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Apple's September 12 Event | It's almost here.

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Zeth said:
iPhone 5 name confirmed.

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:lol at anyone who actually thought the 5 in the invitation pic represented 5 new products.
 
LCfiner said:
I was thinking the same until the rumors hit of new ipods getting announced today. so then I was thinking that the new itunes might get revealed at the same time.
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itunes needs a radical upgrade. since i got MOG itunes has become almost completely irrelevant. MOG costs me $12/mth for unlimited music on all my devices and with no bandwidth costs thankfully.
 
It always astounds me how excited people get by these things, especially considering we pretty much already know all of the important details about the new phone.
 
SlowRevolution said:
So weird that they're calling it iPhone 5, I really wasn't expecting that.
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iPhone 5 still carries a lot of weight in the public consciousness, because of all the hype before the 4S that never happened. People want to see the phone they never got.

Also sounds quite good, I imagine it will be the last of the numbers. iPhone 6 doesn't sound that good :)
 
Gaaraz said:
It always astounds me how excited people get by these things, especially considering we pretty much already know all of the important details about the new phone.
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I think its still remnants of all the crazyness that happened around the time of the iPhone 2G launch, the "Jesus" phone, it just made everything else look like shite.

I agree with you though, each year that goes by I get less and less excited about the announcements and phones themselves, they are all the same and do the same now to some degree.
 
Colored metal confirmed maybe? From Chinese journalist who documented infiltration of iPhone 5 production at Foxxcon:

Our line is being assigned to use masking tapes and plastic stoppers to cover up the earphone jack and the connector ports of the back plate in order to prevent the paint from being sprayed onto it on the next process.
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http://micgadget.com/29723/the-unde...-new-iphone-5-is-made-inside-foxconn-factory/

Leaks could have come from earlier in the production line... That'd be a cool surprise but I'm not counting on it.
 
The only announcements that will excite me are a micro USB connection, and Google Now integration.

/realises what he just said

OR, Apple's App Store on Samsung Galaxy S3. :D
 
ayeorkean said:
If the leaks are right, I will be disappointed at the lack of effort in the iPhone redesign.
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I will probably eat the shit up if Ive would just come on stage and explain it to step by step for half an hour.
i'd probably eat that man's shit as well
 
Zeth said:
Colored metal confirmed maybe? From Chinese journalist who documented infiltration of iPhone 5 production at Foxxcon:



http://micgadget.com/29723/the-unde...-new-iphone-5-is-made-inside-foxconn-factory/

Leaks could have come from earlier in the production line... That'd be a cool surprise but I'm not counting on it.
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If the iPhone has body color, I still expect charcoal (they will call it "slate"), it isn't sprayed on. It would be integral to the material or some sort of anodizing process (what ever the equiv is for steel since you don't anodize steel). The logo and stuff on the back is the likely candidate.
 
kinggroin said:
If great OS performance, and leading app support isn't enough, then features certainly won't be what push you back to an iPhone from a nexus.
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I'm more interested in hardware features over software at this point. Having used both ios and Android they both serve my purposes from an OS level except for built in turn by turn which is being rectified in ios6.
 
Required reading for people who whine about Apple stagnating
http://www.macworld.com/article/1151235/apple_rolls.html


They take something small, simple, and painstakingly well considered. They ruthlessly cut features to derive the absolute minimum core product they can start with. They polish those features to a shiny intensity. At an anticipated media event, Apple reveals this core product as its Next Big Thing, and explains—no, wait, it simply shows—how painstakingly thoughtful and well designed this core product is. The company releases the product for sale.

Then everyone goes back to Cupertino and rolls. As in, they start with a few tightly packed snowballs and then roll them in more snow to pick up mass until they’ve got a snowman. That’s how Apple builds its platforms. It’s a slow and steady process of continuous iterative improvement—so slow, in fact, that the process is easy to overlook if you’re observing it in real time. Only in hindsight is it obvious just how remarkable Apple’s platform development process is.

There’s never been one iteration of the click-wheel iPod platform that has completely blown away the previous one, and even the original model was derided by many critics as unimpressive. The iPod shows, too, how Apple’s iterative development process doesn’t just add, it adapts.

The iPhone is following the same pattern. In 2007 it debuted with no third-party apps, no 3G networking, and a maximum storage capacity of 8GB. One year later, Apple had doubled storage, added 3G and GPS, and opened the App Store. The year after that, Apple swapped in a faster processor, added a compass and an improved camera, and doubled storage again. The pattern repeats. We may never see an iPhone that utterly blows away the prior year’s, but we’ll soon have one that utterly blows away the original iPhone.
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Btw, when will it be possible to update the OS via the device and not through iTunes, or to download only updates for apps, not the whole app time after time? You thought with so much attention for perfection Jobs had these would've been the first things to go.
 
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