The Wide, Wide World of Apple

Started by Barrister, August 24, 2009, 01:50:38 PM

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DontSayBanana

Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 11, 2015, 10:52:47 AM

Where do they do that?  We've got Comcast here, I can get HBO Go and Cinemax Go through Verizon Wireless.

Yeah, through Verizon Wireless, not Comcast.  Now try to run HBO Go on a Roku (or any other streaming device, including consoles like PS4) through your home Internet.  I'll wait.
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CountDeMoney

Must be a serious Whoopsie glitch on their part, because we get HBO Go through all our streaming devices, including my Dad's Sony media player;  not that he needs it, since they watch can HBO On Demand through Comcast's DVRs. Weird.  :unsure:

DontSayBanana

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Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 11, 2015, 11:10:53 AM
Must be a serious Whoopsie glitch on their part, because we get HBO Go through all our streaming devices, including my Dad's Sony media player;  not that he needs it, since they watch can HBO On Demand through Comcast's DVRs. Weird.  :unsure:

It is.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/03/comcast-is-not-saying-when-it-will-make-hbo-go-available-on-the-ps4/

Oh, slight ex post facto edit: I'd forgotten that Roku struck a deal with Comcast to authenticate.  Still mostly consoles that are blocked, but I'm wondering if Apple and Comcast have had The Conversation yet, or if we're going to hear that Comcast customers can't authenticate again.
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CountDeMoney

Hell, I knew about the PS4;  that's no different than the PS3 situation.  You mentioned Comcast;  we have Comcast.  And we still get HBO Go on our devices;  I just have to log into it with my Dad's Comcast/Xfinity account.

Liep

Quote from: mongers on March 11, 2015, 02:41:16 PM
No mention of this global outage stuff for iThingies?

Global outage on what? My iThingie works fine, although Spotify has drained a bit more battery than usual.
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Liep

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derspiess

Got the wife a new iPhone 6.  Went with the Sprint lease plan this time.  Lease seems almost too good to be true but I couldn't see much of a downside.
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Barrister

Quote from: derspiess on May 22, 2015, 01:03:43 PM
Got the wife a new iPhone 6.  Went with the Sprint lease plan this time.  Lease seems almost too good to be true but I couldn't see much of a downside.

Well there's bound to be a 6s coming in the fall, so they are probably starting to discount the 6 a little bit...
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derspiess

My parents are on my account and they flat-out gave me a free (with 2-year commitment) iPhone 5s for my mom's line. 
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DontSayBanana

Quote from: Barrister on May 22, 2015, 01:38:53 PM
Well there's bound to be a 6s coming in the fall, so they are probably starting to discount the 6 a little bit...

Don't hold your breath.  Apple typically announces those around June, so by this point there would already have been word put out that there's going to be an announcement.  My Sprint rep and I were having pretty much that exact discussion this evening.
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Liep

http://www.techradar.com/news/digital-home/these-are-the-first-apple-homekit-devices-that-you-can-buy-1295609

I need those. It's cheap considering how much time I spend walking back up the stairs to check to see if I my door is really closed.
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derspiess

So what is it with women and not wanting to upgrade the iOS version on their phone.  Within the last few weeks I've had women ask me for help on their iPhones and not one single phone was up to date.  It would drive me insane knowing there was an update available and not installing it.
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katmai

Quote from: DontSayBanana on May 23, 2015, 10:42:59 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 22, 2015, 01:38:53 PM
Well there's bound to be a 6s coming in the fall, so they are probably starting to discount the 6 a little bit...

Don't hold your breath.  Apple typically announces those around June, so by this point there would already have been word put out that there's going to be an announcement.  My Sprint rep and I were having pretty much that exact discussion this evening.
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DontSayBanana

Quote from: katmai on June 02, 2015, 09:31:17 PM
:lmfao: :yeahright:

They don't announce a release date, but usually WWDC is when they get the word out to developers that there's going to be new hardware that needs some software to go along with it.  In the meantime, changing development targets is not as simple a process as you'd think (especially when Apple doesn't exactly give out presale devices to most developers), so word starts to hit the grapevine usually around April-early May.
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