![]() In all honesty, I probably won't be playing music on it I've never been a big headphone user (though I thought Sennheiser 580 Precisions were pretty good). Also, I think a 4 with a free case (to avoid the left-hander Vulcan loss-of-signal pinch) has a reasonable heft to it, whereas a 5 feels a bit on the light side if some skilled pickpocket wants to relieve me of my 'phone without me knowing, feeling the shift in weight when it goes is actually a desirable feature. Not sure about the extra length on the 5 the 4 and its predecessors seem designed to fit perfectly in a shirt breast pocket or a jacket business card pocket, whereas the 5 would stick out. Looks: I'm used to the iPhone 2001-style black slab, and rather like it. Personally, I leapfrogged a bunch of technical 'phone generations by going from a Nokia 4110 to an iPhone 1, and then to my current iPhone 4 I probably won't get a 5-anything, but read on. Just watched the recording of the launch keynote. I don’t like those economics though.Īnyhow, thanks to Apple for making my Tuesday a little more interesting.įrom: Dave Walker (Sep 12 2013, at 06:54) I guess most people leapĬheerfully into some telco’s maw and get out of the store for Get a new unlocked HTC One on EBay for $500-ish. Marketing in Cupertino cares what I think.ĭamn,these are some expensive toys I mean, for those of us who don’t do it’s a phone! Whoīloody cares how many bits wide the CPU buses are? “Desktop-classĪrchitecture”?! Excuse me, your marketing armwaving is going to spill myĪnd the whole pitch feels totally un-Apple to me. Thingies that give you 40 bits of space, but in my experienceĪddress-extension tech has mostly been pretty stinky.Īnd the M7 co-processor looks like a terrific idea.īut that’s not what’s puzzling me. On the other hand, when you really need more than 4G of RAM those extraīits start to smell nice. I’m not gonna ramble on here about the trade-offs around memory bandwidthįloating-point implementations but I think most clued-in practitioners wouldĪgree with me that 64-bit is not necessarily faster. I’ve spent way more time at this particular coalface than most geeks.Īpple claims that it’ll be X times faster and IĬan believe that, but don’t see the connection. Waiting to hear what the jailbreak hackers say after they’ve had a look. Of a central dogma among Identigeeks and Securinerds that Mobile Devices Can’t The prints are in a magic vault guarded by angels withįlaming swords where nobody can ever ever see them. That you just never have to worry about things going off the rails.Īnd of course, there’s privacy paranoia. On the other hand, perhaps the fingerprint sensor is so cosmically wonderful Whatever, and the whatever gets compromised, I can revoke it and replace it. There areįirst thing is, if I’m authenticating myself with a password or YubiKey or This kind of thing is my day job I salute Apple for running a The 5c on the other hand pink & black is pure rock&roll and I guess it’sĪ little snazzier when wrapped in dead animal skin but still. The 5s is a titanic upthrust of restrained good taste you couldn’t ![]() And there was a lot of interesting stuff. Most of my coding bandwidth these days anyhow.Īnyhow, so I played closer attention to the announcement than I usuallyĭo. But writing Android sample apps and server back-end stuff is burning Plantation where you have to get Massa’s permission to share your Now, it will be a cold fucking day in hell before I write software on a Of investment into authentication/authorization on iOS, which is not nearlyĪs good as it should be. My first choice would probably be the X because I love the stylin’ and Iĭon’t actually need a high-end phone, the N7 is my workhorse.Īnd here’s the thing the Identity group at Google where I work puts a lot Nobody seems to want to sell me an unlocked HTC One or Samsung is still in my penalty box for their So I guess I must need a handset, only I haven’t been able to get any of ![]() Probably replace it with one of the new ones because, well, have you held one? ![]() Very happy every day, is a terrific world traveler, excels at email and WebĪnd The Economist and Ingress and Twitter and G+ and Kindle and MLB.tv. Internet because my 16G Nexus 7 with celullar data has been a champ, makes me Smartphone just an ancient account-free Nexus S that I use for ![]() Well, it’s like this: Since June, I actually Don’t they look great? I might get one (no, really). ![]()
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