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Live Coverage of Apple's iPhone 5 Media Event [Event Over]

Great updates but the lack of capacity updates is making it very hard to purchase anything iPod wise.

Not a knock at Apple but its years and years of no capacity updates is making me consider the competition.
 
Homers thoughts on the new iPod nano.

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Winni said:
I understood when people were excited about the very first iPhone - it was something truly special and changed the game.

But with the iPhone 5, Apple just tries to catch up with the latest high-end Android gadgets - and fails. Apple's new phone has no features or characteristics that competitors have not already had for more than a year. The introduced features might be new and exciting for Apple customers, but it is all old news in Android land and will hardly attract owners of current Android flagships to switch. Based upon what they've shown today, technologically Apple just fell another year behind the pack.
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what are these features?

NFC? yawn
google now? have it all with iphone
bigger screen? i don't look at my phone all day
live wallpaper? its 2012 moving pictures don't amaze me
 
I don't understand people who complain about the presentation being boring because they knew what was coming. Do you guys read the end of books and complain the book was boring because you knew what was going to happen?

Solid release. As a shareholder, I'm satisfied. When a company gets as big as Apple, surprises aren't necessarily what you always want to see. Go with what works and build upon it. That's exactly what they're doing. Now to see the first weekend's pre-order #'s.
 
stockscalper said:
These products are proof Apple can't take a half step forward without Steve Jobs. The iPhone 5 looks so dated, both the hardware and software icons. Stretching it out a little ain't going to cut it. The HTC One S is long and narrow, but it has style. It also has a better more advanced OS. If these products are the best Apple can do then they're doomed to repeat the 1990's - a decade spent adrift and without any new ideas or innovation.
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If that new design looks dated, then the rest of the other manufacturers are in seriously **** with those plastic monstrosities. That is the best looking phone on the planet.
 
Winni said:
I understood when people were excited about the very first iPhone - it was something truly special and changed the game.

But with the iPhone 5, Apple just tries to catch up with the latest high-end Android gadgets - and fails. Apple's new phone has no features or characteristics that competitors have not already had for more than a year. The introduced features might be new and exciting for Apple customers, but it is all old news in Android land and will hardly attract owners of current Android flagships to switch. Based upon what they've shown today, technologically Apple just fell another year behind the pack.
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Have fun with a plastic phone and iffy apps.
 
ArcaneDevice said:
Hey look, it's another one of those new Apple fans, with another insightful comment about how other people with some appreciation and technical know-how of music and audio want to use their equipment. :rolleyes:

Ooh, but the new iPod is really shiny. You must be thrilled.
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You've got me all figured out, good one!

Now you can return to your corner and mope about how you can't fit every song you own on your device. Again, how will you ever survive with such limited options for songs?!?!
 
I had this immediate feeling of being underwhelmed by the presentation, when it hit me... the only reason I was underwhelmed was because MacRumors had given it all away! I realized that all I was looking for was something that I didn't already know, not just something that wasn't different from the current specs. This is silly. We can't base our assumption of how good a new product is on how little we know about it. The vast majority of consumers didn't know that it was getting a 4" screen, processor bump, and complete physical redesign. I mean, when you look at it, this is a huge redesign for the iPhone, biggest since the 4, maybe the biggest ever, since it's the first screen size increase.

Yes, we already knew this stuff, that's because we're snoops. I guess Apple's gotta tighten down their security more, so that even the most hard core of us can be surprised.
 
JimMacFan said:
You get leaked information from a RUMORS site and then proceed to complain that a press release was boring because you heard about the information beforehand? Check Yo Self~ :cool:
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Just saying...it sucks. I was always hoping the leaks were a decoy but it really is a disappointing update. Not entirely because it leaked.
 
iEvolution said:
Great updates but the lack of capacity updates is making it very hard to purchase anything iPod wise.
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I'm going to guess that the growth of iCloud has alleviated the need for increased storage capacity. You no longer have to carry your entire media collection. If you have WiFi, 3G, or 4G, it's only a matter of seconds to download a song or video if you happen to not have it. 64 GB is still nothing to sneeze at.
 
Am I the only one that finds it funny that the iPod Touch Loop is the only thing that wasn't leaked before hand?
 
alent1234 said:
what are these features?

NFC? yawn
google now? have it all with iphone
bigger screen? i don't look at my phone all day
live wallpaper? its 2012 moving pictures don't amaze me
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With all do respect Google Now makes Siri look silly. No comparison.
 
Winni said:
I understood when people were excited about the very first iPhone - it was something truly special and changed the game.

