New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Say this much, when wired headphones or earbuds fall out at least they just dangle. These new magical earbuds, they're just going to bounce off into the gutter, down the subway train, into puddles ...

Yeah basically the situation I'm in is I'm still on one of those two-year-contract plans, due for an upgrade, and also have a broken screen to boot, so there's really no reason not for me to upgrade to something. I'd have to spend $79 just to fix the screen and the upgrade prices range from like free to $300 for the phones I'm interested in. But I'm having a hard time on whether I should pull the trigger on the 7 or just get a 6s for cheap (or an SE for free I think?). I keep having visions of being annoyed with the dongle all the time (or losing the dongle and being unable to listen to music on headphones until I get a new one). Although at $9 I could just pick up a few and have spares around.

I think Apple made a few huge mistakes. (1) They should have waited longer to take out the jack, until a transition to wireless was a little further along. (2) They should probably have announced the airpods at a different time, e.g. a non-phone event. (3) The design of the airpods is just bad. They should have given them some sort of connecting band or string.

Everyone is talking only about two things -- the loss of the jack and how bad the airpods are (even though you don't actually need the airpods) and it's tarnishing the whole release.

Ordered two Verizon 256 gig matte black iphones this morning, signing up for the Apple Upgrade Plan. It's nice to not have to drop 2K on phones at one time, that's for sure.

i like the idea of wireless headphones a lot, but I don't relaly like this execution, too expensive and will get lost. if I get this phone (at some point I assume I will have to) I'll just do the adaptor in the plug I guess. lame.

Jeff how does the Apple upgrade plan price out per phone, and are there different tiers of it for different tiers of phone?

airpods look dumb, they shouldve gone for a different design than just, like, taking the wires off the regular earbuds

also i keep thinkign they are called "air buds"

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man alive: http://www.apple.com/shop/iphone/iphone-upgrade-program

if you go to the payment part a couple sections down, it shows the monthly cost

wait, so it's actually $32.41/mo and up for 24 months, with an early upgrade fee option after a year? Doesn't that just work out to the same price as a full-price phone spread out over 24 months?

Pretty much, but you get Apple Care+ included so you only pay $29 if you smash the screen. Also I don't have to have the yearly dilemma if I want to upgrade my phone, I'll just do it and continue paying what I'm paying per month.

you also don't have to find a buyer for your used phone if you upgrade, so you're kind of getting an automatic 1/2 of the original value with no work

Oh wait, so they just take the phone back and that covers the upgrade cost?

http://i.imgur.com/0sZ0l77.jpg

yeah there's no "upgrade cost" per se, you pay them that much per month, and every year you can walk in and swap phones

Erotic xp

One of my favorite things about this is that, in response to questions about how you can charge while listening to headphones, Apple responded that you should buy their charging dock, which has a 3.5 headphone jack on it. However the dock does not have a lightning jack on it, so you can't use their lightning headphones with it.

that image is some beauty-of-horror masterpiece

so bad jfc

wondering who is going to come out with the best bluetooth receiver/remote dongle

https://www.amazon.com/Ericsson-Hi-Fi-Bluetooth-Stereo-Headset/dp/B003DQ1DCM

I got a good deal on one of these a couple years ago, you know it's some weird remainder tech because it says Sony/Ericsson on it!

(I threw out the included earphones obv)

ugh just hearing the phrase "bluetooth receiver/remote dongle" makes me want to barf

dongle is a really terrible word. It sounds like another word for dingleberry.

get a bucket, man, I'm going to copy/paste it about twenty times now. tell me when you're ready. xp

lol

wait I thought "dingleberry" was a euphemism for the balls. have I being doing this wrong? obviously the dongle is the shaft.

a dingleberry is a shit particle that gets stuck on a butt hair, which is kind of what this adapter thing is like

headphones do look like of like a butt

kind of like

me irl right now lol
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81%2BDCRC-MmL._SL1500_.jpg

hahahaha

T-shirt should say "ASK ME ABOUT MY BLUETOOTH RECEIVER/REMOTE DONGLE"

