I really like the theme idea. I had some of that on my 3G when I jail broke it. I would jailbreak my iphone 5, but on my 3G it just slowed it down so much.
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I really like the theme idea. I had some of that on my 3G when I jail broke it. I would jailbreak my iphone 5, but on my 3G it just slowed it down so much.
You are right about the iMac I'm pretty sure...although I was not interested in one so did not follow that rumor closely. I'm posting on my phone, so I'm not going to search the forums for the links, but I wanted the retina laptop and they were known well before launch.
Use the search feature. They were announced In June last year and the accurate rumors were released in February.
A JB won't slow down your phone. It's what you happen to install afterwords. If you're like a kid in a candy story and install every mod known to man on the thing, you're going to put a drag on performance (though I doubt with the power of the 5 that would be an issue either way). Themes just replace existing images with new images. No performance drag. Now if you have widgets on every screen you have, you may have some load time issues.
I'm running themes and a very sweet HTC lockscreen clock/weather widget. No drag at all on my 4S or my 4. I've also got Gridlock (let's you place icons where ever you like) Auxo, etc. No lag what-so-ever.
Ok cool thanks I may have to try it out. It may make me appreciate my iPhone 5 more.
Don't understand the point of the thread in relation to my purchasing choice.
Buy what works for you, not the flavor of the month. iPhone 5 works for me. So does JB. If apple doesn't ever release a new iPhone, it's fine by me. No product is perfect. I would love a SD card slot on iPhone. I could have gone to android but I'd rather use iOS for my phone (not tablet though). No need to stick to one company or brand. Mix and match.
Buy what works for you, not the flavor of the month. iPhone 5 works for me. So does JB. If apple doesn't ever release a new iPhone, it's fine by me. No product is perfect. I would love a SD card slot on iPhone. I could have gone to android but I'd rather use iOS for my phone (not tablet though). No need to stick to one company or brand. Mix and match.
I think its far too early to claim Apples innovative days are over. Their designers and engineers are working on new products that the public has no knowledge of. If they release a handful of new products that are duds, then it could be safe to say that, but to claim they aren't innovating, while we await new products isn't fair.
Jobs may be gone, but they still have the same talented team, with people like Jony Ive.
Jobs may be gone, but they still have the same talented team, with people like Jony Ive.
You were awaiting new products last time and they gave you a Macbook pro with a retina display and raised the price $300 and a phone that is .5" taller and didnt widen it and a smaller iPad to compete with the other guys.
Not to say they wont innovate but they havent really innovated anything for a while now.
I'll just chalk it up to a troll
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Thank you
But Irishman doesn't "remember reading about it" so how could those leaks exists!?
PS. Just picked up a rMBP
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I like Ive, but I fear he's more about form than function. He has the form part down most of the time, but the function side of things can be worrisome. I recently picked up a rMBP and started exploring the MBP forums and it's alarming how serious of an issue Image Retention is, among other concerns.
Likewise, my previous MBA had creaking issues (I've exchanged it 3 times... all of them were the same so I just accepted it). I also have a Thunderbolt Display and sometimes I truly wish there was something as simple as a power button on it because it doesn't always recognize my laptop when I connect them (also a known issue with many people if you visit the Apple Community forums).
I'm excited that Ive has the reigns of both the design and user-interface departments at Apple now. I think it's the right move by Cook as Forestall just wasn't cutting it the last few years. Though, again, I fear Ive will be focused more on the aesthetics (like getting rid of skeuomorphism) instead of really adding function to the interface/OS. Time will tell.
I look forward to iOS 7.
But Irishman doesn't "remember reading about it" so how could those leaks exists!?
PS. Just picked up a rMBP
that deal is just too good to pass up. I went back to the nexus 4 haha.
Posts like this are what frustrate me about these forums....
I don't really feel like going into why all of what you said is completely invalid for the upteenth time....but here it goes, the SparkNotes version:
(1) MacBook Pro with the highest resolution laptop display ever. Pretty awesome. Also the engineering of getting the laptop that thin and packing that much power into it was also quite the feat. Things like unorthodox fan designs and such - pricing is pricing, you buy Apple you expect a premium AND that price has since come down (and will likely continue to as the older Pros are phased out).
(2) A .5" is substantial when we're talking about smaller electronics - heck the Galaxy S and Notes have increased at similar rates....yet they are hailed as innovations. And for the love of all that is holy....they changed the aspect ratio to match EVERY OTHER FLAGSHIP SMARTPHONE which are ALL 16:9....this isn't some crazy, abnormally long and skinny phone Apple created....look at the Droid Razr M....SAME. DAMN. DIMENSIONS. I get so sick of people using the whole "its not wider just taller" line....if you want a bigger phone, go buy a bigger phone - pretending Apple did something weird by sizing the phone the way they did is absurd.
(3) *sigh* That smaller iPad is still an iPad and has been a tremendous hit. Those of us who wanted something smaller than the 9.7" iPad didn't want an Android tablet....we wanted an iPad and everything that comes with that.
