New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

3G has been super handy when I don't have usual broadband. I got mine on Orange though, which has way better coverage than the O2 of my iPhone.

I think it would have jsut been an expensive toy until I started taking it to work, where it replaced a giant binder full of paper. It's much better to take to meetings etc -- you can take notes where a laptop ins't really acceptable. It's good for quick demos of stuff as well.

Got a lot less useful when MacBook Air 11" came along tho, which beats it at just about everything else thanks to its novel concept of "windows" which allows it to do more than one thing at once.

Yeah. If you want a computer an ipad is all but useless to you. I think loads of people think an ipad will replace their laptop, and then they spend about three months trying to shoehorn everything they do into a chunk of glass without a keyboard or USB ports.

can you sync photos from computer to ipod/iphone without iphoto?

Don't think so. Apparently there's an SD card adapter coming that lets you suck photos off the card into the ipad but I dunno who'd use that in the real world.

Um, you can set a directory to sync, and iTunes also works with Aperture, and on Windows there's obviously no iPhoto to sync with.

The SD card adapter (which also comes with a USB adapter) came out in May 2010. I mentioned having one a few posts back. It's handy.

ah sorry yes, I misread your question cozen.

my ipad is relegated to surfing in bed in the morning & reading longform journalism

Gruber

last year Apple didn’t yet understand the iPad. They knew it was good. They knew it had potential. But they didn’t know what it was.

fucking figures as i just bought the original a month ago.

poops, people have been able to return and/or get $100 off newly purchased ipad 1s by going into the apple store.. officially you can return or get the discount within 14 days but some stores are letting people do it within 30. worth a try!

How have I only just discovered that swiping up or down on any of the IPad home screens brings up the search box??

Bloody hell, it works on the iPhone too.

Wait, what?

right, so should I get an iPhone today, because my 3G is so slow and unstable that I am going to lose my mind. I read the rumors about iPhone5, and I don't know what to do.

The 4's pretty good. The 5 will most likely be out in June/July but honestly it'll probably just be a speed bump.

What makes you say that?

I read a rumor today saying the 5 might be delayed until september. The speed bump is maybe important to me, because my 3G is so freaking slow now. Like half of the apps out there don't even run on the phone. They are unworkably slow or crash.

Maybe get a 4 on an 18 month contract, if that's available? That way when it runs out you'll probably be back more in sync with the release cycle.

Apple rumours are ridiculous, safe to ignore 99% of them. Apple's iphone cycle is June/July.

Alba: There'll be a new enticing factor but it's unlikely (obv I don't know for sure) that there'll be a new design until next year. It's selling well, many people have two-year contracts and public attention's on the new ipad.

Bloody hell, it works on the iPhone too.

Up = right, down = left, swipe-wise. On the home screens. Bleeple bloop.

Alba: There'll be a new enticing factor but it's unlikely (obv I don't know for sure) that there'll be a new design until next year. It's selling well, many people have two-year contracts and public attention's on the new ipad.

Agreed. If there will be any change to the iPhone this year, it'll probably only be a change to the A5 processor. Design/features won't change much (if at all)

How do you mean, Tracer? Up is up!

dude I know at foxconn is waiting specifically till next release to get an iphone.
this could mean absolutely nothing because he also waited till last xmas to get a PSP.

Oh, I've been a fool. It was only working because I was on the first home screen, where I could have just swiped left to the search box anyway. Sorry guys. Still - it SHOULD do that. Fantasy over.

Alba: There'll be a new enticing factor but it's unlikely (obv I don't know for sure) that there'll be a new design until next year. It's selling well, many people have two-year contracts and public attention's on the new iPad

That's all fine, except ... you could have said exactly the same last year. More so, in fact, as the iPad really was a new thing then.

If he works at Foxconn he's probably a massive geek so.

When I swipe up on my iphone home screen nothing happens. Spotlight is left all the way + 1.

btw chasing Apple rumours is exactly like looking up medical conditions, it's all inappropriate/misleading and before you know it the next ipod is a 3D hologram due in mid-April and you have 12 types of cancer.

i thought steve only had one type?

Indeed, although these days in the month or so before release you often get pretty solid leaks these days.

