Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Old thread 14k posts so why not

WWDC is Monday, nobody seems to be expecting anything much. Maybe the Keynote will focus on Swift 3. OS X seems likely to get rebranded as macOS. Music on iPhone and iTunes will both change completely once again, infuriating everyone. New watch bands? Jokes about The Car? Does anyone even want a new Apple product at this point? Will Jimmy Iovine be allowed onstage?

when do they announce the new iPhone? i care about that

presumably September like all recent years

Nervous that the next MacBook Pro is going to max out at 1TB with non-replaceable storage. They wouldn't do that to us, right? Because when this thing ships in 2017 I'm going to need more than that.

"1 TB should be enough for anyone." -Apple, probably

As usual, my phone is kind of fucked up just in time for the announcement and I'm just trying to make it last. Screen cracked a couple weeks ago, and it's really hard to make it charge.

My partner picked up a new 2018 model 13" MacBook Pro and I'm jealous at a level I haven't dealt with since the Wall Street iteration of the PowerBook G3 finally got it right. My 15" is a goddamn barge and I'm finding that no model of iPad is an adequate travel substitute.

i got a 3400c just before that. jealous years.

I always thought the Kanga / 3500 / G3 PowerBook was the ultimate in heartbreak. I had a 5300 though, so I know the worst a PowerBook can be.

2018 seems like a good vintage of MacBooks to skip. I'm ready to order a 2019 model now, though.

*silently pours one out for my old 1400cs*

Apple announcement day. *self-flagellates*

https://www.famousmonsters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Logans-run-red_result.jpg

RENEW! RENEW!

Just tell me what the new Mac mini is...

excited for the redesigned spatial finder

I like my new MacBook Pro but am alternately cursing Apple for cutting HD space / not taking the +$400 hit and getting 1TB like my old laptop (a 2012 MacBook Pro).

Keyboard is fine but the trackpad sucks.

Touchscreen = I can summon emojis.

I took my '17 MBP in to get the left speaker fixed (apparently this is a thing) and got one of the new keyboards. I missed the press release on this: https://www.wired.com/story/apple-will-fix-broken-macbook-keyboards/

yeah glad I got one after that. the SSD is not replaceable?

Nope on the replaceable SSD.

I guess I'm probably going to pull the trigger on a fancy new Xs phone but can't make much of a compelling case when my 7 just keeps on going.

psyched for some extremely incremental improvements

Creepy new iPhone X scans your face to unlock, has built-in AI, thinks humans are obsolete:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYIo2Lj9xek

https://theporouscity.com/media/timtweet.png

It was already gone by the time I opened it.

ECG thing for the watch is pretty great

a little off topic but does anyone else use f.lux? it doesn't work on my new MacBook Pro and my eyes hurt

your new laptop should have that functionality built in!

yeah it's not nearly as good though, fluctuates too much, way too much blue at night. maybe i can monkey with the settings and/or just get used to it. apparently f.lux is working on a fix.

liquid retina huh.... maybe just call it plasma

Haptic Touch = long press

They're never going to do a watch with an always-visible time, are they? Fuck.

All I know is if they ever make an iOS release incompatible with the SE, and don’t update the SE, I’m outie.

this might be worth sending a CEO email about, what’s Tim’s handle again

Ugh you can’t buy an SE direct from Apple anymore, fuckin whatever dude.

no new macbook air?!?

:_(

sounds like they discontinued the SE

Macs TK

I honestly feel nothing for any products Apple makes these days, I’m not mad or anything it’s all just at a stable equilibrium and design differentiators are basically impossible, since all anyone wants is things built on the same lines as the products Apple introduced 2003-2007. They are still dragging their heels on a MacBook based on an Apple-designed ARM SoC and that irritates me a bit.

Shit, maybe I better grab one before it's too late. My 5s will be 5 years old in December. xp

Price drop on “obsolete “ phones always welcome after an announcement

Ok, so there's no longer going to be any retail model available with a headphone jack? I guess this really will be my last iphone.

either that or I invest in a good lightning DAC and just deal with the annoying bulk, I guesss

lol Apple now offering 7 different models at the same time

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1039962912805330944/sYRoV1Zg?format=jpg&name=600x314

hell yeah steve jobs would be proud

What customer is targeted by having a larger iphone 8 at $699 vs a same-size iPhone XR at $50 more?

They’re basically admitting nobody gives a shit about the phone hardware anymore. It’s just a collection of price points

I keep thinking "this is finally the release where people sour on Apple" and then their stock price doubles again.

xxp people who can't deal w/o a home button or hate the notch

Imagine what Steve Jobs would say about the "I Phone Ten XS Max."

http://blog.consumerguide.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2012/11/Screen-Shot-2018-04-11-at-10.39.01-AM.png

love how they used the planet image on the newer and pricier options so it's juuuuuust out of the way of the notch, attempting to fool us into believing maybe it's not there.

getting the max tho obv. my 6+ did it's job for four years.

Literally bought an 8 yesterday fuck

512 gb Max is $1449
LOLOLOL

increments increments increments

the united app shows your gate and a little countdown to when boarding starts on the “dynamic island” - genuinely useful

It’s just another reason to look at your phone instead of just going to your gate and relaxing

United app also gives you a flight tracker of your flight. And remembers your info.

I say this because the AA app didn't do shit.

well you’re already looking at your phone, the little indicator just means you don’t have to keep maniacally switching to the united app to make sure you haven’t disastrously misunderstood the boarding time

Just going to your gate and relaxing

I wish I had your mindset at bus stops too.

https://apps.apple.com/app/id1358823008

This is dece

Doesn't work when you're on the flight and not paying for United wifi.

