Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

They tend to be a bit fatter than the real thing. But I have to say my main evidence is just "there's no way all these people can afford £150 headphones"

They were pretty ubiquitous in Manhattan back in April. Then again.... Manhattan

SE rulez, fools

Wow a whole show full of people pretending to be blind!

And next year, See++!

I want an Apple Watch with always-on screen f'real

"I haven't yet seen an iPhone X or anything more recent IRL."

really? maybe because I live in SF but the X is ubiquitous as are the other ones.

another year where no phones I can comfortably use get announced, I should put a new battery in my SE sometime soon

Trying to decide whether to trade in my too-large XS Max for an 11 Pro, or just to use my old SE that I bought for my son.

what do you mean 'comfortably use'?

DJI that’s my plan

always-on screen is nice but multiple-day battery life would be nicer

xpost there was an article recently about the nyc MTA being tired of requests to retrieve airpods from the tracks (like, 20 a month).

akm I got an iPhone 6 on release and it gave me RSI in my thumb tendons, when I have been touch typing for decades with no ill-effects. Permanent veto for larger phones.

I'm trying to think of a reason i shouldn't just pay £100 for new screen and battery on my SE and i can't think of a single one apart from the shitty front-facing camera

Rejoice!
https://9to5mac.com/2019/09/04/cheaper-smaller-iphone-spring/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&utm_source=unreadit-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Unreadit

it's happening...??!?!

It’s going to be iPhone 8-sized though? Too big imo. SE-sized but with edge-to-edge screen is what’s wanted.

Calling bs on that report. They’re still selling the 8, which is 4.7 “

xpost, ah shit, didn't notice it'd be 4.7" :-/

my SE battery is shot and I'm tired of waiting to see if they're gonna release another small phone so I'm considering an 11 Pro... I would be fine with an 8 since it's relatively compact and all I really need upgrade-wise is 256GB of storage but they still want $700 for an iPhone 8, fuck off with that nonsense. An 11 costs that much!

The 8/128 is $499

Apple isn't even selling the 8/256GB model anymore though... wireless retailers still have it, but want $700-750 for it. Anyone ever bought from a third party like eBay or whatever? Seems risky.

Been thinking of upgrading my 5 year old iPad - mainly to get bigger storage. Anything special about the new one? Or should I just go with a Pro?

I've ordered the 2019 AIR(with 10.5 screen) iPad for my kid yesterday. I'm expecting it to be fucking perfect for £450.

wait - what's the difference between the iPad Air and the new regular iPad? so confused

ipad air slightly bigger and has a better chip

f hazel in my neighbourhood you can get a new SE battery installed by a fella with a saggy waistband for about 40 bucks, which i think i'm going to do

I got the regular 9.7” one last year and it works great.

once you get your battery replaced, this case attachment for my SE has revitalized it for me and only increased the size slightly:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NVJ62FJ
Three days off one full charge! Only $30

I have an X for work but an SE for personal. All the SE needs is portrait mode and it would be a game changer tbqh.

Tracer... yes, I thought about just doing a battery replacement for my SE (I am fighting the loss of headphone jack as long as I can) but my 128GB SE is so full it can't even take pictures because there's no space left! I need that 256GB upgrade. I'm poking around online today to see if I can find a reputable source for a new 8/256GB model.

Wow can’t imagine how I’d run out of storage on 128GB. Do you keep all your stuff locally stored?

all that vlogging takes some editing space

I take a lot of selfies!

But yeah, I've got about 100GB of mp3s and the rest is photos. Jumping to 256 will let me just dump my entire mp3 collection on the iPhone without worrying about what I have to leave off.

i'm on 64GB and it's fine but i do sync & delete my photos

macbooks are so expensive these days too... my MBP is 8 years old. don't have space to sync & delete photos : /

I’ve managed to get by with a 16gb SE these past 3 years. I have a separate MP3 player so I don’t keep music on it. I transfer my photos off of it regularly and I don’t use many apps. Still I’m currently barely squeaking by.

you could probably buy a dozen 500GB drives for the same cost as a new phone. and you could put your Apple Photos library on one of them.

it's important that I have access to all my cat photos so I can work them into conversations while I'm out here in the world

Check out Swappa for an iPhone 8; I’ve had good luck with them. New and used.

thanks for the tip! I found a new-in-box iPhone 8/256 on Swappa, bought it, and now I'm living the dream of dumping my entire music collection onto it without having to pick and choose! and for half the cost of an iPhone 11 Pro. I can live without the sexy camera.

Has Jeff posted lately? Wondering if we’re trading up to this sucker

I missed the shipping window to ensure I’d get it before a vacation but may do so on return

The three-lens camera thing is pretty ugly

new MacBook Pro with physical escape key for Vim users

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro-16/

Look at the max ram and hd in this thing. I don’t need it but I want it.

it has a keyboard my god the misery ends at last

that Esc key is gonna cost you

cant believe they are sticking with the touch bar

I can't believe that on that giant laptop they are sticking with a few TB3 ports and nothing else.