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Apple Unveils iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S
Nerval's Lobster writes "Apple unveiled the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5S today, which will replace the company's current iPhone 5. Apple CEO Tim Cook and other executives took to a stage in California to introduce both devices. The cheaper iPhone 5C features a plastic casing available in a variety of colors (green, blue, reddish-pink, yellow, white); Apple seems to have done its best to make the device look high quality, with the backing and sides molded of a single piece of plastic; on the hardware side of things, the iPhone 5C comes with a 4-inch Retina display, A6 processor, and 8-megapixel camera. The other new Apple design, the iPhone 5S, is the company's next-generation 'hero' device. While the iPhone 5 was a radical new design, the 5S is an iterative upgrade; on the outside, it looks pretty much the same as its predecessor (the new iPhone features a new color, gold, in addition to the 'traditional' black or white aluminum body). The iPhone 5S has an A7 chip built on 64-bit architecture (capable of running 32-bit and 64-bit apps), which is pretty speedy, to put it mildly. There's also the M7 'motion co-processor' which boosts the actions of the accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope—in theory, opening the door to more refined motion-related apps, such as ones devoted to exercise."
The iPhone 5S also has a sensor built into the home button that will allow you to unlock the device with your fingerprint. Both new phone will be available for purchase on Friday, Sept. 20th. Apple announced that iOS 7 will be rolling out on Wednesday, Sept. 18th.
About to get a lot less harder to "forget" passwords.
See Apple, the thing is, these big media events used to be about introducing jaw-dropping, mind blowing new technology. When you use them to introduce cheap, plastic commodified goods, they become breeding grounds for apathy on the part of your customers. Better to not have these conferences anymore, IMO.
First, Apple releases a tiny 7" tablet, against Jobs recommendation when he was alive. Now they come up with a cheap iPhone, further eroding Aple's premium image.
What's next, sell iPhones at Walmart??
wow big deal
Seriously, when I had an iPhone, the one thing that annoyed me more than anything was the lack of a notification led.
That's what the S stands for:
"Still no notification led"
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How much time will Apple be able to sell smartphones at 600-700 USD?
I'm not an anti-Apple dullard, believe me, but this thought must've stricken at least a few of the readers.
Nothing new, nothing jaw-dropping, but the faithful iSheep will be standing in line...
I think the most telling thing is that they didnt bother to demo the fingerprint scanner live. Could it be that it is not as accurate as they would liked (basically like all of the bio sensors out there) and didnt want a botched demo? Am I reading too much in to this?
Can I please have a 128GB device? Don't care about fingerprints.
I've been a fan of the iPhone since it came out. Love it or hate it, it did change the landscape and it does a lot of things really well. Unfortunately the whizzbang features with the faster processor and fingerprint scanner and such, while nifty, are less compelling to me than getting a larger screen for my aging eyes. That alone knocks it out of my "time to upgrade" category. It feels like too small of an incremental enhancement and not anything singularly so substantial that it's worth plunking down money for.
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Boring. Yet another fucking phone. This is stuff that matters?
I'll concede that normally news about a smart phone is boring. But a phone you can fuck? Definitely not boring!
I'm sorry, but the 5C is $99 on contract, which is similar to many Android phones that are better. In addition, the off-contract price is $599 (CAD) for 5C 16GB... how is that a "cheap" phone? The nexus is, what, $350? Give me a break.
1) Same old shit, nothing new.
2) Apple is dead, dead, dead.
3) Android is better because of blah, blah, blah.
4) I'm already in line.
a sensor built into the home button that will allow you to unlock the device with your fingerprint
That's called a "fingerprint scanner", right?
Apple just put a "Fingerprint Scanner" on it's latest iPhone!
Come on say it: "FingerpriNSA canner"!
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I haven't paid attention to these things in quite a while; Do they usually also announce the iPod Touches if they're coming, or are they a gimme when the upgrade the iPhone?
hmm...except for;
1. non-plastic case
2. Better camera
3. Fingerprint sensor
4. Motion co-processor
5. 64bit A7 processor with double the CPU and GPU performance of the old proc
Yea...nothing different there for your $100
HAHA!
unwashed Fisher-price color plastic iPhone 5C peasant!
gold iPhone 5S master race reporting in!
did you buy that thing at Walmart?!
I do not expect I will be buying another iPhone ever again. The device is far too tiny... It seemed like a good idea at the time when I bought it, but having used it for 2 years now, I can see that it's not all that I had hoped for.
