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3 rang me up yesterday telling me they wanted to give me a special offer, and that the iphone 5s is a far superior phone to my current iphone 5.

Basically they want me off unlimited data..... I told them where to go.
 
skyscraper101 said:
They're horrid looking headphones. It'd do my head in having to wear something that chunky. More proof that I'm an old duffer clearly.
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No they are rubbish.... I'd rather have my £30 over ear sennheiser any day of the week.

I'm in the market for new dj headphones on payday though
 
I'll say one thing for the high end Beats products - they are beautifully made. Genuine air of quality about them. Almost Apple-esque if you like.

The sound though, is fine for Hip Hop and shit for everything else. All bottom end with a horrible scooped midrange.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
I'll say one thing for the high end Beats products - they are beautifully made. Genuine air of quality about them. Almost Apple-esque if you like.

The sound though, is fine for Hip Hop and shit for everything else. All bottom end with a horrible scooped midrange.
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I've gone through two pairs of their headphones so I'm not exactly thrilled with their quality. They do pump out an impressive amount of bass, but at the expense of quality.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
I'll say one thing for the high end Beats products - they are beautifully made. Genuine air of quality about them. Almost Apple-esque if you like.

The sound though, is fine for Hip Hop and shit for everything else. All bottom end with a horrible scooped midrange.
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Bear in mind though that the average market for headphones in that range is people thinking "these earbuds are rubbish when I'm listening to tunes on the way to work, I want something better". Fat bassy noise that can't be drowned out by the tube or chatter or traffic fits that bill. They're not studio jobs.

I have a pair of AKG K451s personally but I can see the point.
 
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I've gone through two pairs of their headphones so I'm not exactly thrilled with their quality. They do pump out an impressive amount of bass, but at the expense of quality.
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I got a set of the ear bud ones and was so disappointed with them. I preferred the earphones that came with my iPhone and that's saying something. Luckily my wife loves them so the significant cost wasn't a waste.
 
I like what they've done, I just wonder how old hardware will cope with it.

The health thing I find a bit uncomfortable though
 
I missed the OS X portion of the keynotes, and some of the iOS for consumers stuff, so I can't comment on that yet.

As a developer I am very happy. Especially as last years features almost made me want to finally learn Objective C, but it seems I still object to it a little too much to have bothered. Now I have a new programming language (Swift) to play with instead, which appears to be far more to my taste. And my favourite new addition to OS X for devs last year, scene kit, is in iOS 8.

Metal (Apples version of AMDs Mantle from what I can gather so far) is also music to my ears, and could also be used to add some theoretical technical weight to a couple of different rumours: An apple tv box that can play games. And a potential move to ARM processors for some laptops.
 
3rd Party Keyboards AT LAST. Hallelujah! and apparently a new swipe friendly "QuickType keyboard" which looks pretty similar to the Android one.

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http://www.engadget.com/2014/06/02/apple-ios8-third-party-keyboards-swiftkey/

This has literally been my single biggest gripe with iOS.
 
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My impressions:

  • Apple clearly are trying to step up their game
  • OS X given an iOS7 polish will piss off people but the functionality has some nice points, device awareness and screen swapping stuff is nice.
  • iOS has some huge things, Touch ID access means the digital wallet war is truly on (pay for your coffee using Passbook and your fingerprint), opening up iOS to allow dev teams to have apps speak with each other
  • iCloud drive - hah Apple finally fucking cracked and allowed everyone the file system they wanted!
  • New programming language? Well er ok...wow?
  • Like the photo solution and the iCloud pricing too, double the storage for a third of the price I pay Dropbox each month. Yes please!
Well anyway...loads of little bits of things...but the device handover/ aware stuff really was the bit that made me go 'This is the nice scifi stuff technology should do!'. Really think it's past time they made Siri the scary little Hal wannabe it clearly could be.
 
beesonthewhatnow said:
The integration of phone calls and texts into the mac looked rather cool. Find a phone number on a website and call it directly from your desktop, very nice.
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All this stuff was the main thing that jumped out for me, a seamless user experience between screens is really what it's about.
 
Kid_Eternity said:
All this stuff was the main thing that jumped out for me, a seamless user experience between screens is really what it's about.
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Yeah, they've understood what Microsoft massively failed to do - you don't need the same interface on all your devices, you just need the data to move seamlessly between them.
 
Terrible article. The guy doesn't have an apple device, isn't comparing like for like or know what Apple have changed. Beta testing and keyboards. Like they are even registering as interesting features.

What is really caught my eye are the hand off features where you can move from my iPhone to my iPad in a moment even take a call/text on my iPad if my phone is near by. I might upgrade to the iPhone 6. Those coupled with airdrop are making for some very cool integration features. If they did a touch screen iMac air, I'd be tempted. Oddly that space is where windows 8 has come to rule.

I suspect there is more to come with 8, can't list all the features or the new phone presentation would be a bit dull.
 
Yeah that article is a joke, its trying to make what I'd call "non features" (I.e. just little developments on already existing stuff) into a big deal that so and so copied so and so..... its all a bit primary school.

What about the functions that are being put into ios that aren't already in android...... the large email attachment system, the ability to answer calls on your other devices, the different ways in which to respond to your messages.
 
Sunray said:
What is really caught my eye are the hand off features where you can move from my iPhone to my iPad in a moment even take a call/text on my iPad if my phone is near by.
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I've been able to send/receive texts and make calls on my laptop/desktop for years. Just saying, like.
Sunray said:
If they did a touch screen iMac air, I'd be tempted.
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Me too actually. With a touchscreen they'd be one of the best laptops you could buy, period.
 
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