New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Only case I would consider is one of those ones that has the credit card and money insert

lost my 5 bc it fell out of my pocket. FA returned two causes: short pants and no case.

Cases are for grip only. I'm under no illusion that they would offer any kind of protection.

otm

Cases are for grip only. I'm under no illusion that they would offer any kind of protection.

― Jeff, Monday, April 13, 2015 7:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otterboxes are ugly and clunky and i have one and they are p much bullet proof, i've dropped this motherfucker so many times, i drop it on purpose, fuck the world

i dont f w a case whats the point of having a beautiful slim phone

h8 protection

if i did tho id get one w a battery in it

p much the worst thing that happens is the glass breaks and u cn get that fix down the corner (i have never broken the glass)

i replaced the charging port that i broke by using a bootleg cable tho

$12 kit amazon.com

i assure you as usual u have no idea what youre talking about and are repackaging the least insightful received wisdom as bold truth telling

― lag∞n, Monday, April 13, 2015 11:19 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love the extreme levels of condescension and arrogance u can only get with frequent ilm posters. more please!

uh hello this is not ilm get a brain

I never cracked a screen until the 5. I've cracked the screen on both the 5 and 6. My impression is that if you don't have a case on either of those phones, you are tempting fate in the worst way.

replacing screen also not that cheap or easy imo

i replaced my 3g screen myself but i think it's basically impossible to DIY now

I think it's prob in this thread or the other one, but I dropped my 6 face down on a rock, took it to an Apple store, and they had the whole thing replaced and ready in 45 minutes.

I had applecare and had to pay the accidental damage deductible, but I think w/o that it was like $100

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6O-bGY_1dM

tempted to try the replace iphone 5 charging kit posted earlier b/c mine connects only fitfully. but I am scaaaaaaared even though I've assembled bunches of dumb pcs over the years.

The ridiculous part was that I did it the night before driving to Chicago with a friend, so I just started trying to line up an appointment time with the time when we'd be driving past the right suburban Apple store, and it worked

tempted to try the replace iphone 5 charging kit posted earlier b/c mine connects only fitfully. but I am scaaaaaaared even though I've assembled bunches of dumb pcs over the years.

― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, April 14, 2015 10:47 AM (12 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its a lil tricky and def has a possibility for further damage theres a bunch of tiny ports and screws to deal with, heres a video detailing the process u cn judge for yrself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxeq8JkZ36c

I have dropped my current 3GS on more rocks than I can count. It refuses to die.

if i want to replace the charging port and batter on a 4s, how hard is it?

watch the video m8

urgh that guy has done it lots of times, i want someone who has done it once to tell me what it felt like

it felt a little scary but i was proud of myself after, im not like super mr fixit or anything fwiw

just take a systematic approach go slow and u shd be fine, make sure you have a good container to hold the screws etc, theres prob like a 5% chance u will break ur phone

I took the case off of my 6 yesterday for the first time in a year and remembered why I use one - no grip on all those smooth, rounded edges. It felt like it was trying to get free of my hands. And the case I use has a soft inside w/ a hard shell, so it absorbs shock when I manage to drop the phone anyway.

I think it's prob in this thread or the other one, but I dropped my 6 face down on a rock, took it to an Apple store, and they had the whole thing replaced and ready in 45 minutes.

I had applecare and had to pay the accidental damage deductible, but I think w/o that it was like $100

The apple care deductible for replacing my cracked screen was $80. Still pretty expensive, IMO.

NEW iPhone 6 Screen Replacement done in 5 minutes is a really misleading title!

my 6 case has almost nothin to do with pro (i've trained myself to assume if i drop it, even in the case, it's breaking- to lessen future psychological agony when i drop it and it breaks), it's all about grip. i fumbled the naked 6 like 3 times, and always managed to save it. i really like the feel of the super sleek rubber apple cases, but they are almost too sticky in some pockets.

$80 is indeed expensive but I am willing to believe Je55e and I are particularly skilled at breaking things

I never broke a phone until the 5. I've broken both the 5 and the 6. I drop my phone at the same rate that I always have.

I have never broken a phone.

I've ruined a number of phones with water but never broke one until the screen on my iPhone 6 broke. And that wasn't from dropping but (I'm pretty sure) from squeezing myself around a badly parked car with the phone in my pocket.

I figured you were taking a selfie with a wild animal and it slapped it out of your hand

If you care about Apple’s media players, 8.4’s promising. Music.app was re-written. A few photos:

http://9to5mac.com/2015/04/13/hands-on-ios-music-app

Maybe an OS X version will appear and they deprecate iTunes?

I am scared to click on that in case you are trolling me and they didn't really touch the Music app

One of my favorite features in the iOS 8.4 Music app is the ability to manage your queue of songs. Apple has offered this in iTunes on the Mac for a while now, but never on iOS. With iOS 8.4, however, you can now choose to play a song next, or add it to your full queue.

Wow.

"Hey, Jim?"
"Yeah, LIsa?"
"Do, uh, well, have we talked about maybe adding a queue to the music player on iPhone?"
"I beg your pardon?"
"Well, y'know, like a list of songs that you want to play next."
"You mean like shuffle?"
"No, more like a, well, like you tap on a song, but instead of playing it, you put it on the end of a list."
"Like a playlist?"
"Sort of, except you aren't saving it for later, just playing it later."
"Later like when?"
"Like after the other songs in the queue."
"Which other songs?"
"The ones you add to the queue."
"Oh, well, um, that sounds complex. I think that functionality would confuse our users."

http://i.imgur.com/NziVlFZ.png

XD

technology media covering teens like itheyre an oracle is so crucial

teens are so fickle, it makes the media have more stuff to cover

technology media covering teens like itheyre an oracle is so crucial

necessary, unfortunately

"Hey, Jim?"
"Yeah, LIsa?"
"Do, uh, well, have we talked about maybe adding a queue to the music player on iPhone?"
"I beg your pardon?"
"Well, y'know, like a list of songs that you want to play next."
"You mean like shuffle?"
"No, more like a, well, like you tap on a song, but instead of playing it, you put it on the end of a list."
"Like a playlist?"
"Sort of, except you aren't saving it for later, just playing it later."
"Later like when?"
"Like after the other songs in the queue."
"Which other songs?"
"The ones you add to the queue."
"Oh, well, um, that sounds complex. I think that functionality would confuse our users."

saddest post on ilx

you used to be able to modify an "on the fly" playlist way more easily and then they somehow got rid of that accidentally in one of their redesigns.

This is my favorite thing

http://nextshark.com/nilay-patel-apple-watch-review-bracelet-tantrum/

maybe he wears the spikey band to shield his thin skin ;)

the first thing that occurred to me when i saw this photo was surprise that one of those fat, cute, low-confidence newbie leather bois you see sitting near the entrance of the eagle / jackhammer / manhole was a successful tech blogger.

i wonder if he takes it off before wiping