My wife's Galaxy Note phone is awesome... reasonable screen size, and even comes with a stylus.
If Apple made something along those lines (I think the term is "phabet), I'd probably purchase it, but I don't expect that they will, so once my current contract is up (next spring), I'm migrating to an Android.
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> iPhone 5 was a radical new design
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gadgetlab/2012/09/iphone5Comparison.jpeg
Yeah that's FREAKING RADICAL, MAN!
Now the iPhone will send data directly to the NSA when you are playing Candy Crush while taking a dump.
Wot? No bigger screen?
Still patiently waiting for the Nexus 5. Don't let me down Google.
Hopefully user installed apps can't use that fingerprint scanner or I can see identity theft hit a new level.
I've used the Atrix 4G and the fingerprint novelty is fleeting, not to mention fingerprints are insecure and at least in the Atrix 4G case frustrating to use because of misreads.
NSA collects finger prints from all the iphone kids now?
...are biting their nails, trying to figure out how to chop off their loved ones finger without them knowing.
Can't think of any other phone that had one of those. Oh, wait, yes I can: the Motorola Atrix 4G, over two and a half years ago. Of course, since the Almighty Apple has now sanctioned it, I'm sure it'll now become more popular than oxygen...
The A7 is twice as fast as what? The processor in the 5? Can we see some benchmarks?
I'd really like a better camera on my phone, and thought the iPhone 5s might be the device I'd jump the Android ship for. Then I saw they are still using the same tiny 4-inch screen as the iPhone 4. My guess is that in addition to the increased cost of manufacturing considerations, they feel a larger screen size would cannibalize iPad sales; and I'm sure they have charts and graphs to back that up.
For my personal tastes though, I don't want a tablet and a phone. I guess I'm looking for a Galaxy Note 3 with iPhone camera capabilities and performance, and Droid Razr Maxx battery life. You can't always get what you want, I suppose.
I'm sorry, but your opinion seems to be wrong.
If it doesn't come with a radio capable of receiving LTE from Vodaphone there'll be a lot of annoyed consumers.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
I would've thought they'd bump to 128GB this time, especially given how large some apps are getting nowadays...
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.. transparent (at least, in the fingers), capacitive screen friendly gloves will be the next big fashion trend.
I've been waiting for the 5C to come out for a while now to upgrade my iPhone 3C Shells
Yes, Apple would never make a plastic iPhone...except the very first one...and the one after that...and the one after that.
Thats what they said in the presentation. They also had nice graphs and and a demo of a demanding game for those that are more visually oriented. I'd expect benchmarks to be available as soon as the phone ships.
I am no Apple hater. I love my Mac to death and all that, but is this seriously all they are announcing? Look, I watched the live blog of the event on Cnet and I understand why all of the hardware upgrades are nice and all - but they really needed to do something more, something much more to save their ass in the mobile market and I think it's safe to safe that everyone on the planet was expecting much bigger announcements than what we saw here today. They should have at least had a new product category ready to launch for Christmas. I am starting to wonder if they even really are working on an Apple branded TV or an iWatch, or anything worthwhile. The Apple of many years ago would have been entering the smarthome market by now in full force. What happened? Hell, at this point a notification LED would have wowed me. And still no bigger screen? A larger screen is the number one feature that iPhone users have been wanting for ages! I don't know what they think they are or aren't doing at apple, but the result is that their market share is going to continue to tumble.
My year and a half old Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE is overall more compelling than what they announced today.
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Why does plastic make things so much cheaper? (I'm in software. With mechanical things, my IQ drops to 50. The answer is likely so obvious that will make me look even dumber.)
Why do manufacturers opt for plastic so much over metal (or rubber or glass or whatever higher-quality material is best for each part)? Phones weigh ounces, and aren't such materials still just pennies per ounce?
Yes, I know labor adds to the cost, so making a phone (or a camera or a computer) with better materials would be more than the cost of the raw materials. But still, in what seems to be my utter naivete, I would guess that still it would be just a few dollars per unit.
Why are so many things made from plastic and so few made from anything else? Does it really save the manufacturer that much money?
Apple said the A7 has twice the number of transistors and going from 32bit to 64bit from the A6. So twice as fast is certainly possible for basic computation, I'm sure there are bottlenecks though.
