Now that everyone who wanted an iPhone 5 badly enough to wait in line in the cold has one, we're just going to get all the funniest stories we haven't covered yet out of our system at once.
Fox News reports the iPhone 5 will have a laser-keyboard and holographic display.
Mixing up a year-old concept video with on-the-ground footage led to a pretty amusing if utterly blundering couple seconds of programming at Fox.
Verizon CFO takes this opportunity to say "That Whole Unlimited Thing" was a Fad.
"…unlimited is just a word, it doesn’t really mean anything…. I think a lot of consumers think they consume a lot more data than they really do. So that whole unlimited thing I think is going by the wayside, and they see the benefit of shared [data]."
That's what Fran Shammo, CFO of Verizon, had to say about iPhone 5-buyers ditching their unlimited data plans. Sure Fran, it's not that Verizon's quit subsidizing phones for folks with unlimited plans; it's that we "see the benefit" of paying extra to get a data cap.
Of course, given that Verizon throttles the top 5 percent of its 3G users, it's hardly news that "unlimited is just a word" to them.
Source: Verizon
Samsung releases ad viciously mocking iPhone hipsters. Exactly like last time.
Last November, Samsung took a page out of Apple's book - not by copying the iPhone, but by copying Apple's "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ad campaign from a few years ago. If you'd like to see more of the same, good news: Samsung has refreshed its ad about how people who want iPhones are dumb and annoying while people who have a GS3 are smart and cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nf5-Prx19ZM
Apparently everyone agrees on one thing: a bigger screen is a better screen.
iPhone 5 queue is "retarded, superficial and pretentious," says girl in iPhone 5 queue.
Because time zones are a thing, Australia was the first country to get the iPhone 5 in stores. Apparently, Samsung's ad-execs aren't the only people who think everyone waiting in line for a new iPhone is an annoying hipster. Even the people in line for a new iPhone think so. A girl who waited overnight in flannel Cookie Monster pajamas (could we make this up?) to be second in line for the iPhone 5 referred to her compatriots as "absolutely retarded, superficial and pretentious."
Source: The Register
iOS 6 stole its clock face from a Swiss railroad co.
The design of Apple's new clock app is so clean! The only problem: it's been "borrowed" (as in not properly licensed) from the clock faces of Swiss rail company SBB. The company has stated that while they don't want Apple to stop using it, they do want to get paid.
Source: The Verge
Instead of apologizing for the new Maps, Apple goes on a hiring spree to fix it.
Okay, 6 new job postings at a company as big as Apple is barely news. But we needed an excuse to link to The Amazing iOS 6 Maps again.
Source: BGR
Burglars were among the first to get an iPhone 5. And they've got lots.
London residents hoping to pick up an iPhone 5 at the O2 Store near Wimbledon this morning were disappointed, because the store's entire shipment of iPhone 5 handsets (about 250) was stolen before the store opened for business.
In Japan, nearly 200 iPhone 5s were stolen from multiple stores in Osaka.
Some people bought an iPhone 5 just to break it.
We appreciate what the guys at iFixit do, but isn't there something sort of insane about buying an iPhone just to find out whether taking it apart will turn it into a paper-weight? No? How about throwing it at the ground with more and more force until the screen shatters?
Yes. It is possible to shatter the iPhone 5's glass screen.
Steve Wozniak's already tired of his iPhone 5, wants an iPhone 45.
You read that right (well, maybe). Speaking at a conference in Brisbane yesterday, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said he's more excited about the iPhone 45 (forty-five!) than the iPhone he's got right now. Why? In his words, "In 40 years we will have computers that are conscious, that have feelings, that have a personality."
Is Woz scared? Nope; he can't wait. "My iPhone [45] will know so much about me. I won't want you humans."
On the other hand, it's fun to imagine how ridiculous we'll think the iPhone 5 was when we look back in 20 or 30 years…
Jon Fox is a Seattle hipster who loves polar bears and climbing trees. You can follow him on Twitter and IGN.
Source : ign[dot]com
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