*OFFICIAL* iPhone 5 thread

[twitchyzero]

you could've at least posted this fail thread in the proper forum

[fs604]

Well like previous posters stated, this thread is fail; the pictures are just a bunch of photoshop'd shit. Besides, the iPhone 5 is rumored to not have a home button because that is what Steve Jobs wanted it to be like since the beginning.
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[dangonay]

Originally Posted by TheNewGirl

Andriod isn't really the same because it's spread out over so many different hardware developers which both severs the brand loyalty tie and whole software culture that Apple has.

Apple is set up so that once you're on the apple ship you're looking at shelling out about $500-600 every year and a half, injecting a constant stream of funds into Apple, furthermore, the content controls on their devices force you to give more cash to Apple any time you want anything else - a song, a movie, an app. Jail broken phones/pads represent a fairly small percentage of apple products, and the culture of Apple has further enforced the mentality that returns the user to the app store and Apple products/upgrades.

From a psych stand point, the more financially and emotionally you're invested in a brand, the harder it is to break your tie with it. At this juncture as we have several people onto their 2nd phone, 3rd touch, 1st pad, 2nd macbook, Apple could release a block of dried shit and there would people people who would praise it for it's innovative nature and going back to the basics, because they're conditioned to do so.

Marketing genius.

As further releases come I expect you'll see more and more bugs at release time (much as the iphone 4 was) but bad press for that will be off set with a limit in supply which creates a demand despite it (again as we saw with the iphone 4).

I would suggest getting off the Apple ship now if you're on it, I think they've already done their best work and unless they make a great alteration to their OS, most upgrades from this point on will be largely cosmetic.

What a load of crap.

1. All tech companies release new products regularly hoping to get new users or upgrade current ones. It's not just Apple.

2. Jump ship? Already done their best work? So you can predict the future now? Please tell me what the next big thing is, as I've got some money I want to invest and I need someone to tell me where I should put it. Maybe I should buy stock in one of the companies making Android tablets perhaps?

3. Forces people to go to the App Store? I don't go there because I'm forced to - I go there because they have apps/products I want at the prices I (and millions of others) are more than willing to pay. The App Store is an excellent product, which is why people use it.

4. Conditioned to do so? I'm not conditioned. Neither are my friends that have iPhones. What's the matter, you all butt-hurt when people buy Apple products? You have to call them "sheep" or "conditioned" because they buy Apple? I hate to break it to you, but most buyers of Apple are not sheep or fanboys, and are, in fact, intelligent and well educated people who bought something they wanted after looking at all the options.

[Hondaracer]

I don't particularly love apple products but I love my iPhone ever since my 3G
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[cho]

They brainwashed me so I could play games on my iPhone

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[LiquidTurbo]

Originally Posted by TheNewGirl

I would suggest getting off the Apple ship now if you're on it, I think they've already done their best work and unless they make a great alteration to their OS, most upgrades from this point on will be largely cosmetic.

WTF? What makes you in a position to tell people to 'get off the Apple ship?"

How do you know exactly what their R&D team is working on?

"Largely cosmetic changes" You could say the same shit of Windows, since Windows95.

I could care less what people use, but really, you're in no business to tell people what to use and not use. If Apple-heads like their apple products then great. Let them be. It's no different than Honda fanboys liking Hondas, or Girls who like one kind of makeup.

No one is forcing anyone to buy Apple products, they do it, because they want to. That being said, I have an iPhone and a MBA, but my main computer is Windows, and will always be. My next phone will probably be Android, just because I like trying new things.

[ScizzMoney]

People sure get heated about shit that doesn't matter

[DanHibiki]

^Ya man people are getting mad upset up in herrr.

For me. I hate macs. I hate iTunes even more. And I Never got aboard the iPod ship.

But I do love my iPhone 4. Sometimes I just lay in bed for hours using it.

I was one of the early adopters when it came to the iPhone. I bought the original iPhone in the states before it came to Canada and I must say. That was a tough transition from my n95.
The phone was so damn limited. No custom ringtones!?!? Can't send files over Bluetooth??? No copy and paste?? No physical pad Is annoying. Wtf is this itunes shit i have to aync my videos and leave them on my computer or they will be gone from my phone too???The only cool thing about it was that it was touch screen and it was fun to play with the few gestures at first but I got bored of it so fast. Gave it to my sister in a few months after. I was also an apple hater.

Fast forward 2 n a half years. My sister is upgrading to the 3GS and I was convinced to give it another go after seeing all those app commercials on tv and DAAAAMN. Huge improvement in the software! This is how the phone should have been initially released. App store was awesome. Basic functions are finally there. Still damn iTunes and syncing but that's ok.

The one big thing that was missing was multitasking and it was this missing feature alone that made me so close to switching to a blackberry or android. Ofcourse once they announced ios4 in may I stayed on the ship
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[Hot Karl]

"The real problem was something that social scientists, borrowing a phrase from movie theater racism, call the loud minority. The idea is that a small group's niche point of view is overrepresented simply because that's the group that's more likely to share it. In the case of the iPad, the loud minority were tech bloggers -- people who write and think about cutting-edge technology. The problem is that the more they know about technology, the less they're like most Americans."

"The iPad was a computer that finally made sense for people who didn't know how to use a mouse. It responded to your touch in exactly the way you, or even a marginally intelligent orangutan, would anticipate. Push the page you're reading left, and that's where it moved. If the link at the end of that gypsy-cursed email leads you to a scary page full of dicks, you just had to hit the only button on the machine to get back to your pretty, tiled home base."

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18950...#ixzz1FvBTcocV

just a cracked.com article but i thought that summed it up pretty well.

[VK79]

Looks like they are gonna go back to the old curved aluminum back design.



God dammit, gonna get pissed for hours trying to install invisible shield thingy on the curved back like my itouch 3/4.

They better release a 64g model(won't mind paying 2x price for a 128gb but I know it will never happen as the iPad2 only has 64), heck even the 64g touch is barely enough to hold all those lossless files and HD games.

Source:
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/03/07/...igned-antenna/

[J____]

looks like iphone 2g lol

[insomniac]

^^i doubt its gonna look like that either..
that looks even worse than the iphone 3g LOLLL

[VK79]

These look more possible.




Can't wait for it to come out... sucks to have to delete songs/apps when you want to add a new one.

Source:
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/03/10/...larger-screen/

[m3thods]

Originally Posted by .Renn.Sport

Apple is pretty much the only brand that actually bring innovation. A year ago, there wasn't even a tablet and look at how many brands are making a tablet today?

that's not true. the tablet idea has been around for a while. hp developed one and canned it. it was apple's engineering and marketing genius that brought the ipod/iphone/ipad to the forefront. that is what i give them props for. imo apple takes good ideas and makes them great. they're rarely first to market, but when they do get there they do it very well.

[DanHibiki]

^first they would say "we aren't the first ones to do it but we are the first ones to do it right"

and then with the ipad it was "this is the year of the copycats"

[jackmeister]

are there any websites that release Apple rumors and consistently get them right?

[taylorrr]

would hate it if the back was rounded.. looks merely like a ipod touch imo

[Manic!]

Originally Posted by jackmeister

are there any websites that release Apple rumors and consistently get them right?

Ya there were but Apple sued them into oblivion.

http://www.macrumors.com/2007/12/20/...apple-lawsuit/

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/20...-computer-inc/