffs aren't 'acceptable' theyre just cheaper

i accept knockoffs

knock it off

this sites sneakers are supposed to be p hq http://www.newgoodseller.net/sneakers-c-1022.html

Probably made by a 24 hr or midnight factory

ya

http://youtu.be/ujrXyuIMdsg

dont judge me

idk, I mean "acceptable" in that someone thinks buying a phone that's meant to resemble an iphone is seen as ok, rather than buying a name brand that is a cheaper product. like in the US, you'd end up with a HTC phone that has a relatively distinct design, not something that had a fake apple logo and a design that looks a lot like the real one

You wouldn't end up with that in the is because it'd be illegal to sell a device with a fake apple logo on it

People ended up with those Samsung jobs that apple sued them over for look and feel

And why isn't it ok to be seen with an Hp tablet or w/e in the us. Are the police gonna arrest you

very true!

I guess I mean that there aren't intellectual property laws enforced that'd even stop these things from existing and there's a market. There's more pressure, internal and external, to kind of force such enforcement, now, from what I've read.

it's fine to be, but generally a HP tablet is going to have a HP logo, run software released by that company and designed for that tablet?

I mean, compare a Samsung phone that takes design cues to something like this:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/08/11/article-2024878-0D64111F00000578-355_634x581.jpg

We don't have that in the us not because it's culturally unacceptable to do so but because there are laws to prevent it

If you could make money selling a hackintosh and not get owned by apple in doing so there's a market for that here in the us. Look at all those hackintosh dudes

and laws are a codification of what? our corporate structure, idea of intellectual property as something can be owned, is that not cultural?

I think we're on the same page here, I'm just not excluding the history of corporations and government control of copyright from "culture"

Lmao, gtfo man

Go to law school if you wanna talk about laws and culture

We don't have that in the us not because it's culturally unacceptable to do so but because there are laws to prevent it

― 乒乓, Thursday, September 12, 2013 12:56 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Americans are perfectly fine with provoking a fight with someone and then shooting them in cold blood. They passed a stand your ground law, it must be part of their culture man

well, yeah, some part of american culture values perceived personal security over the lives of others?

Lmao. I'm not going down this road with you. I'm out