The Wide, Wide World of Apple

[DontSayBanana]

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.

[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. 

[DontSayBanana]

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. 

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.

[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]

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.

[Syt]

Why the gold Apple watch costs 10 grand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL1xf_X0W2s&t=86

[Liep]

Way too thick. Ugh. 

[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.

[Barrister]

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...

[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. 

[DontSayBanana]

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.

[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.

[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.

[katmai]

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.

[DontSayBanana]

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.