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I had a 16gb 4 and just got a 16gb 5s - 90% of what I have on it is music and podcasts and i can't fit my entire collection anyway so it doesn't really phase me if I carry only 5% around instead of 20%.

max why do you get 64gb i thought you only listen to spotify and itunes match?

iTunes match downloads instead of streaming iirc?

he probably has been taking long videos for possible revival of gawker stalker

i d/l itunes match stuff so i can listen on the subway, and sync some videos to plex also for the subway, also take a ton of photos/video

am i the only one who mostly considers covers when picking a phone color? i mean im not crazy about the gold but to me its the worst because what cover is going to look good with that? whereas silver/white and black are okay with a ton of stuff.

― No more kisses (sunny successor), Monday, October 7, 2013 4:06 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm thinking the same way, but it's percisely that reason I'm holding out for a gold 5S. The cases i'm considering cover up the back and side, so the only place you'll see gold is on the chamfered front rim and the ring surrounding the home button/fingerprint scanner. It's a very subtle difference from the white/silver 5S - both are predominantly white in front - but I like the look of having those accents in champagne gold instead of the usual chrome.

I'm going 64gb, afraid that new burst-mode camera could chew up memory fast if I don't habitually delete the extra shots quickly

ios7's swipe-from-the-edge standard is so intuitive that i expect everything to do it now

i'm mixed on that one - don't like how you have potentially interfering commands w/swipe from middle vs. swipe from top (see: spotlight vs. notification center) especially on the small phone screen

swipe-to-the-right v swipe-from-the-left-edge seem pretty distinct, but yeah, plenty of fine tuning needs to happen. the shift key doesn't fire for me most of the time, and tapping stuff in the control centre is a crap shoot too.

pause button in the control centre always takes at least 2 taps for me on a 5

Just entered the Mavericks Zone. So far not as jarring as 7

Yeah I have to hammer on the pause button a lot which is pretty annoying. And swiping up never seems to work while I'm texting or have the keyboard visible.

Also my wife mentioned yesterday that she's gotten so used to the thumbprint unlocking that she holds her thumb there at other times expecting her phone to read her mind and do something

haha

iphone25

siri neuroairport

have we discussed siri's boy voice?

MH my iphone is in Nth AMerica

Last Location:
Louisville, KY, United States, Wednesday, 10/09/2013

Ordered On October 5, 2013, Available to ship in October.

c'mon apple.

Mine is also in Louisville!

hstencil has them.

google IPHONE and find JOREL

yeah iphone pals. in which of these 49 great states do you live, mh?

ye old Ioway

btw mine has left Louisville

bad news is it's headed for Berkeley

Mine is still in KY. I'm literally on the way. They could have dropped mine off. fuups

oh wait. they are:

Last Location:
Departed - Louisville, KY, United States, Wednesday, 10/09/2013

the excitement of iPhone tracking

arrived in dsm at 12:53AM
out for delivery

sunny are you at the place where yours is getting delivered? I pre-signed and need to run home when that sucker gets there.

i need to do the same! mine out for delivery in little rock

i couldnt find any tape this morning so my presign is hanging from the door handle attached with a piece of string and a wooden peg. god help me.

I went on an epic tape hunt yesterday and found it. I can't remember what I've used in the past to fake it, but the string and peg sound about right.

are you sure you're not secretly alternate universe version of me

definitely possible

Alternatives to tape that I've used w/ success: gum, strips of envelope flap, stamps.

Unsuccessfully: plain saliva, sugar saliva, syrup.

hah why dont u guys have any tape tape is cool

It would be nice if those tracking text messages or emails really were in real-time, but they actually arrive about 10-15 minutes after the fact. I'll sign for my package at home, then 10 minutes later get a text saying it's been delivered. And of course, from early morning on delivery day, there's an unchanging "out for delivery" message from 6:53am that doesn't clue you in whether the delivery will be at 8:30am or 4pm.

Last month I ordered a kitchen appliance online and had the pleasure of it being shipped via a small local carrier, A&B Trucking. Their service was leagues ahead of FedEx and UPS regarding keeping you informed of when your package will arrive (in this case a big oven). They called me the evening before and gave me the driver's name and mobile phone number, with a estimated time window of only two hours. The next morning, they called me and shortened the time window to a half hour once the truck was en route, and offered to call me when they were about 20 minutes away from the delivery address so I could meet them there. And when they arrived, they helped me carry the oven into the house and let me open the box to inspect for damage before signing off on it.

