Calling all Apple haters, lovers and all others

Apple's 2012 Conference

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Comment/share your thoughts on what Apple will talk about today.

 

Are you watching the conference today?

Do you plan on upgrading to the iPhone 5?

Do you boycott Apple, why?

What do you think will be included in the new phone?

 

I own the 4S and am excited to hear what is new with the iPhone 5. It'll be interesting to see if the rumors are true. Just this morning I read this article on what to possibly expect from the conference. 

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Are you watching the conference today?

Do you plan on upgrading to the iPhone 5?

Do you boycott Apple, why?

What do you think will be included in the new phone?

No.

No ...it'd be a backward step.

No....I just don't buy I-anythings.

Bling to sucker early-adopters before eventually people say 'why bother...in x months it's obsolete-and ADHD says...look...new bling'

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm going to watch the event, I'm going to upgrade to the new iPhone 5 for sure.

 

I'm really looking forward for more integration between iOS and desktop apps (OS X and Windows) using iCloud

and the new, bigger display.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top

Jafo, I agree that one of the downsides to Apple products is how often they come out with a new one. To me upgrading a phone every year or 2 is no biggie. Apple has mastered this trend and it seems to work for them...

BUT

I do get pissed off when it's more expensive items, like a desktop or laptop.

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Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top


What do you think will be included in the new phone?

A handful of features that have been available on Android for a while now that Apple will market as if they are suddenly revolutionary.  They will claim that they were developed solely in Apple's secret basement laboratory which you may not know rivals the Manhattan project for scale and scope.  

One or two interesting features that market really well but in reality don't add anything to the user's workflow.  

Maybe one truly interesting advancement in the world of smart phones and mobile computing.  Maybe.

High praise for LTE, which Apple just discovered on their own, and which will revolutionize smartphones.  You simply won't believe how much faster LTE is than 3G!  What's that you say?  Samsung was one of the driving inventors behind LTE?  Our lawyers advise us that we can't talk about that while we're preparing our lawsuit to sue them for infringing on our LTE patent for nicely shaped radio waves.  

The sudden revelation that 4" screens are actually the best size screens for smart phones.  Apple is again pioneering industry change.  

A replaceable battery.

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Okay, I made that last one up.

 

Also, I predict fainting men in skinny jeans. 

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57503273-37/yep-even-more-iphone-5-photos-leak/

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Going to watch live-blog of it.

Maybe, depends on what I see. Currently have a iPhone4 (non-S), but the Nokia Lumia 920 looks pretty nice too!

Don't boycott Apple, but I do only have two items, iPad2 and my iPhone. Don't really have much interest in their computers.

As far as features, LTE for sure. I'd love for it to have NFC, but don't think it will, bet that'll be the rehash of this phone next year.

The one thing I really wish it has that I know it probably won't is a display of calendar events on the lock-screen at all times. That is basically the only reason I still jailbreak. I do have some other jailbreak stuff (5 icon dock, sbsettings, plus a few others), but Lock Calendar is the only thing I NEED. Don't even want all the other crap that intelliscreen or Lockinfo give, just the upcoming calendar events.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

No.

Maybe.

No.

 

I like Apple products.  I tend to keep them running for a long time. I do not have an iphone currently ( I still have a feature phone) as my personal phone.

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Jafo, reply 1

Are you watching the conference today?

Do you plan on upgrading to the iPhone 5?

Do you boycott Apple, why?

What do you think will be included in the new phone?

No.

No ...it'd be a backward step.

No....I just don't buy I-anythings.

Bling to sucker early-adopters before eventually people say 'why bother...in x months it's obsolete-and ADHD says...look...new bling'

Ditto

Ditto

Ditto

And another ditto.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

What is an iphone?

Is that like the older version of Android phones?

Reply #10 from Stardock Forums Top

Apple's talking about something?  I didn't know ;)

Reply #11 from Stardock Forums Top

Panorama view???

 

:karma:  Yusss! 

 

 

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Reply #12 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting redskittlesonly, reply 12
Panorama view???

 

 Yusss! 

That definitely looks cool.

 

Reply #13 from WinCustomize Forums Top

lol!

Reply #14 from Elemental Forums Top

Looking at one of the pics on engadget, looks like that guy was just doing a "call me maybe" spoof!

Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top

I don't boycott Apple, I simply cannot afford their products.  Nor would I choose them for the sake of value.

Reply #16 from Stardock Forums Top

Pricing isn't too bad!

 

iPhone 4S gets a cut to $100 for 16GB.

iPhone 4 is now free on contract, which is DOPE. (And just to clarify, that's an 8GB iPhone 4 that's free.)

Price: $200 - 16GB, $300 - 32GB, $400 - 64GB

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Reply #17 from Elemental Forums Top


Do you boycott Apple, why?
 

I'm in the same boat as Jafo, I just don't buy i-anythings anymore. Apple alienated me as a consumer years ago when they started that ad campaign about how cool it was to have a Mac and how PC's are inferior. Normally I wouldn't be bothered by that because it's just competition in the marketplace, but after that I had to start dealing with people who bought into it fully and would just look for an excuse during conversations to extole the virtue of their Apple products. All of a sudden it turned something completely benign - using a computer/smartphone - into an election-year political campaign-like war.

It seems like there's less of that now that Apple is the new Microsoft. Now I just don't buy i-things because I don't care for the interface.

Reply #18 from Elemental Forums Top

So, what's better, the iphone 4s or the samsung s3?

Reply #19 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Nasarog, reply 18
So, what's better, the iphone 4s or the samsung s3?

That all depends on who you asks, and what you expect your phone to do. (Features etc etc)

Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top

I boycott apple.

 

Reply #21 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting seanw3, reply 9
What is an iphone?

Is that like the older version of Android phones?

Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top

Quoting Kantok, reply 4
They will claim that they were developed solely in Apple's secret basement laboratory which you may not know rivals the Manhattan project for scale and scope.

That's funny. :thumbsup:

For all the mockery that Apple deserves, I've found the iPhone to be a great device for me and I'll probably spring for the 5.  That will finally get my wife into the iPhone 4.

Reply #23 from Elemental Forums Top

Well that certainly didn't sell me on the iPhone5. May still get it, but now I think I'll wait until I can put hands on both the iPhone and the Lumia 920 and see which I like better.

Reply #24 from Stardock Forums Top

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Reply #25 from Stardock Forums Top

Meh, the iPhone hasn't interested me for years. The software has stagnated, Apple's walled garden completely turns me off from their products, and I personally hate their polymorphic design aesthetic. The iPhone 5 didn't show anything that made it a must-have besides making the screen bigger (which, if you'd look at Android and even Windows Phone 7 phones that have released in the past 2 years, a bigger display is nothing special).

As for pricing, what they announced is what I consider to be the norm in phone pricing these days, so they aren't exactly blowing me away with the price either.

As far as I'm concerned, Apple has fallen behind Android on the software and hardware front, and is now simply playing catch-up by implementing features Android has had for years and changing their hardware in very tiny bits (so that they can sell you the next iPhone that has yet another minor hardware feature that Android phones have had for years) to match what people are buying these days. I'm sure those who buy one will enjoy it, but I can't help but think they've been missing out and are behind the times :)

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