According to the presentation, the A7 is (a) 64-bit, (b) about twice as fast as the previous iPhone 5's A6 chip, and (c) has double the transistors, which I read as a significant die shrink (~25%). And offloading sensor tracking to a co-processor (the new M7 chip) frees up additional CPU cycles for other things.
Let me get this right.. You carry a phone that can identify you to the authorities and pinpoint your exact location. It can reveal your browsing history and who you have made contact with etc., and you worry about giving the NSA the pattern on your finger?
It's filled with shareholders selling their shares after finally realizing the company will never to return to its former glory without a strong visionary like Jobs at the helm.
I mean, fine with me if you distrust Apple so much, you suspect they'd stoop to uploading the locally stored fingerprint data to a central server and hang onto all of that data. (Never-mind the fact you'd think if they had an interest in doing so, they would have designed the iPhone 5s so the data synced with their servers in the first place.)
But how far does this distrust go? Your cellphone carrier can track your movements as long as your cellphone is powered on, you know.... What if they're selling that info to someone? Seems to me you better pass on a cellular phone, period!
Pretty bad design. The new 5C cases make it look like it's a nonphone.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/accessories/#iphone-5c-cases
I've got better things to do tonight than die.
...when Apple announces their "6C" new phone... (say it out loud)
The jokes will practically write themselves.
"I, for one..."
The one thing that struck me as odd is how much Apple is trumpeting 64-bit.
On a desktop or laptop computer I can see why you would care about 32-bit vs 64-bit; being able to address more than 4 gigs of ram is a huge selling point for 64-bit. But for a smartphone with only 1 gigabyte of ram, why should anyone (outside of developers) even care?
An iterative hardware update and a (slightly) cheaper phone in a range of gaudy colours ripped straight out of Nokia's play book. How the mighty have fallen.
You are using it wrong.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Does the C stand for cheap?
So in an occasional rare situation, you have to enter the unlock code. Still a lot more convenient than having to enter the code every time. I don't use an unlock code because it's too much of a pain, but I'll use this.
Am I right?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Did apple find someone else to supply their parts?
HAHAHAHHAHA...these look like Lumias!!!!!!
Captcha was "samplers" .... hmmm :-)
Yeah, I think this needs to be emphasized. The 5c is only $100 less than the 5s; I wouldn't call it cheap. The 5c is still more than twice the cost of a Nexus 4 ($549 vs $249).
Once again, nothing in these new iPhones to make me want to upgrade my iPhone 4. Apple realizes it too, hence the Apple apps giveaway. I'm even closer now to ditching the 4 in favor of anything made by Samsung.
Do we really expect to read pro-iPhone comments on a site pretty much dedicated to anything non-Apple? Yeah...that's what I thought....Unbiased news...just like FOX (or, CNN).
The thing I've been trying to understand, what is the point of going to 64-bit on the processor? Surely they aren't going to have more than 4Gig of RAM on the phone already?
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To tell us how great Google is and LOL apple sucks
So the iPhone 5S is the incremental upgrade any objective observer would have predicted. The problem is that too many in the press kept trumpeting it like it would be some kind of revolution, and the ignorant masses, led by Apple fanatics, bought into the hype.
The mistake people have been making for well over a decade is to brand Apple as an innovator. They're not, far from it, in fact. What they are is amazing integrators, who are able to produce a great product because they're involved in every step of the process. They're also skilled at exploiting a technology when it's reached maturity. But other companies are the true innovators. They're the ones who've taken the risk on a technology in it's infancy and suffer the knocks that inevitably come. Unfortunately, they're rarely the ones who profit from those efforts and they certainly don't get the recognition from consumers.
The challenge for Apple is to remain relevant. The mobile market has matured with competitors catching up and even surpassing the iPhone in a variety of ways. The problem is that it seems Apple is afraid to tamper with their formula and so is playing it far too safe. This is the inevitably consequence of being at the top for too long. Fortunately for them, they've been able to retain their position as the prestige brand. This is partially due to the fact that the entire industry, all the way down to the retail level, keeps reinforcing that belief. Sticking to aluminum certainly helps maintain that perception amongst ignorant consumers.
I'd say Apple's days are numbered, although they're going to remain a dominant presence in the market for a very long time. I don't really see what they could do to reverse the slide. I'm not seeing anything of significance from Apple; nothing like the compelling experiments Google or Microsoft keep putting forward. They're mired in the success of the iPad and iPhone. They struck at the right time with great products but they don't have much of substance to fall back on.