This is how every shipping company should operate. Besides the annoyingly long delivery time windows (which they still often miss), I often can't find out in advance whether the package will be sent back to the shipper if nobody's home to sign for it (safe, but annoying if it's something you're itching to have now, or if it will be dropped on the porch behind the handrail with the hope nobody will steal it before I get home. (I often prefer the latter arrangement for less-expensive, larger items. Why isn't this an option you can easily choose when you buy the product and pay for shipping?)

just nail that shit to the door like Martin Luther xp

more like "why don't you have any sense of organization amirite

It would be nice if those tracking text messages or emails really were in real-time, but they actually arrive about 10-15 minutes after the fact.

This is the current definition of "real-time" for almost all large tracking systems. The system your local delivery company is using is not scalable enough for a company like UPS or FedEx and would increase their delivery times, extending the delivery windows and making their overall service worse.

I don't get though, given that I signed my name on an electronic tablet that I assume has an internet connection, why that info takes 10 minutes to reach my phone. Or why GPS-equipped trucks with my shipment onboard can't clue me in on their location at a given time.

1. it's a poor assumption to think that the tablet has an internet connection
2. it's a poor assumption to think that, if the tablet does have a connection, that it is as fast as a 4G LTE connection
3. it's a poor assumption to think that updating the record in the shipping database and looking up your contact info to generate the notification email takes no time
4. it's a poor assumption to think that updating the GPS information for the specific truck containing your package takes zero time

5. it's a poor assumption to think that your signature is uploaded to the central database the instant you make it
5a. it's a poor assumption to think that all of the information surrounding your specific transaction is processed at the instant that it happens, particularly in a system with a high volume of highly similar incoming transactions

it all could take zero time, like weve all dealt w services that do that, it just doesnt matter enough to them to make it happen, theyll get there eventually im sure

pretty sure those signing pad things only phone home every so often to keep up battery life

then idk if they even phone home directly to UPS/FedEx or a third-party data aggregation provider that then syncs to UPS

most contrived data project I worked with involved (details fuzzed here to obscure the actual business purpose) sensors that used a satellite connection to pick up daily readings. the sensor was by one company, the satellite data provider was another, and we were then using a web service to pick up readings once every day (although the satellite might not pick it up some days, due to weather) where we were then staging it into a database and putting it together with customer data, which was then picked up by a web service by a company we contracted with, then presented on a web page for their customers

the data from the service was binary in a xml wrapper

Re: leaving packages, I heard fedex/ups designate neighborhoods as safe to leave / unsafe to leave, so it happens on a route by route basis

I don't assume any of those things, but as lag∞n noted the tech is already in place, and you don't need LTE speeds to transfer a tiny amount of data within 30 seconds. All I know is that a small independent shipping company had their act together and managed to notify me electronically when their truck was leaving New York for DC., that mine was the second delivery that day, and gave an increasingly accurate arrival time estimate as the truck neared it destination. Don't know why the big guys can't do the same thing. Yes the huge number of pacakages and larger number of stops complicates logistics, but it's no more difficult to send out an automated text when the truck enters my city, and it shouldn't take more than a few seconds to reach me like any other txt.

The signing pads are much bigger and heavier than an iPhone and should be able to hold a high-capacity battery. And with wireless recharging mats affordable, the trucks could be so equipped so the pads could be easily recharged even between shortly-spaced delivery stops without adding too much inconvenience for the driver. Even an old-style wired car phone charger dock would work fine.

My home must be on both of those lists (safe/unsafe to leave), as it seems 50/50 whether packages will be dropped or i'll get a note on the door saying nobody was home and they'll try again tomorrow.

only thing stopping them is prob the cost, all those little things scaled up to their millions and billions of deliveries, this is a company that designs its routes so that its trucks can make right turns at lights in order to save gas after all

idk they could probably do it better but you're sounding like my coworker who likes to rant about how parts of the company I work for could be much more efficient when he's like a low-level business analyst