Ha, you don't like something so you have to throw around Steve Jobs name to make your opinion seem more valid. You have no idea what would or wouldn't have passed the "Steve Jobs sniff test". These all passed:
And they were all great. (except maybe for 'fatty") I still don't know what was so horrible about a "GOLD" iPod Mini. I mean... "GOLD" you gotta be kidding right? I still have mine. Super collectors item!
Edit: Also, the iBook was a work of genius. Flip-up keyboard for easy upgrade of RAM or "Airport" card (Note; the term "WiFi" hadn't even been invented yet at that time).
Problem is; you're just not looking at these things within their own context.
Ha, you don't like something so you have to throw around Steve Jobs name to make your opinion seem more valid. You have no idea what would or wouldn't have passed the "Steve Jobs sniff test". These all passed:
And they were all great. (except maybe for 'fatty") I still don't know what was so horrible about a "GOLD" iPod Mini. I mean... "GOLD" you gotta be kidding right? I still have mine. Super collectors item!
Edit: Also, the iBook was a work of genius. Flip-up keyboard for easy upgrade of RAM or "Airport" card (Note; the term "WiFi" hadn't even been invented yet at that time).
Problem is; you're just not looking at these things within their own context.
Just shows that not everyone has the same taste and what one person considers ugly another doesn't. But I guarantee you if any of the products above had been released on Tim Cook's watch there would have been plenty of complaints about ugly colors and "Steve wouldn't have" comments.
John Gruber has been annoying me lately but his latest podcast with Rene Ritchie was spot on. Apple doesn't change designs just for the sake of it. And this 'it's got to look different so everyone will know I have the latest and greatest' is so childish. As are the ones stating the obvious - that people don't want smaller screens they want smaller phones. Do these people really believe the home button and top and bottom bezels are still on the device because Apple is too lazy or doesn't have smart enoug engineers to do something better? Seriously?
People don't replace their phones every year and now phones are getting good enough that people can go 2-3 years without replacing. The only people that care about whether a phone looks radically different every year are tech writers and tech junkies.
This phone looks legit to me. I'll definitely be jumping on the yearly upgrade plan in September to get it (the SE was very tempting, but just couldn't downgrade screen size from 4.7).
I personally love the aesthetics of this new camera "bump," and I imagine that the apparently larger lens will improve low light pictures. FWIW, despite aesthetics being very important to me, I never understood the reaction against the camera bump on the 6/6s, largely because 1) physics, and 2) it doesn't look bad.
John Gruber has been annoying me lately but his latest podcast with Rene Ritchie was spot on. Apple doesn't change designs just for the sake of it. And this 'it's got to look different so everyone will know I have the latest and greatest' is so childish. As are the ones stating the obvious - that people don't want smaller screens they want smaller phones. Do these people really believe the home button and top and bottom bezels are still on the device because Apple is too lazy or doesn't have smart enoug engineers to do something better? Seriously?
People don't replace their phones every year and now phones are getting good enough that people can go 2-3 years without replacing. The only people that care about whether a phone looks radically different every year are tech writers and tech junkies.
For the love of God man, stop making sense! Next you'll be claiming that Apple won't go bust this week!
I sometimes wonder if we'll see the glass backed phone in September. Apple really thinks the iPhone 7 is going to sell like hot cakes. People keep saying next year (2017) because it'll be the 10th anniversary of the iPhone. How about this year (2016) because it's the 40th Apple anniversary (founded in 1976).
Ha, you don't like something so you have to throw around Steve Jobs name to make your opinion seem more valid. You have no idea what would or wouldn't have passed the "Steve Jobs sniff test". These all passed:
And they were all great. (except maybe for 'fatty") I still don't know what was so horrible about a "GOLD" iPod Mini. I mean... "GOLD" you gotta be kidding right? I still have mine. Super collectors item!
Edit: Also, the iBook was a work of genius. Flip-up keyboard for easy upgrade of RAM or "Airport" card (Note; the term "WiFi" hadn't even been invented yet at that time).
Problem is; you're just not looking at these things within their own context.
I am not sure... I did't find them great. I iMacs color upgrades were getting a little tired by the time these things came out and the iBook - I LOVED it for about a week and then it started to fade on me. The realization was that a fancy shape doesn't work with a rectangular screen. But it was innovative with some great ideas like the carry handle.
Nothing wrong with the iPod Mini - I still have a green one that works fine. It has provided the background soundtrack in a friend's store for many years, and still does.
Out of the first 10 posts in this thread, 7 are dismal, stupid trollishness like you find at MacRumors.
As the new product releases approach, this site is going to become unreadable.
— Unless we get rid of them somehow.
I was asked to join an Apple Forum site with no trolls ...
I prefer AI with all its trolls and a few verbose/recursive articles -- kinda' like you need some mold to make a Roquefort cheese.
