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Anyone going to Apple store early for a 5s?

Yeah, I've sold 3 phones to them and so far, great customer service and fast payment. The fact that they're local (San Rafael) makes me like them too.
 
cynner said:
Was that with a two-year contract?
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Yes.. I've been a customer over 10 years and don't plan on changing so I don't have an issue with being in a contract..

They also gave me 200 for my son broken Iphone 4s
 
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mike23w said:
all sales numbers will be from apple since only they have access to the data.

if 5s and 5c sales were that strong they would have released the numbers independently saying "looking at how amazing both 5s and 5c sales are compared to the 5 and 4s".

instead they combine the two and say "look 5s and 5c sales are better than 5 sales", which should be a given, dishonest and assumes the reporters are incapable of even a tiny amount of analysis (which seems to be the case).
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apple may be padding 5c sales
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetel...e-beat-may-have-gotten-boost-from-unsold-5cs/
At least two analysts have estimated that part of the big beat came from units of the iPhone 5C that have been shipped to other retailers – but not necessarily sold through to customers.
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mike23w said:
apple may be padding 5c sales
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You didn't notice the the biggest phone carrier in Japan, which has never carried the iPhone before, came onboard the winning team this month? That's 60 million new potential iPhone customers. :thumbup

“NTT DOCOMO has built an impressive network, the largest in the nation with over 60 million customers,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. “We’ve enjoyed tremendous success with iPhone in Japan, in fact it’s the top selling smartphone in the country, and we look forward to delivering iPhone into even more customers’ hands through NTT DOCOMO.”
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Zerox, it's coming to a point where I'll need to see a FDF filled out before I believe you don't work for Apple in one fashion or another. :p
 
Apple’s iPhone 5C now costs $45
price dropped by more than 50%.

can't remember if apple has ever firesaled one of their new phones shortly after the release date.

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Just got my 5S. Intentionally created a backup of my 4S (which I have NOT upgraded to iOS7) to try and sync everything without upgrading the OS...unfortunately, the 5S shipped WITH iOS7. And I don't know if it's even possible to roll back. Holy fuck is it ugly. Everything I liked about the previous OSs is gone. Colors are garbage. Way too much animation shit going on with clicking on stuff and menus and folders. Don't like how it lights up the numbers on your passcode a little longer than previously after you press them. Few other minor gripes.

Basically, it got more like Android.
 
So what is exactly "new" on the iPhone 5? Is the headphone jack on the side now or something?
 
NorCalAthlete said:
Just found this:

http://www.zdnet.com/apple-ios-7-android-copycat-7000016705/
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In other news, Apple is filing a copyright protection case against Google asking eleventy-billion dollars for releasing their patented materials before Apple patented them. A similar suit is now being filed by Apple against the Bell estate for Alexander Bell's inferior copy of the iPhone released in 1877 under a deceptive rebranding of Apple technology as the, "Telephone."
 
on a side note, I am absolutely loving my Note 3. Will probably skip on the 5s for now.
 
stan23 said:
on a side note, I am absolutely loving my Note 3. Will probably skip on the 5s for now.
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Seriously? I'm probably going to pick one up once the crowds die down. After enjoying my Nexus for a while now, I'm a little concerned about the aggravation of Sprint bloatware. I'm assuming all the stylus features mean it isn't super practical to flash an off brand ROM?
 
stan23 said:
on a side note, I am absolutely loving my Note 3. Will probably skip on the 5s for now.
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Hey Stan, do you notice a huge difference between the Note 3 and Note 2? Is a big difference?
 
The iPhone 5S is selling like hotcakes and backordered, gonna have to wait a few weeks for mine. Gimme gimme gimme.

It's selling well because the iPhone 5S is the world's only 64-bit smartphone, and people like future-tech. Because 64 is twice as much as 32. :laughing

Unheralded HUGE ADVANTAGE for the iPhone 5S and it's world-first 64-bit processing power: the iPhone 5S is basically a smartphone with a desktop-class 64-bit processor called the A7. Boom! The A7 processor in the iPhone is redonkulous fast. The OS X operating system on Apple desktop machines has been 64-bit for a few years now.

Oh wait, you mean that for the first time in history, the desktop OS and smartphone OS are on the same 64-bit page? Does this mean that the 64-bit apps created for the desktop OS can be easily transferred to the 64-bit iPhone? YES. Dayum, the future is bright.

With the 64-bit A7, Apple has made it possible for developers to take the 64-bit apps they’ve written for the Mac and bring them to iOS 7 with relative ease. And that is a huge benefit, indeed. “Because Apple makes the development environment and has updated those tools for 64-bit architectures, a developer only really needs to recompile their application to make it 64-bit compatible — assuming they haven’t done anything non-standard with their code,” said Howe. “This will not be true with Android, by the way. The Android Java app and native app environment will need support from Oracle, who owns the Java environment, as well as 64-bit support from the Android kernel. Android has a lot more moving pieces to coordinate, and will take longer to go to 64-bit.”
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http://allthingsd.com/20130913/apples-iphone-5s-the-a7-chip-and-that-64-bit-question/
 
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