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Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone

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Re: Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone

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Next time somebody asks you why you prefer Apple products to competitors, show them this invite. Explains everything. So beautiful.

Then they might justifiably reply "So, you don't care about the product at all, and just care about the way the company presents itself?"

Re: Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone

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Wonder what they're going to announce in the iPhone 5. Better battery life and perhaps a better GPS is all I really want over my iPhone 4.

Improved camera would be nice.

In what way? It's already on par with most point and shoot cameras and better than many. Resolution is well beyond useful levels for a phone; I'm surprised Apple is chasing higher megapixel numbers when 99% of iPhone photos get cut-down for web use anyway.

Re: Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

To be fair, the GMaps icon always displays 1 Infinite Loop. Still, great catch.

And the clock icon never shows the correct time. It seems like the calendar app is a hack to get it to work right.

I used to own an iPhone 3G and was pretty mad that the calendar icon changed day to day but the weather icon always showed 23 degrees C, sunny. So very frustrating, especially in winter when it's -35 and windy.

I now run Android and have Beautiful Widgets showing me the correct weather. :)

Re: Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone

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Wonder what they're going to announce in the iPhone 5. Better battery life and perhaps a better GPS is all I really want over my iPhone 4.

I'm hoping for a more durable case. If Apple's design skills are so great then why is the phone so fragile? I'd prefer an esthetically pleasing phone that I didn't have to wrap in a rubber case that obscures my nice looking phone and makes the phone larger in my pocket.

Re: Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone

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post #31
post #29

Next time somebody asks you why you prefer Apple products to competitors, show them this invite. Explains everything. So beautiful.

Then they might justifiably reply "So, you don't care about the product at all, and just care about the way the company presents itself?"

Right, because the products Apple makes don't need designing... ?

Re: Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone

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wow, that's just evil. TELUS (phone company here) has been running ads in really heavy rotation pushing the tagline "there's never been a better time to buy an iphone 4", and stating "offer ends october 4th".

Same here (different country, different phone companies).

Everyone is obviously pushing hard to sell their iphone4-stock now, before Joe Sixpack gets told by the news-anchor to delay his purchase for the iphone5.

Re: Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone

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post #29

Next time somebody asks you why you prefer Apple products to competitors, show them this invite. Explains everything. So beautiful.

Then they might justifiably reply "So, you don't care about the product at all, and just care about the way the company presents itself?"

I'll never understand why people pay so much money for jeans with holes in them, when you could simply just rip the holes yourselves.

But I won't hesitate to pay a bit more for a quality Apple product.

Some things just don't make sense. :)

Re: Apple Announces Event on October 4th: Let's Talk iPhone

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Next time somebody asks you why you prefer Apple products to competitors, show them this invite. Explains everything. So beautiful.

Then they might justifiably reply "So, you don't care about the product at all, and just care about the way the company presents itself?"

It’s a reasonable question, however consider the following: If someone is late for a job interview and unkempt, do you question whether they will be on time for work and will have meticulous software development hygiene (by whatever standards you employ, e.g. tests, proper use of source control)?

It’s true that some unkempt people are very careful about their work, and some people who are late for an interview are on time for work. So I would personally probe further to make sure this is not a sign of a deeper lack of commitment.

Careful attention to detail in marketing materials doesn’t automatically mean careful attention to detail in product development. But you know, I doubt it’s a coïncidence that Apple's marketing materials are clean and simple, and they don’t play the “Intel Inside” sticker game, and they are restrained in the CrapWare they allow on their OS X machines, and so on and so forth.

So if you show me a busy, confused marketing item, I won’t automatically refuse to buy the product. But I will certainly probe to see if this is an anomaly or whther it is representative of their approach to product development.

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