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The iPhone 5S Hasn't Been Officially Announced, Already Has Line
Daniel_Stuckey writes "The iPhone 5S line has already begun, despite Apple not even having made its announcement yet. From the looks of the invite to the unveiling in San Francisco on Sept. 10 (and another event the following day in Beijing, where iPhones are all the rage), the company will not only be announcing a next generation iPhone, the 5S, but also the lower-priced 5C model, in a variety of cheaper-looking colors."
At this point, the only reason to line up for an iDevice is to get on TV. This is not different to survivor or Big Brother.
That's been my opinion when looking at the leaked colors, up to and including champagne (which is supposedly an addition to the flagship, rather than the 5C). They look cheap, and the champagne/gold looks like dirty white instead of what I assume was supposed to be evoking jewelry.
Jobs would never stand for this.
shopping season are finally here!
Apple will release a new version of their phone, and another one about a year after that and will keep doing so for as long as there is money to be made doing so. This is no different from any other manufacturer releasing new versions of their products - it's what they do. Why people ever act surprised when there's a new shiny version of 'X' has got to be one of life's great mysteries.
Next years surprise, Ford releases the 2015 model of the Focus! Shocking! Who could ever see that coming? What do you mean the entire industry does this every single year?
WTF does that even mean?
Purple used to be reserved for Royalty I think, but I'm not sure I follow what 'cheaper-looking colors' is supposed to even mean.
Do we have some sort of chart which shows which color looks more expensive than another? Because I've never heard of this.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Not innovative enough for a new model number huh?
Not sure why Innovation is tied to model numbers? But anyways the Apple 'S' releases have traditionally focused more on software (Siri, bio metrics) than major hardware redesigns. Not sure why Apple would want to do major 4S->5 redesigns every year.
thrice a day, ery day
You should probably back away from the computer when you do. Your keys are starting to stick.
They're going to offer more colors and... wait for it, put the earphone jack on the side.
If you don't hurry, you may not be the first in the line for s5.
This is a publicity stunt by a company that sells macs or something. I'm not looking up what they do.
Summary:
1) 4 guys get printed shirts with company logos and lines up crazy early.
2) Vice / Gizmodo / engadget / Slashdot talks about them, with pictures of them in their shirts. Make sure you're still there for the NBC crew shows up!
3) Profit!
Please tell me this thing is even taller, I want the iPhone to end up looking like one of those satellite tv remotes.
That the 5C seem to be for 5-Cheaper, then 5S could for 5-special (or stupid, or shiny, or whatever), not have to be for software.
It's a safe bet everyone is just looking for clicks and eyeballs, /. included.
The the 4s also has more horsepower than the 4 so it can run Siri, etc.
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
The headline makes sense if you replace the word 'line' (which has many meanings) with the word "queue' (a group of people lined up waiting to buy something, or get into an event)
In the English language anyway.
Jobs would never stand for this.
Oh yes he would, he actually did something similar. Flower Power and Dalmatian iMacs.
But ... that's where they keep the porn.
n/c
Would have been funnier, though, had you sent:
Yu shuld prbably back away frm the cmputer when you d. Yur keys are starting t stick.
5C is 5 China, it's their bid to gain major penetration into the worlds largest cellphone market.
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The letters refer to the demographic they are being sold to.
S - suckers
C - chumps
Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no-one is out to get you.
Whenever somebody criticizes your lifestyle, just point out that vast sums of money are being spent, traded, and speculated based on the color of a consumer product. Building a life-sized T-rex in your backyard? Hitch-hiking to Guatemala? Chucking it all to become a surf-bum and live in a driftwood shack by the beach? Not the least bit absurd by comparison.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Those old black'n'decker irons that completely bombed out, and then the run of iMacs colored like them.
Probably got a discount on the plastics when they ended up with a glut of them over the cancelled line.
how much 5C will cannibalize 5S sales? Get it? C S? *badump bump*
I wonder how many of them are hired, or resell them at a net profit in ebay as a novelty.
Are you certain?
Have gnu, will travel.
It's like saying, hey world, I'm poor! I want to be like everybody else. See I have an Iphone just like you. And then the kid gets hit by a runaway bus full of other C buyers. You killed Kenny!
i think we've all had enough of the low quality korean bullshit flooding the market
mark my words.
There will only be the 5S and the 5 in the US. ;) )
They will all come in different colors though, which is not what C stands for. The 5C will have the integrated Chinese radio bands and have the custom firmware that lets the Chinese government spy on you. ( as opposed to the preloaded NSA monitoring in the US
People who line up way in advance to get a new tech device to satisfy a personal desire relatively cheaply ($200-$700 is a lot cheaper than a new car), or the people who waste their time online ranting about and insulting people who do? I wonder how many of the "haters" in this thread are first in line to pre-order a new game or bang their head on their keyboard when the new (insert favorite open source program here) becomes available.
