New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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'

it would have been a bazillion times better if the pinky was in your mouth and the thumb in your ear so you were basically having to mime "on the phone" to be on the phone

otm

it's not being driven by technology changes, this. if it were they would have moved to the mini-USB port that everyone else is standardizing on (it's law in the EU)

Micro-USB actually (which is different and smaller than mini-USB) - Apple complies with that law by offering this 30-pin-to-mini-USB adapter:

farm7.static.flickr.com/6051/6314691020_788cd8e576_z.jpg

(more info and views). It's an £8 accessory, and only sold in the EU. And it only charges or syncs the phone, no other uses like playing music through it.

The existing large connector lent itself well to docks - it's easy to shove an iPod or iPhone onto the large connector, and I'm wondering if that will be as easy with the new small one. OTOH, let's acknowledge that the standard dock connector cutout proved to be seriously problematic in that every update of the iPhone and various iPod models required a diffently-shaped dock adapter, eventually leading to about 25 different adapters to accomodate everything Apple made over the years (and that's if you don't use a case - if you do, it requires yet another dock adapter). Many accessory makers moved away from the original standard-sized dock cutout design and used various other means to adapt to differently-shaped iPods and phones, like a dial to adjust the depth of the socket. But I probably speak for many in that I've mostly ditched the dock adapters entirely so that anyone can put their iPod or iPhone on my speaker or car adapter, just be careful when inserting it. But that's less than ideal too, as you can't press too hard on the click wheel or touchscreen without bending the device backward and straining the connector. I think Apple may have noticed the trend away from docks and toward USB outlets that accept cables, particularly in cars, and of course iPads never fit in any standard iPod dock even with the same connector since it is far too wide.

I think Apple is also pushing AirPlay to send music to a speaker, car, or TV, rather than attaching cables. You can also stream over Bluetooth too which is more established and non-proprietary, but you lose some sound quality that way. And any wireless transmission eats away at battery life whereas plugging in a cable recharges it.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6051/6314691020_788cd8e576_z.jpg

that probably equals the length of the new iphone

http://gigaom.com/mobile/kyocera-ceramic-transducer-makes-you-hear-voices-in-your-head/
tlg is on it

r u a cyber punk?

you know it

wait'll you have a microphone and speakers in your head and sunglasses soldered on your nose

it is painful to use ms office instead of iWork on a rmbp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFhjDX-DUew&feature=player_embedded

this is probably the wrong thread for this question, but does anyone here have experience w/ installing windows on a mac w/ boot camp and know a quick and easy way to do it?

I don't have a good answer for this, I bought VMWare Fusion and installed Windows on that instead

which version of Windows? You can install 8 from a USB stick, which is a breeze. XP I still haven't managed to get installed (partly because I only have a bluetooth keyboard these days)

But also -- unless you're doing games and need all the powers, VMWare Fusion is really very good now

i don't have any version of windows yet, so i'm going to have to buy one. do they sell them already on the USB stick?

i'm doing games + need all the powers

ha again, I have no good answer for that because I have an MSDN subscription and downloaded an ISO directly to a USB stick

Mordy, if you have an optical drive, it's as easy as sticking the disc in, running the boot camp assistant, and clicking through the buttons

but yeah, same would work for a usb stick

i don't have an optical drive

You can use Disk Utility to put a .iso image on a usb stick, then

Actually Boot Camp does that for you too
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-8-macbook-air/

boot camp is like a camp thatll show you how to boot windows so id just boot it up basically

ha

is it just me or is the RMBP screen very very very hard to keep clean?

that's my impression

does it smear?

all I know is that I've got what look like rainspots all over my screen and I have no idea where they came from

EXACTLY

that's from spittakes at ilx iirc