New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

(w/r/t $200 promo)

iphone 5 teardown

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

be careful

I tried out the 6 and 6+ in a store today and I think I'm dfeinitely going with a 6

be careful

― i blow goat farts, aka garts for a living (waterface), Wednesday, September 24, 2014 2:10 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i fixed it! like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZh2eSGT-gc

pretty proud

proud papa am i

damn wow

I went into my 5's port yesterday and scraped out a bunch of lint n stuff & it was a little easier to get it to charge today, so I'm hoping that's all it was. I don't want to go all fixerupper on it if I don't have to (do NOT want to get a new phone right now)

just dont use those cheap ass third part charging cables kids! take it from me

I actually noticed that a third-party cable acted up in the car and didn't maintain a connection well whereas the apple one worked fine. Wonder if that's only been a problem with the lightning cables.

I think I maybe fucked up my 4S's dock connector with a cheap cable before (my friend has now replaced the connector for me). The Apple cables are so OTT expensive though. I wish I could just find a midrange one I could trust. Actually I did: an Amazon-branded one, but it's black rather than white and has the Amazon logo stinking things up a bit.

yeah i guess there are third party ones that are approved by apple but im too shook now i bought an official one

I almost bought a third party laptop charger but then I bit the bullet

Ah, I didn't think before to search for MFi (Made For iPhone) in my search:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=mfi%2030-pin%20cable&sprefix=mfi+30-pin%2Caps%2C291

sick work lagoon la
my iphones battery is failing and ive watched several of those videos
the cost differential of buying replacement battery and philips 00 whatever screwdriver vs getting a professional to do it is minimal, perhaps £25
nonetheless i would like to replace it myself, not that i ever fix anything myself but the phone is somehow personal in a way idk a microwave or whatever isnt
still its just too intricate and idont really trust myself to replace it without fucking something up so its probably going to the repair people
regards,

I would fix my phone before my microwave because my phone is less capable of killing me imo

if u break ur phone u r basically dead tho

your phone is a microwave though

not a very good one

Does anybody know of a good breakdown of the iPhone 6's subsidized vs. unsubsidized cost structure

I know that back in the day you'd save like $500 if you bought the phone outright

Playing around on AT&T and verizon now though I'm not so sure

i read something that said it was cheaper to buy still, verizon even has a plan for that now i think

Yeah Verizon has a $60 a month plan that's pretty sweet for single users

I'm trying to get a family share thing going

Might move to Cricket or Straight Talk

$60 a month without a subsidised phone? Ha – you can get that deal for £23 (£37.50) a month over in the UK, with unlimited data, minutes and texts.

Or £15 if you don't need unlimited minutes.

we dont appreciate hearing abt other countries phone plans in the usa

Your phone won't work in America tho

They confiscate that shit at the border. Security risk

we r too busy innovating for u to have cheap phone plans

im building a new internet right now

Yeah, I discovered recently that innovation v cheapness is actually the justification for broadband being so expensive in the US. And the US might be right! It's just we're still waiting on that innovation.

my phone plan has to work across a reasonable part of 9.6 million square kilometers, not some piddly island

broadband is expensive because we have roughly one person per square kilometer in the US

that was an exaggeration, it's more like 32

That would only make sense for broadband in an infrastructure set-up where companies can't cherry-pick high-density areas. It goes back to the 2002 FCC ruling:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/04/04/299060527/episode-529-the-last-mile

Getting the dock connector repair kit, even though I got an iPhone 6. I can see one of the pins in my iPhone 5 is all squished down, and it has been destroying lightning cables (pin gets all oxidized for some reason). Wish me luck!

6+ really does seem a bit bendy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znK652H6yQM

Yeah, I discovered recently that innovation v cheapness is actually the justification for broadband being so expensive in the US. And the US might be right! It's just we're still waiting on that innovation.

― Alba, Wednesday, September 24, 2014 4:59 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

naw its cause this country is run by shit ass corporations tbh

what's the deal with people destroying extremely expensive pieces of technology through drop tests and bend tests? for what? a few thousand youtube hits?

yup

to be fair, eleven million youtube hits on that one

since yesterday, also that company has $$$

feel like he shdve tried to bend it back tho, i want closure

Feel like he shoulda been scientific and measured how much torque he was applying + used a laser level r something

i like how he just cranked on it it bent super easy what a piece

eleven million jeezo. does that add up to the price of an iphone 6 plus?

i just watched one where a guy said "you don't want to get into actions like extreme sitting" [with it in your pocket]

lmao is that like parkour

this is bullshit, phones shouldn't bend

Dunno what rates are like now but 11 million hits should easily cover the cost of a iphone 6 plus

doubt that video is monetized theyre doin it to run the ads for their company at the beginning and end

pretty smart

they hit the right tone/segment