Tanith posted:

http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/pincourt-man-fined-120-for-using-apple-watch-while-driving-1.2394293

io_burn posted:

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If you think the Industrial Revolution was transformational, the app store is even bigger.

Busta Chimes.wav posted:

Sniep posted:

Sniep posted:

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I was invited into the AT&T store this morning, after a long wait, to purchase my iPhone 5. I avoided looking at the display model iPhones on the way in, and averted my gaze from everyone elses iPhones. I wanted to enrich the experience of opening my own iPhone 5, and make it more special than it already would be. The sales rep retrieved the iPhone I requested...

Then he then proceeded to open the iPhone himself, with his back to me.

* *

My stomach sank. Opening an Apple product is a religious experience. It's one of the best things about the first day with your shiny new device. He took that from me. I felt like this sales rep had stolen from me. They were stealing from everyone. No one was opening their new iPhone. Is it not supposed to be special anymore? Then why does Apple continue to spend 3, 5, or 10 times as much on packaging and presentation as other companies?

I took a deep breath, and swallowed the lump in my throat. The sales rep then removed the Lightning USB cord from my box, peeled away the packaging, and stretched out my USB cord between his hands. I looked on, puzzled, as I could see several spare cords the manager had unpacked on the counter.

Then the AT&T rep proceeded to scatter the contents of my iPhone box all over the counter. He peeled off the front and back plastic covers from my iPhone and threw them in the trash. Then he sat the bare iPhone down on the table and pushed it toward his computer.

I can't believe what I am seeing, and I feel incapacitated to do anything about it. I had been awake all night waiting outside, and I didn't really have the energy to say anything.

Finally he was able to set up my new phone, then the rep grabs my iPhone box from the counter and tips it so that my charger falls on the ground. He doesn't even notice that he's lost the charger. He hands me my iPhone box with my USB cord haphazardly mashed in the box.

I had to tell him that he dropped the charger on the ground, and he says "good catch." Yeah...OK. Then I open the box, only to realize that the top tray, manual, stickers, and top part of the box are completely missing. I had to ask for them to be returned.

I finally walk out of the store with my iPhone, and I can tell you unequivocally that they ruined my first impression with the iPhone 5. Having used the phone now for several hours, I love it.. but the way that AT&T handled the launch today was a travesty.

Here's how they should have handled it.

You request the phone you want

The rep retrieves the phone and hands it to you to check.

The rep then encourages you to open your iPhone and shares in your excitement.

Once the phone is open, the rep then respectfully asks to take the phone and goes about his business. He leaves the protective covers on the phone, and lets you take them off at your own will.

He uses a spare USB cable, and leaves yours in the box, factory wrapped.

When your phone is activated and you're ready to go, the rep thanks you for your business, and wishes you the best with your new device.

That's how I wish it would've gone.

Puppy Galaxy posted:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3724752&perpage=40

PUGGERNAUT posted:

Barnyard Protein posted:

he wants a Japanese tea ceremony but with iphones

PUGGERNAUT posted:

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I actually think I am the intended: a nontech person

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I wanted it to work. I wanted to fall in love, like so many of my friends. “It takes a while,” they said. “Don’t expect a coup de foudre. Let it build over time.”

So I did. I knew other people looked at what I had with envy. But a month and a half after we first got together, I have decided it is time to — well, call time.

I am breaking up with my Apple Watch. The relationship was, despite all expectations, not what I needed. 

Still, I will never regret the weeks we spent together. They taught me some valuable truths about myself.


Granted, all of this would likely pale in importance if the watch were truly transforming my life, as my iPhone has. 

gargle chome posted:

apple fans are hosed up

DaNzA posted:

my working hypothesis is that this only happens with people with oily/dirty hands, where the oil from the hand get onto the cable and softens the rubber material and eventually degrades and breaks the cable

you can see how the cable has become discoloured/yellowish in the very pic that you've posted

io_burn posted:

More from the person looking to strap an Apple Watch around their trotter:

ANAmal.net posted:

i cant get enough of that picture of the apple watch struggling to wrap itself around the loving ham hock

refleks posted:

Does that person not understand that its not the size of the watchface, but those loving bands hanging on for dear life, and being stressed beyond what Timb and Jony ever imagined possible?

Drastic Actions posted:

Got a new watch face

triple sulk posted:

Endless Mike posted:

Sniep posted:

apple makes both the best computers as well as the worlds most advanced operating system

Sniep posted:

apple makes both the best computers as well as the worlds most advanced operating system