New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

The N64 didn't come out until I was packing up to go to college.

It was a cool game system and there were some really good games for it

The 64 stood for 64-bit, which was how you played video games back then

http://blog.pricecharting.com/2014/04/stevesesy-foxdata-n64-controllers.html

Wait, there were game systems that had more than one bit?

Back then man we just had two games -- "Ball" and "Stick." And we didn't call ourselves gamers, man, we just played for the love.

When I was 11 I become obsessed with the idea of sending out my N64 to this company that would chrome plate it for like $250

― 龜, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 1:12 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck yeah

I walked by a car that was 100% murdered out when I was on vacation last year. It was the most amazing matte black paint job, completely impractical, and it was pretty sweet

why would someone have bought a N64 when they already had the far superior SNES

man it was boss when original Zelda came out because it was gold plated, made all other games look weak

yeah, my neighbor had the gold plated original for NES. it made me feel bad about my late console lifetime purchased grey cart version.

yeah I had the gold plated. It was like having the god game.

Well, aside from the Hermes bag example I gave (in which the added "performance" value is zero), 95% of the "performance" in luxury goods is just disguised conspicuous consumption anyway.

Yeah but it is disguised is the important bit. Even if they could Ferrari wouldn't make a version with cloth seats for a 20th of the price. With Apple it's pretty blatant: "the strap alone costs as much as an iMac why because you will pay it, mug"

Still, people bought the black MacBook and that was exactly the same deal.

hey off-topic but any of you have any luck selling an old iphone for a decent price? even one in somewhat poor shape? my in-laws gave us their at&t iphone 5 and we put it on craigslist but it is just sitting there as 15 new posts appear everyday selling old iphones

When my wife and I got 5S's a year and a half ago I sold both of our 4s using Glyde. It was super simple, we got $200 for each of them, and both sold within two days.

LOL at anyone surprised people will pay a lot of money for luxury goods. Especially from a company who has sold their brand's computers for way more than any competitors.

LOL at people who perpetually confuse/conflate "surprise" with "disdain"

LOL at anyone surprised by Adam's post. gosh DJP you sure are surprised a bunch today.

People seem to forget that Apple has always (or at least the past 20 years) marketed itself as the status symbol brand of consumer electronics, this is why I confuse disdain with surprise.

so you're incoherent because people forget something about how apple has not actually marketed itself. am i getting this right?

actually forget i asked

I'm surprised people always forget to be surprised by disdain of people.

great thread guys, keep it up!

go fuck yourself

No u

new york media writer has game-changing epiphany: maybe having the latest high-end gadget isn't strictly necessary

https://medium.com/matter/shitphone-a-love-story-a44e66434807

https://twitter.com/DevilleSy/status/575216718047481856

ambient caffeine sensor for sure

new york media writer has game-changing epiphany: maybe having the latest high-end gadget isn't strictly necessary

https://medium.com/matter/shitphone-a-love-story-a44e66434807🔗

I just listened to a planet money podcast earlier that talked about GoPro being the most shorted stock over a recent period of time. Some investor guy was talking about how all tech products inevitably become cheap low margin commodities like toasters after a couple years

Tech evolves in new and surprising ways. But I was talking to the Exec Director of a pro-bike/public transit/walking group about the levelling off of car ownership among young people, and he said that yeah, the numbers may indicate a trend, but then again, there is a theory that Americans have also simply maxed out on the amount of driving they do and can do on any given day. Maybe tech will and can plateau, too, at least for a time. Maybe we've simply maxed out on the things we need our doodads to do, and that is why Apple is desperate to release something, anything, that creates a need where one didn't exist. In this case they made the doodad before they established a need. No doubt they will spend much money trying to convince people there is a need. But certainly Google couldn't pull it off with their GTFO goggles. At least the Apple watch is more subtle.

Google glass failed because it was a big ugly nerdy thing that sits on your face all day. Apple watch will succeed because it is cool.

http://i.imgur.com/XzeKM57.jpg

Gonna cop on canal street instead

Can I get a Hello Kitty Apple watch?

Apple's press release that's been up since the first Apple Watch unveiling calls its 'digital crown' user interface ''Apple’s most revolutionary navigation tool since the iPod Click Wheel'' . It's a curiously feeble endorsement given that Apple will no longer sell you an iPod with that wonderfully intuitive click wheel, an open admission that Apple knows its watch's UI is already doomed to short-term obsolescence should a future touch screen get the job done cheaper.

http://www.maclife.com/files/u220903/ipod_click_wheel_200px.png

(either that or it's an acknowledgement that the Click Wheel was a better and more relevant user interface than Apple's willing to admit)

where would you put the click wheel on an iphone

http://cdn.cultofmac.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/clickwheeliphone.jpg

xp - nowhere, but it still should be on the iPod nano where it works more intuitively (even by feel alone) than the touch interface they use now.

A modern take on the Classic (click wheel, 128 or 256GB SSD, optionally linkable to iPhone via bluetooth or Airplay for streaming purposes) would be welcome too - and IMO profitable even if the sales numbers weren't huge.

Apple did consider a click wheel for the first iPhone before writing it off as too impractical to dial without some representation of a keypad. It would have worked fine for dialing recent missed calls or frequently dialed calls - most of many peoples' call load - but be difficult to place new calls with having to somehow dial the numbers.

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will always love the click wheel. It doesn't belong on an iphone but it sure as shit belongs on any music player. I wish my sansa clip had a teeny tiny one on it.

click wheel was fine but i don't see how the ipod classic is superior to the ipod touch in any way apart from storage capacity

having physical buttons was nice, that's about it

Some models had better DACs too

iplayer radio app has a "dial", one of the few really nice things about it

true...but oh god the re-design for Yosemite is ghastly.

(Hi Tracer!)

I finally got tired of my (reasonably well-performing) old macbook pro and pulled the trigger on a 13" MBP with that new force touch thingy. I was a hardware generation behind being able to have Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11ac, and video Airplay so this sucker is pretty damn nice.

Yeah, the iPod's audio subsystem was solid. IIRC, Classic was using a Wolfson DAC and a custom headphone amp. Moreover, they improved the audio components with each revision. I bet there was an internal Classic advocate who was also moonlighting the engineering work who left the company. I don't know that for sure, but that's the typical story for for the stranger Apple products.

Sent from an iPhone

My MacBook Pro has been kernel panicking daily. I think the VMWare kernel extension is responsible. It sucks. I feel like I'm using Windows 98.

lol I was going to reinstall VMWare a bit ago but they (probably like Parallels) are really into selling you a whole new version every time you upgrade Mac OS/Windows so I'm a bit out of date

after yesterday afternoon with the new MBP I must say
- the battery life is insaaaane. I mean, I went from a 2010 15" MBP that probably was starting to get a little lower on battery life, but I was using this sucker for most of the afternoon without plugging it in, and it still had a few hours left
- I went full Apple on the login/filesystem. I'll probably regret linking my login to my Apple ID, but on a machine that supports the encryption in hardware, FileVault is a no-brainer
- I also installed a new Airport Extreme at the same time, and apparently setting the same access point name and password was enough for the majority of my devices to auto-find it, even the non-apple ones? weird. also the antennas in that sucker are huuuge to the point where when it was doing a scan to find local wifi APs (presumably for the next step when it asked if I wanted to bridge to one), I saw the name of a restaurant that is over a mile away