Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

Do talk about Honda somewhere as I’m on the brink of leasing a CRV

I should probably call out the offender of the weird touchpad device

Lexus, what are you doing? Really?

I rented a Ford Expedition (inadvertently) with the top of the line upgrades and drove it to Michigan and back and it was BA NA NAS stupidly big and boat-y, but also I got kinda used to some of the things?? Not only heated seats but ventilated seats, with AC vented through them! Heaven. Also the on-board nav w touch screen that displayed the map as I drove, BSI with warning lights on the side mirrors, wireless charging pad and USB/12v outlets everywhere, a reallly good back-up cam (you need it on that thing)...oh and the driver's seat auto-retracts when you turn the car off, so you can get out more easily. That was wild but useful bc I'm short and have to sit really close to the pedals.

Basically it was scarily comfortable except for driving like a boat and being huge enough to kill a lot of pedestrians at the same time.

Sorry that should read 50k miles. Still way to early For a new trans.

Oh and the headlights and wipers work all by themselves--it even dims and brightens the headlamps when it senses lights ahead. I appreciated both features when I drove through a sudden downpour in PA on my first day and I didn't know where the wiper control was yet.

I've never driven a car w modern tech, so I was just really charmed that it automatically connected to my phone & itunes library, contacts, etc and I could call anyone with voice commands and so on. Magical!

Haha!

All cars made in us post 2018 have to have backup cameras.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eACEHVceYl0

Yeah basically nothing has changed

4 MB of RAM, that should be plenty

I’m not a fan of the new red Music app icon in iOS 14

I think it was also red in iOS 7. then it went white with iOS 10?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=170&v=OxZAfOHCq0g&feature=emb_title

so is apple going to make me feel stupid for not paying attention to the rumor mill and buying an SE two weeks ago instead of whatever the new smallphone is?

(probably, though i'm sure it'll cost more)

well, it IS October...

Talk of an iPhone mini out next week yeah

The iPhone 12 Mini does look the business, physically smaller than the SE2020 but edge to edge, larger, higher res OLED screen. Like...any Samsung.

But it’s gonna be nearly twice the price of the SE, so there you go.

https://youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=ldC-nls1V5E

Yeah, the SE2020 was the first time I've ever had the "latest thing". Usually it's last year's or the year before's model. It's nice, but I've dropped it more often in five months than I did any of the smaller handsets, ever. This could just be senility. Happy to go back to small and not-the-latest-thing if 12 Minis are going cheap in 2022!

I sold my 11 last week to help finance the 12 mini, can’t wait

I like our HomePod way more than I thought, the mini is interesting

i will pay extra to not have smart speakers in my home

We’re officially in the “but this razor has five plus one blades” era of iPhone sales.

it looks like a nice phone

not sure they need four new models, but hey

argh, is there any real certainty that they're doing another event next month (hopefully macbooks) or is it purely speculation? any idea when we might know?

Arm book by the end of the year

they have committed to at least one arm mac by the end of the year (not clear if that's announced or actually shipped). the general consensus it it will be a lower end macbook.

thanks!

are they... are they made of arms? do you wear them on your arm?

Here's a version of my iPhone sizes sketch with the ghost of the original SE, if anyone wants that size comparison. #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/De1y7KFGva

— Kate Matthews (@rhl__) October 13, 2020

new iphone mini is bigger than the original SE, but smaller than the current SE.

looks... smaller than the original SE?

Original SE is unlabeled in light orange/peach.

Original SE is the peach one without a label in the middle

ah got it. yeah, i can get with that for sure; i've been hanging on to my 5se for five years or so but it's beginning to flag. gonna need to upgrade at some point in the future though; a top of the line model with applecare and case/charger/wallet looks like it runs about 1400.

Ugh, they're killing me with the late release dates this year. I was planning on keeping my 6S for at least another year but I went swimming with it in my pocket the first week of September and have been limping along with my old 4S since then. Which means I don't even really have a phone since Verizon won't activate that one anymore. Good thing I never got rid of the land line!

Wah

This mini looks really good, yeah. The camera on the enormo one does as well though: the example shots are better by some stretch than the last round and in much more challenging light than the usual “desert at midday” stuff

I've got to the New Battery (and new lightening port) vs New Phone point in the cycle. However, I'm not entirely sure my original X is lacking anything, but will probably end up buying a new one anyway.

SE now £399

cheapest iPhone ever?

here we go

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/one-more-thing-apple-announces-livestreamed-event-for-november-10/

Will it have a keyboard that doesn’t suck?

Will macOS run in an iPad so I can buy a portable Mac with a keyboard that doesn’t suck?

Gotta wait til next year’s LED screens on the notebooks

Which laptop did you want, Ed? They’ve already dropped the butterfly keyboard on much of the range, haven’t they?

gonna get one of these because they keyboard is better https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-400-the-70-desktop-pc/

Aren't those inevitably going to die horrible deaths by Keyboard Crud?

I got one of the first 13” MBPs with the new keyboard and it is still too easy to double strike a key, the action I don’t mind. I never go anywhere without an external keyboard now, or anywhere at all this year.

TBF my ideal setup is probably an iMac + and iPad

Fuuuuuck, the non-pro iMac can't be configured with more than 256GB of storage? FUUUUUUCK.