New Apple Lust Objects

This is all quite interesting: In Russia we're hearing that the reason we're still not getting (legal) iPhones is because it's not possible here to legally lock people into one carrier and therefore the "low-price" iPhone isn't possible (i.e. no carrier will subsidize your purchase if you are then free to switch to another carrier). But if I understand what I see above, people outside the US and UK aren't getting lower priced phones AND they aren't necessarily locked into their carrier for years.

Plus the swtichover to the low-priced phones means we can no longer buy phones without subscriptions and unlock them :( Effing a.

Sorry ss, I've forgotten where that was going.

should i get 8 or 16?!?!?

i don't plan to use it much as an iPod ...

Dunno. I'm getting an 8Gb on a one-year contract, and if it's not enough I'll start again next year. Maps is really the only thing I can think of that would suck up storage.

Telstra's $35 plan comes with 5Mb of data per month. MEGABYTES. FIVE MEGABYTES. That's the equivalent of, what, one tenth of a WDYLL thread.

Has anyone else in the entire world offered a 5Mb/month plan?? What's the fucking point?? Honestly??

Seriously, this is the exact equivalent of me selling bananas at a stall for $2/kg, and some ugly deluded moron sets up next to me selling bananas for $500/kg.

This, I mean you would have to have your head actually all the way up your own arsehole to even contemplate offering 5Mb/month. Utterly THE stupidest business decision I have ever seen in my entire life.

Except that there are a bunch of people dumb enough only to look at the headline phone cost and price plan. Ignoring the important details.

i might not have researched it enough but i think in the US you have to buy unlimited data for $30/mo. (though not unlimited text)

i mean, $30/mo more expensive than a comparable at&t plan. so a 450-minute plan that normally costs $40/mo costs $70/mo.

I think you're right. And it's not reeeeeally unlimited; they get all shirty if you use more than a couple of gig.

what do they do, threaten to beat you up if you use too much?

appstore is open, and awesome.

no 2.0 firmware, no cred

Man there's some junk in here too

59p to make ur screen go white -> didn't the dudes who made a similar app for fbook make a bomb off this????

So they've launched the apps before the firmware or new hardware that can run the apps?

(I got the firmware treefell)

Don't think am allowed to talk about the apps till tomorrow.

shazam: found exactly what I was listening to from am obscure snippet

Nytimes: offline newspaper v nice for tube

Netnewswire: not much better than the website

Exposure: Flickr client pulls pics from where you are, v nice

iTunes remote: da bomb

Or so I've heard.

basically this is some Christmas morning shit

the appstore is live; no firmware yet unless you are in the know or "acquire" it

those sound nice; god installer.app was always some bullshit.

god i want this phone. how do i make husband ok with me buying $300 phone when we are poor right now??

itunes link->

http://ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewRoom%253FfcId%253D285145023%2526genreIdString%253D36%2526mediaTypeString%253DMobile%252BSoftware%252BApplications
]does this work?

2.0 firmware, btw:
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-4955.20080710.bgt53/iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw

I am a happy man.

oops, i went offline during the process and had to restore my phone. now back outside on wifi having a second go...

No kopelverkoop means any carrier you like, I think.

Yep, "koppelen" means (roughly) to attach. So the sale can't be "attached" to a specific network/carrier. You can basically walk into Mobistar buy the iphone and then use it.

*weeps* -> Not really but inside my heart is breaking a little. I know it's silly but when I hear that peeps can get this for 100 bucks (or whatever) I just wanna bit my flipping Nokia in two.

WHERES MY IPHONE CORD??????

god i want this phone. how do i make husband ok with me buying $300 phone when we are poor right now??

-- sunny successor, Thursday, 10 July 2008 23:06 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

'Someone stole our tivo!!!'
'I'm sure it'll turn up. Have you seen my new iphone?'

"This iPhone's beautiful! Wait, where's our daughter?"

"Well, TECHNICALLY she's our daughter..."

you guys

Going to stand in a lol queue now. Chance of scoring one: approx. -2

omg the Optus queues are disgusting. Customers trying to push in and start fights with the security staff, FOR A PHONE. Some guy left the shop with a yellow bag in his hand and a shit-eating grin on his face.

Nobody's at the other chains. So there's loads of stock at the wrong places and no stock at the only good place.

Tried a pokey shop which is very sure it'll have 8Gbs available this afternoon. They'll call me to confirm. Not bad for an impromptu crack.

optus in north sydney? I USED TO WORK THERE. their penthouse conference room is the shizz

theyre probably all looking down at the fighting masses and laughing right now

at&t store suggested people would be lining up tonight

i want a white one

http://cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/lee-stoetzel-computer.jpg

Melbourne, sunny.

Actually, Melbourne rainy

oh that place

'600 MILES OUTSIDE SYDNEY'

no stock o welz

Tried again, queued for 45 mins, got to THIRD in the queue and the provisioning system packed it in. I should not have got up this morning.

meanwhile, for original iPhone owners ... WHERE THE FUCK IS MY UPGRADE LINK, THEN? freshly installed iTunes 7.7 still tells me my phone is up to date. hmm.

I'm waiting on being allowed to waste money on the firmware upgrade for my iPod Touch.

yeh, the software update page at apple.com says coming soon. wankers, that's a morning's procrastination from work i need to rethink.

it's a big letdown here: they expected tons of ppl (at the midnight intro of the phone in brussels) but not that many ppl showed up. hah. probably the others were all online importing one. my dad mailed me saying it costs 125 euros for an iphone in tokyo. BASTARD! why did he need to TELL me that. *weeps* :-)

my pal at work was off to get his at 8am. no text yet. i fear the worst.

(well, OK. fearing the worst would be, i dunno, he got eaten by a robot shark on the way to the store. i fear "something has gone wrong with the purchasing process", but that's a bit less effective.)

grimly, doesn't this one work that stet posted^

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net/content.info.apple.com/iPhone/061-4955.20080710.bgt53/iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw