iPhone 6 Sales Crush Means Late-Night Waits For Some Early Adopters 222
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.
I just want the new Nexus. (Score:3, Insightful)
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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The ironic thing is that NFC isn't anything new. All my recent Android phones have had the ability to use NFC, and my HTC One M8 can use an app that sits on the SIM card, called ISIS (poor name, ironically) that can handle payments in a secure manner (the SIM card does all the processing, so even if the phone is compromised, the PIN used is not stored/used on the phone. Of course, I'm sure malware can log the PIN, but it is as secure as any other wallet mechanism.) My biggest beef about it is that you ca
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>is because there are many standards
The problem with creating the one true standard is that in the US the PCI-DSS people would want to do it, and I've never seen a more incompetent bunch of standards writers than PCI-DSS when it comes to payment security.
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To me, I don't see anything interesting about the 6 and 6+ that would make it worth jumping from an iPhone 5S or even an iPhone 5.
MUCH BETTER BATTERY LIFE = 6+ battery is over twice as large as iPhone 5s battery, from 1,440 mAh to 2,915 mAh. While some might say "battery life will be the same because of the larger screen" it's been shown in iPad's that is not true, devices like the Mini have an enormous battery life despite the 8" screen and only a 4,490 mAh battery. If the 6+ can get just half the battery life of the Mini that will be a huge improvement from the battery life of the 5s. Apple is already reporting the 6+ will provi
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Apart from the fingerprint sensor you are describing my old Galaxy S3 from three years ago. Bigger battery, bigger screen, NFC, image stabilisation, small low power cores etc.
If you are looking for an upgrade get s Nexus 5 for half the price, or wait s month for the new model. They cost half the price too.
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Nexus 5 is the boss. Cheap comparatively. My wife left iPhone's behind because she wanted my phone. Needs a case for sure, but I wouldn't carry a phone without a case.
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Re:I just want the new Nexus. (Score:5, Insightful)
The only real feature of note was Apple Pay, which might finally make NFC payments take off in the US. It's been a technology that should have hit it big a couple of years ago, but has never seen much consumer buy-in for some reason.
It's pretty straightforward, to my mind. With the exception of all but the most staggering technological advancements, widespread adoption of new technology typically requires:
Geeks, for a variety of reasons, tend to respect the first, grok the second, and abhor the third. I personally believe it's what drives our perpetual cycle of incredulity on this subject--because we so detest the last part of this equation, we refuse to see its importance in getting all those squishy, distracted, emotional bags of water to adopt cool new stuff.
NFC has never had the effective marketing campaign in the US, and only kinda had the support infrastructure. The iPhone has incredible inertia on the marketing front, and Apple have clearly done the legwork on building a good starting lineup of financial institutions and retailers for Apple Pay. It remains to be seen whether this'll be sufficient to make NFC catch on, but it's easily the closest we've come to covering all three of the bases above.
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Canada too. Very few places don't have a chip machine, and still use mag stripe. Quite a few of the machines don't even let you mag stipe anymore unless chip fails after 3 attempts.
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LOL. Yes, we use magstripe and signature still. Heck, I even occasionally see an imprint machine being broken out.
The imprint machine will continue to be used (occasionally) even with chip and pin as it doesn't require a constant, live connection. Useful for when there's a system glitch, power outage, or unreliable infrastructure. That's why the cards still have raised numbers and even after it's widely used post 2015, the magnetic stripe will also still be there on chipped cards.
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Its a pity that we have to rely on one guy changing out all of that hardware and can't scale the changeover with the population as we do the user base.
I mean, really?
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The key would be how many places had mag strip first. Brazil is moving faster now than 10 years ago.
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Yes, but did Brazil have credit cards at *all* in the 1950s?
Changing credit cards is one of the cases (along with cell phones being far more prevalent than land lines, in developing countries), where having technological advances far earlier than other parts of the world causes tons of inertia which makes FURTHER advances much harder/take longer/more expensive.
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There are three professions where being untruthful is the key to success: Lawyers, salespeople, and marketing. All three are hired to portray their client in the most favorable light possible, and the very best ones lie through their teeth. The worst of these three are the marketers because they have legions of psychologists and scientists trying to figure out the best way to lie to people.
Yes! You're both presenting a perfectly defensible argument against marketing and reinforcing my original point! Because geeks tend to abhor marketing, we dismiss its significance, and are perennially gobsmacked as to why an intrinsically emotional, manipulatable species is so susceptible to emotional manipulation.
