apple is awesome let's talk about it

babyeatingjesus

Monkeybomb wrote: »

Okay, I'm crossposting this.

See, my think with iPhones is like this.

I fuckin' use my phones. I don't need to have something extremely pretty jangling around in my pocket with my change. I could see myself buying an iPod Touch and keeping it in a case, but my phone? I dunno.

The Chocolate I bought last year is all fuckin scratched to hell. Seems like it'd be a shame to do that to an iPhone.

I was worried about that with my Treo, but I just started putting change and keys in my other pocket.

Left hip pocket is now designated phone pocket.

Druhim

World as Myth wrote: »

Rankenphile wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

I will be paying for this one, I fear

my boss is great but I don't know if he's two iphones great

although he was two macbook pros great

SEE?

look, kate, it ain't about how great he is.

it's about how great you are.

to him.

I need to do some exercises to practice my embouchure

bravo

World as Myth

Makershot wrote: »

Shit how much would this thing cost me a month, realistically

costs me about $85 a month, with 1500 text messages and unlimited data

Rankenphile

I heard there was games out there that weren't WoW.

crazy huh?

As7

I JUST might have to get this thing...

Will I still have to pay inordinate fees to use it on a plan?

Edit: nm...85 isn't bad.

Meissnerd

brb looking up embouchure

Centipede Damascus

Butters wrote: »

Callius wrote: »

This is when I wish that I hadn't signed a year contract with T-Mobile.

oh well, I can wait.

Dude, service for the Bold will be way cheaper and that thing looks sexy as hell.

and it will actually be useful for things besides looking pretty

that's another plus

Balefuego

Rankenphile wrote: »

World as Myth wrote: »

look at this thing

(snip)

it is skinny as fuck

can I fit it in an envelope?

this is crucial, I keep all my electronics in envelopes now.

Rank you bring joy to my life, one post at a time

babyeatingjesus

World as Myth wrote: »

Makershot wrote: »

Shit how much would this thing cost me a month, realistically

costs me about $85 a month, with 1500 text messages and unlimited data

Christ I wish unlimited data was cheap or even fucking available in Canada.

Meissnerd

Meissnerd wrote: »

brb looking up embouchure

ahahahaha

Vladimer

Fellhand wrote: »

Meissnerd wrote: »

so I was asking about this in another thread but this one seems more apt

can mac computers play games pretty well. I know you can run windows on them now so compatibility isn't really a problem. I don't play that many different games at once so space wouldn't really be an issue either. games are pretty much the only thing that is preventing me from getting some sort of mac computer.

and please this is not a mac vs pc thing, I know what a pc is like and am now enquiring about macs

You can get the wow client for mac and you can emulate windows. I use Parallels, other people use Boot Camp, I've heard of others using VMWare.

Pretty sure he's talking about hardware.

Apple has been adopting more universalish hardware, from what I've seen, so I'd say that yes, Macs play games well.

I fully intend to play SC2 on this MacBook Pro, for instance.

The_Scarab

World as Myth wrote: »

look at this thing



it is skinny as fuck

fuck me I must have one.

any word on a UK release?

i held off on an iphone because, well, who the hell can afford to be an apple early adopter.

but man, $199 is probably going to translate to £150-200 which I can totally swing.

satansfingers

wait, july 11? but i want it now!

my current phone is so old and close to dead. i get, like, 15 minutes of talk time at this point.

World as Myth

The_Scarab wrote: »

any word on a UK release?

I believe it's being released in something like 22 countries simultaneously

Callius

WaM, I didn't get to see your tattoo this weekend.

:cry:

Butters

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

Butters wrote: »

Callius wrote: »

This is when I wish that I hadn't signed a year contract with T-Mobile.

oh well, I can wait.

Dude, service for the Bold will be way cheaper and that thing looks sexy as hell.

and it will actually be useful for things besides looking pretty

that's another plus

I will never ever dump my keypad for a touch screen.

Rankenphile

oh hey

they're releasing this two days before my wedding subtle hint what do you know

babyeatingjesus

I wonder if the iPhone will ever work on TDMA/CDMA

Makershot

World as Myth wrote: »

Makershot wrote: »

Shit how much would this thing cost me a month, realistically

costs me about $85 a month, with 1500 text messages and unlimited data

Goddamnit I do not have $85 a month

unlimited data is rad as hell, though

Eh, I would probably use it for a month or two then forget about it

Druhim

Butters wrote: »

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

Butters wrote: »

Callius wrote: »

This is when I wish that I hadn't signed a year contract with T-Mobile.

oh well, I can wait.

