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iPhone 6 Sales Crush Means Late-Night Waits For Some Early Adopters
Even after the months of hype and speculation, the behind-the-scenes development and manufacture, and then the announcement Tuesday, it seems Apple's servers weren't quite ready for the workout they got from would-be early adopters of its newest iPhone. Preorders through Verizon Wireless and AT&T largely started without a hitch at midnight, though some customers on Twitter have since complained about issues. Those problems were nothing compared to the issues experienced by Sprint and T-Mobile customers. The Sprint and T-Mobile sites were still down for many users nearly two hours after presales were slated to start. Access to Sprint's site faded in and out, while the T-Mobile site continued to display a form to register for a reminder for when the preorders began. Some people joked on Twitter that they "might as well wait for the iPhone 6S now." Apple's store itself was down for a few hours, too.
So when is the new Nexus coming out?
Over all I found the 6 to be a lack luster announcement. Nothing really new was announced.
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Who really gives a big flying fuck
...that Samsung wishes they had.
This post is an interesting case in wrongness density.
I love how the ihaters around here croon the iphone's demise as each new device is launched.. And they each go on to smashing, record sales that beat the last one.
The 5s was particularly funny. People bitched and moaned about nothing innovative. (Despite being the first mobile device with a 64bit arm cpu, and stands to be still for probably another good 8 months. That's almost 2 full years of apple leading an innovation that nobody else even had plans for at that point) - Oh, and that fingerprint scanner that turned out to be everyone's favorite feature. One button press secure unlock anyone?
Yet, the 5s went to smash sales records even beyond apple's most optimistic expectations. Record breaking device sales in it's category.
The 6 launch is looking to be even better.
Do you know why I stick with the iphone line? It's easy. It's simple. It works. I don't have to fuck around with my phone. It's always there. Each time I get a new phone, all of my shit migrates over seamlessly. I still have songs, apps, notes, pictures from my original iphone.
I build my own PCs. I love linux. I stick with the iphone because it's nice having something you don't have to fuck with to get it to work properly every once in a while.
It won't, actually. Apple's prices don't drop in the middle of a cycle. It'll cost exactly the same in July of next year. In August, you may see carriers cut the prices to entice people to clear their existing stock.
It's worse than that. The original iphone was 320 x 480. They went retina by doubling it - 640 x 960. No problem, you provide 2x images, everything works great. Then the elongated it to 640 x 1136. still pretty straightforward, though, 2x images with a bit more height. You may need to adjust your layout a bit but no major problems. But now the iphone 6 is 750 x 1334 and 1080 x 1920.
It's like they somehow decided android's fragmentation was a competitive advantage! Oh, and now you provide 3x images and they get downsampled. It will not look as good. Full stop.
Listen Apple, you didn't build a phone that people wanted, you built a phone that the press wanted. Not because they wanted it as a phone, but because they need to write stories about something. These are the same idiots that spent 20 years calling you beleaguered and taking bets on when you would go bankrupt. A larger phone won't do shit except change the narrative from "they need to release a larger phone" to "out of ideas and copying samsung"
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If they actually ship Friday next week, I'd be surprised/delighted.
Apple planned the outage to make the iFaithful salivate more and to prove to the tech press that demand is high.
Apple is doomed.
The rear metal-rimmed camera is not flush with the case, so ironically it's not the iPhone screen getting scratched, it's every surface you lay your new iPhone down on.
So, make sure you buy a stand so you don't accidentally set it on your gold-pressed latinum desk. Problem solved.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
Is that how we need to call them, in order to be politically correct?
Sigh.
That desk must wreak havoc on computer mice...
are these people who can't wait to fork over a 1/2-1/4 months wage every time a new phone comes out? Seriously wtf is wrong with them? Yah in high skool it was cool to be the first to have that Ice T/BDP/NWA tape or the first to have a new Nintendo/Sega game but those cost a pittance compared to a phone. At least with those you could listen and play with your friends, the phone is just a recluse device meant to keep people apart.
by TheSpoom (715771) Uncaring Linux user here. I have nothing to add to this but please continue. *munches popcorn*
I can sell my 5s for more than I paid for including the cost difference for buying it on contract....
seamlessly? I have family members asking me to help with their iPhones routinely, and this is always a nightmare.
Is it just a matter of your having one stable iTunes installation over the entire period? Because the problem that I run into over and over again is that iCloud is either partial in its backing up and/or doesn't have enough space and thus doesn't back everything up, and they have invariably got a computer that's newer than their iPhone. As a result, their iPhone has never been backed up to iTunes, and when they ask me to help with a transition, I can't help them—iTunes simply offers to erase the phone when you plug it in since the phone predates the iTunes installation.