So long as humanity is what it is, reason will only ever get you so far. You either need to blow the doors off with a staggeringly amazing thing, or come to terms with the fact that every single
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NFC is cool and boy did people think it was neat when I paid for something at the 7-11 with my Galaxy Nexus a few years ago. You are right that it might finally take off in the US now that Apple is doing it. They are even following the standards so they can use the existing NFC machines at Walgreens, 7-11, and McDonald's. It is really not innovative but an example of the clout that Apple has with the carriers.
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If the only thing Apple ever does consistently is break the control of the carriers, we should still all bow down. The carriers in North America are all terrible. Any time anyone knocks them down a peg, I'm happy. If Google'd done it, I'd sing the same praises, just as loudly.
Re:I just want the new Nexus. (Score:5, Insightful)
Because no one unified around it. You have credit cards and phones and all that, and the phones were all fragmented into using Google Wallet or other custom thing so it was impossible to actually use.
Effectively, Google thought "If you build it, they will come" and everyone basically gave a collective "meh" and promptly did their own thing.
What Apple did was try to be a de-facto standard. Apple made deals with Visa, MasterCard and American Express (which probably covers the vast majority of credit card charges out there). Apple made deals with big retailers people used. So in the end, Apple has, upon launch, the support of the vast majority of credit card payment companies, and big companies that most people shop at.
Plus, Apple has money on their side - the people who buy Apple products tend to be ones who have money, and are the kind of people who do spend it. Android users tend to be more tight-asses (given the vast majority of them are free phones that their carrier gave away), so are in generaly seen as a "lesser valued" market.
So you have companies agreeing to Apple because they know Apple customers generally have money. As a side effect, it means the technology being promoted gets widely distributed so everyone else benefits as well.
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Right here.
google wallet is clunky to use. I tried using it several times and it always gave me fits to where I finally gave up and used the card in my wallet.
I really hope apple figured out how to make it work a LOT better than GW does. Because having to log into the app and waiting for it to sync takes longer than opening my wallet and swiping the card.
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I just touch my phone against the pad and it pays. No need to open an app or anything like that. Don't even have to turn the screen on.
Not sure why you had problems.
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That's why everyone takes credit cards and almost nobody deals with digital wallets. I wonder how low of a rate A
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Google Wallet or bust, fuck ISIS, and now Apple, with their strategies based on taking over the market for NFC payments instead of just fucking offering an option for NFC payments.
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That's missing the biggest piece of the ApplePay announcement; in-app purchase support at below-card-present rates for the merchant, without having Apple as a direct participant in the payment chain. That's absolutely massive and has far more potential to be a game changer.
Re:I just want the new Nexus. (Score:5, Funny)
I've got a Nexus-5 so I'm going to skip the Nexus-6... I'm holding out for the Nexus-7!
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Re:I just want the new Nexus. (Score:5, Interesting)
I've met many 40's and up Android users who say they wanted an iPhone but bought an Android because they couldn't read on the iPhone screen because it was too small. So the larger screen size is a feature that many people will cite when the buy the iPhone 6.
It's also got between 10% and 100%+ battery life improvement. They didn't focus on that but it's pretty important to many.
Re:I just want the new Nexus. (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm one. I switched from my iphone4 to a nexus5 for two reasons:
- my eyes have aged substantially in the last 6 or 7 years, most dramatically in the last 3.
- $829 (CAD) for an iphone5 vs. $349 for a Nexus5...
Additional perks:
- wireless charging
Battery Length (Score:2)
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
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Here, I'll convert it to factors: 1.1 to 2
How you can interpret that as 1.0 is ... artistic.
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Yeah hate to respond to the AC but here goes...
Different usage patterns have different gains.
Talk time is more than 100% increased.
Video watching time is 10% increased.
Lots of other use cases fall in between these numbers.
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Well, I'm not sure. But don't worry, I'm sure the order page won't have the same capacity problems!
I just want the new Nexus. (Score:5, Interesting)
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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They needed to up the resolution for two reasons. Firstly to break away from the old fixed resolutions that as you point out they were stuck with, and encourage more fluid layouts. That allows them to do a greater b variety of devices in the future.
Secondly they needed to go HD. Retina has become a joke, with even Apple now admitting that it was bullshit to begin with. Every other phone competing with it, often at less than half the price, has a HD screen now. The smaller iPhone 6 is just 720p but at least
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"People" also want shitty SOAPs, crappy entertainment and retarded music. Your point being?
