Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

yeah glad I got one after that. the SSD is not replaceable?

Nope on the replaceable SSD.

I guess I'm probably going to pull the trigger on a fancy new Xs phone but can't make much of a compelling case when my 7 just keeps on going.

psyched for some extremely incremental improvements

Creepy new iPhone X scans your face to unlock, has built-in AI, thinks humans are obsolete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYIo2Lj9xek

https://theporouscity.com/media/timtweet.png

It was already gone by the time I opened it.

ECG thing for the watch is pretty great

a little off topic but does anyone else use f.lux? it doesn't work on my new MacBook Pro and my eyes hurt

your new laptop should have that functionality built in!

yeah it's not nearly as good though, fluctuates too much, way too much blue at night. maybe i can monkey with the settings and/or just get used to it. apparently f.lux is working on a fix.

liquid retina huh.... maybe just call it plasma

Haptic Touch = long press

They're never going to do a watch with an always-visible time, are they? Fuck.

All I know is if they ever make an iOS release incompatible with the SE, and don’t update the SE, I’m outie.

this might be worth sending a CEO email about, what’s Tim’s handle again

Ugh you can’t buy an SE direct from Apple anymore, fuckin whatever dude.

no new macbook air?!?

:_(

sounds like they discontinued the SE

Macs TK

I honestly feel nothing for any products Apple makes these days, I’m not mad or anything it’s all just at a stable equilibrium and design differentiators are basically impossible, since all anyone wants is things built on the same lines as the products Apple introduced 2003-2007. They are still dragging their heels on a MacBook based on an Apple-designed ARM SoC and that irritates me a bit.

Shit, maybe I better grab one before it's too late. My 5s will be 5 years old in December. xp

Price drop on “obsolete “ phones always welcome after an announcement

Ok, so there's no longer going to be any retail model available with a headphone jack? I guess this really will be my last iphone.

either that or I invest in a good lightning DAC and just deal with the annoying bulk, I guesss

lol Apple now offering 7 different models at the same time

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1039962912805330944/sYRoV1Zg?format=jpg&name=600x314

hell yeah steve jobs would be proud

What customer is targeted by having a larger iphone 8 at $699 vs a same-size iPhone XR at $50 more?

They’re basically admitting nobody gives a shit about the phone hardware anymore. It’s just a collection of price points

I keep thinking "this is finally the release where people sour on Apple" and then their stock price doubles again.

xxp people who can't deal w/o a home button or hate the notch

Imagine what Steve Jobs would say about the "I Phone Ten XS Max."

http://blog.consumerguide.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2018-04-11-at-10.39.01-AM.png

love how they used the planet image on the newer and pricier options so it's juuuuuust out of the way of the notch, attempting to fool us into believing maybe it's not there.

getting the max tho obv. my 6+ did it's job for four years.

Literally bought an 8 yesterday fuck

512 gb Max is $1449
LOLOLOL

increments increments increments

I keep thinking "this is finally the release where people sour on Apple" and then their stock price doubles again.

― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, September 12, 2018 3:51 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Speaking for myself but I can't help but imagine there are many other people like me: the thought of switching to another OS is terrifying/paralyzing. I have used Apple all my life. Used Windows XP when I was in HS but that's it. Ever since his death the company has totally stagnated and failed to invent or introduce anything truly exciting. I use Apple products but I'm not a super fan, like I couldn't care less about the watch. All of their products keep getting worse too, in different ways. But I can't switch.

I still balk at the idea of paying $1k for a friggin' phone. Also don't quite understand the difference in the X tiers

I borrowed one of the fancy new Dell Windows laptops for a week to see if I could get along with it - god, it still sucked so much. All the things I hate about OS X (notifications, handoffs) combined with an absolutely miserable trackpad.

I think I'd be fine with one of the 'pure' Android phones without any of the Samsung overlay bullshit but there's not really any enticement to switch (nor any enticement to switch to a new iPhone, tho).

I have a really, really basic Chromebook that's great for what it is but it doesn't have a fucking caps lock button (???????????)

maybe computers and phones are basically just this until they get superseded by things that render computers and phones obsolete. welcome to the information appliance age.

When my dad died I inherited his almost new iPad, this is the device I find most useless of everything I've owned. The screen's pretty but it's awkward to type on, more awkward to play games on than a phone, uncomfortable to hold for reading books.

Total found uses: drum machine+synth apps, reading comics. For something that probably cost $900 new.

the apps for music making are a pretty compelling reason to get an iPad, though never for $900 imo... like, anything as much or less than an SP-404 makes sense.

i have to use ipads for work (including keyboard covers) and they're just awkward. they need a flat surface to sit on, the keyboards aren't great at all for typing, and phones do pretty much the same thing most of the time.

WHY DO YOU NEED A CAPS LOCK BUTTON

it's important

iirc i mainly use mine to see whether or not the caps lock light is on or off

sometimes i turn it on for fun but then i turn it off right away

I’m on the iPhone upgrade program so I’ll get a new XSMAX. I don’t think I have a need for 512 GB tho. Current have 256 and only use about 100 gigs. I don’t expect I’ll start shooting a lot of 4K video or whatever would fill that up.

flappy bird on my chromebook you can change the search icon button (which is where the caps lock should be) to work as caps lock (somewhere in settings)

How long reasonably can I keep my SE alive? I have absolutely no interest in any phones Apple made after and I’m frankly debating if I even want to continue with them period (I imagine if I get an Android phone I’ll immediately regret it).

ios 12 has done lots of performance stuff to improve older devices, but I'd imagine iOS 13 will spunk all that away.

Hmmm mmmm. And you know what I didn't say?

https://i.imgur.com/dwuAkAs.png

Look, I love national parks. I love to hike. But it's a little unnecessary to include all this!

It sounds like Apple seeing a cool app out there and attempting to blow them out of the water in some sort of hamfisted way.

Hahaha I think it’s very telling that Apple is now at the point where one can say “this app is most useful within 1000 miles of Apple’s headquarters” and everyone assumes it’s because of an app limitation and not because the dataset powering the app fits that paradigm

pour one out for platt national park

Hiking the St. Louis arch

Which is great, if you live within 1000 miles of Cupertino. The rest of us will be using them to get around the city of Hot Springs and the Gateway Arch museum, I guess.

can someone dumb this down for me

they're not really hiking locations

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the country!

Look I'm all for shitting down Apple's neck but I don't think this is a sound line of critique

many of the national parks not within 1000 miles of cupertino kind of suck (i.e. gateway arch is a manmade monument that was made into a national park for political reasons and that the NPS was against making into a park, hot springs is actually a resort, indiana dunes is just like a lake beach? and cuyahoga valley is a superfund site) and as mh said don't really have hiking

Also I love cell service please, sir, tell me, is there cell service in gates of the arctic?

Sir, I must know, do batteries do well in the cold?

Sir, I can no longer wait, tell me what the hiking trails are for the reefs in the US Virgin Islands

i didn't mention congaree, which i actually like, but many people dismiss as just a big swamp. for comparison, compare the number of trails available in congarees in alltrails with those available in, say, glacier:

https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/south-carolina/congaree-national-park
https://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/montana/glacier-national-park

anyway i don't really agree with pp's criticism but i understand where it's coming from. this is a feature that is much more likely to be dreamt up in cupertino than in hoboken. but as a parks guy i think it's cool and welcome it. and it gave me an excuse to talk a bit about congaree, which has a mosquito meter.

when america is put on the scale and judged by the angel of history, i think it will be known for making two contributions to the sum of all good things in the world:

-public stewardship of public lands, and
-baseball.

everything else america has done has been a net drag on the world, an oily putrescence, an abscess in the brain. the decline of the empire cannot happen soon enough.

i mean we can argue about origins given any number of factors but you’re missing some pretty big musical gifts to the world…

all the good stuff is cancelled out by improv comedy

I have at least a dozen lines of criticism about national parks, the origins of the entire environmental movement, the Department of the Interior, and unequal access along usual race and class lines. Who has the ability to take time off from work and go somewhere where they'll need an offline hiking map on their phone?

I love the parks. I love hiking. I'm really happy that a National Monument moved in up the street from me last month. I think smartphones in general have affected who is doing what out in the backcountry and all the apps: AllTrails, Peakery, TripAdvisor, etc. have amplified all that long before Apple finally getting around to building in hiking maps.

My prediction is that more people will sacrifice themselves on Mount Baldy and search and rescue will go above and beyond to get them out of trouble.

Gawd, this is what happens when you have a complete snoozefest of a keynote.

but you’re missing some pretty big musical gifts to the world…

I'll put my map of the Channel Islands right next to my free U2 album in my phone.

Channel Islands is the absolute worst national park in the USA:

1 hour ferry slog through often rough, open water
Islands are absolutely plastered in rat/seal/pelican shit
The surrounding water is insanely treacherous and a great white feeding zone

Scratch that: The Channel Islands are the U2 of USA National Parks

Flagged for nonsense

https://i.imgur.com/R4UMomN.jpeg

I dl'd the beta of iOS18 and it is buggy af but I'll be off the grid (no cell service/wifi) next week so I wanted to make sure I have that alltrails offline integration plus satellite text capability. I hope I get an update push by the weekend.

ps: JimmyTM, I will be at an actually amazing national park, you can have the ratshit islands lol.

Lol which park u share

NW Yosemite backcountry wilderness: Poopenaut Valley -> Miguel Meadow -> Lake Eleanor

lol they pulled a classic apple deal with openai and pitched the integration as an opportunity for openai to sell subscriptions. it’s sounding like apple paid $0 and probably implemented the integration as a pluggable framework meaning they can offer other engines or replace them at any moment

Sick xp

I dl'd the beta of iOS18 and it is buggy af

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, June 13, 2024 9:25 AM (yesterday)

battery status currently 41% after 4 hours of light/no usage 😬😬😬

I would like to see the next OS called Hawaii Volcanos

_I dl'd the beta of iOS18 and it is buggy af

― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, June 13, 2024 9:25 AM (yesterday) _


battery status currently 41% after 4 hours of light/no usage 😬😬😬

It’s indexing, like every new release of iOS since the first one. Results in temporarily reduced battery life.