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AirPods Launch on Apple Store for $159 With December 21 Delivery
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A good point... will Siri require a data connection to complete a simple request like "volume up"??
Don't know it's the way it is out there. Stuff is cheaper but not that much cheaper
I mean...we do know that price of it. It's $159 + my state tax. We have calculators here too, so that helps.
Except for giant releases like a new iPhone, this is typical practice (for Apple and most companies). Not everything gets a pre-order.
I would guess so since Siri doesn't work offline. At least as far as I know anyway.
at least you are on EST... its so unfair for us who are on PST... nobody wakes up 6 in the morning just to check the website.. so so so unfair.
I feel for you guys I really do, but I've got to say it i'm afraid... 'You snooze, you lose!'.
No matter what time they do it, there will be people missing out.
I mean...we do know that price of it. It's $159 + my state tax. We have calculators here too, so that helps.
True, it's really not all that difficult, especially in my state where the tax rate is just under 10%.
I was actually up at 6:15 but didn't check the internet because I was taking my newborn to her first doctor appointment. I noticed it in between appointments at around 10:30 and ordered, I have a ship date of 1/12/17. I hope they ship substantially earlier than that but I'm not holding my breath. I'll live either way.
but at least people will be awake, and have a 'fair fight'.
it's the same as starting sale at 1AM PST unannounced. where people are most likely sleeping on EST.
You mean, they do pop out for you and are very uncomfortable for you. Clearly, not everyone will conform to the EarPods, but some have adjusted quite well to the design and comfortability, being every fitting is different from others. That said, the EarPods have suited me fine until my Airpods arrive.
yeah given UK is one day ahead of US, you can pretty much get it the same day as US delivery starts.
Not as unfair as when the iphones are released for preorder and I have to wake up at 3 am (EST) instead of staying up to midnight (PST) to order
I mentioned that because being so many people's go to person, I knew who had PCs and who eventually stopped using them when they got a smart phone.
The future of offices full of computers on desks are open collaborative spaces where employees are mobile. Wait... scratch that, that's the present.
Many job categories where workers sat at computers all day are changing rapidly. Many of those offices are now couches and meeting tables. Many of those employees are free to go outside, to sit at a cafe meeting colleagues or clients.
Creatives who sat at a desk writing pitches now message one another and work in collaborative apps on their iphones and iPads. They go out and socialize with their peers which is how ideas come about. Realtors who used to manage their listings on a website editor on a computer now snap some shots and upload it to their realtor listing app. They respond to their emails from their car or before a viewing at their listings.
But that's besides the point. What is being discussed here are personal computers. People who used to use computers for email, web browsing, banking, occasional word processing and managing their budget in spreadsheets have since migrated to smartphones which is a true personal computer, dedicated to that one person and their needs.
I don't expect smartphones to disappear but their role as a central place for managing their lives is certainly going to change. It's already changing. Much more personal watches and speech based UI that AirPods are facilitating are going to step in to that personal assistant role.
Not as unfair as when the iphones are released for preorder and I have to wake up at 3 am (EST) instead of staying up to midnight (PST) to order
no correct. iPhone releases are announced. you know exactly when it goes alive, its not a 'surprise attack'.
plus, apple is based on PST.
At this point I think there's a very good chance the ship dates are not correct in the UK and other markets. It seems the dates are only slipping in the US, so I think Apple's systems are busted outside the US.
I don't think so, I just think there are more people in the US that are ordering them.
Yep but they would allocate stock on that basis. I hope I'm wrong, but it seems a remarkable coincidence that the dates haven't slipped anywhere outside the US?
I used to think docking stations were the way to go. I thought we would just plug our phones into keyboard and monitors. Now I'm not so sure. It may be that all the necessary computing power will be so cheap that even that hassle will be skipped because the docking station will have enough computing power (i.e, it will be a computer). I mean mainly what the masses use computing power for 95% of the time is to display words and pictures on a screen. We really don't need anymore computing power to do that. I mean a $60 smartphone does a perfectly good job showing text, pictures and even video right now. So does a $40 tablet. That is now, so prices will drop from here. I think we might just end up with only Cloud level accounts which we can access from any device. The only thing you will carry will be your master ID device which will be like your Apple Watch.