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There's no error in 320*2=640 and 480*2=960. If you knew anything about coding, you would know that so-called "retina" images are usually named with "@2x" to denote the double resolution in width and height. Of course it means four times as many pixels, but they're called "2x" anyway, even in
Re: I just want the new Nexus. (Score:2)
Don't include "if you knew anything about X" in your reply if you're going to spout nonsense. The whole idea behind "Retina" displays is they're an increase in pixel density rather than a simple increase in screen geometry.
The iPhone 4 had a screen with roughly twice the pixel density of the iPhone 3GS and earlier. This is where the "@2x" naming scheme for images originated. The geometry of the iPhone 4's screen was the same as earlier phones but with a higher pixel density. The iPads had the same sort of d
Re: I just want the new Nexus. (Score:2)
All old features and trends I didn't see one innovation... why is everyone so crazy about it Idk. Apple is too scared to do anything "new" anymore lol.
Big screens been around, nfc has been around, gear has been around and payment processors. They even call their gray "space gray" to jump on the Sci Fi band wagon. Like anyone would use apple in space haha.
Yes I'm bias I j
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Microsoft has a shot if they do not destroy Nokia. I flat out think that Nokia makes the best looking phone. LG, Samsung, and Apple all use great displays, Android has the best feature set, Nokia the best camera,Motorola has the Motovoice feature that I really want, and Apple has great stability and battery life.
Windows Phone 8.1 actually looks pretty good now.
For me the perfect phone would be a Nokia with the screen from the G3 running Android with Motovoice.
Others would have a different prefect phone.
The outage (Score:5, Funny)
...that Samsung wishes they had.
Conspiracy theory (Score:3, Insightful)
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Apple planned the outage to make the iFaithful salivate more and to prove to the tech press that demand is high.
Maybe. Apple sent out an email this morning letting people know that preorders were still available for next Friday delivery at 9am eastern time. So my guess is that, initially at least, their sales weren't as good as they hoped. Indeed, I ordered one just in case I decided I wanted one. If not, I'll set it for slightly above cost when it comes in.
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You do know the iPhone 6 will be the #1 selling phone this quarter, the 5s will be #2 (due to timing) and 6s will be #3 because of the limited delay. In the holiday quarter the 6s will be the #1 selling phone, the 6 will be #2 and the 5s will be #3.
The email they sent out this morning is the same email they send out on the first day of pre-orders for every product launch. It has nothing at all to do with demand.
I know that 9 hours into the pre-order they still had supply. That is unusual. Either they have more supply than normal, or the sales were not happening as fast as they expected. They are already on a 3-4 week backorder now. So it's not like they didn't sell out. But I know it will be the #1 selling phone for the quarter.
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You do know the iPhone 6 will be the #1 selling phone this quarter, the 5s will be #2 (due to timing) and 6s will be #3 because of the limited delay.
Yep! And for every iPhone that Apple sells, Samsung will sell 2 to 3 smartphones...
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I think it is the even number rush.
The original iPhone (iPhone 2) Had a good demand on it.
People gradually got the iPhone 3 and 3g (incremental improvements nothing show stopping)
There was a big demand on the iPhone 4 (The higher res screen, and FaceTime)
The iPhone 4S 5 and 5S were incremental improvements the bigger screen on the 5 is nice but not enough to get people off the 4.
The iPhone 6 with a significantly larger screen means the people who have been hanging onto the 4 needs an upgrade.
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[sarcasm]
It's a
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Also known as the Sony strategy [vgcats.com].
I doubt your doubt (Score:4, Insightful)
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...
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Who said anything about holding stock back?
It's as simple as launching before there's enough stock for a reasonable launch. Let's not forget some suppliers where complaining of a very late design change to the screen.
And they do need the hype - they have a large portion of customers who are more likely to be repeat customers if they're gently pushed to upgrade instead of waiting.
Your doubts have no substance. The questions you asked have many possible answers - both in favor and against an artificial scarci
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And they do need the hype - they have a large portion of customers who are more likely to be repeat customers if they're gently pushed to upgrade instead of waiting.
You misunderstand, they don't need the hype not because hype is not useful, but because there is already boatloads of it. The amount of hype from "iPhone Plus sold out" is minuscule compared to already existing hype from all other vectors; it adds zero to the push to upgrade compared to months of relentless news about the iPhone 6 beforehand.
The iphone's latest demise. (Score:5, Interesting)
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.
Re:The iphone's latest demise. (Score:5, Insightful)
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There are a lot like me.
