Yeah, I like not wondering if an app will work or not on my particular model of iPhone. Hell, even the 3 year old 3GS still runs most apps.

Makh: And in such a short time, which means many people replaced their old iPhone with a new one.

But considering the numbers, you'd think that would make Apple branch out into more models besides, last years model and this years model. I'm sure some people want a mini iPhone and some want a 4inch screen.

Totally. They could follow the Samsung model and release an iPhone, iPhone S, iPhone S II, iPhone Nexus, iPhone R, iPhone S II mini, iPhone S II LTE and iPhone S II HD LTE. Or they could leverage Economies of Scale and make massive profits off of a couple of models.

Proof of how smart people are, amirite?

RoyBatty: Intriguingly, the dimensions of the iPhone 5 are 1:4:9:16.

Isn`t that a coyright infringement from 2001?

Could also be because the seller doesn't eat 50% of the cost of a Mac.

Tobin_Lam: Makh: And in such a short time, which means many people replaced their old iPhone with a new one.

But considering the numbers, you'd think that would make Apple branch out into more models besides, last years model and this years model. I'm sure some people want a mini iPhone and some want a 4inch screen.

Totally. They could follow the Samsung model and release an iPhone, iPhone S, iPhone S II, iPhone Nexus, iPhone R, iPhone S II mini, iPhone S II LTE and iPhone S II HD LTE. Or they could leverage Economies of Scale and make massive profits off of a couple of models.

Similar to the Southwest Airlines, Ryanair, In-N-Out Burger way of doing things. Keep it simple while appearing to offer lots of choices. Its a great business model.

How is this spiffy?

Blind consumerism is not spiffy. It exploits slave labor in China and the amount of resources required to produce any smart phone is quite a bit. And the majority of the phones will be resold or thrown out within a few years.

machoprogrammer: How is this spiffy?

Blind consumerism is not spiffy. It exploits slave labor in China and the amount of resources required to produce any smart phone is quite a bit. And the majority of the phones will be resold or thrown out within a few years.

Make you own clothes? Grow your own food? Personally create the mold and all the little keys for the keyboard you just typed on?

If you answered no to any of those questions - you personally exploit workers who work in much worse conditions than those at a Foxconn plant.

/I now return you back to your false outrage

bravian: machoprogrammer: How is this spiffy?

Blind consumerism is not spiffy. It exploits slave labor in China and the amount of resources required to produce any smart phone is quite a bit. And the majority of the phones will be resold or thrown out within a few years.

Make you own clothes? Grow your own food? Personally create the mold and all the little keys for the keyboard you just typed on?

If you answered no to any of those questions - you personally exploit workers who work in much worse conditions than those at a Foxconn plant.

/I now return you back to your false outrage

Let him rage. He gets a sense of smugness bashing Apple consumers. It's probably the only time in his life he feels superior to anyone.

machoprogrammer: How is this spiffy?

Blind consumerism is not spiffy. It exploits slave exceptionally well paid for the area labour in China and the amount of resources required to produce any smart phone is quite a bit. And the majority of the phones will be resold or thrown out within a few years.

FTFY. They're also queueing up to get in to the place.

Your high horse is missing several legs and appears to be... quite dead. Stop flogging it and give it a decent burial.

iPhones cost $200, Macs used to cost up to $10k (PowerPC 9000 series springs to mind).

bigpeeler: [i.imgur.com image 640x463]

Think different, be creative, and have computing more accessible to you... that's the Apple way.

/unless you're an Asian worker, in which case, screw you

bravian: Make you own clothes? Grow your own food? Personally create the mold and all the little keys for the keyboard you just typed on?

If you answered no to any of those questions - you personally exploit workers who work in much worse conditions than those at a Foxconn plant.

/I now return you back to your false outrage

I have had my keyboard for 12 years, same monitor for 6 years, and every component of my computer for at least 4 years (other parts of it for longer, including a harddrive for 12 years). I had my last phone for 5 1/2 years until it was on its last breath.

The amount of resources needed to produce a computer and smartphone (not just the iPhone), which get replaced every 2 years because of "ohh new toy!" is absurd, and we are just farking up the planet in doing so.

RoyBatty: Intriguingly, the dimensions of the iPhone 5 are 1:4:9:16.

Is the "1" the time dimension or battery life?

I just switched from an iPhone to a galaxy s 2. I love this phone. For me, it offers way more than what the iPhone did. Having said that, I gave my iPhone to my friend. For him, it is the perfect phone. I thought my iPhone was great, but limited on what it could do. My galaxy does everything I could possibly want it to. So, short story long, each phone has its uses.

machoprogrammer: bravian: Make you own clothes? Grow your own food? Personally create the mold and all the little keys for the keyboard you just typed on?

If you answered no to any of those questions - you personally exploit workers who work in much worse conditions than those at a Foxconn plant.

/I now return you back to your false outrage

I have had my keyboard for 12 years, same monitor for 6 years, and every component of my computer for at least 4 years (other parts of it for longer, including a harddrive for 12 years). I had my last phone for 5 1/2 years until it was on its last breath.