Great to see them coming out with more devices. Hopefully they will start migrating back to their pre-Jobs era and we can have a ton of devices to choose from.
Not sure why Innovation is tied to model numbers?
Well, why else would Firefox start increasing the version number every three months other than to increase innovation? Clearly bumping the version number is very important, otherwise we'd still be using Firefox 5 now instead of Firefox 23!
Of course, the "S" versions of phones generally mean "minor spec improvements, no new features" with Apple, so since we already know what iOS 7 is bringing, this means the new iPhone will have nothing interesting.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
I'm going to wait for the iPhone 5PBH.
In fact, forget the P and the B!
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I for one pity the Apple fans at this time. They HAVE to buy this new iPhone, for several reasons:
- if they don't upgrade soon enough (ie low sales figures) the company will get into a bad news spiral and the stock will collapse
- the users who skipped last year's upgrade will miss out on new accessories because they have an old connector
- the phones usually don't survive over 3 years
so please, for your beloved company. Go buy the new iphone!
... It uploads the audio to apple servers, who speech-to-text it. That doesn't exactly require extra local CPU power.
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"in a variety of cheaper-looking colors."
/. summaries fall into the trap of thinking their preferences apply to everyone.
So now even the people writing
There must be something wrong with me to keep me coming to a site that's been this far gone for this long, just because it used to make me better informed years ago before it crashed and burned.
The reason iphone 4 didnt get Siri is because of the mics, not CPUs. My ipad 2 is basically a large Iphone 4S and it doesnt get Siri either because of the mic issue.
Good-bye
Quite the reverse –the S models focus on the internal hardware. Apple follows a tick/tock design pattern here, where the 3G/4/5 models each incremented the external design, and features (but not the internal hardware particularly). Meanwhile the 3GS and 4S (and rumoured 5S) each improves the performance of CPU, GPU and RAM – the S stands for "speed", not "software".
I hear there will be a gold iPhone... Kind of like Willy Wonka's Golden Tickets?? I want one!!
So the other response correctly points out that the 4 didn't get Siri because the mics and the special on-board noise reduction chip weren't in it.
If you'd like to test out what kind of difference this makes, load up Google's voice search, and see how often it gets the search right compared to the 4s. I've basically never gotten a single correct search out of Google when trying to use the voice feature, but I've had friends with newer devices tell me that it all worked just fine.
...so it would look bigger in your hand.
Little revisionist history? Which is not unexpected from an Iphone fan. Siri was an app that originally worked on all iphones, then Apple bought them, integrated it into the phone, and then killed the original app and its back end so it would stop functioning, so you had to get a 4s for it. Funny, how their were no mic issues before, when it was a third party app.
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/. used to be a place to read actual articles. Now, it's just infested with a bunch of whiny fandroids and iHaters.
You hypocrites would love if ANY Android phone had this kind of popularity and brand loyalty. You'd love people lining up for days on end for the excitement. But hey, because it's Apple, it's just hate for the sole reason of hating and result to childish name-calling and insults because that's all you can come up with. Sad behavior.
Funny, how their were no mic issues before, when it was a third party app.
Not to mention that some jail-breakers were able to figure out exactly how Siri was disabled on the iPhone 4 and re-enable it and - surprise surprise, Siri works just fine on the 3GS and 4.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
Oversimplified explanation? Leaving out critical details? Which is not unexpected from an apple hater.
Supposedly there is some sort of acceleration baked in to one of the chips that does language/voice/audio processing. (iPad2 and up, 4s and up) Siri does work without it, but the performance is crap. It does not work "fine" on the 3gs. It's jerky and slow and not really usable. That was supposedly one of the factors that led apple to leave it out of older models. That, and they decided to use it as a marketable feature to sell newer devices.
The Siri binaries work without the hardware accell because they originally intended and tested Siri to work on older devices, then changed their mind later. (And yes, it's a port of an app they bought from another party too) It's also been suggested that they intended to add features to Siri that would require the accell, and that means later versions of Siri would not work on older hardware at all. Siri's sort of a meh feature anyway, and did not turn out to be a must-have game changer anyway, so all of this argument is moot. Not every feature turns out to be a winner.
The ghost of Steve Jobs gives you and four other people a tour of Foxconn? I wonder if they have a scary tunnel.
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Instead of looking for Apple related posts and posting negative comments...
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Wow! I expected to modded into oblivion over my post. Good to see that people have a sense of humour.
Just because you are paranoid does not mean that no-one is out to get you.
Gosh, they're throwing a big party at Apple for the release of a new phone which still will not bring them up to the technological level of the Samsung Galaxy IV. How cute!!!
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