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Jun 5, 2017 | 01:58 PM

#15321

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mizouse

Person to person apple pay!!!

I've been waiting for this. Finally.

Jun 5, 2017 | 02:02 PM

#15322

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Originally Posted by Mizouse

Flashlight in control center for Apple Watch?

Now everyone can be like

Jun 5, 2017 | 02:10 PM

#15323

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Originally Posted by thoiboi

They should have kept that relationship...

apple map is still a POS

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.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mizouse

70 billion paid to developers since App Store launch.

with 16 million registered developers (as of today) that's only $4,375 per developer since 2008 or less than $500/year.

I'm sure some developers get way more than others, right? I don't know how that payout thing works

Jun 5, 2017 | 02:16 PM

#15324

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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

Jun 5, 2017 | 02:21 PM

#15325

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Yea I mostly use Apple Pay at the grocery store.

fuggin target/Walmart don't support AP

Jun 5, 2017 | 04:06 PM

#15326

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FFS could they please bring back "sort by app" for the Notification Center!

Jun 6, 2017 | 05:28 PM

#15327

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Signal bars are back! 4 bars instead of 5 thou.

Jun 6, 2017 | 06:14 PM

#15328

kurtatx

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I use the number thingie. And the names of the apps aren't under your dock?

Jun 6, 2017 | 06:22 PM

#15329

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No idea, I pulled the gif from a random site

Jun 6, 2017 | 06:43 PM

#15330

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kurtatx

I use the number thingie. And the names of the apps aren't under your dock?

iOS glitch?

Jun 6, 2017 | 07:41 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mizouse

70 billion paid to developers since App Store launch.

with 16 million registered developers (as of today) that's only $4,375 per developer since 2008 or less than $500/year.

How much of that went to Rovio?

Jun 6, 2017 | 08:47 PM

#15332

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mizouse

70 billion paid to developers since App Store launch.

with 16 million registered developers (as of today) that's only $4,375 per developer since 2008 or less than $500/year.

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.

Jun 6, 2017 | 11:34 PM

#15333

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jupitersolo

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.

iOS 11 will be the end of a lot of those apps. Apple is officially ending 32-bit App support on iOS 11.

Jun 7, 2017 | 03:13 PM

#15334

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Omg yes! FINALLY!

iOS 10

iOS 11

It it should be system wide thou, not just during videos.

Jun 7, 2017 | 03:18 PM

#15335

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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/

Jun 7, 2017 | 03:22 PM

#15336

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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.

Jun 7, 2017 | 04:13 PM

#15337

Jakes_tl

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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.

Jun 7, 2017 | 04:30 PM

#15338

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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.

Jun 7, 2017 | 05:24 PM

#15339

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kurtatx

iOS 11 will be the end of a lot of those apps. Apple is officially ending 32-bit App support on iOS 11.

If X-Baseball doesn't get updated to 64-bit I'm going to be pissed!

Jun 8, 2017 | 07:06 AM

#15340

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mizouse

Omg yes! FINALLY!

iOS 10

iOS 11

It it should be system wide thou, not just during videos.

That's a thing still?

Jun 25, 2017 | 11:52 AM

#15341

#1 STUNNA

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Jun 25, 2017 | 12:50 PM

#15342

AZuser

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Aren't you 4 days early?

Jun 25, 2017 | 04:44 PM

#15343

Mizouse

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Afaik June 29th 2007

Jun 29, 2017 | 11:23 AM

#15344

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Officially released 10 years ago today

Jun 29, 2017 | 11:39 AM

#15345

Whiskers

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Traded in my Nokia N95 for one.

Jun 29, 2017 | 11:54 AM

#15346

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I bought my refurbished 4GB model from Apple on 12/9/2008.

costed me $179.04 after tax.

Jun 29, 2017 | 11:07 PM

#15347

#1 STUNNA

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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

Jun 30, 2017 | 11:46 AM

#15348

Mizouse

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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

Jun 30, 2017 | 05:40 PM

#15349

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mizouse

Honestly I originally bought it because I wanted to feel special

Jul 3, 2017 | 09:28 AM

#15350

kurtatx

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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.

Jul 3, 2017 | 09:45 AM

#15351

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He may be wrong a lot, but he has got the best track record

Jul 3, 2017 | 09:50 AM

#15352

kurtatx

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mizouse

He may be wrong a lot, but he has got the best track record

He's useless this far in advance of a release. His track record is solid the day before release.

If he's right about no TouchID, Apple is making a big mistake.

Jul 3, 2017 | 01:28 PM

#15353

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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.

Jul 3, 2017 | 02:59 PM

#15354

Whiskers

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0 chance he's right

Jul 4, 2017 | 01:17 AM

#15355

Sarlacc

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Whiskers

Traded in my Nokia N95 for one.

I stood in line on release day and got one. I was so over having a piece of shit palm treo at that point in time. It was like a whole new world.

Jul 4, 2017 | 10:38 AM

#15356

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I waited over two yrs, for an iPhone. Wasn't going to switch to ATT for it.

Jul 22, 2017 | 02:19 PM

#15357

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From: DMV

What Is the iPhone? 10 Years In, Its Creators and Chroniclers Explain

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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?

[...]

Aug 21, 2017 | 06:59 PM

#15358

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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

Last edited by AZuser; Aug 21, 2017 at 07:02 PM.

Aug 23, 2017 | 08:01 AM

#15359

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Quote:

Originally Posted by AZuser

on Macbreak Weekly they were talking about this. It's probably going to be the 13th due to Labor Day.

I keep telling myself I'm going to wait this one out...but somehow I am going to be up a 2 AM

Aug 23, 2017 | 09:22 AM

#15360

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kurtatx

on Macbreak Weekly they were talking about this. It's probably going to be the 13th due to Labor Day.

But iPhone 7 event (Sept. 7, 2016) came 2 days after Labor Day on Sept. 5, and iPhone 6s event (Sept. 9, 2015) came 2 days after Labor Day on Sept. 7

We'll find out next week.