New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

anyway, population density absolutely impacts Australia because you have most people living in concentrated areas, meaning more efficient use of cell towers, plus you are also talking about a population that is 15 times smaller than the US so it shouldn't be THAT surprising that you can build a cheaper network there

the biggest factor iirc is getting the network out there in the first place. no problem rigging up a handful of 850 mhz cells through e.g. alice springs and no problem making money there, but linking that to the rest of the network and maintaining acceptable data speeds is costlier per capita in those regions.

indigenous communities are a whole different story though: recently some colleagues went out to wtf creek in the middle of buggery plains and saw first hand how bad landline internet speeds were there, much less any sort of reliable cell network.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-22-2013/tax-men---apple

"my point was more that the type of person who wears watches these days is more likely to be the kind of person who does so as a status symbol, not as a utility"

really?? i wear a watch because i need to know the time and i hate pulling my phone out. it's a cheapie digital, and i have three of them because i kept misplacing them, getting a new one, and then finding them.

500 MB of data a month? I go through a GB every day or so

they should really go old-timey and make a digital watch that looks like a gold Moneybags-style pocket watch with chain but it communicates via bluetooth to your phone, which also has the time on it. do you see, man!

re the possible usecases of such a watch -not new and i think it got posted already, but it still contains some valid points throughout:
http://kfury.com/what-an-apple-watch-is-good-for

What's missing from the discussion of profitability of setting up cell towers is that there are tons of places in the US where a single tower serves far fewer than the "10,000" discussed above. Where my parents used to live in rural Michigan, I had service in a tiny radius, in which there were maybe 30 or 40 houses - 50 absolute tops - it was in the woods - and the roads were very low traffic. But AT&T provided service to that tiny population, and there are many, many more like it.

isn't there some law on the books mandating access to rural areas? I thought it only applied to landlines though

i guess it isnt a new thing but its still seems stupid:

http://www.phonesreview.co.uk/wp-content/phoneimages/2007/12/imobile_cellphone_watch.jpg

Are people going to be talking into these things or just poking at them and squinting?

itamagotchiwatch

https://twitter.com/alka_seltzer666/status/338749712595316737

also tim cook will be at d on . . . tuesday

http://allthingsd.com/conferences/d/d11/schedule/

had no idea elon musk was gonna be there

when is next apple event

wwdc. keynote june 10.

here's a partial preview with spoilers basically: http://9to5mac.com/2013/05/24/jony-ives-new-look-for-ios-7-black-white-and-flat-all-over/

sounds good (and logical), and i don't think anyone on the planet will miss the bulldozed visual junk

it really does look not great

it'll be interesting to see these changes inevitably come to the mac

maybe even with 10.9, but i haven't seen anything about that and it sounds like they're rushed enough with ios

yeah 10.10 maybe

I expect that 10.9 will have a short-hand version of the changes - removal of linen texture, etc. - just enough for the 10.9 press release to legitimately state they're "continuing to bring the iOS and OS X experience together."

sounds good (and logical), and i don't think anyone on the planet will miss the bulldozed visual junk

The Eudora email client had the best preference setting: "Waste cycles drawing trendy 3D junk"

i will not miss the linen texture

xp oh that's magnificent

All they have to do on Mac is undo the horrors of calendar, notes, contacts and reminders. Everything else is good to go.

those os upgrade notifications that you cannot dismiss

new mac pros ever happening or

http://www.macworld.com/article/1167247/cook_apple_planning_professional_mac_for_2013.html

Uncertain if I should be looking forward to Logic X (assuming that it'll be called that)

you hear very little about their professional software these days

well, and hardware too lol

http://regmedia.co.uk/2011/10/06/grid.jpg

there are a hundred people working on the iwatch and probably two on the next mac pro

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/10/06/article-2045852-001EE05300000258-333_634x478.jpg

my interest in being someone's friend depends solely on whether or not they can name everyone in the following photo:

http://macintoshuser.up.seesaa.net/image/Gil20Amelio26Steve20Wozniak26Steve20Jobs.jpg

steve jobs, regis philbin, steve wozniak

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X7PWXQJRL._SY300_.jpg

Woz famously described the relationship between Jobs and Amelio as

Of the fight between Amelio and Jobs over Apple, Woz said simply: "Gil Amelio meets Steve Jobs, game over."

Jobs' expression at Amelio in that photo is the perfect smirk/glare of contempt.

Bill: After the 512K Mac was done, the product line just didn’t evolve as fast–Steve wasn’t there–as it needed to. And we were actually negotiating a deal to invest and make some commitments and things with Gil Amelio. No, seriously.
Kara: Don’t be mean to him.
Bill: I’m sorry?
Kara: Just saying the word Gil Amelio, you can see his…
Bill: So I was calling him up on the weekend and all this stuff and next thing I knew, Steve called me up and said, “Don’t worry about that negotiation with Gil Amelio. You can just talk to me now.” And I said, “Wow.”
Steve: Gil was a nice guy, but he had a saying. He said, “Apple is like a ship with a hole in the bottom leaking water and my job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction.”

http://allthingsd.com/20070531/d5-gates-jobs-transcript/

also, remember that this is tonight at nine est: http://allthingsd.com/conferences/d/d11/schedule/

so guys i think i have to switch to verizon, cuz ATT's coverage in NH totally blows. or so i've been told.

basically trying to decide:
1 - switch to verizon now, get an iphone 5 (impending update be damned)
2 - switch to verizon now, get a samsung galaxy 4 (even tho its huge and i'm an otherwise totally apple person)
3 - switch to verizon in the fall, suffer (maybe) with ATT coverage with a few months, get the newest whatsit when it comes out
4 - ???

have you played around with a Galaxy 4 at all? I'd do that before making any type of decision tbh

i haven't, tbh. the pictures make it look lol hueg, though

kind of disgusted at how much a basic smartphone plan on verizon is, though, holy buckets. but it really is the only game in town around where i'm going to be living

3

Where in NH are you going to be? ATT is fine if you're south of the Notch.

really? cuz my friends and a few of my future coworkers were all "don't do ATT you'll never have decent coverage, verizon rules". based mostly on a friend of mine who has V and her boyfriend who has ATT, and is planning to switch.

cuz, tbh, my original plan was to get a Nexus 4 and switch to a prepaid (ST or Net10 or w/e)

do you Internet from your phone a lot?