IPhone 5S and iPhone 5S launch day. Anyone care?

I’m pretty sure a geeky guy on my FB just popped a partial.

Woody is not a option for the case/covers.

Not me. I’m still happy with my dumb phone. I’m going swimming. It’s hot out

Nuthin’ to phone home about.

@jonsblond I have dumb phone, too. haha

Enjoy your swim! I have the blinds closed and the fans doing their thang. It’s hot here, too!

Small screen, crap battery, locked OS… meh.

I still have the 4, and I’ll have it for another year until I can upgrade. Hopefully the 5 will be cheaper by then.

@livelaughlove21 :: I think them selling previous generation ones for less is over. I think the 5C is there for that now.

Which is a good move. Basically people don’t want to buy last years stuff. So put last years internals in a new case and everyone will think they got something brand new.

@johnpowell Verizon is still giving the 4s out for free with new contracts while you have to pay for the 5 as of yesterday.

You can’t even order the new phones yet. Expect those to disappear next Friday.

@johnpowell…the 5 isn’t new.

I’m confused at what your point is.

My point is that the 5C is the 5 in a colorful case. In a week and a half the 5 will not be sold and you will be pushed to the 5C instead.

Maybe what you don’t get is that Apple doesn’t want to be so visibly selling last years stuff. So new case and 5C. Same internals with a different case. If you don’t follow this stuff it will look new to the friends you are trying to impress in your algebra class.

I almost think the “C” stands for “College”.

I’m eligible for an upgrade, so I may end up buying that gold 5S. My pattern so far has been to get the S-versions of the phones, rather than get the new innovative thing right when it comes out, hoping they will make improvements (and waiting to see if the new design is worth it). I haven’t been disappointed so far by doing this…

@johnpowell “In a week and a half the 5 will not be sold and you will be pushed to the 5C instead.”

Source, please.

And I sure hope you meant “you” in a general sense. As I said, I have the 4. I’m hardly concerned with impressing anyone with my phone. I paid $0 for this phone when I signed up with Verizon. I didn’t rush out to get the 4s or the 5, so I won’t be rushing out to get the 5c or the 5s either. Whether Apple is producing “new” stuff or just covering the old stuff in new packaging has nothing to do with my original answer that you commented on, so I don’t get where this tirade is coming from.

The source is that I watched the keynote. You can watch it too.

http://www.apple.com/apple-events/september-2013/

I care. I drank Steve Job’s Kool-aid a long time ago and it’s still inside me. Don’t care about Apple’s products’ flaws. I just know they’re beautiful to me and they’re awesome machines no matter what @jerv says. LOL

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