(4) And the best quote of the day.....most people on these forums wouldn't know what the word innovation meant if Noah Webster was raised from the dead and crammed his entire dictionary down their throats....NFC and wireless charging in their current state aren't innovations either. Flipping over my phone to silence it isn't an innovation either. To a certain degree, the larger screens of the Note and others like it COULD be seen as innovation in that they are creating a market that had previously never existed.....however innovation needs to disrupt the natural order....it should be both massively popular AND change the way we do things.....I hate to break this to you....but there hasn't really been ANY true innovation from ANYONE in quite some time.....because if there was innovation EVERY year, it would cease to be innovation - as at its very core is the idea of something completely revolutionary and unexpected.
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I kind of agree with the OP's OP.
I would never have left my iPhone behind if Apple had just continued pushing the envelope with their mobile OS. It took them almost 3 years to come up with their Do not disturb feature which has always existed on BB. Actually, it took Android JB to come up with this too.
It really seemed that they were more interested in polishing an old saddle for a horse that was old vs creating new technology that could be used in modern vehicles.
Panoramic photo, Do not disturb, copy paste. Still there is no better way to customize the desktop other than stuffing apps into other little squares that hover on your screen. Dare I even mention maps? There was absolutely no need for that lagging behind. Oh and although a larger screen is not everyone's cup of tea, I am sure that with Apple's money, they could have tried a pilot project to test the waters.
If you don't agree with my opinion, that is fine, but do note that Apple Fired it's iOS heads and have put new blood into the fold.
Hopefully they will do better for us.
I would never have left my iPhone behind if Apple had just continued pushing the envelope with their mobile OS. It took them almost 3 years to come up with their Do not disturb feature which has always existed on BB. Actually, it took Android JB to come up with this too.
It really seemed that they were more interested in polishing an old saddle for a horse that was old vs creating new technology that could be used in modern vehicles.
Panoramic photo, Do not disturb, copy paste. Still there is no better way to customize the desktop other than stuffing apps into other little squares that hover on your screen. Dare I even mention maps? There was absolutely no need for that lagging behind. Oh and although a larger screen is not everyone's cup of tea, I am sure that with Apple's money, they could have tried a pilot project to test the waters.
If you don't agree with my opinion, that is fine, but do note that Apple Fired it's iOS heads and have put new blood into the fold.
Hopefully they will do better for us.
The Note II is essentially a giant Galaxy SIII with a stylus. I personally fail to see how this is "ahead of the curve". Also, i see a Note II once in a while in the wild and "wow that is a cool looking phone" is not what comes to mind i assure you. Instead my thoughts are more this...
To each their own of course.
So you are basically saying that you have never used the Note II or care not to even try the tech that makes it a nice phone . . . and when confronted with the chance to do so you just remember that age old adage . . . "My _______ is better than your ______ because I say so?
Got it.
Cute. But you haven't got anything. I never said nor am i saying anything of the sort.
I've used the Tab 1, 2, Note, Note II, S2, S3. Also GNex, NX4, NX7 and NX10 amongst others. So no, i'm not the ignorant biased fanboy you want me to be.
The Note II (like many other flagships) is a nice phone with its own USP but is not "ahead of the curve", its essentially a bigger GSIII with S-Pen support.
Alright I have just jailbroken my iphone 5 and I think these are some simple things Apple can do to make the iphone more up to date.
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These are just a couple of widgets that look completely different from android and look like something Apple could do. The weather one is just the weather from the notification center. Also if you can see the little envelope by the battery percentage could be a simple touch Apple could make. I also have a text message icon that comes up as well. I did not change the theme for the iphone, but I think Apple could update that as well. These are just a several easy updates Apple could make to really bring the iphone back. There are still a lot of other things I would like to see, but I thought I would just give an example.
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These are just a couple of widgets that look completely different from android and look like something Apple could do. The weather one is just the weather from the notification center. Also if you can see the little envelope by the battery percentage could be a simple touch Apple could make. I also have a text message icon that comes up as well. I did not change the theme for the iphone, but I think Apple could update that as well. These are just a several easy updates Apple could make to really bring the iphone back. There are still a lot of other things I would like to see, but I thought I would just give an example.
Sorry guys for some reason tapatalk app will not let me upload pictures.
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i agree, i truly believe iOS 7 is going to give us what we have been waiting for for a long time.. im pretty hyped and positive about iOS 7 and what it will bring... im pretty sure Apple knows that if they dont change around even the homescreen looks or UI.. its gameover for them
Actually you can do a much more advanced "do not disturb" since android came out using app. It is not like IOS where everything is locked down and you have to wait for apple to move IOS forward.
Until apple loosen the noose on IOS, it will always be behind. So much of the innovations/capabilities/functionalities on Android are done by 3rd party developers which can make full use of the underlying services of android (unlike IOS where only limited amount capabilities are exposed to developers)
I cant help but think that Apple has DEFITNETLY acknowledged their next update to iOS has to be a big one or people will start to drop them...i read a article where Siri in iOS 7 will be heavily upgraded and will do alot of "cool new things"
I'm all for a huge upgrade but I just don't know what heavy upgrades they will really do. They aren't going to change the UI because the aren't going to want to alienate current users. I see that a lot of people want to be able to change default apps and I can tell you that isn't going to happen. That is their way of controlling the experience and trying to make it a great one.
We will have to wait and see. I would love to see something really cool done with Siri. I could see them adding more features to that.