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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.
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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.
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.
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"?
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.
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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... 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
5C will replace the "free" 4S model at the big providers. This gives them a lower cost option while at the same time speeding up the adoption of the new screen size and lightning port. Plus it will be a lower cost option for emerging markets where Apple is getting killed by cheap Android sets. So in a way the "C" stands for Color, China, Cheap.
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.
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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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.
/. 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.
Let me guess -- you're posting this from your 5 while camped outside waiting for the store to open.
I can't speak for the rest of the "fandroids", but to me, waiting outside in the rain (which I've seen with my own eyes for the 4s release -- and skipped getting coffee in that strip mall when the 5 came out) to buy a consumer device at retail makes absolutely no sense to me, and I would be a little alarmed if it happened with a phone I was considering. Perhaps enough to reconsider the wisdom of my choice.
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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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Who are you kidding. The 5S and 5C are both "Designed in California" and "Made in China". Both models will come with both sets of spyware as standard.
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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