As to MR ... A few years back, on April 1, they added a pirate/sailor reference to each posters name (like captain, bos'n ...). The next day they discontinued the practice. I remember because someone posted that he was saddened to leave his shipmate's behind ...
This is obviously not a real device or anything out of a factory. It is so sloppily put together. At least the purple one real or not, was at least professionally put together. Pretty sure this one is just a piece of wood spray painted silver
And they were all great. (except maybe for 'fatty") I still don't know what was so horrible about a "GOLD" iPod Mini. I mean... "GOLD" you gotta be kidding right? I still have mine. Super collectors item!
Edit: Also, the iBook was a work of genius. Flip-up keyboard for easy upgrade of RAM or "Airport" card (Note; the term "WiFi" hadn't even been invented yet at that time).
Problem is; you're just not looking at these things within their own context.
Just shows that not everyone has the same taste and what one person considers ugly another doesn't. But I guarantee you if any of the products above had been released on Tim Cook's watch there would have been plenty of complaints about ugly colors and "Steve wouldn't have" comments.
Well of course. That's what I meant by "own context". At the time these devices came out, they were "edgy" and revolutionary. Today they would be a joke. That's what 'time' does.
Edit: And the sad thing about the "Steve wouldn't have..." argument that get's trotted out for almost everything these days; is that "Steve" is now frozen in time. Everybody references Steve from 2011. Not the Steve that would 'be' today. Nobody knows where his 'head' would be today in 2016. Yet I can guarantee you he would not be in the 'same place' today as he was in 2011. If Frank Lloyd Wright were alive today, I also can guarantee he would not be designing Prairie Houses.
And they were all great. (except maybe for 'fatty") I still don't know what was so horrible about a "GOLD" iPod Mini. I mean... "GOLD" you gotta be kidding right? I still have mine. Super collectors item!
Edit: Also, the iBook was a work of genius. Flip-up keyboard for easy upgrade of RAM or "Airport" card (Note; the term "WiFi" hadn't even been invented yet at that time).
Problem is; you're just not looking at these things within their own context.
Just shows that not everyone has the same taste and what one person considers ugly another doesn't. But I guarantee you if any of the products above had been released on Tim Cook's watch there would have been plenty of complaints about ugly colors and "Steve wouldn't have" comments.
Well of course. That's what I meant by "own context". At the time these devices came out, they were "edgy" and revolutionary. Today they would be a joke. That's what 'time' does.
Edit: And the sad thing about the "Steve wouldn't have..." argument that get's trotted out for almost everything these days; is that "Steve" is now frozen in time. Everybody references Steve from 2011. Not the Steve that would 'be' today. Nobody knows where his 'head' would be today in 2016. Yet I can guarantee you he would not be in the 'same place' today as he was in 2011. If Frank Lloyd Wright were alive today, I also can guarantee he would not be designing Prairie Houses.
People don't replace their phones every year and now phones are getting good enough that people can go 2-3 years without replacing. The only people that care about whether a phone looks radically different every year are tech writers and tech junkies.
More like 4-5 years, unless they break it first. I know people who are still using the 4s. That's pretty hardcore, but I'd say the 5s and later, or certainly the 6 onwards, are 4-5 year phones for most people.
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As the new product releases approach, this site is going to become unreadable.
— Unless we get rid of them somehow.
People don't replace their phones every year and now phones are getting good enough that people can go 2-3 years without replacing. The only people that care about whether a phone looks radically different every year are tech writers and tech junkies.
I personally love the aesthetics of this new camera "bump," and I imagine that the apparently larger lens will improve low light pictures. FWIW, despite aesthetics being very important to me, I never understood the reaction against the camera bump on the 6/6s, largely because 1) physics, and 2) it doesn't look bad.
It's very Hal 2001... in fact I can even imagine Hal's voice replaced by Siri's in the attached image/quote.
The true dud is the fatty, in my book.
I prefer AI with all its trolls and a few verbose/recursive articles -- kinda' like you need some mold to make a Roquefort cheese.
As to MR ... A few years back, on April 1, they added a pirate/sailor reference to each posters name (like captain, bos'n ...). The next day they discontinued the practice. I remember because someone posted that he was saddened to leave his shipmate's behind ...
At least the purple one real or not, was at least professionally put together.
Pretty sure this one is just a piece of wood spray painted silver
At the time these devices came out, they were "edgy" and revolutionary. Today they would be a joke.
That's what 'time' does.
Edit: And the sad thing about the "Steve wouldn't have..." argument that get's trotted out for almost everything these days; is that "Steve" is now frozen in time. Everybody references Steve from 2011. Not the Steve that would 'be' today.
Nobody knows where his 'head' would be today in 2016. Yet I can guarantee you he would not be in the 'same place' today as he was in 2011.
If Frank Lloyd Wright were alive today, I also can guarantee he would not be designing Prairie Houses.
Maybe this:
So going by your logic, you will be buying the 7 right?