I'm sad that the new small phone has edges. I really like the curved sides, but also the smaller size.
I have a smaller (Android) phone with metal edges. I like the edges because you have a very solid hold.
Good choice. Big phones require me to use two hands.
I'm looking forward to it as well, although slightly bummed not to be getting the 3D/Force Touch features. They're not a huge deal, but they sound very appealing to me. But not appealing enough to get a giant phone or pay a lot more.
I think AB may actually get hers first; she's on a 5C, so the upgrade would be much bigger for her (I have a 5S). No rush from either of us.
I don't want something the size of the 6/6s, but I wish Apple didn't waste so much space on the bezels. They could easily squeeze a 4.3" screen in the same size chassis. :-(
I have a regular 5 and it's still going strong. No desire to upgrade yet. Not like last time, when I had the 3G, I think--whichever was the last model that didn't get multitasking.
I had a 5s and it had annoyingly weak battery. I lost it and got a 6s.
5: There's a lot of speculation that one of the next 2 generations will be almost bezel-free. Logically that would be the next one, because they change forms every time they change numbers, but most people don't think they'll be able to achieve the ultimate goal (which would be something very like a screen-only front, with neither chin nor forehead) that soon. Which leaves the question of whether they take a half-step in that direction, or just tweak the current design. I'm sure there's enormous pressure to do something dramatic this year, but it would be a lot more dramatic to jump from roughly what they have now to a phone that is 95% display.
I'm sure there's enormous pressure to do something dramatic this year...
I thought the FBI backed off.
7: No battery issues on mine*, 2 years in. I think this is the first 2-year cycle where I haven't been pining for the next one. Every previous iteration was noticeably slower or short-lived by this time.
On a related note, by 2010 iMac is only just now becoming too slow, and it's the fault of my drafting program, the latest version of which doesn't seem different on the surface, but is evidently a giant fucking memory hog.
*except that it seems incredibly sensitive to cold: if I go for a walk with it in an outer pocket when it's much below freezing, it'll cut out after, I dunno, 30+ minutes, but when I plug it back in, it leaps back up to 50% or whatever. I don't recall it being an issue with previous iterations; perhaps it's the thin aluminum back acting as a too-effective radiator
My 6 plus went to crap after only about 18 months. Some known issue about loss of touch detection and lines of dead pixels at the top- even though they claimed all the bendy stuff was fake, it does seem related to bending, if you flex it a bit it would temporarily fix. They do offer some value on a trade-in (even with the repair issue) so I got a 6S, I didn't like the mega screen so the 6S seems reasonable by comparison.
Also macs seem a lot more subject to windows-like rot lately. Just aging and being able to run the same apps you've always had on there- I guess it's OS updates hosing them.
I really wish you could find old versions of apps. I've got an ancient ipad that has only got a couple kid games on it, because it's hard to find games that will download. There's no way it could handle updating the OS.
My 4s is getting creaky. I'm trying to hold out until the 7. To put off spending the money as much as anything else.
I really wish you could find old versions of apps.
Often the app store will let you download the last version compatible with your OS. And you also can't download some OS upgrades depending on your hardware.
This is weird, because I think I'm still a registered Apple developer, but I actually don't know which phone I have right now. Bootcamp is the mind killer.
Siri should really be able to tell me which iPhone I have, but she can't.
You can sort of trick the App Store into letting you put an older version of an app on an old ipad (as long as, you know, there is an older version). You buy the new version on another device, then go to the App Store on the old device and tap "Get" for the app you've already bought. It will say, "Oh, the new version won't work, how about an older one that does?"
It's how I got fucking YouTube working again on the first gen iPad that is O's -- after Google broke the one that had been on there.
I need to replace my phone soon and part of me wants to get the dumbest phone I possibly can subject to the constraints of being able to use google maps.
I still had my Treo (755p, IIRC) when I got on the plane to Arrakis last May. It was on Sprint's network (CDMA) so I had to get a new one here. It was like havin the homo erectus of smart phones.
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I'm so pissed. The kid's daycare doubles as a summer camp for kids in elementary school. Registration opened on March 3, we turned in our form on March 3, plus our deposit. They let you pick which weeks you'd like to attend, which is a nice feature. Calendars were due today, March 30th. We just got an email thanking us for submitting the calendar, but saying that we took so long with it that many of the weeks are full already.
WTF!! What is the function of the registration form and deposit, if not to actually hold your spot on the waitlist?! (Also they claim that they give sibling preference. WE HAVE 3 FUCKING SIBLINGS AT YOUR INSTITUTION. Where's my small town pace.)
Argh.
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Well that worked out weirdly but fine.
The email that I was pissed off about said:
We received your calendar of need for [Hawaii] today. Several weeks are full now, but we will take a look and see if there are openings when you've requested need.
So I wrote back that I thought we'd reserved a spot, when we put down a deposit.
Here is the response (in part):
Until we received the care calendars, we could not accurately determine which children could be accommodated. I was just notifying some families that we could not provide care during some of their requested time periods. (In one instance it was to make room for [Hawaii] during the 1st two weeks of July. [Hawaii] got priority because she is a sibling of a currently enrolled child and because you requested a longer period of care than they did. ) So fortunately, you will not receive one of those messages and we will be able to provide care for [Hawaii] for every period requested.
Ok, great, you weirdo with your opposite-day-language.
At least this is on-topic, in the sense of what I get disproportionately irritated about.
