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Apple Posts iPhone 5 Promotional Video
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I also get the feeling Apple has become a market leader: not a compliment, rather the beginning of the end. Most innovators/ market leaders lose their grip on the market to new comers introducing innovation.
Man, I am so annoyed with this new model. The horrible keynote. The ugly design/ leaks turned out to be true. Even the name iPhone 5 is wrong (6th gen. model).
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I have all the current star phones on the market right now. The One X and S III are annoying to use with one hand. Unless you have "big" hands, that is.
over and over, speculate over features of the upcoming iDev and when it actually matches everything you guessed (and proved you right) its not enough!
what the **** is the iPhone supposed to do for you? would someone please answer??? what the **** were you expecting? so far, no one has been able to actually quantify that.
what the **** is the iPhone supposed to do for you? would someone please answer??? what the **** were you expecting? so far, no one has been able to actually quantify that.
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I love it.
But now you've done it—Apple will now have to add 'rummage around' to their blacklist of terms geniuses are not allowed to use.In all seriousness though, it's kind of nice that Apple allowed us this insight into the manufacturing process, and how difficult it must be to ensure the precision we've come to expect from them.
what's iDev?
It sounds like you are not old enough to understand this but read again: every innovator out there eventually lost grip on the market it created as its revenues grew, as it become comfortable and as more nimble competitors entered the market place. Philips, Sony, RIM, Nokia etc. AAPL struggled to close in the green today. Not a good thing on such a big day for the company. @ $672, it's got room for a correction. Pull up the chart for NOK and RIM too and marvel.
Personally, I didn't speculate on what was expected but I do think that the leaks being accurate is not a good sign for Apple, knowing the importance it places on secrecy. Unless Apple itself leaked the pictures itself to feed the hype machine.
I would have liked a couple of surprises from iOS. The famous "oh, one more thing..." For instance native VoIP/ SIP client. Hell I would have been able with just video wallpapers.
Now, give it a coupe of seconds to sink in. And don't insult people you don't know. It reflects badly on you and the way your parents raised you.
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I haven't been on Macrumors for awhile but thought I'd browse through some of the threads to see what people thought about Apple's new flagship phone. What I'm totally surprised about has nothing to do with Apple or the new iPhone. It's the amount of rude people who come here to complain about the smallest little issue. It seems that the world is turning into a bunch of cynical crybabies and most of them are here on Macrumors... especially on this thread.
The way that some of you people go on, Apple could never make you happy. Perhaps a phone made of liquid crystal that also served up a holographic version of Siri? Nah... you'd all whine about that too.
I'm not an Apple fanboy... I see them just as well designed and engineered devices that make peoples lives better. But I'm also realistic and amazed at the technology available at our fingertips. The rest of you are spoiled and have no respect for things that you could never do yourself even if you had a million years.
My parting advice is for you to go buy a Samsung phone. Then if you aren't satisfied and decide to comeback... you might want to apologize for being D bags.
The way that some of you people go on, Apple could never make you happy. Perhaps a phone made of liquid crystal that also served up a holographic version of Siri? Nah... you'd all whine about that too.
I'm not an Apple fanboy... I see them just as well designed and engineered devices that make peoples lives better. But I'm also realistic and amazed at the technology available at our fingertips. The rest of you are spoiled and have no respect for things that you could never do yourself even if you had a million years.
My parting advice is for you to go buy a Samsung phone. Then if you aren't satisfied and decide to comeback... you might want to apologize for being D bags.
Same here: it looks to be very solid. Beauty is an objective thing, but to me it looks gorgeous as well, especially the white version with that shiny chamfered edge around it.
True enough. Why monkey around with near-perfection. Different isn't necessarily better; I've never really understood our obsession with radically redesigned models every year or even two years just for the sake of 'newness' in everything from cars to toasters to computers or phones for that matter. Perfection usually comes about by incremental tweaks to what are already solid designs to begin with. If everything works as advertised, 'Hats-off' to all those at APPLE who had a hand in designing this new iPhone!
I think a large number of people have a negative view on the new products recently because they lack the shock factor that countless leaks have taken away from keynotes. I personally like the fact that Apple didn't completely alter a phone design that is already absolutely amazing in order to put an oversized screen or some other ridiculous feature on that isn't needed.
