Apple pencil
 

Incase you missed it, apple unveiled a 12.9" ipad and they also sell an optional $99 stylus to use with it, they call it a "pencil".
http://www.apple.com/apple-pencil/


steve jobs:
"Who wants a stylus?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=14&v=4YY3MSaUqMg

"if you see a stylus, they blew it"
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/j...-they-blew-it/

Not that i think Steve Jobs had everything 100% right (i agree with Bill Burr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew6fv9UUlQ8), i just think its funny :)

Its also amazing that you charge this "pencil" by plugging it into the bottom of your ipad. So you have this huge 12.9" ipad with a ~5" pencil sticking straight out of the bottom of it, amazing.

Apple gonna go bankrupt in 10 years if they can't innovate something people actually want/need.

If the economy flourishes maybe more people will buy some of their overpriced computers.

with apple you arent buying the technology, youre buying the brand. its common knowledge that you could get better designed crap for half the price.

I admit, I have an iphone6 (work provided, I wouldnt have bought it), an ipad mini2 (i bought it used on ebay - mainly for another side job use), and a macbook pro (work provided).

I do like some of their products, but I would never personally pay the prices they are getting for their new tablets and laptops.

What amazes me though, is how people eat this shit up, every single year, yet the product doesnt change much, but apple sells is as new and innovative (when other companies have been doing the exact same thing for months or even years before they release it).

People are constantly dropping 1k on a new tablet, $750 on a new phone, year after year. I suspect the average consumer just plops out the plastic and upgrades every year, and are still working to pay off their iphone 2g.

I'm in the wrong line of work, I need to open a business that sells overpriced products to suckers.

Alternative healthcare, definitely the way to go.

i had some girl at the bar trying to argue that her macbook was great because osx was the best, to which i replied "have you ever heard of unix?"

sadly, she hadnt. needless to say, that conversation went nowhere... but she did let me take a pic of her while we were fucking

Care to share the picture quality features on your phone? kek

i told her i wouldnt show them to anyone lol

I've owned half a dozen windows laptops from dell, gateway, alienware, lenovo - all top end machines and they always end up junk in two years. The seams are weak, a component fails, the battery dies, and they all end up in the gutter. I've had a Macbook for a while and you can really tell the difference. Nothing is lose and everything still works. You can also bootcamp to windows 7 or 10 and run windows native (not through a vm). 90% of the time using my macbook I am on windows running p99.

Macs are as susceptible to slowdown as PCs though, plus with macs you generally have a hard time playing a lot of the latest games right?

Agree on the "junk in two years" thing though, my latest PC was a mid spec buy from a small company on eBay, had it 1 year and it's been fine. It was about $550-600. If $600 gets me a good 2-3 years I still think of it as a good investment. The only game it's ever locked up on was actually when it was still new, it didn't like Planetside 2 at all but according to the internet it's not optimized very well anyway :/