New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

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

most people probably don't want to actually see the horrifying data about how unfit they are

yup

i asked my friend who was wearing a fitbit how he liked it and he was all, fuck i cant wait to take this thing off, he was just wearing it to fit in at this company he was freelancing for hoping to get hired fulltime lmao

haha

his google glass doesn't even have a battery in it...

As this study of behavior change and wearables found, "the dirty secret" about these devices is that they "fail to drive long-term sustained engagement for a majority of users." After a few months, the novelty wears off, excitement wanes, and people are back to their old ways, if they ever changed them to begin with.

Those who use the devices religiously over the longer term tend to be health focused already. Wearables are just another tool in their already well-stacked fitness arsenal.

http://www.vox.com/2014/9/10/6128193/will-the-new-apple-watch-improve-your-health-wearable-technology

yeah I'm not into the biometrics stuff, I find it very irritating actually. I just like the idea of having this neat little watch that tells me when I get e-mails and text messages and shit -- not something I'd actually shell out hundreds of dollars for but if it was just like this $50 accessory for the phone I'd get one. I also have a feeling, though, that it's going to be like the iPad where it's just going to *feel* really good to use and you won't understand until you try it.

I want to be freed from the constant anxious reaching into the pocket to "check," but maybe it's a fantasy that the watch would solve that problem

damn u dont have to pay 4 hundo ill let you know when you have emails: always

thanks dawg

i personally h8 notifications tho, turn them off for everything except txts

lag?n rolls with no bookmarks

ha i use bookmarks thats not a notification its a feed

i fuckin love the ipod

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.

OTM. After railing about what an obvious disaster it'd be for the company, the iPad's wild success totally shut my mouth. You could put that little white apple on an iToaster and it'd be the best selling toaster of all time.

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

― lag∞n, Wednesday, September 10, 2014 10:24 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this is pretty true

I should check out the non-scientist/non-IT people and see if they are into this stuff. Maybe some in HR, but their building has the fitness center (aka "the gym") in the basement.

Think what annoyed me most was how they boasted they had 'consulted with horology experts' or w/e that was

Like I feel like part of the ingredient to Apple's success was to reinvent the product market they were entering?

Or that's the MBA business school 'case study' narrative of the iPod, iPhone, and iPad

Here though instead of 'unthinking' the idea of the watch

They seemed very consciously trying to capture a slice of the existing luxury watch market

Which is why we have a bullshit "Edition" version with 18K gold that's marketed as 'twice as hard as ordinary gold' as if Apple had a patent on it

you think gold was cool before? our gold is better.

apple def surrendering to business school thinking w this one rip

The other problem is that most of what the watch does is not exclusive to the watch and is better handled by your phone (i.e. notifications for getting emails, texts, viewing and reading and responding to those said things)

The only functions exclusive to the watch are the health functions, and sending doodles of penises to other WATCH users, and maybe Pay because it'd be more convenient than taking your phone out?

i just want a cheapo watch (<$25) to track my heart rate