the new iPhone

Man not to happy about the shape. Was really hoping for a contoured back, I'm not a fan of this brick shape shit! It looks cheap and feels cheap when shot is all boxy IMO. But nether the less I will be getting one because the old 3G is a little tired and slow as dirt compared to the 4s. I hope they don't want to fuck my old 92$ unlimited plan up.
 
YLWFVR said:
How do you actually unlock the phone?
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With the unlock code , insert a different sim card of a different carrier. It will promt you for the code. If it is entered correctly, it will say " unlock successful ".

Now , i use my unlocked phones on my tmobile plan to leverage/blackmail them. They recently tried to change my 20 a month 5 gb data plan to a 45 a month plan. I kept getting " im sorry sir there is nothing we can do " . i just have to hint about taking my unlocked phones to at&t or any other sim based carrier and very quickly they get customer retention on the line . Magically they are able to switch everything back to the way it was before they screwed up. EVERYBODY on tmobile and at&t needs to unlock his or her phone. You get more money when you sell it and it gives you more freedom/leverage with your carrier.
 
Looks like the internet wasn't overly kind to Apple. More of a Meh response to the 5's features and benchmarks. If Apple doesn't come out with a 6 that makes people go "WOW" they just might be headed back to obscurity. The iPhone is 70% of Apple's revenue. That's a big chunk of cash that they stand to lose if they don't get their act together. Perhaps they should focus more on innovation and less on lawsuits.

The moment finally dawned yesterday when Apple announced the iPhone 5, a taller, thinner, faster iteration described as more “evolution” than innovation. There were no tantalizing surprises, thanks partly to being one of the “leakiest” launches in Apple’s mobile history. What was the general reaction? Some applause, then a shrug.
Several writers compared the phone to a reliable, but boring car, with references made to the Mercedes, Toyota Corolla and Toyota Prius. Bloggers and web commenters were the most scathing, while mainstream press and analysts agreed Apple would reign over the Christmas period, and play catch-up with Android handsets made by Samsung and HTC afterwards. A reminder of the phone’s main specs: a glass and aluminum casing, 4-inch Retina display, a better camera, 4G LTE capability, iOS 6, and a fast new A6 chip. It’s also thinner, and lighter than the iPhone 4S.


Here’s a roundup of some of the media and expert reaction to Apple’s latest iPhone:
Media
- Mat Honan’s commentary in Wired was cited by several other outlets because his headline summed up others’ reaction so well: “The iPhone 5 is Completely Amazing and Utterly Boring.” It’s a weird paradox, he wrote. “The iPhone 5 can simultaneously be the best phone on the market and really, really boring.” But that’s not necessarily bad – it’s just the march of technology. “Revolution becomes evolution,” says Honan, who added that Apple will shake things up in other ways like home entertainment.
- Kyle McInnes at BlackBerryCool.com said Apple’s management had tried its hardest to maintain Steve Jobs’ reality distortion field — perhaps a little to hard. Among his amusing list of five questionable quotes made by Apple CEO Tim Cook and Phil Schiller during the keynote address, were Cook saying, “Today we’re taking it to the next level. Making a huge leap,” and “It’s the world’s thinnest smartphone.”
- Forbes contributor Erik Kain said Apple was playing it safe. “The general consensus after today’s iPhone 5 event can be best summed up by the word ‘meh,’” he wrote. “However classy looking the iPhone 5 may be, it won’t turn heads like it once did.”
- Roger Cheng of CNET said the iPhone 5 would be “king” for the holidays but whether consumers would be talking about the phone in a few months time was “still up in the air.” Times have changed, he added. When Apple debuted the iPhone 4 in 2010, Android was a whisper and Nokia and Research in Motion were beginning their declines. Today “Android is pervasive, and Samsung now has a significant lead in the smartphone business with a franchise… Rivals have caught up.”
- MarketWatch agreed there were no new surprises, and that the new iPhone “now almost matches some of the latest Android phones, with a larger 4-inch screen, which had been widely expected… Almost every detail had been whispered about in the weeks leading up to the launch, leaving few surprises, or any kind of a ‘one more thing’ that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, known for his penchant for secrecy, would occasionally produce.”
- BloombergBusinessweek was more forgiving, pointing out that “while other manufacturers enumerate the sheer number of features their phones have, Apple exercised restraint.” The outlet also got an interview with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, who said he hoped the new phone would take better photos than those he captures with his Samsung Galaxy S3. People “always say the Galaxy S3, or even the Motorola Razr, pictures look better,” he said.
Analysts and Experts
- Carl Howe, an analyst at Boston-based Yankee Group, was quoted by BloombergBusinessweek as saying that the iPhone 5 would be the “best-selling consumer electronics device of all time, bar none.”
- IDC analyst Francisco Jeronimo said by email that Apple “does not need to launch disruptive devices every single year,” and knows it doesn’t have to pack “the handset with features that consumers don’t use or don’t understand.” Still, this iPhone “does not come with any unique service or hardware features that are not available on the high-end Android devices” and it “will not be able to surpass Android volumes.”
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As for investors, Apple’s shares closed up by a modest 1.4% to $669.79 in New York yesterday, and they’re up another $5, or 0.8%, in pre-market trading this morning.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyol...then-a-shrug-world-reacts-to-apples-iphone-5/
 
A huge moron I know that's very impressed with himself and his giant Drywall Taj Mahal couldn't stop tripping all over himself saying he was going to short Apple at $415 and make a killing. This was in between soliloquies about how Android had finally killed Apple with each new successive wonderphone. Some people just can't get past their complete inability to rationally assess Apple's past successes and future prospects.

