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Fuck me. I sold my stock @ 320 (bought it around 80) to buy Exxon which has only gone up slightly less than 50%.Fuck me.
Man I wish I understood the stock market better. Must be nice having unlimited money for betting on different stocks. The only thing I am good on is the office football pool and that only wins me a few hundred dollars a year.
So I apparently have only used 1.5 GB of data this billing plan. I have kept AT&T due to the unlimited data plan being grandfathered, but I probably don't need it really. I might use more with LTE but I can't see it being double in all likelihood.
I get 20% off plan+data from every carrier due to working for UT. Do I honestly have any reason to stick with AT&T? $10 a month for texts seems antiquated now that everyone else seems to be offering them for free?
I get 20% off plan+data from every carrier due to working for UT. Do I honestly have any reason to stick with AT&T? $10 a month for texts seems antiquated now that everyone else seems to be offering them for free?
michaeltraps
Member
Nope, nothing on my end. I ordered my phone at 3:30am on Friday morning and had a 9/21 delivery date on my preorder. It just changed to "shipping on" 9/21. I'm never going through Verizon again.
I've seen a few articles mention it but nothing from Apple directly.
bless you beautiful person
Victory Red
Member
Movement! My phone has departed Nashville, TN.
Damn, mine is still preparing for shipment, they usually ship FedEx to me so hoping I can still get lucky and have it here Thursday.
I ordered 12:10a on launch.
Ken Masters
Banned
Fuck me.
when I graduated high school in 2004 my father bought me X number of Apple stock as a graduation gift so I could basically do what I want with it
still haven't sold any of it
BuggyDClown
Member
lol. THats like how back when ATT first got rid of unlimited you could get it by switching to a 2G phone then upgrading.
I joined ATT when they didn't have Unlimited at the iPhone 4 launch. Activated a OG iPhone then upgraded to an iPhone 4 and got grandfathered in. Still keeping that unlimited I shouldn't even have
Ken Masters
Banned
Your father is a smart man.
Ah well, that's a bummer, but thanks for the response all the same.
Victory Red
Member
The way the sides are designed on this one the glass won't sit flush on the table so it should not pick up scratches like previous versions used to.
Even better! I just wanted to make sure my order went through, so the delivery date doesn't much matter as long as I see them properly charge me when they start charging orders.
Movement! My phone has departed Nashville, TN.
Wait what? I live in Nashville....I hope my phone is shipping from here! Where did you preorder yours from?
themadhatter444
Neo Member
lol. THats like how back when ATT first got rid of unlimited you could get it by switching to a 2G phone then upgrading.
I joined ATT when they didn't have Unlimited at the iPhone 4 launch. Activated a OG iPhone then upgraded to an iPhone 4 and got grandfathered in. Still keeping that unlimited I shouldn't even have
i'm hoping it's as easy as people say. gonna follow that thread and see if anyone got screwed.
So I just tried the new EarPods
man it was weird getting used to them, I wanted to put them in the other way (right to left ear) and then I wanted to fit them in the long way instead of the side haha.
They feel very sturdy and fit in smugly and are easy to take out and put in. The sound seems better, the big difference is how much clearer everything is. I can't really tell the difference in quality between them and the Sennheiser headset I use for gaming, but I'm not much of an audiophile
oh also the remote is much nicer
edit: sound basically doesnt leak at high volume, (tried a louder song and it did leak on max but thats like hurting your ears if you have it in) I like how they dont go far into the ear canal, it just kind of fits the shape of your ear. been using them for about an hour and theyre super comfortable
man it was weird getting used to them, I wanted to put them in the other way (right to left ear) and then I wanted to fit them in the long way instead of the side haha.
They feel very sturdy and fit in smugly and are easy to take out and put in. The sound seems better, the big difference is how much clearer everything is. I can't really tell the difference in quality between them and the Sennheiser headset I use for gaming, but I'm not much of an audiophile
oh also the remote is much nicer
edit: sound basically doesnt leak at high volume, (tried a louder song and it did leak on max but thats like hurting your ears if you have it in) I like how they dont go far into the ear canal, it just kind of fits the shape of your ear. been using them for about an hour and theyre super comfortable
Ordered from the Apple Store App which still says preparing for shipment. I was able to get the tracking no. using my phone no. as reference from the UPS page, thanks to the link/tip a few pages back.