By contrast, Microsoft just needs some proper management to shift things a bit so that they can get on track. They've still got a viable core of potential. From what I've seen Apple, on the other hand, has deeper problems. Maybe they'll prove me wrong in the next couple of years, but so far I'm not seeing it.
Do we need some benchmarks? The A7 is going to be peanuts compared to the actual processing I do on a supercomputer. And overkill for making a phone call. Beyond that, I don't really care.
ask yourself what it takes to make plastic:
BIG OIL
Making more sense now?
No.
However, some of the other replies, saying "it's cheaper and easier to form plastic shells than to make metal shells", do make it make more sense.
Fingerprints are not a valid replacement for passwords. They are not private. You leave them everywhere. Anything you touch can potentially be used against you.
It's only a matter of time until we see YouTube videos of people lifting a thumbprint off a soda can with Scotch tape and pressing it up to an iPhone to unlock it.
The graphs looked nice but didn't have any labels to tell exactly what was being tracked using what metrics and displayed in what manner. It's easy to make a graph showing what looks like a huge increase when it is really a moderate or even small increase. The real test will be when the benchmarks come out and people make graphs that are actually labeled.
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>error: that fingerprint has been used for this account before, please use a fingerprint that is different from the last 3 fingerprints used for this account
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Matching background from the case. Flat icons in 7 etc... If the price is right, the 5C will be exactly what my kids will want.
Siriously ?
No update to the iPod shuffle?
I'm kidding, of course. The current model is perfect, don't mess with it. We don't need another Third-Generation disaster.
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re: Google Glass Facebook integration
they want it...that's where they want to take it...
Google Glass is here. Brain wave sensors are still barbaric but getting cheaper every day. I think they can have about 8 different inputs via 'thought'
There is absolutely no reason Google Glass won't be able to do operations like 'take photo'->'share photo via facebook' through thought interface...like...today...someone may even have done it already in a lab
Then, they can just capture your **brain waves** as metadata along with your photo.
user brain wave mapping is a legitimate 'social media' application *right now*...
it's cool! but we just have to hold tight to our rights!
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If anything, it just shows that the 5C should be more than $100 cheaper.
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I was told today that nothing someone saw "wowed" them. I asked what has "wowed" them since 2007 when the first iPhone was announced. No reply.
Smartphones will continue to get faster, better battery life, and more usability features (Touch ID). This isn't a bad thing, just the reality of a use case that has been played out.
Thing is, most people don't really care about a "better processor", "motion co-processor" or "better camera". All those things are adequate on their current phones. In the past Apple has recognized this and always gone for features that people can easily understand and see the utility of, but apart from the fingerprint sensor this time they have nothing.
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Sorry, I'll stick with my iPhone 5.
Wake me when iPhone 6 rolls out.
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True. AAPL down 2.5% on this product announcement. The screen is a big disappointment.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
If they have something that nobody else does, or at least that they can say nobody else does, they love to push it as the best thing EVAR. They want to convince people that the Apple product is better, faster, more capable, etc, etc.
So, since they have one of the first, if not the first, phone with a 64-bit ARM CPU (since near as I know 64-bit ARM is a very new thing) they are going to advertise and push it. They will get their zealots all in a lather as to how much better that is, without any real understanding as to what it actually means, they'll just know it is something their product has that those nasty other products don't and thus it is better.
I'm sorry. $900 for a phone? With only 64GB of storage?
You Apple fanbois are insane!
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Actually, assbreath, it's due to the fact that they didn't announce a deal with China Mobile, so the vampire squid are having a tantrum. Thing should stabilize in a few days after they sucker retail investors into selling low.
Tautologies are boring.
You could say the same thing about any company that has ever existed, if you applied this standard you're holding Apple to against the rest of the industry.
You mean competition is good for developing products for consumers? I'm sure your Nobel Prize in Economics is in the mail for that observation.
They're making more money than anyone else, and the only one of their competitors making real money is Samsung. Poor beleaguered Apple.
Because no other company could possibly position themselves as a premium brand/invest in marketing/bring repeat customers.
I notice you didn't say "product". Because Glass has sold a few hundred million units and made a few hundred billion dollars for Google.
