Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

The upgrade is good y'all, my phone is like new again.

I wonder if they realized a bunch of schmoes like me were considering abandoning iphones altogether and figured it's better to keep me in the ecosystem with an old phone than lose me altogether.

Incidentally this also fixed a major audio bug I've been having where music and podcasts stutter from time to time.

i've been having that same problem with music, shit skips like a CD

Yep, all good so far with iOS 12. Think I'll switch to SIM only from next month and just keep the SE going for another year or two. You never know, there might be an 4-4.5" XE or smthg next year.

Slightly concerned at what my ScreenTime stats will say by the end of today. Anything fewer than 100 pick-ups I'd be ok with.

Battery life on the X seems much improved by the update.

I’m in japan right now and Apple maps is beating google hands down, I assume this is what they have been working on.

I'm getting very into Shortcuts now. Favourite tricks so far: being able to append to the clipboard, and adding a Spotify icon to my homescreen that starts playing the song I was last listening to in whatever playlist/album it was (this is particularly good for me as I have an old phone so Spotify takes forever to launch – nice to be able to just put the phone away once I've tapped and know that it will start playing music in a while!)

The latter is pretty complex one that gets around Spotify's current lack of proper Shortcuts support:

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/comments/9h5aj6/control_spotify_with_siri/

being able to append to the clipboard

how do I activate this

Install Shortcuts app, put Shortcuts in a prominent place in your share menu items, then open this link in Safari. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/dc56cf9ad5754adfb8132cd3aba32376

It's 3 taps rather than the 1 for a standard copy to clipboard, but that sure beats switching back and forth between apps when you're pasting from multiple sources.

thanks for that!

i like how now i can measure things with my iphone and take of picture of it with the actual measurement

;)

awww yee uhhh

i aint lyin baby iphone confirmed yo

How do I use this exciting measure app? Can it do square feet?

Okay so...iPhone headphone splitters. (Meaning, charging the phone and using a non-Lightning headphone at the same time.) I can't seem to make head or tail out of the eight million suggestions out there; practically every product has wildly diverging reviews everywhere I look and I trust none of them. (Belkin seems to be heavily loathed, though.) Any suggestions?

xp it appears on the phone after iOS 12 update ("Measure") and you open it, point the camera at an object, move the phone side to side as it directs to calibrate, and then you align the sight on the screen with a point you want to measure, tap the button, then put another point somewhere else you want to know the distance to. It will use multiple points and you can add rectangles etc. for area measurement.

i picked up a shitty headphone jack/lightning splitter at Five Below. if it lasts a year I'll be happy with it.

the current iteration of the ipod touch is m/l the perfect size for a small phone... tim cook please read this...

we should all email him, what's his email

tcook@

TIM @ KFC.EDU

i've emailed him about the finder, icloud (i don't use this one, i'm not insane), quality control, and the mac being abandonware. he never replies.

https://i.imgur.com/YnHNMEy.jpg

that's an iphone 6 on the left. you can imagine it full screen, touch id or whatever. great phone! would buy!

I had completely forgotten that the iPod Touch existed but, of course... it's the only iPod that they make any more and it's basically a thinner, lighter iPhone SE (sans GPS, NFC, voice/SMS capability obv). I'm sticking with the SE through to late 2019 at least.

New MacBook Air: retina screen, fuck-all ports, headphone on the wrong side. Audience cheering like announcements of yore. Very different feel from the po-faced iPhone events

(Love these daytime events)

‘fuck installing a port’, rants tim cook during unhinged press event

NEWWWWWWWWW mac miniiiiiiii

Wow, a LOT better price than I was expecting, and a nice improvement in general. Will likely order. (Especially given tariff murmurings.)

Still a price jump though, huh.

God stop talking about fucking Apple Stores I have meetings to get to

It's a jump but the rumors were indicating some crazy massive jump that was having me rethink a bit. But this is fine from where I sit, at least.

Really want a new iPad mini so glad to see it on screen. They usually silently kill old ones

Although that new regular size looks megA

might go for a mac mini + ipad combo

I was hoping for news of a new iMac. Have to see if the mini is a suitable alternative

i'd like an ipad pro thank you

the least bad appple event in ages (not even that great, but new hardware)

my artist partner is cautiously excited about Real Photoshop ON IPAD

Yeah i was thinking of getting an ipad pro

But for a non applefanboi i sure do have a lot of apple products

use case

https://i.imgur.com/LZmapQt.jpg

for the suicide-curious digital artist in all of us

lmao

that's less plausible than the rooftop party from the Nintendo Switch reveal

i need a new macbook and/or mini but these prices are hard to justify

Can the new MacBook Air run a big 4K monitor in clamshell mode?

june 2017 ipad pro would almost be tempting if they'd bumped the price down. new ipad pro is 760 funbucks and the cheapest apple cover is 85 and that's only for the 8GB model

new air is 20% too expensive

too diffuse a range of products makes it too frustrating to min-max plus post-brexit weakness of the pound has pushed prices uncomfortably high. there's just no sweet spot, as far as I can see in the range

if the new pro started at 128GB for the 760£ model and the smart cover 45/55£ worked then it might have been the_one

apple has got to be taking the piss