New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward
Old thread 14k posts so why not
WWDC is Monday, nobody seems to be expecting anything much. Maybe the Keynote will focus on Swift 3. OS X seems likely to get rebranded as macOS. Music on iPhone and iTunes will both change completely once again, infuriating everyone. New watch bands? Jokes about The Car? Does anyone even want a new Apple product at this point? Will Jimmy Iovine be allowed onstage?
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Thursday, 9 June 2016 17:24 (eight years ago) link
when do they announce the new iPhone? i care about that
― Spottie, Thursday, 9 June 2016 18:02 (eight years ago) link
presumably September like all recent years
― Sean, let me be clear (silby), Thursday, 9 June 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
Nervous that the next MacBook Pro is going to max out at 1TB with non-replaceable storage. They wouldn't do that to us, right? Because when this thing ships in 2017 I'm going to need more than that.
― 0 / 0 (lukas), Thursday, 11 August 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link
"1 TB should be enough for anyone." -Apple, probably
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 11 August 2016 20:06 (eight years ago) link
As usual, my phone is kind of fucked up just in time for the announcement and I'm just trying to make it last. Screen cracked a couple weeks ago, and it's really hard to make it charge.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Thursday, 11 August 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
My partner picked up a new 2018 model 13" MacBook Pro and I'm jealous at a level I haven't dealt with since the Wall Street iteration of the PowerBook G3 finally got it right. My 15" is a goddamn barge and I'm finding that no model of iPad is an adequate travel substitute.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 20 August 2018 07:25 (six years ago) link
i got a 3400c just before that. jealous years.
― j., Monday, 20 August 2018 08:20 (six years ago) link
I always thought the Kanga / 3500 / G3 PowerBook was the ultimate in heartbreak. I had a 5300 though, so I know the worst a PowerBook can be.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Monday, 20 August 2018 10:06 (six years ago) link
2018 seems like a good vintage of MacBooks to skip. I'm ready to order a 2019 model now, though.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Monday, 20 August 2018 15:46 (six years ago) link
*silently pours one out for my old 1400cs*
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 20 August 2018 21:50 (six years ago) link
Apple announcement day. *self-flagellates*
https://www.famousmonsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logans-run-red_result.jpg
RENEW! RENEW!
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 04:33 (five years ago) link
Just tell me what the new Mac mini is...
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 04:43 (five years ago) link
excited for the redesigned spatial finder
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 04:55 (five years ago) link
I like my new MacBook Pro but am alternately cursing Apple for cutting HD space / not taking the +$400 hit and getting 1TB like my old laptop (a 2012 MacBook Pro).
Keyboard is fine but the trackpad sucks.
Touchscreen = I can summon emojis.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 04:56 (five years ago) link
I took my '17 MBP in to get the left speaker fixed (apparently this is a thing) and got one of the new keyboards. I missed the press release on this: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-will-fix-broken-macbook-keyboards/
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 05:01 (five years ago) link
yeah glad I got one after that. the SSD is not replaceable?
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 05:04 (five years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 05:19 (five years ago) link
psyched for some extremely incremental improvements
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
Creepy new iPhone X scans your face to unlock, has built-in AI, thinks humans are obsolete:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYIo2Lj9xek
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 15:24 (five years ago) link
https://theporouscity.com/media/timtweet.png
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
It was already gone by the time I opened it.
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
ECG thing for the watch is pretty great
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
a little off topic but does anyone else use f.lux? it doesn't work on my new MacBook Pro and my eyes hurt
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:47 (five years ago) link
your new laptop should have that functionality built in!
― Clay, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:48 (five years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 17:56 (five years ago) link
liquid retina huh.... maybe just call it plasma
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Haptic Touch = long press
― DJI, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 18:33 (five years ago) link
They're never going to do a watch with an always-visible time, are they? Fuck.
― stet, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 18:35 (five years ago) link
All I know is if they ever make an iOS release incompatible with the SE, and don’t update the SE, I’m outie.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:01 (five years ago) link
this might be worth sending a CEO email about, what’s Tim’s handle again
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:02 (five years ago) link
Ugh you can’t buy an SE direct from Apple anymore, fuckin whatever dude.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:04 (five years ago) link
no new macbook air?!?
:_(
― the late great, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:07 (five years ago) link
sounds like they discontinued the SE
Macs TKI 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.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:11 (five years ago) link
Shit, maybe I better grab one before it's too late. My 5s will be 5 years old in December. xp
― WmC, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
Price drop on “obsolete “ phones always welcome after an announcement
― calstars, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
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.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:39 (five years ago) link
either that or I invest in a good lightning DAC and just deal with the annoying bulk, I guesss
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
lol Apple now offering 7 different models at the same time
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1039962912805330944/sYRoV1Zg?format=jpg&name=600x314
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
hell yeah steve jobs would be proud
― 🧛🏻♂️ F A T 🧛🏻♂️ D R A C U L A 🧛🏻♂️ (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
What customer is targeted by having a larger iphone 8 at $699 vs a same-size iPhone XR at $50 more?
