Apple: iPhone News and Discussion Thread
06-05-2017, 01:58 PM
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Mizouse (06-05-2017)
06-05-2017, 02:10 PM
Totally... but understandable that they'd want to develop their own software.
Of the big 3 GPS apps...
Apple has the nicest UI but usually takes the longest or has sometimes messed up directions. It sucks that since Apple Maps is default and you can't choose another, any time you look up directions from Yelp, you need to copy + paste the address and open the app you want instead of just tapping "Directions"
Google has the best directions but the ugliest UI.
Waze is the most useful for long drives with the rerouting and police alerts.
I'm sure some developers get way more than others, right? I don't know how that payout thing works
apple map is still a POSOf the big 3 GPS apps...
Apple has the nicest UI but usually takes the longest or has sometimes messed up directions. It sucks that since Apple Maps is default and you can't choose another, any time you look up directions from Yelp, you need to copy + paste the address and open the app you want instead of just tapping "Directions"
Google has the best directions but the ugliest UI.
Waze is the most useful for long drives with the rerouting and police alerts.
I'm sure some developers get way more than others, right? I don't know how that payout thing works
06-05-2017, 02:16 PM
I am waiting for the day that they implement their own Samsung Pay. I'll never own another Samsung phone, but Samsung Pay works everywhere. I can never remember all the (very few) places that take Apple Pay, and at some terminals I can't even tell, putting away my wallet and pulling out my phone is too much work 
06-05-2017, 02:21 PM
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Yea I mostly use Apple Pay at the grocery store.
fuggin target/Walmart don't support AP
fuggin target/Walmart don't support AP
06-05-2017, 04:06 PM
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FFS could they please bring back "sort by app" for the Notification Center! 
06-06-2017, 05:28 PM
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Signal bars are back! 4 bars instead of 5 thou.
06-06-2017, 06:14 PM
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I use the number thingie. And the names of the apps aren't under your dock?
06-06-2017, 06:22 PM
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No idea, I pulled the gif from a random site
06-06-2017, 06:43 PM
06-06-2017, 07:41 PM
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06-06-2017, 08:47 PM
Pretty sure that 16 million developers are not active. Many apps from the first couple of tears, have no support and haven't worked in two or more iOS's.
06-06-2017, 11:34 PM
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06-07-2017, 03:13 PM
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Omg yes! FINALLY!
iOS 10
iOS 11
It it should be system wide thou, not just during videos.
iOS 10
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It it should be system wide thou, not just during videos.
06-07-2017, 03:18 PM
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OMG FINALLY AGAIN!!
iOS 11 Beta adds support for Core NFC, a new framework for reading Near Field Communications (NFC) tags and data in NFC Data Exchange Format.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/06/...han-apple-pay/
iOS 11 Beta adds support for Core NFC, a new framework for reading Near Field Communications (NFC) tags and data in NFC Data Exchange Format.
https://www.engadget.com/2017/06/06/...han-apple-pay/
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kurtatx (06-08-2017)
06-07-2017, 03:22 PM
Finally, indeed!
Still some common sense things and convenient features that I imagine could be easily implemented but haven't yet. But that's always been the case with the iPhone.
Still some common sense things and convenient features that I imagine could be easily implemented but haven't yet. But that's always been the case with the iPhone.
06-07-2017, 04:13 PM
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Question - did anyone have problems with the mic on their iPhone? My iPhone 6 just stopped working, the only way people can hear me is if I put the phone call on speakerphone but regular calls it's like my mic is on mute.
06-07-2017, 04:30 PM
Haven't experience any mic problems. Dust/lint? 
I had a small dust/lint ball in my 3.5mm jack once that prevent my headphones from working properly. Was getting sporadic sound from only 1 ear piece. Same with lightning port once.... phone sometimes wouldn't recognize when charge cable was plugged in. I gave the areas a blast with compressed air and fixed it.
I had a small dust/lint ball in my 3.5mm jack once that prevent my headphones from working properly. Was getting sporadic sound from only 1 ear piece. Same with lightning port once.... phone sometimes wouldn't recognize when charge cable was plugged in. I gave the areas a blast with compressed air and fixed it.
06-07-2017, 05:24 PM
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06-25-2017, 11:52 AM
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06-25-2017, 12:50 PM
Aren't you 4 days early?
06-25-2017, 04:44 PM
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Afaik June 29th 2007
06-29-2017, 11:23 AM
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Officially released 10 years ago today
06-29-2017, 11:39 AM
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Traded in my Nokia N95 for one.
06-29-2017, 11:54 AM
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I bought my refurbished 4GB model from Apple on 12/9/2008.
costed me $179.04 after tax.
costed me $179.04 after tax.
06-29-2017, 11:07 PM
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I waited until the 3G in 2008. It was the App Store that got me. I remember seeing the beatmaker app and thought it was really cool
06-30-2017, 11:46 AM
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Honestly I originally bought it because I wanted to feel special since not many people had it.
plus it was cool and I couldn't resist at that refurbished price
plus it was cool and I couldn't resist at that refurbished price
06-30-2017, 05:40 PM
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07-03-2017, 09:28 AM
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https://www.macrumors.com/2017/07/03...omit-touch-id/
This guy is so often wrong it's not even funny anymore.
This guy is so often wrong it's not even funny anymore.
07-03-2017, 09:45 AM
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He may be wrong a lot, but he has got the best track record 
07-03-2017, 09:50 AM
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07-03-2017, 01:28 PM
More retardation, if they are aiming for highest screen to body ratio. Once again they're trying to create the most marketable product and not the best one.
No one really gives a shit if they have the thinnest or best screen-body phone. Give me better battery life, and thin bezels but not to the point that I go from fat fingering to fat palming texts.
