New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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rip ipod classic btw

― lag∞n, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 3:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nooooooooo

You can fit an iPad Mini into a man's pants pocket, I don't think any of these phones will be a problem

― stacked as fuck & imposing (DJP), Tuesday, September 9, 2014 12:54 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have trouble with my iPhone 5. Maybe my pants are just too tight. Maybe apple wants me to lose weight.

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the only way I could stick an iPad mini into my pocket would be if I rolled it up first.

Where's the news about the death of iPod Classic?

It's gone from the Apple site.

Guess they would rather sell. 128gb iPhone. The least they could do is offer a the iPod touch and nano in 128GB

You should email them, I have heard they refresh those product lines occasionally.

ive never seen an ipod nano, forgot they existed

I think that is the one I have in a workout bag somewhere :/

I've had two nanos, never owned a classic.

i mean the new nano that looks like a small iphone i think i saw the old one

Oh, okay. I didn't even realize they looked like that now. I had a 3rd gen and a 5th gen.

So help me I want this goddamn watch

no... silby

you have to buy the fire watch

I have a 10gb classic w a fried battery around here somewhere ladies

lol iatee

you have to buy the fire watch

what i liked about the mini/nano is that they were humble little products that got out of your way

now apple wants you to have an iphone on you AT ALL TIMES because ...

... just because that's the way companies behave when they start thinking of a product as a platform.

"the phone is the key, do you understand? once they have the phone all things are possible. the phone, they must have the phone!"

gotta have my apps

you can also link to ibelt, but only if you wearing isuspenders.

Dang they don't even have refurbed/clearance iPod classics on the apple store site anymore :(

I had to go to the store to replace mine when the hard drive died recently. I did get one tho.

Yeah the HD on my 160 GB is on its last legs. Gonna visit tekserve on my way home..,

damn I was thinking for a while that I should buy a spare iPod classic as this is all I use in my car. Wouldn't apple retailers still have a couple left in stock?

Yeah they're still available (e.g. here but buy one quick before resellers snap them all up and jack up the price

ipods should come back

i liked music more during its reign

ok, now feeling how stupid it is that the 6s doesn't just start with 32gb on the base model. i'm probably gonna have to chuck the extra $100 to jump up to 64gb

When will they make a desktop version of the iPhone?

you mean the iPad mini rite

rip ipod classic btw

― lag∞n, Tuesday, September 9, 2014 3:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Damn. RIP the only Apple product I buy. A good excuse to finally divorce myself from the yoke of iTunes, I guess.

since my (4 or 5 year old) 160 GB Classic started shitting the bed this spring I took a different tack altogether in addressing my portable music hoarding tendencies... got a 40 buck Sansa Clip Zip, installed Rockbox firmware on it so I can have parametric EQ, crossfeed, compression and stereo width adjustment, and got a half dozen various capacity Micro SD cards each of which contains one of my different nerd libraries. I keep the micro SDs in my wallet and pop a different one into the sansa clip when I feel like it. so now I have about 500 GB of my stuff portable and the Sansa is lighter weight than my headphones and sounds amazing.

With that said... I will always love the iPod and will probably grab one before Tekserve runs out of em.

The watch is cool, I want one, fuck the haters. Is it superfluous and decadent, sure, but if I turn those filters off I just want one.

I keep trying to think of reasons why I would find one useful but most of those times are when I don't have my phone on me, which means the watch won't work

I think it'll work, it'll just do a lot less

like it might just... tell time

it doesnt seem to do too much, payments, notifications, health tracking

Good tips, Jon. I'm going to be looking into all of my options now (my own 4-5 year old 160 GB classic, which is by far the longest-lived of the iPods I've owned, is starting to get a little wonky). I've stuck with the iPod/iTunes combo because I've put so much work (10+ years?) into meticulously crafting my playlists and ratings and it's so easy to sync up whatever I want to listen to on a given day. Not looking forward to putting a ton of time into a whole new setup.

health tracking is something imho the vast majority of people pro arent that interested in, payments almost nowhere accepts it yet, notifications ok this seems like a pretty terrible experince, def seems like its at the very least prob not a good idea to get the first one

if the presence of fitbit/up/nike bands on coworkers is an indicator, people like their biometrics

yer coworkers may not be representative

they are middle-aged people with a couple kids who are health-conscious

I don't want to share with anyone. I don't want to make it easier to pay for anything. I don't want my heartbeats in a cloud. To be honest, I really don't give a fuck what time it is right now. It's either night or day, hungry or not hungry.

yer coworkers may not be representative

― iatee, Wednesday, September 10, 2014 11:18 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

they are middle-aged people with a couple kids who are health-conscious

― ⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, September 10, 2014 11:20 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you work at a tech company m8

very much part of the culture atm

I have no interest in this, but I would never wear a watch either. I guess people who are into watches might like it, but it seems like there are less and less of those people.

To be fair though, I didn't really get the point of the ipad initially either (why not just buy a small laptop which can do more things?), so I'm not sure why I'm commenting here, since I'm obviously not very smart when it comes to predicting the success of this stuff.

they are middle-aged people with a couple kids who are health-conscious

― ⌘-B (mh), Wednesday, September 10, 2014 11:20 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tho tbh i think this is really the thing fitness nuts love this stuff but it hasnt found much success helping people become fitness nuts