The amount of resources needed to produce a computer and smartphone (not just the iPhone), which get replaced every 2 years because of "ohh new toy!" is absurd, and we are just farking up the planet in doing so.


Yup, have a 2002 model early G5 tower that was still kicking (until i parted it out for $$) and lived through 2 i-phones.

Keep your gadgetry. I'll take a good computer any day.

machoprogrammer: bravian: Make you own clothes? Grow your own food? Personally create the mold and all the little keys for the keyboard you just typed on?

If you answered no to any of those questions - you personally exploit workers who work in much worse conditions than those at a Foxconn plant.

/I now return you back to your false outrage

I have had my keyboard for 12 years, same monitor for 6 years, and every component of my computer for at least 4 years (other parts of it for longer, including a harddrive for 12 years). I had my last phone for 5 1/2 years until it was on its last breath.

The amount of resources needed to produce a computer and smartphone (not just the iPhone), which get replaced every 2 years because of "ohh new toy!" is absurd, and we are just farking up the planet in doing so.

Farking this. We can't continue with these closed devices like the iPhone. We need a device where components can be swapped out and recycled. The iPhone was a revolutionary device at one time. Now it's a representative of backwards thinking in device design.

DubyaHater: bravian: machoprogrammer: How is this spiffy?

Blind consumerism is not spiffy. It exploits slave labor in China and the amount of resources required to produce any smart phone is quite a bit. And the majority of the phones will be resold or thrown out within a few years.

Make you own clothes? Grow your own food? Personally create the mold and all the little keys for the keyboard you just typed on?

If you answered no to any of those questions - you personally exploit workers who work in much worse conditions than those at a Foxconn plant.

/I now return you back to your false outrage

Let him rage. He gets a sense of smugness bashing Apple consumers. It's probably the only time in his life he feels superior to anyone.


I didn't get anti-apple from that statement at all. You feeling insecure today?

I've been using a Mac since I was 6 years old. I'm deathly afraid of Macs being eliminated and instead, Apple selling a giant 17" screen iOS device you keep on your desk at home or office, that has a bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I don't want an iOS device. The only Apple software I use is Mac OS, the Mail program, and the Address Book. And I use (and tinker w/) some stuff that probably never got that Apple seal of approval. Don't scrap Mac OS. iOS just isn't as good.

Makh: And in such a short time, which means many people replaced their old iPhone with a new one.
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No, it doesn't mean that.

meatofmystery: I didn't get anti-apple from that statement at all. You feeling insecure today?

Apple fanboys get upset anyone makes any negative remark in an apple thread. I didn't mean it just anti-apple, either, but anti-blind consumerism, which is farking up our planet.

bighairyguy: Makh: And in such a short time, which means many people replaced their old iPhone with a new one.

But considering the numbers, you'd think that would make Apple branch out into more models besides, last years model and this years model. I'm sure some people want a mini iPhone and some want a 4inch screen.

That's called fragmentation. If you want a phone with a couple of advertising crowing points, hit-or-miss on other features and little-or-no OS upgrade capability, see your local Android dealer.

My iphone 3gs had great upgrade capability. I upgraded to the latest ios, and it killed all performance on my phone, even in older apps.

Apple offered no way to downgrade without a jailbreak ether. Basically forced a hardware upgrade to continue getting good performance out of the phone.

RoyBatty: Intriguingly, the dimensions of the iPhone 5 are 1:4:9:16.

I'm pretty sure that time can't be measured in the same units as a length, so what's the 4th dimension there?

Jim_Callahan: RoyBatty: Intriguingly, the dimensions of the iPhone 5 are 1:4:9:16.

I'm pretty sure that time can't be measured in the same units as a length, so what's the 4th dimension there?

One inch of time is the amount of time it takes light in a vacuum (actually flat space) to travel one inch.

All sorts of things in relativity start to make sense once you realize this.

skoobx: I just switched from an iPhone to a galaxy s 2. I love this phone. For me, it offers way more than what the iPhone did. Having said that, I gave my iPhone to my friend. For him, it is the perfect phone. I thought my iPhone was great, but limited on what it could do. My galaxy does everything I could possibly want it to. So, short story long, each phone has its uses.

Serious question: What is it that you couldn't do with an iPhone?

machoprogrammer: meatofmystery: I didn't get anti-apple from that statement at all. You feeling insecure today?

Dell fanboys get upset anyone makes any negative remark in an Microsoft thread. I didn't mean it just anti-Lenovo, either, but anti-blind consumerism, which is farking up our planet.

I keep having to fix your shiat.

And Nintendo sold a shiat-ton of DS's compared to everyone else's consoles

RoyBatty: Jim_Callahan: RoyBatty: Intriguingly, the dimensions of the iPhone 5 are 1:4:9:16.

I'm pretty sure that time can't be measured in the same units as a length, so what's the 4th dimension there?

A good question, but it might just be a misperception on your part, as an example, I believe that to position an object in three dimensional space requires six dimensions, x,y,z as units of length, and pitch, yaw, roll, as angular units.

But you'll have to ask Clarke, sadly, I am only here to make obscure references, not to understand them.

