The manipulation present on that "projections" graph alone is nauseating.
You know it's a joke, right? ...it is a joke, isn't it? Oh god I hope so.
Exactly.
The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?
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Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?
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I needed to get another phone weeks before yesterday's iPhone announcement, so I went with the Galaxy Nexus, since it is contract-free and affordable. Attempting to select multiple emails, one-handed across the screen with my thumb, has lead me to drop the phone several times. Fortunately it is built like a cheap plastic tank. Dropping it is part of how I introduce it to people. "Remember when you used to drop your p…
From a physics perspective isn't a flying battery a good way to dissipate energy?
(That was the point)
Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?
#73I feel like yesterday's announcement has left a news vacuum that is trying to be filled. The announcement was not so amazing that the cheers are deafening; nor was it so disappointing or controversial that the opposite occurred. So, instead we're giggling at Jimmy Kimmel videos and long iPhone photoshops. Perhaps this is why Apple hasn't announced the iPad mini yet -- to make sure the iPhone 5 gets a bit of time in t…
I can't be the only one that noticed that during the unveiling the Apple home page continued to display the iPhone 4S and the "new iPhone." It wasn't until later in the day that the front page switched from showing me the Macbook Pro to the iPhone 5.
When I loaded HN all I saw was one story about a journalist going "undercover" in an iPhone factory. I didn't read it.
The hype surrounding each new Apple product is no mistake. Steve Jobs waited to die until the iPhone 4S was finished unveiling. If Apple wants to keep its market position, they will need to keep the hype coming in a carefully timed and orchestrated manner.
Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?
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Because Apple. The notion of a "perfect" screen size makes exactly as much sense as a perfect ring, glove, shirt or shoe size - none.
> The notion of a "perfect" screen size makes exactly as much sense as a perfect ring, glove, shirt or shoe size - none. Really? Because any device but has to be sold to hundrends of millions people, western, asian, african, men, women, adults, teenagers, etc, must accommodate their median hand size to fit comfortably well. So, the notion of a "perfect screen size" makes PERFECT sense: it's the one thats usable by th…
Compromise and perfection are two rather different words!
Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?
#75There's also the iPhone 10, the tallest iPhone yet! http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iPhone-10.jpe... And iPhone 20: http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-20.jpg Thumb actions might be a little hard there.
Both of those have potential as interfaces for music. http://www.stick.com/instruments/ After looking a bit at the above site, I'm also thinking that they have potential as interfaces for teledildonics. (This is both serious and a joke at the same time. This goes for the whole field.)
Speaking of music, that'd be a reasonable approximation of an http://www.eigenlabs.com/ - and it wouldn't need a separate laptop to act as speakers :P
Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?
#76I feel like yesterday's announcement has left a news vacuum that is trying to be filled. The announcement was not so amazing that the cheers are deafening; nor was it so disappointing or controversial that the opposite occurred. So, instead we're giggling at Jimmy Kimmel videos and long iPhone photoshops. Perhaps this is why Apple hasn't announced the iPad mini yet -- to make sure the iPhone 5 gets a bit of time in t…
I can't be the only one that noticed that during the unveiling the Apple home page continued to display the iPhone 4S and the "new iPhone." It wasn't until later in the day that the front page switched from showing me the Macbook Pro to the iPhone 5. When I loaded HN all I saw was one story about a journalist going "undercover" in an iPhone factory. I didn't read it. The hype surrounding each new Apple product is no…
Absolutely. Apple has primarily been a marketing company for the last decade. They should keep that in mind, for their own sake.
Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?
#77Is this a well written satire?
Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't be the only one that noticed that during the unveiling the Apple home page continued to display the iPhone 4S and the "new iPhone." It wasn't until later in the day that the front page switched from showing me the Macbook Pro to the iPhone 5. When I loaded HN all I saw was one story about a journalist going "undercover" in an iPhone factory. I didn't read it. The hype surrounding each new Apple product is no…
Absolutely. Apple has primarily been a marketing company for the last decade. They should keep that in mind, for their own sake.
Some would argue for a consumer oriented company selling expensive goods to be profitable, a marketing company is the only kind of company it can be.
Marketing means understanding your users, and if you don't understand your users how do you convince them to give you the money? Users are not like government officials or company executives where you can convince them by a slideshow or a list of bullet points about why the product is great; the product itself needs to be great because consumers are the ones using it.
And "great" depends on your user's perspective.
Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?
#79I hereby invoke Betteridge's Law.
Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The notion of a "perfect" screen size makes exactly as much sense as a perfect ring, glove, shirt or shoe size - none. Really? Because any device but has to be sold to hundrends of millions people, western, asian, african, men, women, adults, teenagers, etc, must accommodate their median hand size to fit comfortably well. So, the notion of a "perfect screen size" makes PERFECT sense: it's the one thats usable by th…
Like clockwork. Your schtick [1][2][3][4] is predictable. 1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512468 2: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4512581 3: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509876 4: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4475909
>Your schtick [1][2][3][4] is predictable.
Here's a novel idea: how about dealing with the argument I presented?