New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

i'm actively avoiding any kind of smartphone--i think the lack of a phone in a portable device is a feature for me, not a lack. and i can imagine a tablet getting a lot of use.

have a 16GB iPad 2 and use it every day. really want to upgrade for better screen, RAM and more storage space but can't really justify the cost to myself, especially with the basic version still being 16GB wtf.

Technically I think the lack of a phone in life is a bonus, but just not feasible.

well lack of a phone and lack of a smartphone are different things

is 16GB the RAM or storage space?

storage

I really can't fathom wanting a newer iPad for a long, long time if it didn't do something majorly new and impressive.

Ditto -- I have an iPad 1 (you have a 2 if it has a camera) and haven't yet felt moved to upgrade -- not even sure what a tablet COULD do that would surpass it, but Apple does have a way of surprising, so who knows?

Retina pretty boss for reading

I dunno I love my mini but maybe a 6+ would be almost as good? hate the idea of carrying something that big around though.

I have an ipad air and rarely use it. it just never seems to be in the right position for comfortable use.

what is bothering me abt spotlight is how it pops up in the middle of the screen. i used to use spotlight as a calculator, but now it obscures the numbers i am calculating off of. or i will be trying to cross-reference things i am searching for against something i have written in a document (like a long file name or something) and it obscures that when it pops up. and beyond practicality I just find it intrusive.

it would not be a big deal if I could somehow grab it and drag it to a different part of the screen

wow feeling yosemites flatness very chill

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

aw finder looks so cheerful

You can make this come over all System 6 by disabling transparency and increasing contrast. White menu bar back!

might disable transparency

be careful

http://i.imgur.com/MHuJu4Y.jpg

RIP

Can't replace RAM on the new Mac Mini, wtf

no wire hangers ever!

Ram from Apple has the be the greatest scam in the history of ram sales.

W T F

i'm surprised you could EVER replace the RAM on the Minis, tbh

yosemite impressions
-don't like this font but i guess i'll get used to it
-hate this day-glo super flat dock, i came in w/10.5 so I'm used to the pseudo-3D crap
-also every app now is gonna redesigned flatter icons soon

my biggest complaint is i don't like this new trash can, looks cheap

is swapping out system icons still a thing

Cheap trash

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v330/Voidler/dudley-taunt.gif

at least the acrobat pro icon looks less stupid now relative to the rest of my dock

MacOS updates have been getting steadily less exciting since Leopard.

Maybe when they finally make MacOS 11 it will be the exciting one.

What does the dot under the application in the Dock mean now? Just that it was recently used OR it's open?

open

This is the kind of thing that could make Apple Pay really useful:
http://perkwave.com/

(not showing up in my app store searches yet for some reason)

idk anything that requires both merchant and customer adoption is going to have growth struggles, and will basically be a middleman once restaurants adopt EMV terminals (which are generally brought to the table).

Turns out this uses the contactless stuff which is already everywhere in the UK, so it's off to a winner here

xpthe fact that the waiter can literally just drop the check off and leave and then you can pay and leave is pretty time-saving on both ends. Although I guess a reader isn't that much more time-consuming for the waiter.

Same tech as Octopus? xp

Wait, Oyster is what you chaps call it

The US as the world's foremost financial power can be really backwards when it comes to moving money around

I guess a bunch of it is just structural inertia

do you guys just mean near-field communications?

idk anything that requires both merchant and customer adoption is going to have growth struggles, and will basically be a middleman once restaurants adopt EMV terminals (which are generally brought to the table).

― Spirit of Match Game '76 (silby), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 1:38 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Turns out this uses the contactless stuff which is already everywhere in the UK, so it's off to a winner here

― stet, Tuesday, October 21, 2014 1:39 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

xpthe fact that the waiter can literally just drop the check off and leave and then you can pay and leave is pretty time-saving on both ends. Although I guess a reader isn't that much more time-consuming for the waiter.

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Tuesday, October 21, 2014 1:40 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ya those lil terminals thatre brought to the table (really terrible experience btw from a dining perspective imo) are everywhere in the world except USA, agree w hurting that the code on the check is a way better solution

I see that OpenTable is going to support ApplePay, which means that many restaurants will be able to start using it soon.

be curious to see how it all plays out, obvs this stuff has to be universal to really work you cant have any sort of siloed platforms like square or apple play and have it achieve any sort of ubiquity, has to work for everyone regardless which type of phone or app theyre using

prob end up w the banks/credit card companies owning the space once the technology gets sorted out

restaurants aren't really the prime use-case for NFC though? shaving seconds off a transaction is not really what it's about in a restaurant.

I disagree: waiter brings check, walks away, you pay it, waive him back, he walks away with it, you wait for him to come back so you can leave tip on your card, he comes back, you leave tip, you leave. Can easily be five minutes or more in a busy restaurant. That's not only the customer's time but time the table is tied up.

qr code on check cld shave like 15mins off!

or more!

also if it made it easy to split the check my lord!

Like this blue sky thinking