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Live Coverage of Apple's iPhone 5 Media Event [Event Over]
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iTunes has been terrible for years. The music app on the iPad just showed that they could go even lower than you all feared.
That is one thing that is lacking since Steve Jobs is gone. He was the master seller. Right now, they have a good CEO, a good marketing person, a good designer, and a good software engineer (all excellent, really), but no single person with Steve's mix. He was the master salesperson, and I'm sure if he were around and gave this identical presentation, there would be more enthusiasm. He'd go into great detail about why things like the sapphire lens mattered, or how revolutionary the screen technology was, not in "geek speak," but in a way that appealed to the average non-technical user.
My guess is that we'll continue to see these presentations by committee until and unless someone emerges as the right personality for them.
Disagree. This is the first iPhone ever that I am not bowled over by.
Yeah, they have said the same about the current design.
Wow, I don't think any phone before has ever exceeded its own battery life...
So much on the new iPhone
I'm sure iPhone 5 will be the biggest selling iPhone ever. But I still won't be upgrading my 4S.
I am in the same boat. I rather wait for the iPhone 5s or 6, whatever they call the next one.
No hurry here.
I like the new one, but I always wait my contract runs out first.
True- which is why this new phone would be leading edge in 2010.
PS - even if Jobs approved everything in 2010 - things can change. The phone wasn't even close to manufacturing when he passed.
Nitpicks on the new iTunes UI:
Libraries (music, movies, podcasts, etc.) in a pop-up menu - much less efficient than having them in the sidebar.
The controls are just flat images on the window. They don't even look like clickable buttons. Bad UI design.
Libraries (music, movies, podcasts, etc.) in a pop-up menu - much less efficient than having them in the sidebar.
The controls are just flat images on the window. They don't even look like clickable buttons. Bad UI design.
Ah yes. Yahoo! Sports, probably the worst source of sports news on the Internet. If the name Chris Chase means anything to you, you know exactly what I mean.
(Of course I'm not judging the iPhone 5's overall awesomeness or lack thereof on things like this!)
Can someone please explain to me what everyone is moaning about ?
You have a phone that looks different, a new style, a new design.
You have a thinner, lighter phone
You have a bigger screen, with pro level color accuracy
You have an improved camera, both hardware and software side
You have your A6 SoC that you all wanted, 2x as fast CPU and GPU
You also have LTE
All while keeping the same battery life ?
Oh, darn it, theres no NFC. That makes it such a big failure.
Not.
I don't actually know what else they could of done.
You have a phone that looks different, a new style, a new design.
You have a thinner, lighter phone
You have a bigger screen, with pro level color accuracy
You have an improved camera, both hardware and software side
You have your A6 SoC that you all wanted, 2x as fast CPU and GPU
You also have LTE
All while keeping the same battery life ?
Oh, darn it, theres no NFC. That makes it such a big failure.
Not.
I don't actually know what else they could of done.
Yes. Carriers have them in stock now for use with the iPhone 5 once it goes on sale.
Over 36,000 songs.
People want every launch to be like 2007.
Anyway, I expect the iPhone 5 will sell per week what the Galaxy III sells in a month, so yeah, Apple is doomed.
197.5 here.....
500 here
(72000 songs, a few of them multiple times, depending on how many samplers they are on)
