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seems like a lot of the complaints are more designy eg the icon grid, colors etc rather than usability based which leads me to believe it prob works p good

Usability is pretty great. I'm reminded of the 10.2 UI (all grey lines everywhere) which was headache-inducing at first, but refined over-and-over in time.

Am I the only one who's finding the iPhone 5S to be a snoozer? Sure it's got some serious spec bumps in the chips, some useful camera upgrades, and the fingerprint reader, but I don't envision lines going around city blocks at Apple stores come 20 September. I still want one, but I'd take a wider screen, a 128GB model, selectable password protection, and an extra row or two on the virtual keyboard over the new features we did get. And iOS7 feels like it's playing catch-up.

what is selectable password protection?

I don't see it as any different than the last few releases in that regard. There will still be lines, I'm sure.

a 128GB model

This, but I'm resigned to 32 or 64 for the foreseeable future.

what is selectable password protection?

― caek, Friday, September 13, 2013 1:05 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ability to require a password for only particular apps or features, such as email access or deleting photos. Apple allows you to lock down the whole phone with a passcode (and now with a fingerprint), but I'm mostly fine with others using my phone for games, maps, weather, web browsing, and such, but there's no way to have just the mail client have a password so everyone can't read my emails. I may also want some photos off limits or some people on social apps, but Apple's only option is all or nothing.

a 128GB model

This, but I'm resigned to 32 or 64 for the foreseeable future.

― midnight outdoor nude frolic up north goes south (Eric H.), Friday, September 13, 2013 1:11 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah they have 5-year-old iPod Classics they want to sell

xp ok but that's not a phone feature. nothing to do with the new 5s. that's an OS or app level feature (e.g. my banking app asks for a password every time even though i don't have the latest hardware)

i do think ios should have an equivalent of guest mode on os x, especially for ipad.

128GB would make zero money for them. you all have crazy usage patterns. live in the now.

yeah i know most people only use a couple of home screens and a couple gigs of music but come on, FEED ME MORE!

how am I supposed to shoot my 60-fps remake of Satantango on a 32GB phone?!

When I switched to a HTC One for the bigger screen, I underestimated how much the one-handed nature of the iPhone made it easier to use for texting, typing, pretty much anything aside from games.

yeah I don't want a phone much bigger than the iphone 5, hope that if apple releases a bigger phone that they keep the 5 form factor too. those big phones look bad for usability

few friends of mine have a samsung Note and it's like comically sized

I would like the iphone to get maybe a little wider. certainly not longer

if they're going to have two models anyway, why not offer two sizes

they offer three, it's just the other two are the iPad mini and iPad

eh, i like them sticking to their simpler product lines tbh - let the other manufacturers go crazy with the options

The gold ones are cool

Yeah I like the color.

now there is critical momentum can I just say I like the gold also

Feel like the gold iPhone might be one of those Apple things that you LOL at until you see it in person and are all "Hmm. That's actually pretty slick." I can see it taking off.

china taking our jobs and poisoning our cellphone colors, when will congress act

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/19034mcha34nagif/original.gif

that is terrifying

new camera icon is more skeuomorphic than the old one

Because icons was what skeumorphism complaints were about

new camera icon is more skeuomorphic than the old one

? no it isn't

well, it looks like a real-life camera rather than just a (very) real-life lens is what i meant

Like the new icons generally, don't love the colors but I imagine neon works well for being visible even on the lowest brightness settings.

do any of you use transmit? i just bought it

it's the best graphical ftp client, so if you need one of those, and you get it on sale, then it's good.

i have a license for it from years ago but i mostly use the command line for that stuff these days.

https://twitter.com/panic/status/380024518095302656

yeah it's pretty good

i fucks w transmit

i have four windows open rn

Been using Transmit since the beginning

lag∞n showing you how to transmit

what does it have over e.g. cyberduck

No quack

oh, a wisequacker, eh?

Transmit is scriptable (an absolute requirement for me)

ios7 hits 1pm est iirc

here hoping a beta 4 backup can be restored to the GM build

Backed up to iCloud or your computer?

both tbh

should I upgrade my wife's phone first as a test case?

haha

I upgraded from the last beta to the gold master on my phone with no problems

yes, upgrade wife's phone first

i'll do a manual backup of the phone before i upgrade, don't anticipate any weirdness

I wouldn't upgrade anything below a 5 for at least a couple weeks but maybe that's just me being cautious