New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

i use Adium @ home but am confined to Windows at work

i use adium

there is just one person left I still talk to on AIM (via adium / aim express) exclusively, everyone else is on gchat. I used to still use AIM for file transfers since you can't really do that over gchat, but now Dropbox is a lot more convenient

I just logged onto my hs and college aim accounts, wow... What a wasteland

Gchat >>> Hangouts, mainly b/c gchat has presence statuses.

is there good gchat client for iphone? google seems to want to push hangouts

Yeah expect Gchat and jabber support for it to vanish in favor of hangouts any day now.

I thought it was supposed to be gone already, otherwise I'd probably ignore hangouts as well

Verbs is pretty good as far as jabber/gchat-compatible apps go

one of mh's post reminds me that i did go on aim 4 chatz

i still remember my password i think

http://twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain/status/375022721169506305

phones Tuesday, all the thrill is gone these days, too many leaks from suppliers and accessory partners. at best we'll get to hear about the fingerprint reader (which, what) and maybe some nifty iOS 7 feature that they kept under NDA or didn't push to the developer builds or something.

let's talk about the tweet instead

iPhone 5C is beautifully, unapologetically plastic

beautifully, unapologetically plastic

plastic culture

sry couldn't resist

was about to say basically this:

I'm honestly really interested in seeing how much faster this phone is. I mean, has anyone been saying their iPhone 5 is slow?
by Joanna Stern 1:39 PM

But I guess the response would be that the iPhone 5 is fast enough for what it does now, but this will allow your phone to do more things.

If the 5C is $99 w/ contract, does that mean it will retail for $499 w/o?

I've discovered that the giant screen of my HTC One makes it worse for just about everything but games so I'm switching back to my 4S, I'd like to move up to a 5C or 5S at some point but they may be too expensive.

if you think the iPhone 5 is faaast then buy a 5C I guess

everything can always be faster, but i wonder how 64-bit processing is really going to help

the gold looks kind of hideous atm, but i'll look for more videos later

tbh I think most of the California-based Apple folk probably dislike the gold but it's supposedly really desired in China?

regional aesthetics

what is the 5C missing that the 5S will have with the exception of the titanium bod?

better (way better) camera, clever flash, 64 bit ON IPHONE, fingerprint sensor, slo-mo video etc.

but 5C has better battery life

but.. plastic...

cool iphone 5s is 64bit so now i can run my atari jaguar games on it

lol that gold looks soooo tacky

it is like the Trump Plaza of mobile phones

haha at the cases, they must make a fortune out of them. they must know they look awful.

why no nfc ;_;
why no USB 3.0 ;_;

USB 3? why would they start now?

usb 3?

bcz backiing up a 64gb phone over USB2 is ridic?

?

I thought you meant a USB3 port.

if your backup involves copying 64gb of data then you're an unusual user

restoring takes a while

Was really hoping they'd shift to 32/64/128.

But I'm guessing they want to move us away from storing mp3s on the phone and instead listening to (ads on?) iRadio.

i dont mind plastic but those 5Cs look way too 3GSish in shape

yeah how much 720P 120fps video can I fit on that, really

no way, 3G had tapered curvy back, this has sides to it

xp No joke.

it does? looked curved to me. 16GB is ridic low for a phone. i also struggle with 32GB on ipad

ahhh youre right. it does have sides. didnt look like it in this pic:

http://store.storeimages.cdn-apple.com/3559/as-images.apple.com/is/image/AppleInc/iphone5c-selection-hero-2013?wid=300&hei=300&fmt=png-alpha&qlt=95&.v=1378441617706

so what is the fastest way to procure one of these magical portals? Last time i preordered the 4S online @ apple.com and I didnt get it until a month after release.