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numble said:
I use a $100 app and a $25 app on a daily basis, then there's Tweetbot, an iOS exclusive that is $10 to use across iPad/iPhone but worth much more. Most people that frequent the iOS Gaming thread (like Wario64) also have a huge game backlog.

And then FreeMyApps is another "exclusive" feature for me. I've racked up over $200 in gift certificates through them.
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$100! What is that one?

And yeah, I can't imagine anyone is moving from iOS to Android if they're a huge gamer.
 
iPhone Predictions

Predictions

The New iPhone (suck it iPhone 5)
-Unibody thinner
-Slight battery life improvements
-4G LTE Network
-Upgraded Camera 8mp, f2.2, faster shutter, better illuminated back sensor, and new panorama mode
-New Dock Connector Cable with USB 3.0
-New A6 Chip - (Not shown 1GB Ram)
-New earbuds
-New 4 inch screen 16 x 9
-Surprise software announcement


Surprise software announcement prediction (unique to new iPhone)
-New app?
-A dev will come out maybe epic and show off games on the new 16 x 9 screen
-More apps on your home screen
-A specific feature relating to having a taller iphone and why we will love it (Wild guesss: dynamic resolution for apps allowing for apps to shrink down to iphone 4s size when notifications come in to not block any information on the screen.)

Every iphone has had something unique to it. These aren't features, they are benefits. All the new hardware will mean nothing if there isn't a compelling reason to have it. Apple will show off why we want a faster, more powerful device with a larger screen in a specific software user related way. I guarantee it. This is the only thing I think we don't know about yet.
 
numble said:
I use a $100 app and a $25 app on a daily basis, then there's Tweetbot, an iOS exclusive that is $10 to use across iPad/iPhone but worth much more. Most people that frequent the iOS Gaming thread (like Wario64) also have a huge game backlog.

And then FreeMyApps is another "exclusive" feature for me. I've racked up over $200 in gift certificates through them.
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FreeMyApps is awesome, I've gotten over $100 of gift certificates through it..
 
numble said:
I use a $100 app and a $25 app on a daily basis, then there's Tweetbot, an iOS exclusive that is $10 to use across iPad/iPhone but worth much more. Most people that frequent the iOS Gaming thread (like Wario64) also have a huge game backlog.

And then FreeMyApps is another "exclusive" feature for me. I've racked up over $200 in gift certificates through them.
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I wouldn't give up my iPad for another tablet because I am hopelessly addicted to Carcassonne. I personally have no interest in having that game on my phone though (I like having moves to take when I get home at night) so I am happy with my GS3.


What is the $100 app and $25 app that you use? Edit: Saw the Pleco post.
 
Yaboosh said:
Sure you could. Why not? Many won't, but they could.


How many apps that you have bought do you currently use on a daily basis?
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I could jump ship anytime should I desire to, but I really don't want to give up the steady stream of quality iOS games and apps.

The Android/WP/BB-port begging that follows any big iOS game or app release is beyond pitiful.
 
LTE won't matter to me at all sadly since I'm on Virgin and I barely get 3G as it is. Most of the time I'm on what seems like Edge. It works for me and I'm grateful it's not non-existent, but it's not super fast. But hey, it's out of contract and only $30 a month so I can't complain.

The 4" screen will be nice for me to add 4 more icons to my homescreen. I keep all my shit on one page. 4 folders at the top and 16 icons for other stuff. I could use those extra 4 icons.

USB 3.0 seems useless in a wireless age. I keep my iPhone connected to the wall and sync over WiFi. Same with my iPad. I guess it'll be nice for initial syncing, but after that it's not a big deal. Will be nice to have the speed when you need it.

Thankfully that alone is not enough for me to drop another $650... yet. As long as I can hold out, by the time I do upgrade, the new stuff that this model brings, the new connector port and the new resolution, will be a lot more widespread. Like how I held out for Retina to mature since there's a lot of apps that don't support it yet. I'll be getting a new iPad this generation so I'll be using the new connector anyway by then.

Within a few years, all older legacy models will be depreciated. Older 4:3 screen iPhones and older Dock connector models will be outdated and unsupported and the world will move on with the new widescreen and the new connection. Apple is the king of transitions. They've done it numerous times before.
 
Doodis said:
Is there any catch here? You just have to download a massive amount of apps or what? How much do you typically get for downloading an app?
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You usually get between 27-67 cents per app. But if you have 2 or more devices, you are actually getting 2-3x that amount per app. Like if you have an iPhone and iPad, and you notice they've put up an app for a 50 cent reward, you download them on each device and you've just gotten $1.