I don't know how useful a phone with a fixed orientation would be, but who knows, Apple has made dumber things, like the Apple II.

JihadMakeMeHungry: Serious question: What is it that you couldn't do with an iPhone?

Recover a bricked device resulting from a rooted app by reinstalling the OS, maybe? Android is open source so in theory you could probably grab a reliable copy of the OS on the internet, whereas you likely need to go through Apple for the iPhone OS (resulting in a "ha ha go fark yourself" form support).

But yeah, in terms of emailing shiat and listening to music/taking photos/websurfing (aka normal use) I'm not really sure that which particular smartphone you've got makes a whit of difference.

//Could be wrong about the iPhone OS as well, I don't have one.

There were more games made for iPhone in 1 year than for Macs in 28 years, too. :(

JihadMakeMeHungry: skoobx: I just switched from an iPhone to a galaxy s 2. I love this phone. For me, it offers way more than what the iPhone did. Having said that, I gave my iPhone to my friend. For him, it is the perfect phone. I thought my iPhone was great, but limited on what it could do. My galaxy does everything I could possibly want it to. So, short story long, each phone has its uses.

Serious question: What is it that you couldn't do with an iPhone?

Swap files with any computer via USB without having to install some shiatty software.

Vaneshi: machoprogrammer: meatofmystery: I didn't get anti-apple from that statement at all. You feeling insecure today?

Dell fanboys get upset anyone makes any negative remark in an Microsoft thread. I didn't mean it just anti-Lenovo, either, but anti-blind consumerism, which is farking up our planet.

I keep having to fix your shiat.

Thanks for proving my point. I appreciate it

JihadMakeMeHungry: skoobx: I just switched from an iPhone to a galaxy s 2. I love this phone. For me, it offers way more than what the iPhone did. Having said that, I gave my iPhone to my friend. For him, it is the perfect phone. I thought my iPhone was great, but limited on what it could do. My galaxy does everything I could possibly want it to. So, short story long, each phone has its uses.

Serious question: What is it that you couldn't do with an iPhone?

Here you go: http://lifehacker.com/5801862/top-10-awesome-android-features-that-the -iphone-doesnt-have

Vaneshi: machoprogrammer: meatofmystery: I didn't get anti-apple from that statement at all. You feeling insecure today?

Dell fanboys get upset anyone makes any negative remark in an Microsoft thread. I didn't mean it just anti-Lenovo, either, but anti-blind consumerism, which is farking up our planet.

I keep having to fix your shiat.

Can I have whatever drugs you're on? Because I'm pretty sure Dell fanboys don't exist.

Here's the thing about you icults. You're are all pretty much worthless and retarded. It's 2012, and I can't believe people are swallowing their pride and buying iCrap products still. Woefully out of date, overhyped, overmarketed, overpriced, sweat-shop made Chinese pieces of junk.

You may have had the excuse a few years ago when RIM was still a top contender, but now we have Android-based products which are superior in every way. Almost everything you iDiots brag about with your latest junk android users have had for years. Even SIRI was just a rip off of all the integrated voice-to-text technology Android makers and third party developers had been using and experimenting with for years. iFools were stuck in the stone age doing voice calling while Androids were sending texts, full emails, calendar updates, google searches, and hell, I was even programming C++ with full voice capabilities. You guys missed all that, because, well, you were stuck on an iGarbage.

Anyways, fools, I'll look forward to blowing you iTools out of the water with all my strict Android & Windows based products. I have on good authority that Adobe is even unleashing a full flash mobile platform that will unleash the fury on the iNbreeds in 2013. Every android and windows based product will fully support it, while you iTards will be doodling around with limited html playing crap games and buying (lol) crap apps because your Lord Jobs would ressurect the dead if iPhone ever supported it.

I could go on, but I have to be at a meeting in 12 minutes. That's the thing with Droid users, we have responsibilities and our products our tools that leverage our lives. That's why studies show that android owners are more successful, better looking, and more likely to score the prom queen that the neckbeards that populate iFart threads on Fark. Haha.. I'm just kididng, on that last one. OK. not really.

Have fun on your obselete platform. Somebody had to buy the last commodore. Later losers.

JihadMakeMeHungry: skoobx: I just switched from an iPhone to a galaxy s 2. I love this phone. For me, it offers way more than what the iPhone did. Having said that, I gave my iPhone to my friend. For him, it is the perfect phone. I thought my iPhone was great, but limited on what it could do. My galaxy does everything I could possibly want it to. So, short story long, each phone has its uses.

Serious question: What is it that you couldn't do with an iPhone?

Easily replace the battery.

Can I have whatever drugs you're on? Because I'm pretty sure Dell fanboys don't exist.

He's usually running around in these Foxconn threads with his little posse of herp derps about the evils of Apple, slave labour and such. He's dancing for my personal amusement as this point, I've already demonstrated that I've things in my fridge with a higher IQ and probably better understanding of the geo-political situation surrounding the outsourcing of labour. He'll always be a moron, I just play one on TV.

Dell fanboys exist. I dare, I double dog dare you to run in a bunch of gamerz and say Alienware sucks. Ohhh yeah Dell fanboys exist.