New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

also SMS is like "always available," you only IM someone when theyre "online"

combine the two and either youve elevated IM to the level of SMS where youre constantly "available" and always buzzing, or youve dropped SMS down to the level of IM and lost the useful kind of phone-buzzing message

i see! yeah it's really why sms is needed in a world with email that I'm trying to figure out

I just got a first gen iPhone from my dad & he turned off the data plan so I have it running just as an old iPod touch + voice plan, but I'm gonna upgrade it later this year to iPhone 5 & was wondering if texting is something I'm gonna want, given that I can do email already...sounds like it's all about the vibrations

max otm, this is basically what i'm getting at

i dont mind missing IMs, but missing texts can be catastrophic

sms is like a "special" more "personal" tier of email, basically, where you don't have sign them or w/e

email for work, sms for party...the mullet of communication

Merging SMS + IM is a terrible idea.

Breaking SMS apart from a single handset and phone number is a fantastic idea.

I should be able to pick up SMSs on any device I choose and send them from any device I choose. I should be able to search my old ones, too. iMessage sort-of promises that but it has way too many rough edges and oddities.

(Email is totally diff. There are times I sign out of IM and there are times I don't check email for loong periods. SMS is never ever off. It's the get-me-now-anywhere-I-am channel)

i dont mind missing IMs, but missing texts can be catastrophic

I see situations where this is true, but those are ones where I'd fall back to a voice call? I see IM as mainly a conversational medium where you're going back and forth in realtime, but SMS can have a lag or be acknowledged at your whim, unless it's "I just got to the theater, I'm on the right side"

mh, texts are how the world of young ppl communicate with each other these days

if you voice call someone you're weird

Oh yeah, I mean voice is an EMERGENCY override

I was just about to look up the number of texts I do per month, but I realized it's going to be way off due to iMessage in the last few months and the number of friends with iPhones.

I'm probably in the ~300 text/month range normally, but I've gone to 700 during busy times? Obviously not nearly as much as kids.

I just wish messages even worked

as far as i can tell, Message on mountain lion doesn't receive SMS, it can only receive messages sent to your iMessage account

phew that'll make things less confusing

More like more confusing: if someone has your iMessage email and your phone number in the same contact entry for you, they have to jump through massive hoops to send you an SMS.

Otherwise what *they* think is a text from their phone to yours is actually going to turned into an iMessage which may turn up on your Mac, iPad and hopefully iPhone.

couldn't SMS a friend last night because both on iOS5 and I was outwith 3G

i was joking stet

http://www.tuaw.com/2012/02/20/use-messages-to-send-files-from-mac-to-iphone/

This method worked well for a number of files of varying size and format. For example, everything from a 149 KB PDF to a 101.4 MB MOV were quickly dispatched to my iPhone with a drag and drop. I tried to throw a 194 MB MOV file to the iPhone, but was informed that the file was too large.

This sounds like a solution to a problem people aren't having. Or if they are, a problem for which this is a pretty bad solution.

I doubt it's intended as a solution to anything

Well, sure. I think it's cool that you can send files that way, though.

would be nice to be able to send MP3s between iphones

Maybe the Messages team is the old MobileMe team

It's annoying how every contact has 'iMessage' against it, even those without iOS devices or an iCloud account.

these ipad 3 leaks are getting ridiculous. the new ipad 3 looks like an... ipad

When does the backlash start?

when they get rid of the "pro" line, probably

what to do next: make a macbook air with a screen that detaches and runs iOS.

Not sure what is up with you people and this "iPad laptop" thing.

btw they already made that and it's called an iPad. You just have to buy one of the many cases that has an attached keyboard or the keyboard dock

I'm sure I told you guys that adding a wireless keyboard to an iPad is packed with win xp

you'd think they'd pack in windows 8

ahahaha oh wow

i'm sorry, i couldn't resist

don't blame you, it was brillant

http://live.theverge.com/Event/Live_from_Apples_iPad_3_event_in_San_Francisco

Time to Read & Trust all these live blogs.

http://images.scribblelive.com/2012/3/7/efb5f639-c922-4265-80ba-0201874405c1.jpg

15 million of 365 million units sold in 2011, the POST-PC ERA.

yay. no buttons at all.

oh, I guess there is - just can't see it.

you need to clean your retina display

LOOK AT ALL THE PIXELS

URGENT

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7039/6816132802_b112e2dd94_z.jpg

love how they decided not to stream it but farmed it out to tech journalists to liveblog it, whose sites are now being crushed under the traffic

Keeps things easier. Anyway, some of the tech stuff so far:

- 2048 x 1536 resolution. Higher than a 1080p display. 3.1 million pixels, 264 pixels per inch, "enough to call it a retina display". iPhone 4 was held at 10 inches, iPad held at 15".
- 44% greater color saturation.
- A5X Processor, quad-core graphics.
- New iSight Camera. 5MP rear camera, backside illuminated sensor on the back, 5-element lens, IR filter, and ISP built into A5X chip. Same design as iPhone 4S. Auto-exposure, auto-focus.
- HD video recording in 1080p.
- Voice dictation.

records video in 1080HD. great, more ppl who get to look like douches filming w/ their ipad

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