So we end up having to do a phone side-by-side—check each item installed on the old phone, then install and position it again on the new phone, one-by-one. Takes hours, and some things (SMS messages) are just plain lost. I'd love to find a way to just migrate one iPhone to the next with a click, but so far I haven't found it—the only way to do this appears to be to have an iTunes installation that predates your original phone and to which the phone has been synchronized since it was new. Then you can restore the backup to the new phone. But if the iTunes installation is newer than old phone, as far as I can tell users are SOL for easy transitions.
And most everyone I've helped to upgrade simply doesn't have this. Most of them don't even use iTunes at all.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
The Apple Store app started working well before the website did, say 30 minutes after the supposed launch...
The early parts of selection worked fine, it was when you chose a carrier that things timed out.
Once the website came up (about two and a half hours late) it was pretty speedy.
So it was something around the carrier gateway that was the issue.
The interesting aspect of that, was that people had no issue ordering from carriers directly that supported it (Verizon and AT&T were the two I knew people ordered from shortly after midnight Pacific)
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
They plan to ship 80 MILLION iPhone6(+) this year alone, so that's 1.25 USD/phone in cost to cover the album. Peanuts.
Perl Programmer for hire
Instead of spending a rumored $100 MILLION giving everyone a U2 album few want, ...
I think it's $100 million for an advertising campaign. Giving everyone a U2 album is just one small part of it.
if the computer + iTunes is newer than the phone. Try this:
-> Plug a full, everyday-used iPhone that was backed up or set up on an old computer
-> Into a new computer where it has never been backed up before
What you will get is an option to erase the phone and start over. You will not get the option to back up the phone, and Apple says that's by design—the licensed content on the phone is tied to the iTunes installation where it was set up, and the license can't be associated with a new iTunes.
Problem is that people that ask me for help have almost invariably either bought a new computer or reinstalled Windows since the time they set up their phone. So there is no way to create a backup—when you plug the phone in, you only get the option to erase the phone and set it up new.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
Oh please. I've seen that graphic, and it's obviously misleading. Yes, there are features that the Nexus 4 had years ago.
One of them is a feature I don't even want, but I'm forced to get--a 4.7" screen. I really rather prefer a 3.5" or 4" screen.
You can't ACTUALLY make payments with Nexus 4 because the tech is there but the infrastructure isn't. Ironically, Apple doing NFC payments may make it possible for someone to use that feature.
And then (as per the article) there's Touch ID. And the 64-bit A8 (the A7 is still beating new phones on single-core benchmarks, sunspider, etc. even though it's a year old). I get a permissions system that isn't ridiculous and if I have a problem with the phone, I can take it into a store and have someone look at it. I don't have to send it back for service, or talk to the carrier.
Oh, and the Nexus 4 has famously bad battery life. I borrowed one for a while from a friend to try it out, and I could lose 60% of the battery in two hours while it was sitting in a locker while I was swimming. My venerable iPhone 4 would lose 0-2% in the same time frame.
These graphics are just elaborate trolling--you and I both know that the Nexus 4 wasn't actually any more usable than the iPhone 5 at the time, and it's obviously not even on the same page right now. The devices are getting closer and closer to parity, but that's not actually surprising to anyone except the most bitter partisans.
No that term is reserved for most Android owners and reviewers
And yes I was a sheep like moron for buying an HTC phone... the M8 is the worst android phone ever made.
All the morons all over the sites for a year hyping on how it's SOOOOOOOO AWESOME...... when in reality 99% of android reviews are made by people that have never touched the damn device.
My fault for straying from a google play nexus.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Only an idiot holds back physical inventory when they can sell it easily.
Apple doesn't need more press or hype; it already has those. They simply sell as many units as they can make.
If your "theory" is correct, then why do shipping times gradually get longer as more orders are made? If your "theory" is correct, why would the 6Plus ship a week after the 6 even for the earliest adopters?
Whatever happened to the belief that the simplest answer is usually true...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It is a pretty big deal. I have a Galaxy S3 which I like. To me it really only has one downside. That big screen chows down on battery power pretty fast when you are actually using it for anything. As such the battery length isn't great. It is mitigated a bit by the fact that you can pop out a used battery and pop in a charged one and you are ready to go.
If Apply managed to not only increase screen sized AND increase battery length, that is a pretty primary feature. However you are probably still stuck with the single battery.
As a bitter partisan, I'd hate to say that the things that Apple is playing "catchup" on are things that by getting right now, they don't have to worry about everything going to hell later.
For instance, how iOS implements third party keyboards is that the keyboard itself is sandboxed away from the rest of the running process. In comparison, on Android, keyboards are basically key loggers running onto of the current running process.