Nowadays, there is not much difference between a phone and a tablet. For daily purposes, I don't think anybody needs a wider screen. Ergonomically, the screen should be wide enough for a person to use it with one hand comfortably.
The wider samsung phone looks good to see. But practically, its like carrying a ereader in your pocket. Then again, personal preferences vary a lot.
Apple events, esp under SJ, had that wow factor.
But seeing yesterday's event, Most people will wait for the next generation than waste money. In short, most of us are disappointed.
Yeah, and while that may be true, a bit bigger in all directions would've been nice. Even if it were say the S2 size screen. From reading across different forums, people at work, etc, I think a lot of people were hoping for this.
As I said, there's legion of kids with small hands happily using their larger screened phones. By all accounts they're loving it.
Hmm... maybe next year.
So, by now you would have a REALLY impressive cave, all smooth square walls, high tech built into the stone work.
hundreds of years perfecting your cave, every year you hone and polish the cave a little more, till at the end you are left with the most perfect cave ever.
Or perhaps you could take a leap, and build a free standing dwelling instead of a cave. Sure it's a bit radical, and perhaps most people in their perfect caves may think you are an idiot, I mean why change from your cave just for the hell of it? The cave is safer, stronger, cool in summer, warm in winter.
Yes, it's best to just stay in our proven cave.
I think that analogy, although funny, is a bit of a stretch. APPLE has already taken that 'LEAP' that's a bit 'RADICAL' when they re-invented the phone in 2007; at the time having been judged by most pundits to be revolutionary, not to mention it's commercial success. (And you can't argue with THAT.) Now they're tweaking it to perfection. Technological progress will continue, and sooner or later something way better will undoubtedly come along, but it's unrealistic to expect revolutionary, ground-breaking new versions of the iPhone, or any other gadget for that matter, to be introduced every year or so.
Apple events, esp under SJ, had that wow factor.
But seeing yesterday's event, Most people will wait for the next generation than waste money. In short, most of us are disappointed.
Are you sure about that?
Agreed, but we're still waiting for something to happen since iPhone 1 to be honest.
UI wise, in general it's the same that they launched on day one of model one.
Haha, funny as always.
"We don't want to just make a new phone, we want to make a much better phone." This means nothing.
"From the beginning, we knew we wanted to bring LTE to the iPhone." You're a bit late to the game...
etc.
Comedy gold.
"We don't want to just make a new phone, we want to make a much better phone." This means nothing.
"From the beginning, we knew we wanted to bring LTE to the iPhone." You're a bit late to the game...
etc.
Comedy gold.
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So make it taller is being "serious?"
Sorry making it taller doesn't count as "completely redesigned."
Well that's groundbreaking.
My phone is taller and wider than the iPhone 4S and fits very well in my hand.
iPhone 4S 9.3mm. iPhone 5 7.6mm. Amazing how they can sell on the fact that the iPhone 5 is 1.7mm thinner...
That's great and all, but it's not shocking or groundbreaking.
I really want to like the iPhone 5, but the fact remains that they didn't "redesign" by making it taller. They are pushing things that have been done.
I guess the new motto is "(Don't) Think Different."
Johnathan Ive said:
So make it taller is being "serious?"
Johnathan Ive said:
Sorry making it taller doesn't count as "completely redesigned."
Johnathan Ive said:
Well that's groundbreaking.
Johnathan Ive said:
My phone is taller and wider than the iPhone 4S and fits very well in my hand.
iPhone 4S 9.3mm. iPhone 5 7.6mm. Amazing how they can sell on the fact that the iPhone 5 is 1.7mm thinner...
Bob Mansfield said:
That's great and all, but it's not shocking or groundbreaking.
I really want to like the iPhone 5, but the fact remains that they didn't "redesign" by making it taller. They are pushing things that have been done.
I guess the new motto is "(Don't) Think Different."
1) I find it funny the phone only turns half-way, not revealing its back, at the end of the video.
2) Watch me drop and break mine on day one.
2) Watch me drop and break mine on day one.
I know this one will too will sell like hotcakes.
But people like me who value apple for bringing products for their innovation, simplicity and usability would rather wait for the next generation than buy the latest one.
If you just try to be a market leader and forget the values that really took you there, you will soon become another Nokia or Blackberry.... Just saying
There's two songs, I believe, one that plays at the beginning and end, and one in the middle. The one that starts and ends the video is "Always" by Switchfoot. I don't know the other.
jW