New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

rip apple

My current hypothesis is that the phone hardware including EarPods is all a profitable R&D operation for chip design for the next platform. Every new thing they do involves new modules on the A-series or a new standalone chip in a new and more miniature and power-efficient package. Apple will make some people mad with the no headphone jack but they'll make another few tens of billions of dollars when the chip work all pays off.

lol at 5 hrs

iPad is perfect for annotating PDFs which is my profession atm

so IDGI, are they only going to update the iPhone mini every other year?

Sounds like a good bet.

all you do is annotate pdfs? are you a contract analyst or something?

im a paralegal all I do is make pdfs.

I'm on the fence personally. I can totally imagine though that in the next few years plenty of people, especially younger folks, will be fine with abandoning the analog jack, so I'm not exactly gonna call RIP Apple on this one. And I doubt it hurts them that much if they don't sell a ton of Airpods.

Also as much as I hate the Apple watch I feel like tons of runner assholes are gonna want one.

I'm totally down with the 7+. apple is not going anywhere, don't really care they got rid of the headphone jack glad they are including a free dongle tho.

wow only "Up to 1 hour longer battery life than iPhone 6s Plus" for the 7+ that's hella weak

Batteries are fundamentally hard and the gains in battery life at any given size are gonna be mostly about squeezing more power efficiency out of the cores.

right right, still weak tho

the worst thing about the iphone is the airpods' 5 hour battery life

imagine having to use them on a plane. you have to account for actually getting to the airport and waiting to get on the plane, etc, that will probably leave you with 50% battery left. i don't think many people will jump on a plane with freshly charged batteries or new ones

well you don't have to use airpods at all. You still have the alternative of (1) some beats bullshit, lol, (2) lightning earpods (3) the dongle (annoying but it's free), or (4) presumably regular old Bluetooth headphones. So no one is going to buy the airpods but it's not so bad for the phone.

i say rip apple in jest, they arent going anywhere, headphone jack thing blows though

but anyway this company is annoying imo

still better than alternatives i admit

http://i.imgur.com/Ji1hcp7.jpg

haha otm

kind of OTM but i also think he may be serious

wireless earbuds are a prestige thing. if you don't believe that, look at the price?

I actually really want a ceramic watch but lololol £1300. Still this is the edition now, so they've scrapped that £20k gold one?

Is there a popular model of wireless earbuds that don't have some kind of headband/connector? Design just seems idiotic.

So is the wireless audio BT or something else?

gold iwatch discontinued btw, wonder how many they sold in the end. under a 1000 my guess.

So I get the Nike Plus watch, but what's the deal with the Air Mez?

DADJOEKZ

well you don't have to use airpods at all. You still have the alternative of (1) some beats bullshit, lol, (2) lightning earpods (3) the dongle (annoying but it's free), or (4) presumably regular old Bluetooth headphones. So no one is going to buy the airpods but it's not so bad for the phone.

― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Wednesday, September 7, 2016 12:34 PM (thirty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

right, which is why i said it's the worse thing. the other things are not so bad. i'll be using the dongle

I'm not going to spend that much on headphones, but it's worth saying that plenty of people do. There are Beats buds around that price.

def not spending that much on earbuds ever, especially ones that could be lost/fall out so easily.

earpods can only sound so good. there's no way to jonny ive the laws of physics.

what is the bluetooth solution for avoiding weirdo interaction thru visible earphone cables

― r|t|c, Wednesday, September 7, 2016 1:04 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hi as someone who has been using Bluetooth to stream music to my hearing aids for several years, there are many times I've just taken them out and put in regular headphones solely for this reason

also will that lightning adapter work w/ my damn headphone remote buttons (volume up/volume down/play-pause) bcz it BETTER, that's all I can say!!!!

big xp and no one cares but I annotate a lot of PDFs because I'm a prof and a journal editor and so I get sent a lot of PDFs that need my comments. and I don't like reading PDFs on a landscape screen at a desk, and don't like annotating with a keyboard

in ~2 years time i will get remote earbuds but they will be the kind with a wire between the two buds

stevie d https://twitter.com/ejacqui/status/773614622058291201

ok good, I honestly don't really mind it, I'll just keep it plugged onto my headphones honestly

xp to Euler get a Surface Book my man

I didn't really care about many of these things but if they're going to affect Stevie's quality of life I am angry

RIP my custom earbuds - http://acscustom.com/uk/product-category/in-ear-monitors/

do the price drops on the other phones usually happen the day of the pre-order?

Oh yeah I guess if you use Square, it will be way more awkward with the dongle...

On the plus side, I just installed the 10.12 GM and recovered about 100GB of hard drive space. Still a little freaked by that.

they're selling the 3.5mm adapter for $9

the airpods also seem stupid because they're not isolating

the adapter comes free with the phone

That wasn't the creepy 'delete all your files and move them to iCloud' thing was it, ET?

Nope. Not going near that (although I quite happily use iCloud for other things)

do you get any kind of earphone in the box now when you buy the phone?

yeh the lightning ones and an adapter