Intents vs Plugins? Similar.
see: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2...
There were reports that Swiftkey was going to be announced for iOS 7, funny enough, as a third party keyboard. However, it seems like all of the XPC stuff Apple has been doing, Google has a LOT to catch up on. Apple now just has the low hanging fruit.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.
Thats a crazy statement about the battery. That was a defective battery/unit. I had N4 for almost 2 years and it *never* had battery problems anything like you are describing. Not as good as the iphone though, that is definitely true.
Almost all the "partners" Apple announced already take Google Wallet.
Google Wallet, ISIS, and Apple Pay will be using the same infrastructure. Apple isnt buying anyone any infrastructure. The card makers and banks are requiring upgrades in 2015, so Apple's timing was just strategic. Dont pretend this was something the godly Apple finally brought to the masses.
Yes, there are features that the Nexus 4 had years ago.
So, you concede the point he was making with that comparison? Good.
Oh, and the Nexus 4 has famously bad battery life. I borrowed one for a while from a friend to try it out.... it was sitting in a locker while I was swimming
Right the friend borrow and put in a locker metric. Good benchmark, that.
These graphics are just elaborate trolling
No, this are pretty straight up basic trolling, there is nothing elaborate going on here. Ron is an idiot in the Android world too. But you are only getting made because he's right here. Even though it's not the whole picture, nothing he said was a lie. The N4 has a lot of the features Apple is touting as "new".
My venerable iPhone 4
What kind of complete tool do you have to be to call your choice in phones "venerable"?
The rear metal-rimmed camera is not flush with the case
Only true on the 6Plus, not the 6.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
We have that here, too; I've got a CDN $50 limit. No fear, I know the USA isn't the world. :)
It probably wasn't; the phone was wiped before I got it, and I downloaded almost nothing. I suppose it's possible that it was--what, twitter? I guess?--or something, but there was almost nothing running on the phone. I checked the battery manager, and it just showed a monotonic decrease in battery.
You could write the same article comparing an Android to a 20 year old Newton.
Thanks, that's a useful summary/contrast between the two models, especially the second page.
You're special forces then? That's great! I just love your olympics!
Apple's finally gotten around to playing catch up. Look, these phones, apple or android, are all just mini-computers with antennas that run apps. You're happy with overpaying for an apple phone, I'm happy with a capable android that has a replaceable battery/sd card. Got a double sized battery for it, have the original battery as a backup. And like you say, closer to parity. Whatever floats your boat.
I can sell my 5s for more than I paid for including the cost difference for buying it on contract....
Yep, bet you can. Lot of suckers out there. Shame on you.
The classic fanboy response to features he doesn't have: "yeah, but I don't want it!"
You should be thanking Google. The only reason you can make payments now is that they pushed it out years ago and built up the infrastructure. The battery on the Nexus 4 is fine, and easy to replace. The 64 bit CPU in the iPhone doesn't seem to have made it any faster than a Nexus 5 anyway: http://youtu.be/vZjurCN521U
Explain why it's often slower than a phone costing half as much and with so many more features. While technically interesting in most cases 64 bit is just a gimmick, and even in games the main reason for better performance is the low resolution retina screen.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Any keyboard is a keylogger. That's what keyboards do - log the keys you press and report them to the OS or app.
Intents are not the same thing as plugins, you can't compare them.
const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
Pay $800 for an Android that does the same thing as a 25 year old PDA.
Which you demonstrate by....complaining about what other people use.
Oh, and the Nexus 4 has famously bad battery life. I borrowed one for a while from a friend to try it out, and I could lose 60% of the battery in two hours while it was sitting in a locker while I was swimming. My venerable iPhone 4 would lose 0-2% in the same time frame.
Odd. I have a Nexus 4 (using my Nexus 5 now though) and I had exceedingly good battery life from it. Much better than the Galaxy Note and other Galaxy versions (and iPhones) that I have owned. To be quite frank, it was the best battery life I had ever experienced up until I started using my Nexus 5.
At the end of the day, I usually had at least 40% battery left. With the various Galaxy and iPhone devices I have used, it was usually closer to 10%. If you are getting poor battery life out of a Nexus 4, you either have an app installed (Facebook?) that is sucking the life out of it or you just have a phone with a bad battery.
In short, show me the "famously" part of your claim.
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it's about how aware to the rest of the system any given thread is to the rest of it. Android's implementation of keyboards is incredibly unsafe.
As far as intents vs iOS extensions go, you're right, but the reason why is that Android doesn't do much of anything to keep things playing cleanly.
Non impediti ratione cogitationus.