New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Online Orders for iPhone 5s Begin at 12:01 AM Pacific Time on Friday, September 20

so really my plan should be to take tomorrow off, have an epic barcrawl tonight, and order an iPhone at bar close, right

http://i.imgur.com/pT9zKPK.jpg

comment from some dude who waited in line at an Apple store to get a phone on launch day:
I stood in line for the 3G when it came out, packed a lunch, and had my "NASCAR" folding chair and was out there about 7 hours. Lots of nice people with common interests (ie. Ham Radio, Private Pilots, Classic Cars, NASCAR, music)

I would kill myself

do u not like music?

obviously not

I stood in line to get the 4 as a walk-in, thinking I'd be in line for 2 hours tops. I got there at... 7:30? and didn't actually get inside the store until noon. I will never, ever do that again.

Plus side, I ran into a buddy of mine who had just finished his dissertation for his doctorate in choral conducting and we spent the whole time making fun of ourselves for standing in that abysmal line.

ugh

I am wondering if the online ordering with the "pick up at store" option will be enabled. Kind of doubt it, but if so I'll just be a dick by reserving one and going in tomorrow afternoon

that is the best option tbh

the new folders are boss u guys are crazy you can put AS MANY APPS AS YOU WANT in them

why does parallax make all my current wallpapers look like poo

should I break my wife's heart by replacing her picture with a dynamic wallpaper y/n

you can put AS MANY APPS AS YOU WANT in them

only 9 items per folder looks dummmm though

they did it cause you can only see 9 when the folder is closed

this parallax shit seems kinda pointless but generally the layered concept is good

its weird they havent even updated all their own apps yet, ibook still got that gloss

also i miss seeing my little magazines in the newsstand, that was cute

Killing apps from the switcher is the new Repair Permissions.

Background app downloads are pretty poorly implemented. On the tube tonight was in a station with wifi for 1min, it started downloading a twitterrific update and obviously failed when the train moved on. Useless app for the rest of the journey.

imo only let it do those on wifi?

that wouldn't solve stet's problem

what happened to the audio controls when you swiped left after double home-button!!!?? GAHHHHHHH

they're in the control panel, just swipe up from the bottom any time

haha

this is anything but intuitive

once you get the swipe up for controls thing it's pretty easy

Ah OK thanks doods

I fucking hate this Podcasts app they made me download.

that is a seriously busy control panel

anybody else getting a "mad men"/"man from u.n.c.l.e."/"catch me if you can" kind of vibe from the design?

it does feel a lil mid century

as I said on Facebook, the color schemes and lines make me feel like they felt the overhaul was too powerful and made everything look like it was built with Duplo blocks to compensate

man that instagram app looks real dumb now sitting there all 3d like that

v happy to be free of all that weird blue chrome, hallelujah

tbh this has been my overall experience with the 5 so I basically go nowhere without a plug these days

― You are kind, I am jerkface (DJP), Thursday, September 19, 2013 12:16 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

yeah me too. i dunno if this is actual or real but ever since i deleted most of my music and have about 5 gigs free, the battery life seems better

oh lol, if you don't mind opening a line of credit, a way to get an off-contract phone and still not pay it all up front:
http://store.apple.com/us/instant_credit_24

i also like the new swipe down for Spotlight, more practical than (click home button to switch to page 1, swipe left), just gotta remember not to swipe from the top which brings up Notification Center

now swipe right does nothing tho, i guess it cause its conditional on being on yr first screen, it does something if youre on a diff screen this way you can access search from wherever you are

battery life wasn't bad for me on the 5/ios6, since going to ios7 in june I've been doing two charges a day

oh you can put newsstand in a folder now

took me a minute to realize newsstand acts like an app and you have to click the home button to get away from it

what I mean by that was I was trying to click away from it or swipe out for 30 seconds on my iPad while thinking "oh no I am stuck in Newsstand forever"

the choice to make the camera app blur the shit out of whatever is in the view when you close it is uh interesting

replacing bars w dots is a big win for the infographic police

passport still makes no goddamn sense, fyi

i have never used that app

Passbook? The only uses I've had for it are a credit card thing that shows the last charge posted and plane tickets. Works well for plane tickets.

only prob is that it's usefulness is constrained by the fact you could just go to any individual app and see the same info. just not enough stuff to make it a useful hub in itself, yet

passbook is sweet for my american airlines gold status card /braggin

Cyclemeter, which I use every day when biking, is now utterly ridiculous looking after being updated for iOS7. Like, Microsoft Bob levels of silly.

i don't get it though - i got, for instance, the moviefone app, which is listed as a passbook app. but i open passbook and it just tells me to download more passbook apps?

something in moviefone, probably a movie ticket or something, would have to be sent to passbook

the point is if you have a boarding pass or coupon or ticket apps can send them all to passbook