While the iPhone 5 was a radical new design, the 5S is an iterative upgrade; on the outside, it looks pretty much the same as its predecessor (the new iPhone features a new color, gold, in addition to the 'traditional' black or white aluminum body). The iPhone 5S has an A7 chip built on 64-bit architecture (capable of running 32-bit and 64-bit apps), which is pretty speedy, to put it mildly. There's also the M7 'motion co-processor' which boosts the actions of the accelerometer, compass, and gyroscopeâ"in theory, opening the door to more refined motion-related apps, such as ones devoted to exercise. The iPhone 5S also has a sensor built into the home button that will allow you to unlock the device with your fingerprint.
Not much changed, except the way faster CPU, an improved accelerometer, and fingerprint recognition; if those are the only changes, then it is still a good reason to trade up. The CPU and fingerprint recognition could easily amount to actual usable time and the accelerometer will make the silly games that much better.
First, Apple releases a tiny 7" tablet, against Jobs recommendation when he was alive.
My understanding is that Jobs was against a 7" tablet when they could *not* match the 1024x768 resolution of the full sized non-retina iPad. Over time pixels per inch improved and this technical objection no longer applied. The 7" iPad mini introduced no display fragmentation, a pixel per pixel match for the existing non-retina full sized iPad.
Now they come up with a cheap iPhone, further eroding Aple's premium image.
The "C" in iPhone 5C is for "color" not "cheap". "Cheap" was Wall Street speculation regarding a hypothetical developing world focused phone. Wall Street did not expect the current iPhone 5 to be discontinued, they expected the 5 to move into the midrange iPhone slot. Apple did something different, they discontinued the 5 and introduced the 5C as the phone for that midrange price slot. IMHO that was a smart move. The 5C is less likely to cannibalize 5S sales than the 5.
I do not expect I will be buying another iPhone ever again. The device is far too tiny... My wife's Galaxy Note phone is awesome... reasonable screen size, and even comes with a stylus.
I guess if you are carrying around a purse then the larger phones are not really an issue.
Personally I miss smaller phones, in particular my Moto Razor flip phone where I didn't have to worry about putting things in the same pocket as the phone. That said, the increased functionality of a smartphone does seem worth having to put coins and other screen scratchers in a different pocket.
Why the fingerprint scanner? I don't think people want to get their thumb stolen along with their iPhone.
I can live with the knowledge that my passwords are inherently unsafe. They can be changed as needed. If a hacker gets access to my full finger print scan, then its game over, permanently. We do not have the ability to reset fingerprints without radical surgery. I for one will never use my fingerprints for e-commerce.
Stay skeptical, my friends.
This is something that everyone is missing. They are adding value not on the hardware and OS side, they are adding value in the apps included in the iPhone and trying to make a compelling case to use iCloud services.
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MP3, H.264 video[...] yes, these proprietary, locked down formats MUST GO!
Those formats are subject to royalty-bearing patents, and the multimedia playing component of iOS makes no provision for similarly capable royalty-free formats.
I can decide quite easily what to install on my device: if I want to install stuff from the Google store, I buy an Android device. If I want to install stuff from the Apple store, I buy an Apple device.
So what do you buy if you want to install something exclusive to the Google store and something exclusive to the Apple store?
Apple actively needs a 'boogeyman' competitor. Preferably one with a larger market share, and a product line that includes lower-end products (but said competitor can and usually does have at least some offerings that are superior to Apple's.) They're a boutique vendor and Apple customers will always need there to be somebody to feel superior to. And Apple needs a customer base willing to pay a premium for their devices.
That's been Apples market approach for decades, and it's not showing any sign of changing.
The 5C blows away the iPod Touch at $99 (16GB).
Will Apple sell an unlocked 5C? for about $199 ... that would kill the iPod Touch.
Wait! Is Apple planning to kill off the iPod line? and just sell iPhones (since they do as much and more already)! :D
Oh god that is the most brutal but hilarious truth telling I have seen in a long time! lmfao man...
People care, they just don't want to know the underlying details. People care if their car goes smoothly, but they don't want to know how the transmission is tuned.
(Yes, most of them don't ... geeks excluded).
Reminds me of Sony bragging about the PS2 emotion engine and so on, trying to impress people with raw hardware details that aren't comparable to anything else.
That is to say in this case, how does the A7 perform in reality, running normal apps vs. the latest HTC or Motorola or Sony devices running Android?
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that's correct, and they're raking in the cash while keeping their customers happy. really good news for me as an appl stockholder and product owner.
I can unlock my iphone with my johnson.. so I can tell that I fuck apple.
Is that because your fingerprints are all over you johnson?
True. AAPL down 2.5% on this product announcement. The screen is a big disappointment.
