Apple new product rumours and general news

[teqniq]

The only thing I use iTunes for is backing up my phone and software updates. All my music requirements and indeed video ones are met with VideoLan

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I don't use iTunes for anything other than music on my Mac. It never gets opened on my iPhone or iPad...


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[skyscraper101]

Revealed: Apple to create stunning new HQ at Battersea Power Station

Apple is to create a spectacular new London headquarters at Battersea Power Station in a massive coup for the developers behind the £9 billion project.

The iPhone and iPad maker will move 1,400 staff from eight sites around the capital into what it calls “a new Apple campus” at the Grade II* listed former electricity generator.

Its employees will occupy all six floors of office space in the brick “cathedral of power”, which is being painstakingly restored after 33 years standing derelict on the banks of the Thames.

 

[editor]

Revealed: Apple to create stunning new HQ at Battersea Power Station

Probably some sort of sweetener for tax deals. Where's the "stunning" building, btw?

 

[skyscraper101]

From what I understood it'll be in the redeveloped Battersea Power Station.

 

[teuchter]

From what I understood it'll be in the redeveloped Battersea Power Station.

Yes.

Has been fairly widely rumoured for a while that Apple were looking at it.

 

[editor]

From what I understood it'll be in the redeveloped Battersea Power Station.

That whole area looks ugly as fuck now that they've built huge glass boxes all around it.

 

[cybershot]

Damn, when I saw updates to this thread I thought there had finally been an MBP rumour update.

 

[RoyReed]

That whole area looks ugly as fuck now that they've built huge glass boxes all around it.

Yeah, considering what they've surrounded the old power station with they might as well have knocked it down.

 

[souljacker]

Probably some sort of sweetener for tax deals.

No profit here mate, honest. The Irish make all the money. We just sit here looking good. Honest.

 

[elbows]

Damn, when I saw updates to this thread I thought there had finally been an MBP rumour update.

Funnily enough there has been!

Apple Likely Aiming for Late October Launch of Redesigned MacBook Pro

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Just bought the new 4th gen Apple TV, with Siri-enabled remote control. It's nice, albeit a bit sensitive, but the annoying thing is that the voice-enabled search is only capable of finding stuff in iTunes - looks like the "Search YouTube for funny cat videos" functionality didn't make it to the UK yet.

 

[cybershot]

Funnily enough there has been!

Apple Likely Aiming for Late October Launch of Redesigned MacBook Pro

Woo, getting desperate now, my Acer has a dodgy power socket and trying to keep it charged is becoming a mare.

 

[mwgdrwg]

The first person in my office to get an iPhone 7 has just come in and forgotten his fucking headphone adapter at home on the very first day.

Now his Beats are on his desk impotent and worthless.

PMSL.

 

[editor]

The first person in my office to get an iPhone 7 has just come in and forgotten his fucking headphone adapter at home on the very first day.

Now his Beats are on his desk impotent and worthless.

PMSL.

Hahahahahaha!

 

[Lazy Llama]

If you plug an iPhone into a Mac running iTunes (probably works on Windows too, never tried it), you can play the music from your phone on the computer which probably does have a headphone socket. So you can charge and listen on wired headphones without needing an adapter.

Probably not much use to him, but useful to know generally.

Anyway, if he's bought an iPhone 7 already, he'll probably buy some iPhone-specific Beats when they bring them out. He's obviously not that worried about spending money...

 

[strung out]

I popped into an Apple shop the other day to have a play on the iPhone 7. I don't know what it is, but the design feels so much nastier than the iPhone 6, especially the black model.

 

[editor]

If you plug an iPhone into a Mac running iTunes (probably works on Windows too, never tried it), you can play the music from your phone on the computer which probably does have a headphone socket. So you can charge and listen on wired headphones without needing an adapter.

You'd have to have emo levels of self hatred to willingly inflict iTunes on your own Windows machine.

 

[teqniq]

I don't use it on OS X except to backup my phone.

 

[editor]

Here's one unsatisfied customer with a very big bill coming his way:

 

[gosub]

Quelle etait son problem?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

The first person in my office to get an iPhone 7 has just come in and forgotten his fucking headphone adapter at home on the very first day.

Now his Beats are on his desk impotent and worthless.

PMSL.

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[editor]

Quelle etait son problem?

'Eeee forgot 'eeees owyousay 'eadphone adaptorrrr.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Love that new Mac smell? Now you can buy a candle that smells like a freshly-opened Apple product

 

[teqniq]

 

[Winot]

Some people have money to burn.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

They really do...


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[elbows]

I'm a sucker for the touch bar of the new macbook pro. Not got money to burn though but its provided me with the first reason in many years to actually visit an apple store to see what it's like.

It looks like it might make interaction with apps less tedious, but there is no affordable way to evaluate this at the moment and in any case the app support is key and that will take a while.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Function keys were always reprogrammable parts of the keyboard, so it seems like a sensible progression to me from having to remember wtf cmd-F1 does. However it will definitely be years before it's standard use, given that apps still have to support legacy keyboards.

 

[elbows]

I suppose what I really hope for is that it catches on in terms of app support, and then someone hacks it so that stuff thats meant to display on the touch bar can appear on other mobile devices with multitouch screens instead. At least from a 'I want to play but I dont want to spend more money' point of view.