Xpost

iPancreatic

Sorry, "solid leaks" sounds like some grim cancer symptom.

That's all fine, except ... you could have said exactly the same last year. More so, in fact, as the iPad really was a new thing then.

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True. Yesterday Gruber pointed out that Apple wasn't really sure what the ipad was for in its first year (same with the iphone to an extent; remember it didn't even have an app store in the first year). I think that's why this year's revision is so enormous.

I still think the iphone 5 will be a reasonable jump from the iphone 4, but in the same way the 3GS was a jump from the 3G, i.e. processing bumps but not LTE or a massive case revamp or anything. I'm guessing like everyone else but I'm basing it on past form. Also, the iphone 4 is really really fantastic in a way that the 3G wasn't.

xp and yeah, leaks.

Huh. Now it seems both up and down = left. How embarrassing!

I should elaborate on that. Okay, the iphone 3G was always a sluggish piece of crap. On v2 of the OS it was all right, but there were memory leak issues with the keyboard, crashes galore, you couldn't play music and do anything else at the same time etc etc. It just wasn't terribly responsive or reliable. The iphone 4 is by contrast an incredibly zippy and fluid piece of kit.

I'm sure iOS 5 will turn the iphone 4 upside down with proper multitasking or some such but right now it's fine.

strange how the iphone 1 (now forgotten, RIP) was such a leap fwd in many respects yet still so backwards in many others (no C&P lol)

^ solitary posts that effortlessly summarise the spirit of apple

I should elaborate on that. Okay, the iphone 3G was always a sluggish piece of crap. On v2 of the OS it was all right, but there were memory leak issues with the keyboard, crashes galore, you couldn't play music and do anything else at the same time etc etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk

still the only iphone I ever owned. and I did trav to amerikeh to pick it up it's true

should'nt have bought the desire I have now (it's shit) tbh. roll on iphone 5

android sucks linux' balls

True. Yesterday Gruber pointed out that Apple wasn't really sure what the ipad was for in its first year (same with the iphone to an extent; remember it didn't even have an app store in the first year). I think that's why this year's revision is so enormous.

How does Apple's great epiphany translate into a new level of consumer interest? Will people will be rushing to the stores, enticed by the prospect of using the front-facing camera and A5 chip to arse around in GarageBand and make SexyTime with their girlfriend?

Nah it's more that last year the ipad was a sort of a thing of some sort that sort of did sort of word processing and sort of a bit of sort of email and sort of browsing, whereas this year they had a showreel of people doing ipaddy things with it. I must admit I walked away from last year's launch wondering what all the fuss was about, but this week the ipad actually looked like a genuinely worthwhile proposition.

Don't really see the big difference with iPad 2, but I like my iPad 1 just fine. Word processing is ... not something I've really thought of doing on it though.

I mean, I'd like a speed bump, sure.

Also (and this is weird, I can't adequately put it into words, bear with me) the first ipad was chunky and heavy and not terribly elegant imo. In pics and videos, and then in person, it just looked and felt awkward and prototypey. This year's already looks like an Apple product, and despite the similar weight I reckon it'll feel that way too.

xp ah, there you go, that's the point I was making. Apple launched iwork with the ipad as if to say 'we think this is what people might do with it' because they really weren't sure where the ipad was going to go.

Sorry, I'm really not explaining myself terribly well.

i find that a big key to performance on an iphone is how much free space it has, even when mine had about 5 GB left it was getting slow, I deleted some stuff and now it has like 10 GB left and it's running faster

smh @ apple for not including more ram

Must be swap space. My 4's down to ~1.5 Gb of free space and apps have started to crash all over the place.

Don't think Pages et al were ever a big sell, really. Everyone knew it was the third-party developers who would really exploit its capabilities.

Though having said that, I probably spend more than half my time on it in Safari.

Interesting. I've heard people who got it at launch and lost interest have recently gone back to it, but I don't know what they're doing with it. I presume most just keep it by the sofa when they're watching telly and just poke at it when they're bored.

Bah, version 1 works great, typing this on one right now.

and I still don't know what to do...

Maybe I'll just get the 4, because I am having a hard time living with my 3G.

If you reckon you can wait three months, wait three months.