New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

all I'm saying is that they made a phone the color of my mother-in-law's old lady car; if that makes me a hater, then so be it

only rick perry can save them now

And a lot of the press and "expert" commentary is so tainted on both ends because the stock is so heavily followed -- i.e. there are a lot of people hoping to make money on them either succeeding or failing.

^yup

DJP, I think that makes you completely normal for North America? I don't think anyone is saying that it's going to be a very popular phone color here.

I'm a little hesistant to go "lol chinese people aesthetics" though

ya lots of people speculating all these new phones aimed squarely at asia

regardless i do think its kinda an interesting move at a time when all phones are p much low key and black slab looking things, there def used to be more variety of colors and whimsy before smartphones

apparently china taiwan japan and singapore all getting the new phones at the u.s. release date for the first time this year

I'm a little hesistant to go "lol chinese people aesthetics" though

― beautifully, unapologetically plastic (mh), Thursday, September 12, 2013 10:16 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

this isn't at all what djp was implying fwiw

mh is saying its what mh was implying!

Yeah I didn't feel targeted by that at all

btw if a quick straw poll of my friends is anything to go by, the gold phone is going to be ridiculously popular among middle-aged gay men of color in the US

a small but decisive demographic niche that deserves a football team named after them

http://i.imgur.com/alFD1XS.jpg

those candy-colored iMacs ruled

i miss the whimsy and flair, too. really sick of all this austere braun-a-like understatement.

I will admit tho that the black case makes the 5c look pretty badass

lol that the default 5s case is leather

would totally get a 5c if had color faceplates + allowed you to mix and match

I still have that purple imac sitting on a desk in our guest room. It's pretty much just a gigantic paper weight at this point though.

American 5S and 5C iPhones on Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile can now access each other's LTE. And I was all set to go with Sprint, which can't use LTE anywhere in Canada, or in the US anywhere but on their fledging LTE network - and Sprint's 3G is s-l-o-w.

is it just me or is there a subplot behind this rollout where T-Mobile is trying super hard to eat Sprint's lunch

Part of what made the design of those iMacs so striking wasn't just the color but the fact that it was this all-in-one, space age plastic TV looking thing, when everything else was a big cumbersome monitor hooked up to a separate big cumbersome CPU.

also they looked like tasty candy

mh is saying its what mh was implying!

― lag∞n, Thursday, September 12, 2013 9:25 AM (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I feel so wanted, someone gets me

xp, wait really? So if I switch to T-Mobile does that mean I no longer have to worry about inferior coverage (for internet service at least)?

you could probably sell a significant portion of the population anything if it works halfway decently and looks like it's made out of Jolly Ranchers

next year we will probably get an all clear iphone

It doesn't work like that, you only roam on to another carrier's coverage if you have zero t-mobile signal of any sort

So you'd get t-mobile 3g or even 2g before it'd roll over to AT&T

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9t6efbYFM1qjd7k7o1_400.jpg

I would amputate a surprising number of appendages for a clear iPhone

Some show I was watching recently basically had people using clear iphones. Orphan Black? idk, probably a different one.

I really want to drink Crystal Pepsi again.

http://i.imgur.com/osFB36p.png

john sculley worked at pepsi before he was the ceo of apple

re those colorful phones^^, xiaomi has been blowing up in china recently, might provide some insight into apples thought process

dayo's also right though that apple has had a thing w/ color since the og bondi blue imac. the early ibooks, ipod mini, now the whole ipod line minus the classic.

it'll be interesting to see if they ever take that to the ipad. right now you basically do that via smart covers, but you could always do that same thing w/ iphone cases, and apple obviously felt like that wasn't enough

as far as xiaomi goes, they also sell those things relatively cheaply i think?

those things are like half the price of the 5c

yup

I think maybe the perceived benefits of Apple products that its fans have in the US (the idea that Apple products just "work better" and are "easier to use" in an intangible sort of way not attributable to particular features) maybe hasn't quite caught on yet in China? Or at least the idea that you should pay a lot more for a product like that, when you can't say on paper why it's better? I'm pretty much talking out of my ass here.

its my understanding that iphones are pretty popular there amongst those who can afford them

Lack of a subsidized up front cell phone contract makes chinese ppl a lot more price sensitive

I read some article about a cultural shift toward recognition of quality design rather than acting like knockoffs are acceptable but idk, there are a lot of intellectual property laws that people don't seem to give a shit about

Knockoffs aren't 'acceptable' theyre just cheaper

i accept knockoffs

knock it off

this sites sneakers are supposed to be p hq http://www.newgoodseller.net/sneakers-c-1022.html

Probably made by a 24 hr or midnight factory