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China Unicom and China Telecom to Start Pre-Orders for iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C Next Week
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Nope nope nope. From experience, I can answer NOPE. Been there, done that.
Change volume with remote:
Grab remote.
While still watching the show, blindly feel for the physical button and press it.
Change volume with app:
Grab iDevice.
Take eyes off show.
Press a button and slide to unlock.
Punch in password (if you have a password).
Wait for all the built-up notifications to zip by one at a time.
Navigate to app.
Start app.
Wait for app to boot up.
Press volume button.
Eyes back on show.
Even if some of those steps don't apply to you, many of them will. IR seems like a really neat capability until you actually use it.
You'll eat your words when the 5C outsells the 5S worldwide. In the US, though, you're probably right.
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Are you on iOS 5 or something? This hasn't been a problem since notification center.
But I agree with your premise, it just doesn't make a lot of sense.
You forgot that littleor maybe this one
OH SNAP!
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nah.. i'l just drink them
Defraud? lol. Nothing I said was an accusation of Apple "trying to defraud people." Certainly, the 5S will be better than the 4S -- a significant upgrade.
I just remember walking into an Apple store after the first "S" model came out. The home button on my 3G was acting up, and one of the associates tried to talk me into just upgrading to the 3GS. I was like, "It's basically the same and I'd rather not spend [however-many hundreds of dollars] on that." I'm pretty sure this was a "genius" not a sales associate, so she wasn't necessarily trying to "sell" me on it, but rather giving me all the upgraded technical specifications.
With the rate at which technology changes, getting a new phone every two years is a little unsatisfying. Other companies come out with more than one new phone per year, so even waiting one full year for Apple's annual upgrade feels like a long time. I am frequently disappointed with the "S" year upgrades, to the point that even though I am feeling like I want a new phone, Apple hasn't done enough to convince me to spend the money on an off-contract phone.
That was in reference to your use of "fall for", as if the S models are some sort of scam that Apple has to get suckers to "fall for". If you had said "interested in" your message would have had a different tone. Apologies since this is what you apparently meant; there's so much hyperbolic nonsense in these forums it's hard to tell sometimes.
One of seven remotes - which is where? Who used it last? Dang it, five minutes have gone by and I can't find it! What did my housemates do with it this time?
Easier than that:
1. Swipe to unlock phone
2. Pull down notification bar and click remote buttons in the widget
Oh yes, you are definitely an iPhone user. I know the waiting quite well.
Thankfully my new phone doesn't lag on anything.IR seems like a niche product that would only interest a few until more people try it - just like PDAs and smartphones themselves were.
Even your list of steps is still more time and requires you to look down instead of just pressing a physical button that you know by feel.
And perhaps our experiences are different, but I have a universal remote (so only one, not seven) and it's always in the TV room. My phone could be in any room in the house, and on rare occasions, accidentally left in the car or garage. I don't have remote-stealing housemates.
I HAVE tried it. That was the whole point of my response. I feel the opposite way; it sounds cool until I actually tried it, then I determined it's a much worse way of doing things. It's just like my friend's Logitech Harmony 1100, a full touchscreen remote. This thing is literally dedicated to being a remote. Even though it is instant on (due to motion detection), no unlock, no passcode, and no swiping down a notification bar, it's still worse compared to a physical button remote because you have to look down and find the button you need.
Well, hey, to each his own. I guess you have different issues than I do. But having tried it myself, I'm just not seeing it.