I've always liked Apple since our IIGS. Writing on a Macbook now, use a Mini as a server, have Apple TV to stream, even OK with iTunes (which sucks) etc. But I've never bought an iPhone, tempting as they sometimes are, because of the aggressive push to other Apple products, the lack of flexibility (which, to be honest, stems mostly from my inability to load a joke ringtone onto my wife's phone because you can only do it via the computer it is synced to), but mostly because of the fucking price. I've been fine with my stock Nexus phone, which is not larded up with bloatware and cost like $300, which is enough savings to mitigate whatever I'm missing by avoiding the iPhone.

so are you going to ask me or what
https://i.imgur.com/BaGpxWC.jpg

The only think that scares me away from the nexus is how terrible a company google is when it comes to privacy, but I already use chrome and gmail and google calendar so I don't know what I think I'm avoiding

I like to pretend I have all my ideas about computing meticulously honed so that I operate seamlessly but you could probably give me any random phone and my life would be the exact same. Scratch that, I have actively loathed pretending I have anything honed for the last couple years and I am very open about being a disorganized mess.

If the nexuses get latency low enough to run synths and midi sequencer apps (one of my favorites, Caustic, already supports android) I will totally switch.

And no, no reason to get AT&T model.

― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, September 8, 2016 8:48 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you sure about this? my understanding is that you can't buy another carrier's phone because an account is required to purchase it. there are rumours that you can buy, eg, a verizon phone at the apple store without a verizon account, but that's as of sept 16th

not too rushed to buy it now, but i am on tmobile and wanted to buy a verizon phone on apple's site and couldn't. reading mixed info everywhere

it's a weird lockout system. apple will only sell you a carrier's phone if you have an account with or sign up with that carrier. but after a couple weeks of availability, they typically will start selling a carrier-free model at full price, which is expected to be the same as the "verizon" one that supports cdma and the standard gps stuff.

I'm getting a "verizon" phone because I have a friend with a family plan w/verizon and he has a handful of lines that are ready for upgrades but those members in his family don't want smartphones. I've done it a couple times, works great.

are you sure about this? my understanding is that you can't buy another carrier's phone because an account is required to purchase it. there are rumours that you can buy, eg, a verizon phone at the apple store without a verizon account, but that's as of sept 16th

not too rushed to buy it now, but i am on tmobile and wanted to buy a verizon phone on apple's site and couldn't. reading mixed info everywhere

― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, September 9, 2016 2:22 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i bought a verizon iphone in a verizon store last year and cancelled service after the first month and switched to ting.

but going on previous form apple will be releasing an unlocked phone in a couple of weeks, which will presumably include CDMA

other option in the US is to ask your congressperson to advocate for telecoms infrastructure and industry regulation consistent with being a developed country.

i can kind of pull that off because i know people on verizon who don't want to upgrade but that's a bit of a hassle

damn my aspiration to be self sufficient

xxp

I will include that in my petition asking for a flying car xp

uh not sure having two accounts and paying whatever monthly fee for one month just to get a verizon phone is the best of solutions

will just wait a few weeks

appreciate the snark

xp

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heh.

fwiw i believe verizon stores will actually sell you an iphone outright without setting it up on verizon (unlike apple). i wanted to try verizon so i signed up, but i think you maybe don't have to.

I think they'll only do so if you have a vzw account :/

i might go into a verizon store to inquire about this, but i generally do not like going into any carrier's store

i'll report back if i find out anything of use

if you have twitter then the people who reply at https://twitter.com/vzwsupport?lang=en are actually pretty useful

you're on a roll today

lol the cell phone carrier stores are horrible. it's a cross-section of the worst customers and the poor sales/service people who are stuck working there

someone on facebook took a picture because he was at the at&t store and a random shirtless dude walked in. going to the at&t store, why wear a shirt?

xp i'm being serious! they are helpful!