New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

"We'd like to announce we've licensed our cord technology to Monster Cable."

sounds awful

powered by the gametes you pee

what do u guys think abt my car problem, advise me, whats the way forward

Crash car, collect insurance, get new car.

noted

i thnk u shld install the old connector and then bitch abt the new one.

honestly tho probably the new one, assuming they make an old>new converter (which they might not, knowing them)

who knows what the new one even does besides charge, maybe its better than mini-usb in some way. but staying the same because a bunch of hotels have old cables lying around is ridic dude

Just get a USB port instead of a dock connector, duh. Future proof for the foreseeable future.

Two of the last round of hotels I stayed in had glitched/broken docking thingies anyway.

Come to think of it, if I stayed in fewer hotels I could be buying an iPhone 5

otm, this is a wake-up call

hotels is like a ignorable fraction of the number of ipod cables and docks out there. everyone on this thread either has at least one of those cables in their own house or in one of their immediate family's houses. the things are entrenched. you're under-imagining 400 million

lol at people who use docks

― caek, Wednesday, 5 September 2012 10:20 (5 hours ago) Permalink

eh I find my little cheapo dock from costco pretty useful actually, e.g. I can listen to NPR or Spotfiy in the kitchen only without bothering the napping little one and the quick plug and play is very easy and convenient. Obviously I'm not looking for audiophile sound out of the thing.

I have a ton of them! Guess what, I've happily swapped them between iPods, iPhones, and iPads over a decade and it's been amazingly easy. I completely expect that I will eventually end up with devices with the new connector and get another decade of ease-of-swappability, with the added bonus of having a smaller connector on the end.

fwiw I griped a little when they switched from having a sweet firewire port on the top of the iPod, too

yeah you're right, eventually. so maybe in abt 10 years the new connector will be as common as the current one already is. that will be brilliant, not long to wait for us to be in the same place we are today once again.

and in the meantime it can be really exciting looking at it going hay it is 3mm narrower the future is so awesome

some words of wisdom for you stet

http://thumbpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/things-change.jpg

i am goin to stay in a hotel crying and charging ipods until they reveal the magical new cable-connecting properties of the wonder connector

http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/05/leaked-iphone-5-shown-booting-up-to-developer-program-error-screen/

Just get a USB port instead of a dock connector, duh. Future proof for the foreseeable future.

― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Wednesday, September 5, 2012 12:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey this is a good idea, never seen that in a car, can they make the tunes flow through, i dont see why not

the tunes must flow

i'm surprised people don't bluetooth their tunes

Apparently they're planning to charge USBucks10 for an adaptor, or 3 of them for Apparently they're planning to charge USBucks10 for an adaptor, or 3 of them for $29, and at least initially only Apple will be making them.9, and at least initially only Apple will be making them.

Sorry, language settings on laptop must have been left on 'gertrude stein'

thing is the connector charges while flowing tunes where bluetooth flows and saps juice

lol I came here to post that as conspiracy angle

there you have it, stet, the feature of the new connector is profit

Apple will be the exclusive initial vendor of a new Dock Connector Adapter

jeremy horowitz looks like he's got big thoughts going on up there

Just get a USB port instead of a dock connector, duh. Future proof for the foreseeable future.

― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Wednesday, September 5, 2012 12:07 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hey this is a good idea, never seen that in a car, can they make the tunes flow through, i dont see why not

― lag∞n, Wednesday, September 5, 2012 10:53 AM

The last two cars I rented had a built-in USB connector. Worked great and use whatever cable you want.

Sheesh, the panic about the new connector is such a non-issue for me.

did the tunes flow through

$100m is not to be sniffed at, i guess.

hackers could hack your car, be careful out there

i was just in a car with a usb adapter and the tunes flowed

My car has a USB adapter which is fine, but I'm kind of pissed that the 7 years or whatever I have of ipod/iphone/ipad cables is rendered obsolete - I've ended up with enough of them that I can just casually leave them in my wherever I might end up needing one.

they're only gonna be obsolete if you get a new phone/ipod, think about THAT

guys I have bought into the apple lifestyle, all the cables are interchangeable, what will I do

if I go back to a nokia phone lifestyle will I be able to use the same cables forever?

as long as it's still got flush headphone jack

s1ock1 otm

And putting the headphone jack on the bottom is just stupid anyway

^^^incorrect

the idea of bottom will probably go out of style

not kidding, i bet at some point phones are going to have no correct orientation

hockey pucks

they could have the whole touchscreen be an induction microphone and the iOS orientation just flips around depending on how you're holding it

and the speakers could be a long ribbon that runs all the way around the long edge of the phone

best sound in mobile speaker history, just don't hold it, ever

i like the different effects i can get on my phone speakers by holding it differently, little wah wah phase actions for big techno buildups for example /sodcaster

the ribbon would be inside the case and you'd have a little grill run all of the way around

the phone would pick up subdermal vibrations when you talk, you just have to light touch a corner to your jaw

i remember hearing once about a rumored phone that you would wear on your wrist like a watch and it sent vibrations down your finger so that when you stuck the tip of your finger in your ear it acted as a speaker; the microphone was in the strap that went around your wrist. it was being "invented in japan" iirc, and i was convinced it would become a reality

http://fashionbrain.com/mobile-phones/175-ntt-docomo/391-stick-that-in-your-ear-docomos-fingerwhisper.html

can find no references to it after 2003

i want that

'ew, why is your finger in your ear?'
'nothing'