New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

btw I have no inclination whatsoever to replace my 4 with one of these things (unless iOS 5 slows it down to a crawl)

OTM

um yeah that is because upgrading every generation is for mental people!

iOS 4 was a-ok on 3gs in my experience, iOS 5 may be pretty ok!

mental and/or ppl with way too much disposable income

I just upgraded to iOS 5 gold master version on an iPad (first version), I will report back. No, I'm not a developer, I'm just an impatient asshole.

phone/laptop with infinite battery life would be a game changer (just sayin...)

i have an iphone 3G, i am ready to upgrade

yeah if Apple makes a massive thermodynamic breakthrough in battery technology and gives us a laptop that can stream movies over the internet for three days without charging that would be revolutionary

but I feel like we are stuck with agonizing incremental progress on that front

I will admit that increased battery life has made me consider upgrading

dunno if I can justify spending $400 on a phone tho

there was a patent filing by apple awhile back about integrating solar panels to their idevices... (ominous elipses!)

If it was just a phone and not a thing that I am constantly using every minute I'm not a computer...

i think that has pretty much always been the default venue for non-WWDC/MacWorld announcements.
The September new-iPods refresh has been Moscone for years, I think.

Am kinda surprised there isn't a new form factor. That's the only thing between 4s and calling it a 5.

But yeah, Apple's done virtually everything that's been on the rumour roadmap since abt 1997 now - including phone and tablet, which seemed like ludicrous dreams in 2003.

Only things left are a:) a TV, b) a proper Mac Dock, c) xMac (smaller Mac Pro) and of them only TV has industry-changing potential and they're sucking at it right now.

when you are a computer can you find out why photoshop is so slow

do i really need to stop all the downloadin

Am kinda surprised there isn't a new form factor. That's the only thing between 4s and calling it a 5.

Also the musty iOS look that's really starting to feel staid these days.

and of them only TV has industry-changing potential and they're sucking at it right now.

TV has enormous potential. Everyone's sitting on their arses doing bugger-all (except for US stuff like Hulu which isn't available everywhere) and moaning about torrents etc. I am convinced that Apple will move on this and that it will change television.

(not necessarily in that order)

dunno if I can justify spending $400 on a phone tho

― the tax avocado (DJP), Tuesday, October 4, 2011 11:31 PM (Yesterday)

not sure if you've used an iPhone before or not, but calling it a phone is missing the point entirely. i'm always shocked at people balking at the price when you consider what the thing does and how small it is. in 2004/2005 if you had told me about a handheld computer/music player that did everything the iphone did at that price, I would have not believed it. i barely make phone calls, have had 3 diff. iPhones and it has been worth every penny. will gladly buy this new one.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/04/facebook-apple-event/

lol bld, I have had an iPhone for 4 years; iPhone 4 was the first one actually worth owning (the previous ones I had were free)

the 3g was a pile of shit imo

3gs was the shit, yo.

bld i hear you but the idea of upgrading every year for $400 is what is ridiculous to me, not the $99 intro price or whatever i paid for my 3G. i only upgraded to 3GS because my 3G died.

^^^

I have a friend with far too much disposable income and a vicious "me first" impulse who has purchased upon initial release an original iPhone, a 3G, a 3GS, a 4, an iPad, an iPad 2, a Mac Book Pro and a Mac Book Air. I am certain he will be ordering a 4S at midnight on Friday.

So when are you putting the scheme into place to corrupt him into leaving you all his money before he mysteriously dies?

"there will be an appropriate response"

upgrading every year never seemed defensible when you had to lock yourself into a brand new 2 year contract every time. now that they sell unlocked iphones, it's marginally more defensible.

Still odd unless you want to play bleeding-edge games or are sight-impaired

or you look in your pockets and scream "OMG MONEY MUST SPEND"

Just read a report on the iphone 4s that said "it's no iphone 5"

"this phone that's not called an 'iphone 5', it's nothing like a phone that doesn't exist"

dunno if it's iphone5 or the budget model but apple is definitely working on something with more psp-like screen dimensions, if that's the theoretical phone you'd rather have.

why do i have to wait until oct. 14 to buy the cheaper iphone 4?

i'm most pissed that the case producers always concentrate their best efforts on the *newest* model. like i got my ipad 1 less than a year ago and all i see now are accessories for ipad 2 ...

first world problems

yeah and I can't get a screen for my ipod classic

or an armband

If they changed the screen size, they'd have to either have a lower number of pixels per inch, or seriously fuck with the app development landscape! I can't believe people were just like "oh yeah, larger screen, no brainer"

i have an iphone 3G, i am ready to upgrade

― max, Tuesday, October 4, 2011 7:25 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

I dropped my iPhone 4 the other week, if I hadn't I wouldn't be upgrading.

If you're prepared to sign a new two year contract every year you can generally sell your old phone for the price of the new one (worked fine for me in the US the last few years). Of course then you decide to move abroad and have to buy out your contract, and that's when it gets a little painful.

to a lesser extent, that's the case with most Apple products - resale covers the Mac Tax if you're someone who upgrades constantly.

I sold a first-generation unibody Macbook (not pro) for $600 for my dad recently - good luck finding someone who'll pay $600 for a 3-year old 13" PC laptop.

ja, i know plenty of people who upgrade every year. unless you're in a contract (which has been easy to avoid in a lot of countries since launch), it's no more expensive than upgrading less often, because the resale value of apple stuff is so high.

so still not talking and surfing at the same time on verizon (or sprint)?

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2394164,00.asp#fbid=EJVw6I3isWR

that blows, I want to dump AT&T but I've found myself occasionally needing this feature, and the thuoght of verizon or sprint being slower data-wise doesn't fill me with hope. but AT&T fucking sucks in the bay area most of the time.

ya but at&t sucks soooo much

i want to know what the sprint plan will look like

AT&T has decent service here, glad I'm in an area where they felt the need to install towers but it's still reasonably sparsely populated

wonder if the dual antennae will improve coverage or just transfer speed.

Isn't one for GSM and one for CDMA?

Apple says "...iPhone 4S is the first phone to intelligently switch between two antennas to send and receive" so it seems like a different issue.

no, xp. they are now "world phones" i.e. they have both cdma and gsm chipsets. or at least the ones sold in the US will.

oh sorry i misunderstood ignore me