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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
further can't wait to hear from people who get any sort of facial surgery done, which will be quite possible given the price point

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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

uncurable mlady posted:

iPhone x gon give it to ya

specifically rsi from constantly having to swipe up to do anything

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
the A11 chip will let you experience the software bloat 100x more!

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

The Management posted:

btw the faceid sensor is basically a primesense Kinect motion tracker, except higher resolution.

"it's like this terrible, failed product only moreso"

you know you got a winner on your hands when you pick up a technology that microsoft abandoned

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
yeah the kinect was going gangbusters before those ol' meanies at apple bought them out

they literally designed the xb1x around kinect and nobody wanted it and had to scramble to take it out of the box at the last possible minute

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
another wonderful product that sat on retailer shelves gathering dust until they got returned

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
at least it's comforting that apple is picking up microsoft's scraps too and not just samsung's

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Plank Walker posted:

but enough about your love of winphones

that's shaggar not me

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

:barf:

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
it's ironic that the iphonx requires a bunch of gestures to operate since it's a big gesture in and of itself: a middle finger to the consumer and steve's memory

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
can't wait for tim's next keynote where he talks about how excited he is about the iphone 8 and iphonx and doesn't ever mention sales numbers

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
one upshot of having no fewer than five different phone models available at any one time is at least one of them, possibly two, are revised versions of hardware so you don't have to buy the first iteration of an apple product (which is a very dumb and bad idea)

the problem is apple's new strategy is to roll out new hardware every year from now on so eventually you will always have to buy first-run products

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
the only way you could think that vaping doesn't stink is if your sense of smell has been previously eradicated by actual smoking

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
i'm surprised that echi is making the case so strongly for complete tobacco and alcohol prohibition but here we are

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
obscuring file location/naming/folder hierarchy was a good decision that was made by the teams who designed the iphone and ipad because those devices do not need robust storage maintenance

the fact that they're shoehorning it into ios 11 in the face of all evidence to the contrary is further proof that tim is terrified of samsung and other android manufacturers

the actual ridiculous-looking act of manipulating files on ios 11 is just the terrible cherry on top of the terrible batch of ideas he's had since the start of his tenure

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Linguica posted:

a mashup of ios3 and ios7 would result in... ios5??? someone light up the stymie signal

it won't be as good as ios 5 until they drop apple maps and fire johnny ives and tim (preferably into the sun)

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
lol i forgot about the istylus

back to poking your devices with a stick, in defiance of steve's wisdom

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Linguica posted:

ah, of course



lol forever

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

FMguru posted:

the key takeaway: gently caress cancer

careful, this is a controversial sentiment, especially in the apple thread

you might get super edgelords making tasteless jokes

eg: the below post

Stymie fucked around with this message at 22:02 on Sep 21, 2017

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

coke posted:

ah yes the good ol "will be fixed with an update later"

yet another example of tim's lack of leadership

steve wouldn't have let his subordinates push out an unfinished product to meet a deadline and get a bonus, he would delay the product and not give them the bonus because they didn't loving earn it

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
saying ios 10 "works" is a pretty big stretch

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
dunno beyond it being a popular av to give out to other people

it's a classic from the lf days

also, it's clearly a cat

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

i want to laugh at this but it's just sad, why would you do this?

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
even if you were foolish enough to install ios 11 at least be patient enough to wait for the .1 release for some semblance of stability

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

bump_fn posted:



theres no way to get rid of this stupid bar at the bottom is there

jesus wept

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
touch id improving to 70% accuracy would be a dramatic improvement

it's always been bad, you're just now noticing

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

today i found out that there are literally almost no banks supporting apple pay in europe, and the two countries leading in apple pay adoption by far are the U.K. and... Russia

apple pay is another one of the recent screw ups by tim that they're just trying to quietly ignore and eventually put to bed

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

actually it's really excellent and i use it all over europe, having some accounts with the non poo poo banks

just an fyi, prefacing a bald-faced lie with "actually" doesn't make it true or interesting to read, so you might want to avoid that in the future

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
pre-bent for your convenience

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

The Management posted:

because lightning was created before usb-c? because lightning is stiff enough to mount the entire phone in whereas usb C is not designed for that? because lightning is thinner?

nope

tim wanted another dedicated accessory to monetize since he can only think about things in terms of attach rate instead of actual product quality

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

The Management posted:

lightning: Introduced on September 12, 2012 when the iPhone 5 was launched.
usb-c: spec finalized in August 2014

cool but usb-c and lightning are unrelated aside from each being a type of connector

tim pushed lightning because he wanted a dedicated accessories segment for his badphones

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Comfy Fleece Sweater posted:

magnetic charging means lightning port is on the way out sometime in the future anyway

lightning adapter is probably the last cable you'll put in an iPhone 🤷🏻‍♂️

nah they'll have to keep the lightning port since wireless charging has everyone's iphones busting open like techno pinatas

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Doc Block posted:

they already had a dedicated accessories segment with the 30-pin connector you dumbfuck

no, the 30-pin connector was steve's idea

tim had to make waves and create an all new accessory to establish himself as the savvy leader he thinks he is and so he could soak third parties who were trying to carve up his sweet, sweet accessory sales

tim's ideal company is basically monster cable because they don't have to mess around with any of those pesky "phones" or "computers" that actually require vision or leadership to create

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Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

Fabricated posted:

I have yet to meet anyone IRL that likes the touchbar

nobody in yospos likes it either, they're trolling if they say they do

just fyi

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