New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

wow man just wow

ipad sales growth already slowing before big iphones

http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/53582d426da811a4507ce642-800-/chart-of-the-day-ipad-1.jpg

oh man, my friend tried a non-retina tablet and it didn't suit needs. primary user is his three year old. I coached him on the angry birds last week. Works better if you shoot the birds toward the blocks.

like it was a huge upgrade on what we had and like idk we still had the receipt last Saturday if I had been told I feel poorly guided here

I was set to say something but given the voiced needs of the primary user I held my tongue

yeah nobody believes me that she's a terror

i'm in the market for a macbook and am not considering retina at all, my eyes are powerful and unstoppable.

wish there was a cable package that was just sports channels + nba league pass. I resent tv so much. Get rid of commercials while we're at it.

otm

tablets getting smaller, phones getting bigger... singularity's a comin..

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bxs5b_RCYAASFls.png

wait if yr height is 5ft 9 yr thumb will be 6ft 6? that's bullshit

AirPlay to AppleTV is awesome and worth the price alone
― stet, Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Ha. I'm 6'0" and playing with the 6+ cutout I clearly have tiny thumbs for my height based on that diagram. Cradling it in the same place I'm apparently only 5'9". Is it possible American men have bigger thumbs? I imagine American men having bigger thumbs.

think thats for the 6

Ah, whoops. Tiny thumb insecurity averted.

feel like phones being so huge is gonna cannibalize tablet sales, also feel like tablets were never that good or useful to begin with and will likely recede into a smaller market

― lag∞n, Wednesday, 17 September 2014 02:03 (13 hours ago) Permalink

Yeah literally the only thing I use our iPad for is to keep my toddler quiet while I go get showered and shaved in the morning. My wife does use it for most of her school work though - sort of as a combo laptop/e-reader.

sounds p useful to me

Yeah I can see its use for students. I don't carry a bag so I don't tend to read on it -- I read on my phone instead, which is too small for that, which is why I'm psyched for the bigger phones.

I use mine all the time at work. Email/notes/reading documents.

i never use mine, tho i did for a while

I use my mini all the time at home, but that's because ~I don't have a cellphone~.

I read comics and cookbooks on my Mini.

Didn't use my mini much, but use my Air constantly. It's that which pushes me in the direction of the 6+

I use my mini way more than I ever used my ipad 2. lightness is the key, can hold it one handed easily which is crucial. been reading a lot on it (retina helps for that, iBooks is gorgeous)

I would prob use a mini more than my iPad 2 and def more than a big ol phablet

but comic books

yeah the main thing drawing me to a 6+ is being able to read kindle/ibooks without my iPad. can't really stand to do it on current iPhone.

as Apple calls their tablet a Pad I have decided that instead of a phablet, the bigphone is called a phad

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/PADD

pad is for longer-than-six-minute gaming, comics, on-the-go writing, magazine/newspaper reading, in-bed netflix/tivo/hulu/mubi, insomnia
phone is for email check, pocket, brief gaming and occasional gaming addiction, reference material, texting, calling, photos, spotify playlists, insomnia
desktop is for work, ilx, emulation, music, writing, steam, battlenet, insomnia

which is for masturbating tbh

dude i already said the desktop was for ilx

iPad is also a good iOS business tool in offices. It's cool with everyone just showing up to a team meeting with iPads and taking turns doing AirPlay to an Apple TV to show designs, slide decks, what not.

I find people staring down at their phones in a business setting to be unspeakably rude whereas sitting there in a meeting reading email on your laptop or iPad somehow doesn't seem rude. Also, iPhones seem less commonly provisioned by employers, whereas I can see iPads being a go-to iOS device to give your staff if you really need them to have something.

I have an iPad 2 which is still going strong three years on. I use it practically every day as a couch device and I bought my wife an iPad Mini w/retina recently as well. In a relationship context, staring at your phone while on sitting on the couch with your partner is rude, so iPad still wins here. Sitting on the couch with a laptop would also seem rude in a slightly different way ("oh, are you still working?" my wife would ask). I use the iPad for web browsing, recipes, Feedly, games, sometimes streaming video from my MacBook Air in the other room. I transition from living room to kitchen, and often read a bit in bed.

When I am at home the phone sits on my desk and I check it only a couple of times after coming home from work and almost never after 9 or 10 pm.

ya im not saying the ipad is dead def still has a ton of business and decorum conscious internet addict use cases but these big phones + people not reuping as often as phones + people not reuping at all are gonna take the glow off of a device that had the most crazy explosive growth of any new product category ever

btw the new small kindle fire costs $99 and is pretty nice, crazy

this is a very good idea too imo http://www.amazon.com/Fire-Edition-Display-Wi-Fi-Kid-Proof/dp/B00LOR524M

yeah I also have an ipad 2 that I use a lot and that I could see lasting me for another 3 years

yeah, i bought a first gen kindle fire just to see if i liked the style of device, and then got an ipad3. the ipad's way way nicer, but i use the hell outta the fire still, since it's very portable and sturdy. the ipad stays at home really, but between me and the kids, the fire goes everywhere.

...I kinda think this cover wasn't in the company's game plan:

http://media.boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tim-cook-bloomberg-cover-01.png

one of the best pieces of graphic design ive seen in a long time

are the iOS8 notifications getting very small or what? ... or is it just me getting old?

maybe u have to get a bigger phone lol

did your global UI text-size setting reset when you upgraded? idk if notifications respect that or w/e. also not upgrading my 4S b/c that'd be madness

Bloomberg Business Week has been absolutely KILLING IT with their covers btw.

yeah they do really good design work altogether but this one is next level

I loved this one

http://payload308.cargocollective.com/1/10/339773/8466521/youtube-final-cover.jpg

hmm.

was trying to place that artist its very reminiscent of someone from the 80s/90s or maybe just a popular style of the time but i guess hes a new guy http://kyleplatts.tumblr.com

compare to these pieces of deathless art:

http://www.economist.com/printedition/covers?print_region=76981

BW covers killing it for the last year or two, who is in charge there?