Yaboosh said:
I wouldn't give up my iPad for another tablet because I am hopelessly addicted to Carcassonne. I personally have no interest in having that game on my phone though (I like having moves to take when I get home at night) so I am happy with my GS3.


What is the $100 app and $25 app that you use? Edit: Saw the Pleco post.
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The $25 app is Anki.

Technosteve said:
I have OCR you purchased all the dictionaries?
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Yeah, I was a sucker. It was probably overkill. But I kinda talk to the developer a lot (he's added a lot of my suggestions) so might as well support the dude.
 
Ingueferroque said:
FreeMyApps is awesome, I've gotten over $100 of gift certificates through it..
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I just checked it out. The prize for $25 amazon gift card looks incredible.

About how many points can someone get in a day?

Also, when im done with freemyapps, how do i uninstall it from my settings?

Edit: already got a $2 amazon credit. Great site.
 
I can't remember how these work, will I be able to pre order the phone tomorrow?
 
numble said:
You usually get between 27-67 cents per app. But if you have 2 or more devices, you are actually getting 2-3x that amount per app. Like if you have an iPhone and iPad, and you notice they've put up an app for a 50 cent reward, you download them on each device and you've just gotten $1.



The $25 app is Anki.



Yeah, I was a sucker. It was probably overkill. But I kinda talk to the developer a lot (he's added a lot of my suggestions) so might as well support the dude.
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Just got this for my iPad, thanks for mentioning it!

Speaking of Anki, it's free on Android (and no ads). I was very shocked when I tried to get it on the iPad. I just use the website...works well though. I wouldn't mind supporting the dev, but I couldn't cough up $25.
 
surly said:
That's $100? Just for a dictionary?
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First off, it's multiple dictionaries, 7 in total. If you want to buy a paper copy of just the ABC dictionary, it costs like $50. The 21st Century English-Chinese Dictionary costs $40. So it's a good deal just for the electronic version of expensive dictionaries.

It has a reader function, so I can load up a book or news article, and read, tapping on words I don't know and it gives you the definition.

It also does OCR recognition, so I can say, take a picture of a poster or other piece of writing, and it will give me definitions to words I don't know.

Husker86 said:
Just got this for my iPad, thanks for mentioning it!

Speaking of Anki, it's free on Android (and no ads). I was very shocked when I tried to get it on the iPad. I just use the website...works well though. I wouldn't mind supporting the dev, but I couldn't cough up $25.
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It's done more for my language studying than courses or books that cost many multiples more than $25.
 
Damn, 10.8.2 is a MASSIVE point update:

The release notes reveal the following features:
Facebook
- Single sign on for Facebook
- Facebook as an option when sharing links and photos
- Facebook friends’ contact information and profile pictures in Contacts
- Facebook notifications in Notification Center

Game Center
- Share scores to Facebook, Twitter, Mail, or Messages
- Facebook friends are included in Game Center friend recommendations
- Facebook Like button for games
- Challenge friends to beat your score or achievement

Other new features
- Power Nap support for MacBook Air (Late 2010)
- iMessages sent to your phone number now appear in Messages on your Mac
- From Safari and Mail on your Mac you can add passes to Passbook on your iPhone or iPod touch running iOS 6
- New shared Reminders lists
- FaceTime now receives calls sent to your phone number
- New sort options allow you to sort notes by title, the date you edited them, and when you created them
- Dictation now supports Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Korean, Canadian English, Canadian French, and Italian
- The Dictionary application now includes a French definition dictionary
- Sina Weibo profile photos can now be added to Contacts

The 10.8.2 update also includes general operating system fixes that improve the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac, including the following fixes:

- An option to discard the changes in the original document when choosing Save As
- Unsent drafts are opened automatically when launching Mail
- Receive Twitter notifications for mentions and replies from anyone
- URLs are shortened when sending tweets from Notification Center
- Notifications are disabled when AirPlay Mirroring is being used
- SSL support for Google searches from the Smart Search Field in Safari
- New preference to have Safari launch with previously open webpages

"Now, if someone calls your phone number for Facetime, you'll be able to answer on your Mac or iPad. The same goes for Messages — if you get an iMessage on your phone, it'll be delivered to your Mac and other iOS devices, even if the sender sent the message to your cell phone number and not your Apple ID email."
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I'm a little nervous, this will only be the 3rd Apple product I've owned, the first ipod nano, and this:

macintosh21.jpg


My contract is up though and the droid 2 is getting old.
 