No saying what you actually mean and assuming the reader will get what you really mean is a very slow-pace place thing.
I mean, I can see why it's a scheduling nightmare. I'm a jerk.
I also ordered an SE. I had shattered the screen on my 5 or whatever, but that was less the reason for getting a new one (new screen is, what, $100?) than the fact that 16K doesn't go that far when you turn into a leading conceptual cat photographer.
Is 16K enough to spell "cat"?
Oh, I guess it is, but 16k wouldn't be. Or am I imagining that distinction? Didn't we measure kilobits back in the '80s?
As a non iPhone person, I thought this was about Trump's ... hands, after this afternoon's imbroglio.
Topical insofar as it's the reverse of the OP title: the Flickr group is once again NSFW. Since (some of) you asked at the other place.
Thanks! I'm told they will "drop and fluff" over the next few months, and I'm curious about how they'll look as they change. Plus, I have to wait at least six months for nipple tattoes.
8: The Samsung S6 and 7 Edge devices are very close to that.
17: if you want an economical smartphone, get a current generation Motorola Moto G. 80-85% of an Android flagship for £140/€150/$170. This is my standard advice, so far everyone who asked me and bought one liked.
18: You should be proud - those gadgets were enduring classics. people forget how great some mobile devices could be in the pre-iPhone era. pity it was joined at the hip to the Florida Man of wireless network operators. you realise Dan Hesse was paid vastly more than any other CEO in the industry?
There's a lot of speculation that one of the next 2 generations will be almost bezel-free.
/r/bezels isn't going to like that.
31: I've got an S7 Edge (for the battery life mainly) and to be honest the edge bit is more annoying than useful. It certainly helps keep the device small for the screen size, but the standard S7 (and S6 for that matter) have virtually no bezel either.
Also, holy moly, LB. Your daughter is not a kid any more.
31, 32: if you worked for Apple, you might be able to steal the material otherwise used for bezels and sell it to the competition. You'd have embezzled the bezels.
35: She isn't, but ? I don't think I've put up any recent pictures.
Well, I hadn't been to the Flickr page in a long time. There's a picture of the two of you from ~6 months ago.
Oh, that picture. Isn't she great?
Have I mentioned here that Newt is 6'1" or 2"? Fourteen seems a little young for that, which makes me a little perplexed about where he's likely to end up. Both sides of the family are tall, but not that tall.
40: I was 6'3 by the time I turned 14 and am now, still, 6'3. As I recall my pediatrician accurately predicted my full-grown height very early on, even though I was, as a child, much further above average than I wound up. So, if you haven't been warned about the challenges of gigantism by now, my experience suggests he'll wind up tall-but-not-freakish (in that regard).
I just put a picture of him (and Sally, and a couple of friends) up in the pool.
41: Oh, that's good. His current height is a nice, convenient, level of being ordinarily tall -- I'd be happy if he stopped soon.
/r/bezels isn't going to like that.
What a world.
44: I was considering just piling heavy stuff on him.
This is a good post title for the flickr link.
46: Just give him a smaller bezel.
48: If Newt wants a beazel, of whatever size, he can do his own negotiations. I'm certainly not getting involved.
40/43: Tatsu has the opposite issue, in that he's 15 going on 16 and still only around 5'2''. His father is six foot, so hopefully it shouldn't just be a short Japanese man thing, but given that my side of the family ranges from my six-foot brother to a five-foot-nothing grandmother and aunt, it's anyone's guess what height he'll end up. He's late starting puberty, too, so all of us are desperately watching and waiting for a growth spurt to kick in.
He referees football matches for the age group two years younger, but even those kids are almost all quite a bit taller than him now. At least it's teaching him to impose his authority on the game by sheer force of personality.
Looking at Newt's friends, the timing of growth spurts is all over the place. He's tall, but has a fair amount of company up there, but half the boys still haven't had a growth spurt.
I was 6'1'' at 14 and still am. OTOH my Dad was 6'1'' at 14 and 6'8'' by 19. So, who knows. Also, nice Presidential boobs, and LB's girl looks disturbingly like she could be on the TV show Girls.
I've just discovered that the accelerometer on my Nexus phone thinks I am moving vertically into the air at around 9m/s at all times. Perhaps this belongs in the pot thread. I may have busted the hardware somehow. This is irritating because I have to wait six months until it's out of contract and in the meantime the clever little program that keeps the screen on when it's held at an angle no longer works.
Perhaps Newt should have the phone, or else it has simply spirited Tatsu's growth spurt away. The sorcerer's Android.
Have you considered that maybe you are rising into the air at a steady speed and you just haven't noticed?
Or maybe one of the GPS satellites is being slowly pulled away by aliens.
I was my current 6' at 13. There was another kid who was short and scrawny and got picked on a lot who used to squeal, "The doctor said I'm going to be 6'4"!" which is just a pitiful thing for a kid to find himself saying. But I saw him recently and he's a fit 6'4", so, life, man.
53: As it's an accelerometer, perhaps it means you are accelerating at 9.8 m/s^2 directly away from the center of the earth.
I hope this comment reaches you, people of earth
36: Never having come across the word "bezel" before, I've been reading these comments using a homonym that Galbraith seems to have coined, "bezzle": the value of of a not-yet uncovered embezzlement. It makes the comments in question more entertaining (and in some cases more mystifying) than I suspect was intended.