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Partially Assembled iPad 5 and 'iPhone 5C' Appear in New Videos
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seriously?
a) that was on topic expressing a preference for certain products he or she would rather see come out.
2) topic police need to go back to reddit to avoid having 25 consecutive posts about where this particular post belongs.
a) that was on topic expressing a preference for certain products he or she would rather see come out.
2) topic police need to go back to reddit to avoid having 25 consecutive posts about where this particular post belongs.
When we bought a rMBP, the Apple store guy said the glowing apple logo uses the light from the display. I suppose a light could be installed in the back of an iPad, but it would use precious battery power.... And I'm sure more than one person will figure out just how much battery time is being robbed to flash an Apple logo. 
Are you speaking to Apple (that's most likely not seeing your post) or are you speaking to "us", the forum, who is not Apple or are you just ranting over "leaks" that aren't even 100% confirmed to be the final product? Even if they were you don't know all Apple has in store in September. I wish people would give it a rest with the "Apple is no longer innovative" or "Apple has no more wow factor". Could you do better? We're all just humans.
Why do u feel they will fall way behind? There is no evidence to back this up. They still have 80% of the profits, even if the had 25% of the profits in the smartphone industry that would be considered a huge success.
Go home.
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Ummm nice; definitely the small bezel looks great on the big boy.
uhhh the video is true. do you people not realize the same thing happens EVERY year? it's not a coincidence that we are seeing leaked parts 1-2 months before these products are coming out......
I don't know what people are confused about.
C = Color. Even if its cheap; quality wise looks way better than most android devices
is that your problem? i'd love to have the internals from the iphone 5 in the 5c. and wasn't that the logic? using the one year old tech in a cheaper body? they still have place for improvements which they can release in the 5s. and maybe bump the storage size to 32/64/128gb for the 5s while the 5c comes as a 16gb only
One step behind on CPU, GPU, camera. 3G only. Plastic body. Smaller storage. Plus whatever new features the 5S gets.
That sounds like more differentiation that most model ranges have.
Apple is going to sell a huge amount of these cheaper iPhones. Get ready for the stock price to go back to an all time high very soon.
If the iPhone 5C is sold in the US there is no way it is 3G only.
We know what would make a budget smartphone that would fly off the shelves. It must first of all be priced at most half that of the top-of-the-line iPhone. It does not have to support LTE. It should be unlocked and have a stock OS that can easily be updated. To simplify, it should come first only in one color, black, and then maybe have white added.
That phone exists, it's the LG Nexus 4. The only problem is that even LG did not want to sell all the phones it could have, at that price, when what it really wanted to sell was the very similar Optimus G.
Nobody finds it suspicious that all iPhone 5C leaks have no "Designed in California" and FCC xxxx thing that all iPhones have? with so many leaks one and phone close to release surely they should have finalized all that, no?
Serious question: Is plastic much more inexpensive to use than aluminum?
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I agree, but for different reasons. If Apple sells a lot of these devices, we're ****ed. Plastic is much more difficult to recycle, and most will simply throw it away.
Every year, Americans throw away enough paper and plastic cups, forks, and spoons to circle the equator 300 times (http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html). Plastic produces more waste from recycling and general consumer discard. Recycling produces more pollutants, including chemical stews when breaking down different products.
E-waste is a major issue, especially with plastics. There are 2 plastic islands the size of Texas, one in the Pacific Ocean - the "Great Pacific garbage patch"and one in the Indian Ocean and more being discovered almost monthly.
Aluminum is currently the best material for mass production in products, especially tech due to e-waste. Bauxite being the most common aluminium ore. Refinement uses much less energy to produce, and is improving with recent advancements, especially compared to the Hall-Héoult Process (the major industrial process aluminum extraction). Aluminum is theoretically 100% recyclable without any loss of its natural qualities and requires only 5% of the energy used to produce aluminium from ore, though a significant part (up to 15% of the input material) is lost as dross (ash-like oxide). Recycled aluminium is known as secondary aluminium, but maintains the same physical properties as primary aluminium. Secondary aluminium is produced in a wide range of formats and is employed in 80% of alloy injections. The process produces aluminium billets, together with a highly complex waste material, which can be reused as a filler in asphalt and concrete.
*Before anyone goes there, I have a wood iPhone case
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I agree, but for different reasons. If Apple sells a lot of these devices, we're ****ed. Plastic is much more difficult to recycle, and most will simply throw it away.
Every year, Americans throw away enough paper and plastic cups, forks, and spoons to circle the equator 300 times (http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html). Plastic produces more waste from recycling and general consumer discard. Recycling produces more pollutants, including chemical stews when breaking down different products.
E-waste is a major issue, especially with plastics. There are 2 plastic islands the size of Texas, one in the Pacific Ocean - the "Great Pacific garbage patch"and one in the Indian Ocean and more being discovered almost monthly.
Aluminum is currently the best material for mass production in products, especially tech due to e-waste. Bauxite being the most common aluminium ore. Refinement uses much less energy to produce, and is improving with recent advancements, especially compared to the Hall-Héoult Process (the major industrial process aluminum extraction). Aluminum is theoretically 100% recyclable without any loss of its natural qualities and requires only 5% of the energy used to produce aluminium from ore, though a significant part (up to 15% of the input material) is lost as dross (ash-like oxide). Recycled aluminium is known as secondary aluminium, but maintains the same physical properties as primary aluminium. Secondary aluminium is produced in a wide range of formats and is employed in 80% of alloy injections. The process produces aluminium billets, together with a highly complex waste material, which can be reused as a filler in asphalt and concrete.
*Before anyone goes there, I have a wood iPhone case
At least we will have the first half hour of stats about how many stores, iPhone, iPads, iPods, Apps, MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, songs, books etc. have been sold. I predict records all around
Serious question: Is plastic much more inexpensive to use than aluminum?
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I agree, but for different reasons. If Apple sells a lot of these devices, we're ****ed. Plastic is much more difficult to recycle, and most will simply throw it away.
Every year, Americans throw away enough paper and plastic cups, forks, and spoons to circle the equator 300 times (http://www.cleanair.org/Waste/wasteFacts.html). Plastic produces more waste from recycling and general consumer discard. Recycling produces more pollutants, including chemical stews when breaking down different products.
E-waste is a major issue, especially with plastics. There are 2 plastic islands the size of Texas, one in the Pacific Ocean - the "Great Pacific garbage patch"and one in the Indian Ocean and more being discovered almost monthly.
Aluminum is currently the best material for mass production in products, especially tech due to e-waste. Bauxite being the most common aluminium ore. Refinement uses much less energy to produce, and is improving with recent advancements, especially compared to the Hall-Héoult Process (the major industrial process aluminum extraction). Aluminum is theoretically 100% recyclable without any loss of its natural qualities and requires only 5% of the energy used to produce aluminium from ore, though a significant part (up to 15% of the input material) is lost as dross (ash-like oxide). Recycled aluminium is known as secondary aluminium, but maintains the same physical properties as primary aluminium. Secondary aluminium is produced in a wide range of formats and is employed in 80% of alloy injections. The process produces aluminium billets, together with a highly complex waste material, which can be reused as a filler in asphalt and concrete.
*Before anyone goes there, I have a wood iPhone case
I think there are much worse things for the environment than Apple phones being plastic.