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

Lame

Lets recap.
New iPhone that's not much of an improvement.
New iPod touch. Same story.
New nano that no one asked for.

No iMacs.
No Mac minis.
No Mac pros.

Apple. You FAIL.
 
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I'd rather buy the nano if it were a phone..

Dam u a Apple...

At least IOS 6 will be good. 'I'd probably be playing allot with fly-over..
 
Fly-over & Maps

It would be good if the great imagery of Fly-Over in Maps, were also assigned to Street level as navigation ... along with Siri. (aka navigation in street view with images that detailed as Fly-over)

This would further knock Google's Street View.. :apple:
 
flux73 said:
Not so sad really. If the Galaxy III is that much better, why not just get it and be happy?

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 Yeah, and which is useless until they release iOS6 also, which won't be before the first iPhone 5 is delivered.
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Because iOS is better than Android in terms of user experience, apps, and basically everything else if your phone is jailbroken.

Apple is 1.5 years late:
http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=4910&idPhone2=3621

LTE support wohohahahahah how lovely, couldn't live without it.
 
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not quite international enough

I was going to buy the iphone 5 this time around (skipped the updates the last couple of times), but I travel, and the LTE divisions seem to mean that I'd need one version for the US and another for the UK. I suppose I'll hold off until the LTE stuff gets sorted out and go with whichever OS + hardware deals with that first (apple or android).
 
fast... Super fase

I wonder know who the 'wise guy' @ Apple that came up with the term 'Lightning".
 
Update of Pages and Numbers??

""All our software has been updated." Keynote, Pages, Numbers, iPhoto, iMovie, GarageBand. "

Uhm, where are those updates? Are they just minor changes to work with the pocket gadgets?

I request updates of the iWork suite for Mac Pro and MacBook Pro. Pages and Numbers are from 2009 and nothing has been improved to them yet despite they really need functionality to not be left behind. :(
 
Not impressed overall.

Not much for me over the 4S.

There is no 4G in the UK, EE are launching soon (Orange and T Mobile), but everyone else will have to wait till next year before they're even allocated spectrum.

Aside from the bigger screen (that I'm not bothered about), I see no reason at all to upgrade.

For the first time, I won't be moving to the new iPhone but will wait for my contract to be up and get the "5S" or whatever they call it.
 
Nothing on the computer and pro side ...

There was obviously nothing for professionals working with computers as daily tools.

Nothing for writers, scientists, movie makers, professional photographers, newspapers, architects, construction designers ... the list goes on.

We, who initially paid $20000 to get a work station, and made the Apple ball running, seem to be left out from any improvements from your development department.

I have to say I'm very disappointed this time. All new stuff and development seem to be connected with pocket gadgets. Apple, my two year old Android phone has multitasking and your brand new iPhone still couldn't get it.

This time I will not throw any money in your pockets, Apple. :mad:
 
oh apple, i was wrong to think..

that u had a surprise coming our way.. better hope this phone looks better in person.
 
Can we reach 1,000 comments?

Surely a few people have some more interesting or not-so-interesting things to say!
 
flux73 said:
I'm not saying one should download/stream everything. I'm saying that it's not that difficult to keep your most commonly listened to music on your device. 64 GB holds plenty for me. It's pretty rare for me to need to download a song.

As for videos, for non-iTunes purchased video I keep it on a server at home from which I stream with Plex. Usually on my iPad. If I'm on the road, I plan ahead of time for what I want to bring. If I know I won't have WiFi or 3G (again, rare), I download just what I plan on watching. Video consumption on my iPhone is a non-issue because I just don't enjoy watching movies or TV shows on that small a screen.

And I think this will be even less of an issue once LTE gets widespread rollout. I get that people have different usage patterns. But I have trouble believing that anyone fully utilizes their entire media library during periods of no high speed connection. And if you do, I'd argue that you are a minuscule proportion of the population.

BTW, what apps are you using that take 2GB? I'm just curious because I'm looking at my phone apps and the largest one I have is Weather HD at 327 MB. I'm not counting Music which is at 3.5 GB because of course that includes a lot of songs.
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Im being a little melodramatic with the app sizes, but still there are definitely some big ones out there, especially some of the games such as Infinity Blade, NOVA 3.

I can MANAGE ok with 64gb but there are simply some days when I am picky when I am out and about, without my classic I have to hope it got sync'd this time.

The biggest disappointment for me I guess is no capacity bump for the nano, I mean it has been at 16gb since 2008 and I would like to be able to turn off 128 kbps conversion... in fact even with the conversion on I get cut about 500 songs and this is simply songs that Ive rated 4 stars or better. Music is closer to a life style for me than it is a hobby.

Then the fact is that 64gb was introduced back when iTS primary format was 128kbps and the store wasnt big on HD video yet. I just think we're due for a capacity bump, at this point the sansa clip and samsung galaxy are looking better and better but Ive invested so much in iTunes it'd be very time consuming to switch over. I love the iPod line and iTunes smart list capabilities but the capacity thing is really starting to become a major factor.

I understand that the majority doesnt even need 64gb but I feel at this point we should be at 128gb at the same price point considering how dramatic the price drops have been in the last 4 years.
 
Hustler1337 said:
Wow, yep it's on CNN.com

Thanks!!!! :D

Edit: I don't think it's live
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Live tv is normally delayed 7-10 seconds to edit any profanity, violence, etc. It also gives time to adjust things for technical reasons. This was delayed 15 minutes, as probably controlled by Apple. I still consider it 'live'.
 
MMOTotal said:
How is it pathetic, they have only streamed one event and that was in 2010. The video will be up within an hour of the event being over anyway...
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Explain to me why they shouldn't stream it.

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Lark.Landon said:
It's intentional.

The fact that you don't get that is pathetic.
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That I don't get that they are disgustingly afraid of something going wrong that they won't stream it?

That is the *only* logical explanation.
 
Icon size?

Anyone knows if the icon size will change on iPhone 5? or does my icons from 4/4s still work? Would be wicked if they did..

Yours
 
Konrad9 said:
That I don't get that they are disgustingly afraid of something going wrong that they won't stream it?

That is the *only* logical explanation.
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True... But whats better.. Lots if people getting angry at the live stream when it goes done, which would be almost all the time, or just living with the live blogs, which would be better and minimal down time?
 
Tech198 said:
True... But whats better.. Lots if people getting angry at the live stream when it goes done, which would be almost all the time, or just living with the live blogs, which would be better and minimal down time?
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1. Buy shares.
2. Attend shareholders meeting.
3. Voice your complaint.
 
Tech198 said:
True... But whats better.. Lots if people getting angry at the live stream when it goes done, which would be almost all the time, or just living with the live blogs, which would be better and minimal down time?
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What livestreams go down? I watched half a dozen of them during this years E3, and last years, and the year before that. Streaming to millions of people, never went down. In rooms full of probably damn near a thousand journalists all live-blogging and some video streaming it themselves.

If Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, EA, and Ubisoft can do it, the wealthiest company in the world can do it.

You're living in a dream world if you think the technology to stream these events doesn't exist.
 
Not saying they don't exsist...

Aaple just chose not do it, and while it may ok for you, doesn't mean t always gonna be rock solid all the time.


Just saying there'll be more problems cos its video, vs just static pictures and text on a blog.

Thats just my take... Its probably wrong, but unless u have a better reason why Apple doesn't stream.. Feel free
 
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