But it does work on the United app!

you can connect to united wifi for free.. you can’t do much much but it will update eta, gate etc. and weirdly i got a few updates on various apps like messages and a sports team app that my kids’ coaches uses to inform parents about practices?? very odd to get that sort of notification way up in the air

yeah iirc the free united wifi still allows for push notifications and messaging apps. i think flighty takes advantage of that by updating the app thru what are essentially push notifications

anyone else get that sweet $92.17 class action payment from "Apple Inc Payouts" today. don't ever knock this country to me.

thanks for the Flighty recommendation calstars! v nice.

yw

I treated myself to an Apple Studio Display - attainable price through Apple’s refurb store. There’s a lot of tech fetishism going on in /r/macsetups and apparently I’m no longer a voyeur. However, in terms of basic quality of life improvement omg. The demo ones in the store are too aspirational “here’s how great Final Cut Pro looks editing vacation movies of your Dwell family” If you just allowed folks to dock their MBPs and see their shit and whatever it is they do in 5K, they’d sell 5x more.

My first Mac was a Iix, dead square in time when owning a Mac automatically made you a graphic designer and I kept on with it enough to hassle through endless permutations of Radius boards, backbreaking CRTs, fucked up colors, someone unhelpfully saying “have you degaussed it? maybe you should degauss it” and the madness of color matching. All of that b.s. is mercifully GONE. I actually had to do some color matching web work and being able to dock to this and immediately switch off feels like real world science fiction.

As a print first guy, I'm still very satisfied with my Eizo. Talk about color matching...pro displays that have hardware calibration (basically Eizo and the nicer BenQs) I can have multiple calibrations and switch through them on the fly. The other day for the first time I used my spectro to measure the paper I'm printing on and calibrated the monitor that. So not just calibrating to a standard display condition, but calibrating to the specific paper I'm printing on within a specific lighting condition.

The monitor on my G3 used to do this extremely loud degauss every time it was powered on; nearly drowned out the chime

RIP https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-27/apple-cancels-work-on-electric-car-shifts-team-to-generative-ai

we'd rather embarrass ourselves with VR goggles than kill people outright with self-driving cars.

mentioned it elsewhere but I don’t think they were that serious about it, I think they just had CarPlay betas and custom dashes installed and if a car people think
is AI is driving erratically they think that’s cool. it was just CarPlay testers poking at the dashboard while trying to drive normal

yeah, there's probably dozens of Apple R&D projects that fizzle out before we even hear about them

Man I am curious how it would have turned out though.

I guess it would’ve turned out poorly hence the cancellation

cars are a low-margin business. with next-gen carplay it’s possible that any/every car becomes an “apple car” as far as the dash is concerned. they are doing deals to integrate the speedometer, the a/c etc into the interface. and if your phone can automatically reconnect every time you step into the car.. that’s total lock-in to the apple ecosystem without apple having to go through the frankly thankless business of actually producing automobiles

Dyson also cancelled their electric vehicle programme after 2 years - citing the huge sustained investment needed and uncertainty of commercial viability.

i rode in a waymo in SF, it was pretty impressive. i can see why it appealed to apple - presumably they have tons of data from apple maps. but man have you ever seen a waymo? no way that would fly with apple.

Apple's been slowly letting practicality win over aesthetics since Ive left. I'm glad they stopped making broken flat keyboards but supposedly the VR glasses were meant to be just cool-looking glasses instead of the gross torture helmet we got.

They should make a ring like Samsung. Would buy

I love the flat keyboards but I might just be divergent in that way

oh wait, you mean the mbp ones that were genuinely broken. never mind, carry on

the bluetooth keyboards where the AA batteries go into the knurled riser on the back are a really excellent example of where apple's obsession with braun-style bauhaus minimalism totally worked. they are just the platonic ideal imo.

three of those have broken on me for unexplained reasons. the bluetooth just goes berzerk

I have to repair mine with my MacBook most mornings

Re-pair, that is

I have one of the classic wired usb ones that I moved to work. I have the knockoff Microsoft Surface bluetooth one at home and it’s way too slow when reconnecting to my MBP but is… close enough

the bluetooth keyboards where the AA batteries go into the knurled riser on the back are a really excellent example of where apple's obsession with braun-style bauhaus minimalism totally worked. they are just the platonic ideal imo.

...and total garbage for long-term use should an AA battery expand ever so slightly from use. "How do you remove a stuck battery from an Apple wireless keyboard?" ---> About 3,910,000 results

screwdriver or just slamming it against a table surely

olive oil and a heat gun

screwdriver or just slamming it against a table surely

Nope!

When I was dealing with them semi-regularly, I'd have to take the keyboard apart as explained here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sPU3VM9128

About 50% of the patients survived.

weird, that has never happened to me in 10+ years of using rechargeable batteries

I trust Elvis's experience on this. Our sample size of two probably doesn't compare to having to address a much greater number

they should have made the little tube bigger. there fixed it somebody make me head of design at apple inc

but you'll ruin the aesthetics!

I’ve had the same thing happen with metal flashlights, especially those maglite multiple-D cell models. Any battery that decides to corrode and expand will jam it up.

Larry David uses Siri in the new Curb season… pic.twitter.com/7Cat3a8qQU

— Ryan Jones (@rjonesy) February 26, 2024

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/03/04/m3-macbook-air-two-displays-lid-closed/

hallelujah

is it good when retailers are trying to dump stock 3 months after launch and no software is being released?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/amazon-is-selling-the-apple-vision-pro-at-a-rare-200-discount-and-i-dont-expect-it-to-last/

I thought Woot sold returned / refurbished stuff

after the early starry-eyed reviews, not sure I've heard anything I would qualify as good news for the Vision Pro

is this good?

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/05/tim-cook-sells-nearly-200k-aapl-shares/

In 2015, Fortune reported that Cook planned to "give away all his wealth."

That’s $34 million …nbd