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:49 (five years ago) link
They’re basically admitting nobody gives a shit about the phone hardware anymore. It’s just a collection of price points
― faculty w1fe (silby), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
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, 12 September 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link
xxp people who can't deal w/o a home button or hate the notch
― the late great, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:53 (five years ago) link
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
― DJI, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
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.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 20:14 (five years ago) link
Literally bought an 8 yesterday fuck
― gbx, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 21:07 (five years ago) link
512 gb Max is $1449LOLOLOL
― calstars, Wednesday, 12 September 2018 22:08 (five years ago) link
increments increments increments
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 22:22 (five years ago) link
haha i was gonna say. tremendous upgrades for something that is user-hostile for anything other than watching netflix in bed with
― 龜, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 18:50 (three months ago) link
even that isn't ideal if you want to eat some popcorn at the same time
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:02 (three months ago) link
Apple deletes San Francisco highway to better advertise new iPads
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/apple-ipad-launch-sf-highway-19444449.php
― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 8 May 2024 00:10 (three months ago) link
That new version of Final Cut getting some screen time
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 00:13 (three months ago) link
new Logic Pro adds AI!!!!!!
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 8 May 2024 00:14 (three months ago) link
AI, anyone?
― 龜, Monday, 10 June 2024 19:59 (two months ago) link
"Hey Siri, call goomah""CALL MOM?""No! Call goomah!""CALLING MOM"
― calstars, Monday, 10 June 2024 20:53 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liNG2--GczI
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 10 June 2024 21:27 (two months ago) link
I was going to outburst "I remember when you saw actual code in the WWDC keynote" until I realized that it's like complaining that MTV doesn't show videos anymore.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 09:37 (two months ago) link
when they led with the Vision Pro stuff I thought for a moment they might do the funniest thing: tell the devs they'll get more API features on all the other platforms as soon as they start shipping apps for the headset
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 13:56 (two months ago) link
Apple takes a page from AllTrails and will have hiking maps of all 63 U.S. National Parks available.
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.
The popular location app will also have voice guidance for trail directions
I'm bringing bear spray just for the moment I hear Siri yapping in the Flatside Wilderness.
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 15:33 (two months ago) link
the only national parks are on the west coast? news to me!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 17:11 (two months ago) link
well they’re very concentrated in the west. here in the northeast we have acadia and that’s it.
― 龜, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 17:21 (two months ago) link
Who said they were?
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 19:07 (two months ago) link
You said this hiking trails feature is only useful within 1000 miles of cupertino
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 19:12 (two months ago) link
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!
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 19:16 (two months ago) link
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.
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 19:25 (two months ago) link
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
― Cemetry Gaetz (DJP), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 19:44 (two months ago) link
pour one out for platt national park
― 龜, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 19:44 (two months ago) link
Hiking the St. Louis arch
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 21:24 (two months ago) link
can someone dumb this down for me
― default damager (lukas), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 21:31 (two months ago) link
they're not really hiking locations
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 21:54 (two months ago) link
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the country!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:03 (two months ago) link
Look I'm all for shitting down Apple's neck but I don't think this is a sound line of critique
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:05 (two months ago) link
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
― 龜, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:07 (two months ago) link
Also I love cell service please, sir, tell me, is there cell service in gates of the arctic?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:10 (two months ago) link
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
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:13 (two months ago) link
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-parkhttps://www.alltrails.com/parks/us/montana/glacier-national-park
― 龜, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:29 (two months ago) link
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.
― 龜, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:40 (two months ago) link
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.
― 龜, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 22:45 (two months ago) link
i mean we can argue about origins given any number of factors but you’re missing some pretty big musical gifts to the world…
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 00:46 (two months ago) link
all the good stuff is cancelled out by improv comedy
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 12 June 2024 01:13 (two months ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 02:13 (two months ago) link
Gawd, this is what happens when you have a complete snoozefest of a keynote.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 12 June 2024 02:14 (two months ago) link
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.
― pplains, Thursday, 13 June 2024 14:01 (two months ago) link
Channel Islands is the absolute worst national park in the USA:
1 hour ferry slog through often rough, open waterIslands are absolutely plastered in rat/seal/pelican shitThe surrounding water is insanely treacherous and a great white feeding zone
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 13 June 2024 14:28 (two months ago) link
Scratch that: The Channel Islands are the U2 of USA National Parks
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 13 June 2024 14:29 (two months ago) link
Flagged for nonsense
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 13 June 2024 14:46 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/R4UMomN.jpeg
― pplains, Thursday, 13 June 2024 15:35 (two months ago) link
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.
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 13 June 2024 16:25 (two months ago) link
Lol which park u share
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 13 June 2024 22:12 (two months ago) link
NW Yosemite backcountry wilderness: Poopenaut Valley -> Miguel Meadow -> Lake Eleanor
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 13 June 2024 22:28 (two months ago) link
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
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 13 June 2024 22:56 (two months ago) link
Sick xp
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 13 June 2024 23:33 (two months ago) link
I dl'd the beta of iOS18 and it is buggy af― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, June 13, 2024 9:25 AM (yesterday)
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Thursday, June 13, 2024 9:25 AM (yesterday)
battery status currently 41% after 4 hours of light/no usage 😬😬😬
― Mrs. Ippei (Steve Shasta), Friday, 14 June 2024 17:20 (two months ago) link
I would like to see the next OS called Hawaii Volcanos
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 14 June 2024 17:56 (two months ago) link
_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 😬😬😬
― calstars, Friday, 14 June 2024 21:20 (two months ago) link
It’s indexing, like every new release of iOS since the first one. Results in temporarily reduced battery life.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 14 June 2024 21:46 (two months ago) link
the iOS developer betas also have more debug crap turned on by design ime
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Saturday, 15 June 2024 18:55 (two months ago) link