Re: Get your money ready sheep

its a sorry state of affairs that a not insignificant number of apple fans will go out queue up for days in front of a select few shops, even if they have a need for the item or not just to get their hands on one.....

A relative of mine cant help himself. He owns a iPhone 5, 4s and 4, iPad, iPad2 and a new iPad (3) and will go and get the ipod maxi / ipad mini. He has a apple tv box, macbook air, and whatever the fuck the desktop thing is he has.

he take great delight that as soon as he buys something on iTunes it auto syncs across everything.....and the sad git also has a apple logo tattoo....

he is beyond help.... or reason...

Re: Get your money ready sheep

But that's an extreme case. They're just lost people looking for a sort of religion.

Personally I'm just a user, I buy what I like and don't let any marketing sway me and reviews these days are pretty rubbish too. Overlooking huge flaws.

Whatever happened to banded ratings?

Performance

Design

Battery Life

Software

etc.

Re: Get your money ready sheep

His name is not Charles Arthur is it?

(guardian tech blog joke, sorry!).

Re: Get your money ready sheep

No member of Apple staff has ever offered to extract a load from me- do I need a special password?

Re: Get your money ready sheep

Do you remember the old Star Trek: The Next Generation episode called "The Game?"

It's starting to cut a little too close to reality now. And we have no Wesley Crusher to save us.

Re: Get your money ready sheep

So, what you're saying is he has a lot more money than you, he can buy what he wants and can probably spell better than you? Hmmm, he must be an arsehole... Does he do grammar as well?

Anyway, get back to your darkened room and your Linux box, just call your mum when you're ready for tea, I'm sure she'll hear you from the basement...

An Apple tattoo??

If I could, I'd change the official Apple logo, just to make him cry like a baby. Even Apple shareholders would agree the cost was worth it.

Re: Get your money ready sheep

"he is beyond help.... or reason..."

actually, Its gets worse....

At the beginning of the year when their was the massive interest in the Raspberry Pi, and there was a massive waiting list for one... he, like the rest of us was up at stupid o’clock trying to get one of the first batch....

to date, his has been out of the box for one day, was on the phone to me for half the day while he was trying to get an OS on it..

I bet if he was walking down the road and could hear people behind a fence chanting 14, 14 ,14 ,14.... he would look through a gap, get poked in the eye while they all started chanting 15, 15,15, then join the group of people all looking up to see what the others are looking at., then goes home and buys a book of ebay that contains information on how to make a fortune on ebay......

@turd pic. apple knows as well as us how it shits all over its loyal customers in terms of price, specs etc but I never expected them to show us so literally. A great spot!

There'd better be an app for that

An app that plays your favourite tune and times the vibrations to the beat of that tune.

Re: There'd better be an app for that

There is:

http://www.ohmibod.com/app/

Obviously requires a little bit of external "hardware". Ahem.

Re: Odd design...

Is that what you use to give someone a stevejob?

Re: Oh FFS

Get the Nexus 7... There is no way Apple will make a comparable device for that money. They're famous for their huge margins, and far too proud to be seen to mix it up with the great unwashed low margin tablets.

Re: Oh FFS

"There is no way Apple will make a comparable device for that money"

wanna bet?

http://www.iamconcise.com/main/the-reason-for-the-ipad-mini.html

Re: Oh FFS

wanna bet?

You really think Apple will release a *new* 7" iPad mini for less than the current gen 4" iPod Touch which starts at $299?

Re: Oh FFS

Yes, because they're fundamentally different devices.

They may do exactly the same thing but no one would buy a 7" tablet to have portable access to their music.

And they will def sell it cheaper then the top end iPod, the punter chooses whether size is that important, and if so pays accordingly.

(I'm pretty sure, though I haven't rechecked this recently, that the top end nano's were more expensive then the entry level touch's for the same reason)

Re: Oh FFS

Well, I'm not holding my breath on it. We'll find out soon enough and one of us will owe a virtual beer to the other ;)

Cheers

Re: Oh FFS

I want those down votes expunged from the record after the price and spec are announced ok? :-P

Oh, and to the OP... hold back on the N7, looks like a 32gig is in the wings at 16gig price.

Re: Oh FFS

Just seen the 32GB N7 story elsewhere. Wont be buying until December either way anyway, "just in case" something spectacular and as yet unannounced appears last minute.

I think ultimately we need an iPad mini to keep the wife happy and a N7 to keep me happy. Although since i've now got a Galaxy Note II with a 5.5" screen perhaps a 7 inch tablet is a pointless investment for me lol

Not to rub it in, but the Mini starts at $329 for 16GB

32GB @$429... someone owes this AC a virtual beer

:P

Re: How about...

And besides, isn't the correct noun 'a gaggle of helpful live bloggers'?

Re: How about...

I believe the correct collective noun is 'flock'.

Re: How about...

Hm, lemme see, it's a slime of lawyers, a lemming of journalists, an inertia of civil servants, a brothel of politicians, a /dev/null of bloggers, a vapid of actresses, a buggery of pop singers, ...

Re: iPod Classic

Archos do one with a 500GB HDD, and since a firmware update it seems to behave itself with very large libraries... my friend has one exclusively for music (though it has a 4.8" screen) and before the update it misbehaved (seems Archos must have expected people to have it half full of movies instead of a gazillion audio tracks), it seems happier now but testing hasn't been exhaustive.

That said, for about the same money, you could get a collection of microSD cards and, for example, a Sansa Clip or two. Obviously no good if you must have 500GB of music on random shuffle, but an option.

Re: iPod Classic

Well at the way things are going it won't be long before micro SD's exceed that... Not that you'll be looking at the fruity firm for that solution though...

Re: Show stealing

The fact that you're still sending letters to Santa tells us all we need to know.

Re: Show stealing

What are you trying to say, he's not real?

Re: Is this a hoax?

Yes, it's real. It's being reported by people like Jim Dalrymple, who is among Apple's most favoured bloggers and often gets pre-release access.

Re: Repeat After Me

"I don't give a shit" != "Nobody gives a shit"

Re: Repeat After Me

"I don't give a shit" != "Nobody gives a shit"

Let me re-phrase that; Nobody who anyone gives a shit about gives a shit.

Re: Repeat After Me

For someone who doesn't care I'm glad you took the time to comment on this article you attention seeker