Or up 12% since mid-August; or up 25% since mid-July; or down 40% since last October. Wow, stock prices fluctuate. Wow, people sell after they make a profit on their shares. People buy when the price falls. Film at 11:00.
the first one wasn't plastic
So none of you work in the financial industry, had any sort of biometrics for government jobs/immigration, filed for firearms permits, or had a wild night on the town?
You guys sound boring.
Down another 5% today, wise guy. The market has stated unambiguously what it thinks of Apple's latest product introduction.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Down another 5% today, wise guy. The market has stated unambiguously what it thinks of Apple's latest product introduction.
Of course this two day drop followed a huge run up in anticipation. People are taking profits. Not news.
Plastic is a huge *class* of materials, not just an instance of material. Plastic can be made to not dent at much bigger impacts than most metals can.
The strength of metal is tensile. I.e. if the undertaker and Hulk Hogan grab opposite ends of your phone and pull, a metallic frame ismuch less likely to break than plastic, ceramic and wooden frame. But that is not a typical use case a phone is subject to.
In typical use cases : falling, getting squeezed very tight in pockets, dent inducing impacts etc, plastic can be made to be BETTER than metals, mostly.
Plastics can be made to be more comfortable - they won't get excessively cold in winters nor skin roasting hot if it stays in the sun for long. Ok, the latter is less of a use case, scratch that.
Plastics can be made to slip less on most surfaces. Being eclectically insulating doesn't hurt either.
It is the success of hype over fact that metal, an inferior substance for the use case has come to mean "quality ".
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Wow, you really are a koolaid guzzler. Why believe me?
"Many analysts are not happy with the actual iPhones unveiled by Apple Inc. (AAPL) on Tuesday. They’re concerned that the iPhone 5C isn’t priced low enough to be able to adequately address emerging markets."
"Garcha also noted that the specs of both handsets are “not quite on par” with those of other high-end handsets."
Ouch! Conservative prediction: general trend for Apple is down, for market share, for sales and for stock price. Go ahead and think of it as a retrace after a runup if it makes you feel better.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
There's also the M7 'motion co-processor' which boosts the actions of the accelerometer, compass, and gyroscope—in theory, opening the door to more refined motion-related apps, such as ones devoted to exercise."
Any cheap run-off-the-mill's smart phone's GPS is pretty awesome in terms of determining your speed and displacement and so are the cheap accelerometers.
Unfortunately for Apple's hype in sports such as running and cycling, etc, we measure in meters, kilometers, yards and miles meaning that we don't need much refinement for that, we aren't going to die for running a meter more or less after running a 10 miler. And again, it's not that the current and even older devices aren't good enough to be accurate. We are doing sport, for Dog's sake, not origami.
Not to speak that most serious runner's wouldn't want to be seen with a huuuuuge mobile phone attached to his/her arms at no price.
Hell, there's even a tradition:
"How do you know when you are reaching the front 1/3 of a race?"
"When you pass the last guy with an iphone and earbuds"
And weight lifting or other types of fitness simply doesn't need to know the distance and an accelerometer no matter how cool isn't going to improve your bench pressing or squatting in any way.
So much for "improved accelerometers and exercise" :P
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On iOS go to General -> Acessibility -> LED Flash for Alerts. Switch it on.
Then go to Notification -> Messages -> Repeat Alert. Switch it to 10 Times.
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It's hilarious just how hard some people will try to put Apple down. The death knell has been tolling for decades. Make me feel better? Ha, I couldn't care less. I've already made my money on their stock a long time ago. If that is your "conservative prediction" you should be shorting the shit out of their stock with every dollar you have. But of course you're just a basement-dwelling mouth-breathing fAndroid who must hate Apple at any cost. Have a nice day.
It seems apparent that you view yourself as a well rounded individual, full of the milk of human kindness and particularly expert in the ways of finance. Go ahead and think that if it makes you feel better.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
And it seems apparent that you think you and your opinions are superior to others. Thank you for giving me permission to think what I want, whether or not it "makes me feel better."
Great idea, but poor in practice, as sometimes you need other people to be able to access your phone (i.e. while driving), so will this allow multiple fingerprints to be stored?
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Ouch! Conservative prediction: general trend for Apple is down, for market share, for sales and for stock price. Go ahead and think of it as a retrace after a runup if it makes you feel better.
Oh, look, your conservative estimate was wrong. Like I said, stocks go up and down.