HenryGale said:
iPhone Predictions

Predictions

The New iPhone (suck it iPhone 5)
-Unibody thinner
-Slight battery life improvements
-4G LTE Network
-Upgraded Camera 8mp, f2.2, faster shutter, better illuminated back sensor, and new panorama mode
-New Dock Connector Cable with USB 3.0
-New A6 Chip - (Not shown 1GB Ram)
-New earbuds
-New 4 inch screen 16 x 9
-Surprise software announcement


Surprise software announcement prediction (unique to new iPhone)
-New app?
-A dev will come out maybe epic and show off games on the new 16 x 9 screen
-More apps on your home screen
-A specific feature relating to having a taller iphone and why we will love it (Wild guesss: dynamic resolution for apps allowing for apps to shrink down to iphone 4s size when notifications come in to not block any information on the screen.)

Every iphone has had something unique to it. These aren't features, they are benefits. All the new hardware will mean nothing if there isn't a compelling reason to have it. Apple will show off why we want a faster, more powerful device with a larger screen in a specific software user related way. I guarantee it. This is the only thing I think we don't know about yet.
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Yep. Nice predictions. You're probably not too far off. There will definitely be some impressive, exclusive software to be shown off. During the iPad 3 keynote, that was iPhoto for me. We'll see what it is this time.
 
9to5Mac said:
One thing to consider: Apple’s Thunderbolt ports have a little lightning bolt on them. How many newbs will mistakenly try to plug their Lightning cables into that port?
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Do they think that people don't understand what USB is by now? What a moronic thing to say. I don't see why they'd bother giving the cable a fancy code name anyway, to the general public it's just a USB cable.
 
wetflame said:
Do they think that people don't understand what USB is by now? What a moronic thing to say. I don't see why they'd bother giving the cable a fancy code name anyway, to the general public it's just a USB cable.
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You've clearly never worked tech support. A large portion of the population can't differentiate between a USB cable and an HDMI cable.
 
Cyrillus said:
You've clearly never worked tech support. A large portion of the population can't differentiate between a USB cable and an HDMI cable.
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But is there an overlap between those people and people who own a Mac with Thunderbolt ports? Even if there is, I'd imagine that they'd probably mistake a HDMI cable for a USB one, rather than assume that a USB one is something else. At this stage I'd expect anyone buying an iPhone to recognise a USB port, even if they don't know any others. The whole thing seems unlikely to me though. Why give the cable a name in the first place, let alone one that connects it to Thunderbolt when it doesn't use any of that technology?
 
wetflame said:
But is there an overlap between those people and people who own a Mac with Thunderbolt ports? Even if there is, I'd imagine that they'd probably mistake a HDMI cable for a USB one, rather than assume that a USB one is something else. At this stage I'd expect anyone buying an iPhone to recognise a USB port, even if they don't know any others. The whole thing seems unlikely to me though. Why give the cable a name in the first place, let alone one that connects it to Thunderbolt when it doesn't use any of that technology?
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You don't think stupid people buy Apple products? They do, I talk to them every day.

Please note, I'm not saying all, or even a majority of Apple users are dumb.
 
This is an extremely good read, for those in retrospect who call the iPhone design 'obvious' and lazily call it inevitable evolution. It details how the iPhone came to be, the sweat it took, the challenges involved, and how every small detail took some very deep thinking. I wonder, if they went with the original extruded metal look and not the final redesign, if all phones would still be black slabs today? Somehow doubt it.

http://www.slate.com/articles/techn...apple_s_secretive_design_process_.single.html

There was a bigger problem with the extruded-metal phone: One morning Jobs came into the office and declared that he just didn’t love it. As Isaacson describes it, Jobs realized that the design squeezed the phone’s glass display into an aluminum frame—but because the display was the iPhone’s only interface, the design had to put the screen on center stage. Ive realized instantly that Jobs was right. “I remember feeling absolutely embarrassed that he had to make the observation,” he told Isaacson.

So, around the spring of 2006, a few months before the iPhone’s public debut, the team decided to start all over with something new. Looking through their old designs, they found a prototype they’d sketched a year earlier. This phone was a plain rectangle with rounded corners, a single button on its face, and a glass panel that covered the entire face of the phone. This was the iconic design that would become the iPhone.

Changing the design meant that Apple had to alter all of the phone’s internal components in just a few months’ time. The team would have to work nights and weekends in complete secrecy, and most of them would never, ever be able to take credit for what they helped accomplish. Of course, none of this is a surprise about Apple. In some ways, the trial only added fresh details to a story about maniacal precision and obsession that has long been clear. On the other hand, the story is a powerful reminder of something you tend to forget when you goof off on your iPhone: Nothing about it was obvious. Stuff that seems really small and intuitive about its design—things like inertial scrolling, the rubber-band effect, the simple idea of making the device a rectangle with rounded corners—only came about because Apple’s designers spent years thinking those things up and making them real. As designer Christopher Stringer said during the trial, “Our role is to imagine products that don’t exist and guide them to life.”
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