No one really gives a shit if they have the thinnest or best screen-body phone. Give me better battery life, and thin bezels but not to the point that I go from fat fingering to fat palming texts.
07-03-2017, 02:59 PM
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0 chance he's right
07-04-2017, 01:17 AM
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07-04-2017, 10:38 AM
I waited over two yrs, for an iPhone. Wasn't going to switch to ATT for it.
07-22-2017, 02:19 PM
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What Is the iPhone? 10 Years In, Its Creators and Chroniclers Explain
The iPhone is more than just a smartphone. Or an immensely profitable product. Or a hub for your apps. Or a beautiful piece of machinery, or the cause of suffering for miners and laborers the world over. The iPhone is the sum of all those parts and more; the zagging combination of ideas and imaginations, of design and labor, of progressions and exploitations.
What is the iPhone?
I did my best to begin to answer that question myself in the beginning of the week, but it remains a powerful and elusive question, despite its deceptive simplicity. I put that question to a host of people who may better help answer it with firsthand experience. I interviewed many of them over the course of researching my book about the one device—itself essentially an effort to answer the question. What do the iPhone's inventors, manufacturers, students, and historians make of the device that has transformed the world?
So, I asked them each one simple question: What is the iPhone?
[...]
The iPhone is more than just a smartphone. Or an immensely profitable product. Or a hub for your apps. Or a beautiful piece of machinery, or the cause of suffering for miners and laborers the world over. The iPhone is the sum of all those parts and more; the zagging combination of ideas and imaginations, of design and labor, of progressions and exploitations.
What is the iPhone?
I did my best to begin to answer that question myself in the beginning of the week, but it remains a powerful and elusive question, despite its deceptive simplicity. I put that question to a host of people who may better help answer it with firsthand experience. I interviewed many of them over the course of researching my book about the one device—itself essentially an effort to answer the question. What do the iPhone's inventors, manufacturers, students, and historians make of the device that has transformed the world?
So, I asked them each one simple question: What is the iPhone?
[...]
08-21-2017, 06:59 PM
1 more week until invites go out for Sept. 6 iPhone event?
iPhone 4 = Mon. June 7, 2010
iPhone 4S = Tues. Oct 4, 2011 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 27, 2011)
iPhone 5 = Wed. Sept 12, 2012 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 4, 2012)
iPhone 5S = Tues. Sept 10, 2013 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 3, 2013)
iPhone 6 / 6 plus = Tues. Sept 9, 2014 (invite announcement made on Thurs. Aug. 28, 2014)
iPhone 6s / 6s plus = Wed. Sept 9, 2015 (invite announcement made on Thurs. Aug 27, 2015)
iPhone 7 = Wed. Sept 7, 2016 (invite announcement made on Mon. Aug. 29, 2016)
iPhone 8 = Wed. Sept 6, 2017 ?
or 2 more weeks before invites goes out for event on Wed. Sept. 13, 2017
iPhone 4 = Mon. June 7, 2010
iPhone 4S = Tues. Oct 4, 2011 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 27, 2011)
iPhone 5 = Wed. Sept 12, 2012 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 4, 2012)
iPhone 5S = Tues. Sept 10, 2013 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 3, 2013)
iPhone 6 / 6 plus = Tues. Sept 9, 2014 (invite announcement made on Thurs. Aug. 28, 2014)
iPhone 6s / 6s plus = Wed. Sept 9, 2015 (invite announcement made on Thurs. Aug 27, 2015)
iPhone 7 = Wed. Sept 7, 2016 (invite announcement made on Mon. Aug. 29, 2016)
iPhone 8 = Wed. Sept 6, 2017 ?
or 2 more weeks before invites goes out for event on Wed. Sept. 13, 2017
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08-23-2017, 08:01 AM
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1 more week until invites go out for Sept. 6 iPhone event?
iPhone 4 = Mon. June 7, 2010
iPhone 4S = Tues. Oct 4, 2011 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 27, 2011)
iPhone 5 = Wed. Sept 12, 2012 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 4, 2012)
iPhone 5S = Tues. Sept 10, 2013 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 3, 2013)
iPhone 6 / 6 plus = Tues. Sept 9, 2014 (invite announcement made on Thurs. Aug. 28, 2014)
iPhone 6s / 6s plus = Wed. Sept 9, 2015 (invite announcement made on Thurs. Aug 27, 2015)
iPhone 7 = Wed. Sept 7, 2016 (invite announcement made on Mon. Aug. 29, 2016)
iPhone 8 = Wed. Sept 6, 2017 ?
or 2 more weeks before invites goes out for event on Wed. Sept. 13, 2017
iPhone 4 = Mon. June 7, 2010
iPhone 4S = Tues. Oct 4, 2011 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 27, 2011)
iPhone 5 = Wed. Sept 12, 2012 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 4, 2012)
iPhone 5S = Tues. Sept 10, 2013 (invite announcement made on Tues. Sept. 3, 2013)
iPhone 6 / 6 plus = Tues. Sept 9, 2014 (invite announcement made on Thurs. Aug. 28, 2014)
iPhone 6s / 6s plus = Wed. Sept 9, 2015 (invite announcement made on Thurs. Aug 27, 2015)
iPhone 7 = Wed. Sept 7, 2016 (invite announcement made on Mon. Aug. 29, 2016)
iPhone 8 = Wed. Sept 6, 2017 ?
or 2 more weeks before invites goes out for event on Wed. Sept. 13, 2017
I keep telling myself I'm going to wait this one out...but somehow I am going to be up a 2 AM
08-23-2017, 09:22 AM
We'll find out next week.