Dude, service for the Bold will be way cheaper and that thing looks sexy as hell.

and it will actually be useful for things besides looking pretty

that's another plus

I will never ever dump my keypad for a touch screen.

yeah, as slick as it looks I just don't think I'd be happy with a touch screen

Rankenphile

oh shit

are games actually playable on these things?

like, does the touchscreen actually work for games at all, or is it too clumsy to work?

because I don't know what I'd do while I poop if I didn't have my motorcycle game.

World as Myth

Callius wrote: »

WaM, I didn't get to see your tattoo this weekend.

:cry:

I realized that on the train

well you can see it with the flowers colored next time I'm up

satansfingers

$199 is likely only if you sign up for a nice long contract or something

i doubt it'll be $199 outright

Vladimer

I wonder what availability will be like.

I'm not even afraid about fronting the bill.

I'm afraid of being able to physically acquire one.

Vladimer

Rankenphile wrote: »

oh shit

are games actually playable on these things?

like, does the touchscreen actually work for games at all, or is it too clumsy to work?

because I don't know what I'd do while I poop if I didn't have my motorcycle game.

yes! as a matter of fact they demo'd a racing game with the iphone SDK presentation today.

Fiz

I like my current iPhone, but that one looks pretty great too.

I've got the 24 inch iMac. It's pretty great, once you get used to the ridiculous size of the screen. Makes porn intense

Mysst

I fucking hate thin phones.

Callius

World as Myth wrote: »

I realized that on the train

well you can see it with the flowers colored next time I'm up

Promises?

World as Myth

satansfingers wrote: »

$199 is likely only if you sign up for a nice long contract or something

i doubt it'll be $199 outright

nah you can buy it for the ticket price from the mac store and activate it through itunes later

but you can't use it without a contract, unless you hack it or whatever, so yeah you have to sign a two-year contract

The_Scarab

World as Myth wrote: »

The_Scarab wrote: »

any word on a UK release?

I believe it's being released in something like 22 countries simultaneously

holy shit yes.


is it being tied to a provider again like the first iteration, which i believe is on O2 only.

Monkeybomb

Butters wrote: »

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

Butters wrote: »

Callius wrote: »

This is when I wish that I hadn't signed a year contract with T-Mobile.

oh well, I can wait.

Dude, service for the Bold will be way cheaper and that thing looks sexy as hell.

and it will actually be useful for things besides looking pretty

that's another plus

I will never ever dump my keypad for a touch screen.

Yeah, this.

Does the thing vibrate or something when you hit keys? Tactile feedback is pretty important.

Meissnerd

oh wait, a contract

never mind

Centipede Damascus

Butters wrote: »

Centipede Damascus wrote: »

Butters wrote: »

Callius wrote: »

This is when I wish that I hadn't signed a year contract with T-Mobile.

oh well, I can wait.

Dude, service for the Bold will be way cheaper and that thing looks sexy as hell.

and it will actually be useful for things besides looking pretty

that's another plus

I will never ever dump my keypad for a touch screen.

which is why I can't wait for this thing to hit

M.D.

July 11th, man should I get one even though i'm going overseas. Hmmm

Butters

Spoiler:

pckl300

Janin wrote: »

iPhone, iPhone, blah blah blah. iTunes has been around for how long, and still can't stream Vorbis.

Druhim wrote: »

by reducing the price and making it more accessible to the plebes, doesn't that inherently make it less hip?

People still complain about Starbucks being hip. "Hip" doesn't actually have anything to do with the product, it's just a word people use to criticize when they can't think of anything better -- like "smug".

Smug has a very clear definition, I suggest you look it up.

Makershot

I like the iPhone's older stuff better

Monkeybomb

haha hipster rage

Rankenphile

you know what

the more I think about it, the less I care

I'm happy with my phone, it does what I need it to and doesn't cost me a fortune in data plans and shit

I'm good

Charles Kinbote

god dammit the iphone was so cool before it got all popular