What a dud.
Category: Apple
iPhone 5 Ship Date Slipping⇢
Eric Slivka at MacRumors:
Just an hour after pre-orders for the iPhone 5 went live, Apple Store shipping estimates for new pre-orders have already slipped to two weeks in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Germany, and Australia. Once transit times are accounted for, users pre-ordering now may not receive their iPhones until nearly two weeks after the official launch date of September 21.
In related news, I am super tired after getting up at 2 AM to order a 32 GB in black.
Mountain Lion, Sans Skeuomorphism⇢
Verizon iPhone 5 Preorders Start at Friday, 3 AM⇢
I’m going to be tired Friday.
Four Inches
Myke and I talked at length about Apple’s event today, but I thought I’d write out some of my thoughts here.
The obvious news here is the iPhone 5’s bigger screen. At 4 inches and 1136 x 640, the new layout is 16:9 — perfect for movies in landscape, and no wider. Apps that don’t scale or fit will be letterboxed at the top and bottom.
While I know very little about app development, from the people I’ve spoken to today, moving to this new screen shouldn’t be nearly as much work as going to Retina was. In short, Apple changed the physical screen size of the iPhone in the easiest possible way.
iPod classic Not Dead Yet⇢
The iPod classic looks like it lives to see another day.
Apple Introduces New iPods, iTunes⇢
The new iPod touch, the newly-redesigned iPod nano and colorful but boring iPod shuffle will be out in October, alongside a new version of iTunes.
Apple Introduces the iPhone 5⇢
It’s out, in “Black & Slate” and “White & Silver” and sports a 4" screen, A6 processor, better camera optics and LTE. Available for pre-order on Friday.
On the Original iTunes Phone⇢
Bored waiting for Apple’s iPhone announcement later today? Why not catch up on the original iTunes phone, the Motorola ROKR E1?
Last Minute Predictions Concerning the iPhone 5
- It will be awesome.
- I will buy one.
A Kindle At Every Price
In preparing for tomorrow’s podcast, I decided to type up a list of Amazon’s pricing for the Kindles. Here’s the complete list:
- $69 - Kindle with Special Offers
- $89 - Kindle without Special Offers
- $119 - Kindle Paperwhite with Special Offers
- $139 - Kindle Paperwhite without Special Offers
- $139 - Kindle with Keyboard 3G with Special Offers
- $159 - Kindle with Keyboard 3G without Special Offers
- $159 - 7” Kindle Fire, 8 GB with Special Offers
- $174 - 7” Kindle Fire, 8 GB without Special Offers
- $179 - Kindle Paperwhite 3G with Special Offers
- $199 - Kindle Paperwhite 3G without Special Offers
- $199 - 7” Kindle Fire HD, 16 GB with Special Offers
- $214 - 7” Kindle Fire HD, 16 GB without Special Offers
- $249 - 7” Kindle Fire HD, 32 GB with Special Offers
- $264 - 7” Kindle Fire HD, 32 GB without Special Offers
- $299 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD, 16 GB with Special Offers
- $314 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD, 16 GB without Special Offers
- $369 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD, 32 GB with Special Offers
- $383 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD, 32 GB without Special Offers
- $499 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD 4G, 32 GB with Special Offers
- $514 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD 4G, 32 GB without Special Offers
- $599 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD 4G, 64 GB with Special Offers
- $614 - 8.9” Kindle Fire HD 4G, 64 GB without Special Offers
At almost any price point you can imagine between $70 and $700, there’s a Kindle. While that’s obviously Amazon’s goal, it makes for an extremely confusing product matrix.
T-Mobile Steps Up ‘Bring Your Own iPhone’ Program⇢
Suzanne Lowry, vice president of marketing at T-Mobile:
T-Mobile has been a champion of “bring your own device” wireless with our affordable Value plans that separate the cost of wireless service from the purchase of a new phone. This means there are a lot of devices running on our network that we don’t sell in our stores, including more than 1M iPhones. We see a big opportunity to make the experience of bringing an unlocked iPhone to T-Mobile even better for customers.