New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

verizon is supposed to be rolling out 4g this year as well, is that at all related? this crap gets confusing to me quickly.

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/11/live-coverage-of-verizons-media-event/

Main hash:

Verizon's Lowell McAdam is on-stage.
- Setting context with CES and the convergence of data, broadband, and video. "Today two innovators are coming together."
- Talking about FiOS, new 4G LTE network rolling out. "We debated calling this 6G" - responding to other carriers such as AT&T rebranding their HSPA+ service as "4G".
- Today announcing that the iPhone 4 will be available on Verizon early next month.
- Has all the features you expect: FaceTime, Retina display, 5-megapixel camera with HD video, custom A4 chip, etc.
- Verizon's Dan Mead on stage to talk about launch details.
- Verizon employees getting the iPhone this week. Ramping unprecedented supply in inventory system.
- Talking about network preparations...have been building in capacity to handle the coming surge.
- Current Verizon customers can pre-order beginning February 3rd. Available to all at Verizon and Apple stores on February 10th.
- Pricing is $199 for 16 GB, $299 for 32 GB. Can also act as Wi-Fi hotspot for up to five devices.

how much per month is really all I care about. att is absurd.

Can also act as Wi-Fi hotspot for up to five devices.
This shit needs to happen for everybody. Fukc o2.

how much per month is really all I care about. att is absurd.

If it's anything like the UK, the carriers plans' will be so close price-wise as to make it not worth switching.

lte on this shit?

no

yeah since it's not 4G I'm trying to decide between getting one of these or the HTC Thunderbolt. they haven't said when that's actually being released though.

I'll probably get this. And if it feels slow, I'll upgrade to the LTE iPhone 5 that'll come out a few months later, at a great cost, or just wait it out for 2 years or until it breaks. Thunderbolt looks cool, but I use my girlfriend's HTC Android phone, and I find it annoying. Maybe a newer/better android phone wouldn't make me want an iPhone so bad, but who knows.

think im gonna wait for iphone 5

me too

all I have right now is a crappy texting phone so I'm not gonna wait months. (I was actually just about to get an HTC Incredible next week so it's good timing for all this to go down.) if the Thunderbolt's not coming out until summer or whatever then I'll def. get an iPhone 4. (some reports have said "midyear" for the first Verizon LTE phone)

I use my girlfriend's HTC Android phone, and I find it annoying.

good to know, I've only messed with it in the store. seems to get the best reviews of all the Android brands.

Which HTC Android phone? I thought there were a few.

I have the HTC desire (the /best/ android phone I think) (unless the nexus s has no superseded it) and it is annoying

xpost - there are a few, I assumed Dan was talking about the Incredible which (I think) is the only HTC phone that Verizon has right now (until the Thunderbolt comes out)

ah yeah, got me. Her android phone is an Eris, which is relatively ancient. Perhaps with a snappier processor I'd like it more, but just general stuff like typing, I find so much easier on my iPod Touch. And there's all that stuff with appkillers and this and that. I'm a pretty solid apple fanboy so I'm sure I'd end up regretting going with an android phone.

so apple could potentially roll out an iphone 5 for att but not for verizon this summer?

Doubtful

I'm a pretty solid Apple fanboy too (got a Macbook) but I'm worried about locking in on a 3G phone when 4G's about to roll out. I'll probably go ahead and do it though.

xpost - it's possible

consensus seems to be that lte is unlikely before end of 2011

the chipsets are too big

Could be, GSM market is much bigger counting the rest of the world. I wouldn't be surprised if summer sees a "4GS" (processor and ram bump, not much else) before a full blown iPhone 5 with LTE in 2012. I was wrong about verizon happing now, so what do I know?

don't apple usually have some sort of conference & announce new product in jan? was this verizon thing it or is there something else coming?

MacWorld Expo is in a few weeks. No clue what product updates are coming.

There is MacWorld San Francisco, but Apple pulled out of it a couple of years back, now they just do their developers conference in the summer and ad hoc PR events.

xpost

They stopped doing SF? Man, I have not been paying attention at all.