Can you explain how you migrate material over (Score:3)
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
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It doesn't matter how old the phone, computer or iTunes installation is. Only the date of the backup matters. Just make sure to manually take a fresh backup of the old phone to iTunes before you setup the new one. (You should be running the latest versions of iOS and iTunes, too).
I'm on my third iPhone and about to get my fourth. The setup and restore from the old backup has always worked without a hitch. That's one of the big reasons I've stayed with iOS devices despite the lure of Nexus and Galaxy.
Oh, but it does. You can't make a backup (Score:2)
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.
Pr
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Incorrect.
Install itunes then Authorize the computer. then let it sync the phone. it does NOT "erase the whole phone" it simply will delete and reload all the music and videos all the photos, camera videos, and contact info remains intact.
Apps will be removed and reinstalled but the date for them will remain intact.
Read the instructions, you will find you do things right when you do that. Instead of just assuming and bumbling your way through as if you knew what you were doing.
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You can't backup everything that's on the phone.
Your process sounds great to a technology-enabled person. But for mere humans?
They don't remember their Apple ID password.
They put in random answers to security questions for password recovery.
Their email address has changed, their computer has changed, etc.
They installed all that music, all those videos, and all those apps, like, a *year* ago or more. Who remembers how?
"Can't you just copy everything from my old phone over to my new phone?"
As you say, the pro
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iTunes can be a pain at times and it's interface can be difficult to navigate if you don't know what you are doing but it is possible to use it to backup a phone even if that phone was previously synced with another PC or installation of iTunes.
iTunes will want to erase the phone (or any other iOS device for that matter) if you choose to synchronize the phone with the existing iTunes library on
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64 bit was just marketing wank. Have a look at comparison videos on YouTube between an iPhone 5s and a Nexus 5. For practical purposes like opening apps and navigating around them, opening files, making calls etc the Nexus is usually the same or slightly faster.
That's how Apple always pitch to the faithful. Offer some technical feature that sounds amazing but actually does very little in practice.
As for sales records, Apples own graphics show sales tapering off a bit.
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Verzion had problems, too (Score:2)
If they actually ship Friday next week, I'd be surprised/delighted.
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"Early adopters"? (Score:3)
Is that how we need to call them, in order to be politically correct?
Sigh.
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"Impatient kids"?
And i say this as the owner of a few Apple devices... which i bought on my own schedule, not by queueing at launches.
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I ordered my iPad 2 on launch day and it was pretty painless. I was in China at the time so it was pretty easy to be awake for the US launch. I don't understanding waiting in line or even setting an alarm to wake up at 3:00 am.
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Is that how we need to call them, in order to be politically correct?
Sigh.
No, it's simply a misuse of the term. An early adopter is someone who is willing to take a risk on a completely new technology. The iPhone 6 is a new product not new technology.
For example, people who bought the 2014 Sea Doo Spark jetski this year (like I did) would be considered early adopters because they are taking a chance on the all plastic hull design and it's durability. It's new technology and a new product category. However, someone buying the 2014 Sea-Doo GTX Limited 215 would not be considere
Who the fuck (Score:2)
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.
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The same people who are selling their iPhone 5 on eBay for 80% of its original price.
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What idiot would buy a used phone with non-replaceable battery and unknown history on eBay when they can pay 20% more for a new one? Not just a new one, the latest version too, and with a warranty.
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Riiiight those camping out all night make real money lol Ok you got me I believe what you say anonymous rich guy.
Apple servers were fine.. (Score:2)
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 or
Re:Android is Crushing Apple Phone Sales - NOT! (Score:4, Insightful)
This post is an interesting case in wrongness density.
Re:Is this why they call them "smart" phones? (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Is this why they call them "smart" phones? (Score:5, Insightful)
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.
Re:Is this why they call them "smart" phones? (Score:4, Insightful)
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... [arstechnica.com]
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.
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Thanks, that's a useful summary/contrast between the two models, especially the second page.
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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.
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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.
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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 [youtu.be]
Explain why it's often slower than a phone costing half as much and with so many more features. While techni
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We have that here, too; I've got a CDN $50 limit. No fear, I know the USA isn't the world. :)
Haters gonna hate. (Score:3)
You could write the same article comparing an Android to a 20 year old Newton.
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I can sell my 5s for more than I paid for including the cost difference for buying it on contract....
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Re:Dat Camera (Score:5, Funny)
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.
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That desk must wreak havoc on computer mice...
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The rear metal-rimmed camera is not flush with the case
Only true on the 6Plus, not the 6.
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Clearly, the AC who clicked the link to comment.
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Oh, about 500 million users.
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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.
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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.