I think Apple never confirmed any of the iPhone having Gorilla glass actually. There was some kind of confirmation in the Steves Jobs book IIRC.
I'm excited. I've actually been dealing with the terrible Apple earbuds since I can't seem to find a good set with a remote/mic that I like.
I know the book said that Apple had an agreement with Corning that the latter would never confirm publicly that Apple used GG.
Nothing warms my heart like the frantic shipment-tracking madness over at the macrumors forums (and elsewhere I'm sure).
Edit: also got a pair of EarPods today. They fit me pretty well (couldn't bear the old ones at all). Actually compare pretty favorably to my beloved Klipsch S4i that I normally use. Maybe a little weaker bass, but overall similar sound signature.
Edit: also got a pair of EarPods today. They fit me pretty well (couldn't bear the old ones at all). Actually compare pretty favorably to my beloved Klipsch S4i that I normally use. Maybe a little weaker bass, but overall similar sound signature.
LyleLanley
Banned
I could've sworn at one point it was confirmed.
CharminUltra
Member
My iPhone is still in HK
I finally talked to Verizon and I guess they are aware of the fact that people cannot check on the status of their orders. Pretty sure they've probably had tons of calls about it. If you ordered from Verizon and want to check your order, you can do so here:
https://preorder.verizonwireless.com/iconic/iconic/screens/IconicSearchInit.do
https://preorder.verizonwireless.com/iconic/iconic/screens/IconicSearchInit.do
LyleLanley
Banned
Interesting, thanks for that.
Slurpy2k20
Member
Unlike everyone else, Apple isn't insecure enough so that it needs to slather on the fact that they're using gorilla glass and use it in marketing, same with with specs. I remember a couple years after the iPhone came out, everyone was advertising in massively large text how they're using Gorilla Glass, and it wasn't till later that i found out that Apple was using it all along but didn't feel the need to obsessively market it as a bullet point. Its a means to an end, not a feature to cynically brag about. Just like cpu/gpu/clockspeed/RAM/etc.
CrunchinJelly
formerly cjelly
Seriously, why are you so damn defensive all the time?
LyleLanley
Banned
I find it quite funny.
Hidden in his aggression, he does bring up a good point. Over the years Apple has gone out of their way to make sure none of their deals with suppliers require cross-branding (notice how you never hear the Intel Inside chime during Mac ads), for one simple purpose - good or bad, they want Apple products to be their own. So if a competitor says "we use the same XYZ as the iPhone", it's completely irrelevant to most consumers as they have never heard of that component in the first place.
LyleLanley
Banned
It makes a lot of business sense if you have a product that consumers crave. You don't want them getting attached to "Gorilla Glass" or "Intel" or "AMD" or whatever, you just want them craving iPhone no matter what's inside of it.
If you're "Generic Phone Manufacturer ABC" it probably makes a lot of sense to plaster all over the box that you have all of those things so people know that the device itself is a quality product.
Souless_PJ
Banned
That's good to hear. I rock S4i as well normally so im glad these are similar. I probably wouldn't retire them but always good to have a backup and I'm glad that the people that never swap out their buds have a better option.
Gary, I love that you've gone from oh I think it's too expensive to upgrade my phone as I'm not fully eligible / not getting one at launch to camping out for 8+ hours. You know you've got dat Apple fever in your vains - it was inevitable
Wow really?
I have Klipsch S4i's. That's really good if true.
I'll probably still use my Klipsch S4i's though... white earbuds are a dead giveaway that you have an expensive iProduct (thieves).
CliqWriter
Member
BuggyDClown
Member
Strange. I remember at CES when Corning showed it off it had the same resistance strength. The improvement was that it was significantly thinner.
Regardless I never use a case, and my 4 and 4s never had a broken or obviously scratched screen or back.
Slurpy2k20
Member
Just installed iOS6 on my iPad. Loving the new maps, Siri, and tab syncing so far. Oh yeah, and can finally insert an image from within a mail message. About fucking time, and I'll be first to admit Apple is way late on this.