But with the iPhone 5, Apple just tries to catch up with the latest high-end Android gadgets - and fails. Apple's new phone has no features or characteristics that competitors have not already had for more than a year. The introduced features might be new and exciting for Apple customers, but it is all old news in Android land and will hardly attract owners of current Android flagships to switch. Based upon what they've shown today, technologically Apple just fell another year behind the pack.
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All that hi-end Android devices' users care about is the performance anyway... And performace-wise, the iPhone delivers what everyone had expected. Fails in all other aspects. Glad to have the 4S.
 
rockametrics said:
With all do respect Google Now makes Siri look silly. No comparison.
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waze, passbook and other apps do the same thing

and i'm not a retart where i need to be told how to go to work using the same few routes

NYC subway already sends me text messages when my train is delayed. i don't really need google
 
Not bad just ok.. sadly no capacity increases overall still want that 128GB touch. We've had the 64GB flash option since what 2009?

So at $199 you get 8GB more storage for the same price.
At $249 you get the 32GB for $50 Cheaper.
At $299 you get 32GB for Brand New iPod Touch.
At $399 you get 64GB Brand New iPod Touch.

I hope they do an 128GB option on the iPad (2013), hopefully margins are high enough that that is feasable.
 
I'm actually excited about the 720 back-illuminated front camera. I have a 1 yr old niece living on the opposite coast whom I would LOVE to be able to see more clearly on Facetime. And for her to see me more clearly.
 
BIG disappointment !!

Second disappointment in a row.....no "one more thing" no supprise at all, just "more of the same" with a new marketing talk. Without Steve apple is turning rapidly in a "normal" boring company.
And again, like Siri, small improvements that, like Siri, dont work in a great part of the world. We pay for it but dont get it. That is what i used to say about Microsoft........
 
Not Bill Gates said:
Look at the corners looking at the front face of the device. There are four corners. Each and edge. the new Nano has rounded corners like the black plate on the lumia. I was not talking about the sides of the nano.
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Actually, it's pretty much like the old Nano (and not the Lumia), just looks rounded on some photos.
 
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Winni said:
Apple's new phone has no features or characteristics that competitors have not already had for more than a year. The introduced features might be new and exciting for Apple customers, but it is all old news in Android land and will hardly attract owners of current Android flagships to switch. Based upon what they've shown today, technologically Apple just fell another year behind the pack.
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Okay, I'll bite. Let's have a list of the specific features of the iPhone 5 that have been found on specific Android-based phones (for the record, I do not have an iPhone - I have an Android-based phone) for "more than a year". This is just built-in functionality and features, not things you have to root to do or have to download an app to do. Further, which features are done with similar quality, polish, and battery life?
 
moethebartender said:
It's not new enough.
Do you find something lacking in the new and upgraded features of the 5? Or were you just expecting an ultra-extreme-radical new form factor? What's wrong with the basic layout and appearance of the iPhone? Now, I don't plan on getting a 5 in the near future, but that's not because it's not "new enough." I'm sticking with my 4 because it meets my current needs and then some. When I outgrow the 4 or when it breaks, it's time for a new phone. (And, of course, I'm 100% open to what Samsung, HTC, etc. can offer me.)

I dunno, I'm just underwhelmed. I'm just feeling "meh."
Again, what did you want that you didn't get? A 100% edge-to-edge screen? Holographic projection á la "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi"? A nanotech plutonium reactor so you never have to worry about charging? Android? ;)

There's too much focus on games in this presentation.
Don't like games? Don't play them. I don't follow the stock market, but it doesn't bother me when the Stocks app is discussed. For better or worse, gaming is one of the most common uses of the iPhone and the iPod touch. You may not be much of a gamer, but plenty of iDevice owners greedily snap up the numerous games offered in the App Store. Let's say the iPhone's usefulness as a phone, music player, PDA, etc. were somehow compromised by some sort of effort to make the device more attractive to gamers or "younger users," or the App Store tried to position itself as more of a "game store" than anything else. Such things would be a problem, and a big one. I don't see that happening today, however.

The presentation wasn't exciting enough.
Tim ≠ Steve.

I already knew about all this stuff!
Isn't MacRumors great?
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The main reason for not being impressed with this is basically that I don't like the iPhone 5's design (it is just not as good as its predecessor, seriously, it's not). It's not really "ugly" or "bad", but nothing that would make me pay that much money. At least not that alone. The presentation brought up nothing cool, so I probably won't buy an iPhone. I don't know what I expected, usually Apple has some little surprises here and there, some design/engineering cherries that makes me want to have it. But I don't think it is my job to think of something I want to have in the phone. It's Apple's job. That's how I see it however.
 
Winni said:
I understood when people were excited about the very first iPhone - it was something truly special and changed the game.

But with the iPhone 5, Apple just tries to catch up with the latest high-end Android gadgets - and fails. Apple's new phone has no features or characteristics that competitors have not already had for more than a year. The introduced features might be new and exciting for Apple customers, but it is all old news in Android land and will hardly attract owners of current Android flagships to switch. Based upon what they've shown today, technologically Apple just fell another year behind the pack.
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For someone with an expressed disdain for all things iOS you spend an awful lot of time on Mac forums complaining about devices you have no interest in buying in the first place.
 
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