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DBK said:
A huge moron I know that's very impressed with himself and his giant Drywall Taj Mahal couldn't stop tripping all over himself saying he was going to short Apple at $415 and make a killing. This was in between soliloquies about how Android had finally killed Apple with each new successive wonderphone. Some people just can't get past their complete inability to rationally assess Apple's past successes and future prospects.

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To be fair, Apple always builds up stock price then drops after the release of the product. So he could still make money on the deal. As for the semantics about Android, well, they currently do sell more than Apple, but either way, the iPhone 5 is an Android and Android is an iPhone 5.
 
jsxtreme said:
And that's what everyone was saying about the iphone 4. And then the 4s. In the first quarter of this year they sold 37 million phones.

Yeah, real obscure.


http://www.statista.com/statistics/12743/worldwide-apple-iphone-sales-since-3rd-quarter-2007/
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You think GM lost overnight or over time? Look at market share right now.

Here are IDC’s figures for worldwide smartphone unit sales and market share
in the second quarter of 2012, by operating system.

— Android (Google Inc.) — 104.8 million units, 68.1 percent share (46.9
percent a year earlier)

— iOS (Apple Inc.’s iPhone) — 26.0 million units, 16.9 percent share (18.8
percent a year earlier)

— BlackBerry (Research in Motion Ltd.) — 7.4 million units, 4.8 percent share
(11.5 percent a year earlier)

— Symbian (mostly used by Nokia Corp.) — 6.8 million units, 4.4 percent share
(16.9 percent a year earlier)

— Windows (Microsoft Corp.) — 5.4 million units, 3.5 percent share (2.3
percent a year earlier)

— Linux — 3.5 million units, 2.3 percent share (3.0 percent a year
earlier)

— Others — 0.1 million units, 0.1 percent share (0.5 percent a year
earlier)
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If you want to talk market share by company, then Apple lost big time this past year. Down to just under 7% of the market while Samsung is up to almost 21%.

I'm not saying Apple is dead or anything close to that. What I am saying is they are starting to lose their lustor and the 5 isn't helping any.
 
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To be fair, Apple always builds up stock price then drops after the release of the product. So he could still make money on the deal.
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You're kidding right? You think Apple is going to drop 60% in a year to cover the price rise and the fact the short has to eat a $2.65 quarterly dividend?

Of all the horrible investment ideas in history, shorting a company because you have irrational butt hurt over the former CEO just before it goes on a run to become the most valuable company in the history of mankind definitely has to be one of the worst.
 
DBK said:
You're kidding right? You think Apple is going to drop 60% in a year to cover the price rise and the fact the short has to eat a $2.65 quarterly dividend?

Of all the horrible investment ideas in history, shorting a company because you have irrational butt hurt over the former CEO just before it goes on a run to become the most valuable company in the history of mankind definitely has to be one of the worst.
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x2.
 
DBK said:
You're kidding right? You think Apple is going to drop 60% in a year to cover the price rise and the fact the short has to eat a $2.65 quarterly dividend?

Of all the horrible investment ideas in history, shorting a company because you have irrational butt hurt over the former CEO just before it goes on a run to become the most valuable company in the history of mankind definitely has to be one of the worst.
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I didn't say it was overly feasible. Just that Apple's stock does drop after a release. I didn't read the dollar amount you posted. I thought he shorted it like 10 or 20 below. Which would still be a decent drop, but more beleivable.
 
stalked_R/T said:
I didn't say it was overly feasible. Just that Apple's stock does drop after a release. I didn't read the dollar amount you posted. I thought he shorted it like 10 or 20 below. Which would still be a decent drop, but more beleivable.
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It drops after a release slightly then skyrockets after they release the sales numbers.
 
Exactly. It's the pattern I was talking about. If he shorted it and it dropped enough to cover the short, he's in the money as long as it happens before the jump from sales numbers.
 
Ahhh I see what you are saying. I'd still hold Apple at this point but thats just me, its like Gold it just keeps going LOL
 
MOTHER FUCKER! Im so pissed right now. Ive been waiting for years to upgrade my shitty whackberry pile of fuck. The S3 came out and Mike (347Convert) got one. Keeps showing me these awesome features that are not only useful, but really cool and innovative. Ive been patiently waiting for the "Almighty S3 killer, iPhone 5" to drop. OH SNAP!! APPLE IS GONNA DO SOME CRAZY SHIT ON THE 5!!!!! Rumors of holographic technology, all new interface and wicked slick OS, shit that will blow our minds. What do they release?!?!?

A played out iPhone 4s that looks dumb as fuck because its longer, but not wider. Oh..and it has a little faster processor too. Fuck off Apple. I can hook a PS3 controller to a S3 and play all sorts of console video games. The S3 has motion detection, so it knows when I'm putting the phone to my ear, that I want to talk and it automatically answers for me. What did Apple do for their hot new product? Add a few ugly inches? I've been waiting for the iPhone 5. Excited for its arrival. Couldn't wait to get rid of my shit phone and get one.

I'm so disappointed as of right now.
 
Again, I don't really know what people could expect. I'm no Apple lover, but until a new tech is introduced, all of our smart phones are going to be fairly stagnant and the same. God knows Apple doesn't invent anything. They rip it off of others, then sue others for using their stolen designs.
 
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