If Apple doesn't participate, then what goes on at MacWorld Expo? lol.

"check out this app"

It's all the third-parties who make shit for Macs, iPhones, and iPods. So you end up with some developer and application stuff, and a lot of accessories afaik

Team,
At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will continue as CEO and be involved in major strategic decisions for the company.

I have asked Tim Cook to be responsible for all of Apple's day to day operations. I have great confidence that Tim and the rest of the executive management team will do a terrific job executing the exciting plans we have in place for 2011.

I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can. In the meantime, my family and I would deeply appreciate respect for our privacy.

Steve

uh oh

Yeah, doesn't seem good.

I'm trying to decide if I should hold out for iphone 5 (or iphone 4s or whatever it will be called) apparently due in June, or just go ahead and get the iphone 4. I I have a 3G, and plenty of apps just don't work. Some rumors have the iphone going for a total redesign inside and out. Other rumors point toward a new processor and other innards. Any thoughts?

im trying to decide the same thing

leaning towards waiting for the new one tho

yeah, i've heard that the new phone is going to be a significant redesign and that it'll probably have an A5 chip instead of an A4. i'd say there's no reason to get a new iPhone right now unless you absolutely need one. if you wait until 5 is released, you can see what you think about it, and if you don't think it's worth it then you can just buy the current iteration at a much cheaper price

also, this Jobs health news is awful, and i hope he bounces back and returns to "normal" ASAP

one more thing: it's going to be really weird to watch the iPad 2 keynote if, as it seems very likely, Jobs won't be doing it. if he's really sick, i could totally see a situation in which they just had Cook or Schiller do the whole thing

hate to say it but pancreatic cancer and "bounces back" dont usually go together

some random guy on the internet says: "what he had was a curable type of cancer, a rare form, not your typical pancreatic cancer. What really is far more likely is transplant rejection, and his doctors probably asked him to take some time off and are going to play around with his immunosuppresant medications. Just a guess though."

Here's some more info, from the New York Times article about this:

Dr. Lewis W. Teperman, the director of transplant surgery and vice chairman of surgery at the Langone Medical Center of New York University, said a variety of problems could affect someone with a liver transplant. Dr. Teperman has not been involved in Mr. Jobs’s care and said he had no knowledge of the case.

“It’s very common for transplant patients to have issues that are not life-threatening,” Dr. Teperman said. “We give them very strong, high-powered medications, immunosuppressants, to prevent rejection. It’s a delicate balance, more art than science.”

Side effects from the drugs can make patients ill, and sometimes the regimen has to be changed, a process that can take days and weeks. The side-effects include high blood sugar and diabetes, kidney damage, diarrhea, high blood pressure, high blood fats and cholesterol, rashes and low counts of white blood cells. The drugs leave patients prone to infection.

Rejection of the transplanted liver is also a possibility, but Dr. Teperman said it was extremely rare for a liver transplant to be totally rejected.

The original reason for Mr. Jobs’s transplant was never publicly disclosed. At the time, doctors not involved in his case said the most likely reason was that his pancreatic cancer had spread to his liver. If that was the case, it is possible that cancer has recurred; the anti-rejection drugs can increase the odds of cancer recurrence. A recurrence may be treatable. But so little information has been disclosed that it is impossible to tell, Dr. Teperman said.

“There are lots of bumps in the road with transplantations, and people usually get through them,” he said.

it has like a 95% mortality rate after treatment but my understanding with pancreatic cancer is that if you're lucky enough to still be alive six years later like jobs then you're cured, and whatever else (complications from transplant?) is jobs's problem is not due to panny canny.

omg we're speculating like it's an iProduct.

I loved Gruber's focus on the "I love Apple so much and hope to be back as soon as I can." line.

Second coming?

is there a way to configure a non-jailbroken iphone so that only certain numbers can call you/text you? (can you do this on android?)

Just give people a Google Voice number and not your real one, imo

OT: would people be creeped if their calls and txts to me were being managed by Google? Thinking of moving to Google Voice and I'm not sure what the ethic is here.

Uh how would anyone know?