<p>Lol!</p>
<p>Ballmer is an ass, but Surface is awesome. If only they could get rid of Win 8 crap! I spent a couple of hours of my weekend time customizing the display… I do not give a rat’s rear end about news feeds and sports and games… Gimme my Excel and Word, and I’m a happy camper. :)</p>
<p>I am liking my new phone. There are still some little glitches 9stll cant do the group text thing) but all in all I like the size and the screen</p>
<p>The 6 is better than the 5 and 5S. The screen on the 6 Plus is very nice and it looks like a Nano ipad. The size is a personal issue. Not everyone wants to stick it in pants. I would not use the plus but plenty of others will. </p>
<p>The real question remains about what is cynically still absent of the iphone! Removable battery, affordable memory, expansion slot, true USB, waterproofing, and the announced crystal glass. At its price point, half of those should have been included in the Plus version, and surely a 32 Gig memory. </p>
<p>Last but not least, the unveiling of an unfinished software is simply inexcusable. All in all, it is the best iPhone but that does not mean as much as it used to be. And frankly, the combination of hardware limitations and annoying idiosyncracies of IOS and iCloud is opening the doors to much better choices. After iMessages is hardly enough to cling to an iPhone. And then you might have a working Bluetooth to boot. </p>
<p>Buying a phone should be a joy. This one was not. If Apple had some sense and was not so obnoxious, they should reinvent the iPhone and unveil a new Model 7 with plenty of expansion possibilities. </p>
<p>Xig, I updated my iphone5 to ios8, ( but not to .1 or .2).
Can you see any reason why I should?</p>
<p>Tell me when to update and what features that are so desirable. I mean why.</p>
<p>You update to dot releases - meaning 8.1, etc. - because they’re mostly bug fixes. It makes sense not to do this the first day the new release is out because a bug fix can sometimes cause another. That’s a function of testing: when you’re doing a dot release, you’re trying to fix certain issues or enable certain features so you focus testing on those, not on every aspect that might go wrong. You should update to dot releases in general. </p>
<p>My only quibble with the new phones is they should start with 32GB of memory. I could not use a 16GB phone and I know that 64GB is huge capacity. I assume that shift is coming and there were margin/availability issues for now. </p>
<p>In Under the Dome they use nothing but Surfaces, but that show is science fiction, not art imitating life. </p>
<p>Re bendgate, there are reports that it was faked. </p>
<p>On my settings, there is an update waiting to be installed. I didn’t click on it yet. I have no clue which release, perhaps I wait until all the problem dies down first.</p>
<p>Just wondering if anyone is buying the phone without a contract. Would the monthly bill go down if you pay for the phone upfront? I keep my phone longer than the customary 2 years. If the bill is lower, I think I’d just buy it upfront without signing the contract.</p>
<p>I buy the iPhone without a contract because it is much cheaper in long run, because my internet is slow & I use a lot of data and even use my phone so that my computer can access the Internet at times.
(I have grandfathered unlimited data)
If I used the incentive Verizon offers to “upgrade” my phone, I would need to change my plan and have more minutes( whichI don’t need) and restricted data.
However, my bill doesn’t go down, but it stays the same, because my plan is the same.</p>
<p>Apple apparently has pulled the ios8.1 update as it bricked a lot of phones and iPads.
The 8.2 update is supposedly going to fix that.
However, my iPad retina, is still slowish, IMO compared to ios 7 on Internet, although after I reset network settings to default, it speeded up a little.
My iphone 5 didn’t seem to be affected in the same way, but since the things fixed by ios8 aren’t available on the 5 anyway ( no fingerprint sensor, for example), I think I will leave well enough alone.
:)</p>
<p>EK, if your phone works well with 8.0, it might be best to wait. My iPad is on the original IOS 8. There are just a few things that do not work, but also parts I do not usually use, such as Bluetooth. Safari shows some lag and I have to hit the buttons again to hasten the connection, but that is not new to IOS 8. </p>
<p>Lergnom, the difference between the 16 and 32 gig is below 5 dollars. Made no sense at the price of the Plus, and close to zero at the basic 6. Most everyone would have been happy with 32 gig. The pricing of memory on iPhones speaks volumes about Apple. </p>
<p>Well my typing is worse than autocorrect. So input it back on. </p>
<p>Forgot to mention, the phone, and I assume it’s the ios8 uses 7 gb of memory. If you don’t have that, don’t install it. </p>
<p>I am disappointed that iPhone 6 has only 1GB RAM and default 16 GB data storage.
The Samsung Note 4 has 3 GB RAM and 32GB data storage.</p>
<p>@teriwtt I don’t recall telling you that you should not buy an iPhone. I couldn’t care less about how you spend your money. I was giving my opinion.</p>
<p>@Iglooo. </p>
<p>The reason to buy the phone w/o a contract is as @emeraldkity4 describes. High volume data users could be forced to accept a new data plan if upgrading under the plan, as in, if taking advantage of the $300 subsidy. </p>
<p>This article appeared in the NYT yesterday (perhaps on-line only). The article describes how this user is much better off to pay full retail for his new phone. </p>
<p>.<a href=“$199 Apple iPhone 6 Is Fiction, if Not Fantasy - The New York Times”>$199 Apple iPhone 6 Is Fiction, if Not Fantasy - The New York Times;
<p>I’d just note that the different carriers have different policies. AT&T seems willing to grandfather plans indefinitely – they are trying to discourage people from the 2-year contract approach these days, but that’s still an option for those of us who want it. My daughter has an unlimited data plan grandfathered in from the days when she had a blackberry-- she’s had at least 2 upgrades since then with no change in her data plan. I have a teensy 200 mb data plan (@ $15/month) – because I am almost always using my phone from locations wifi is available – I just upgraded to a 4G/LTE capable phone, but I could keep my data plan even though it is not offered to new customers. (I know because if I browse the other data plans online I get an on-screen warning telling me that if I make any changes to data plan I won’t be able to go back.) </p>
<p>[One reason that I got the new phone is that I am traveling abroad next month, but rather than changing my data plan, I requested an unlock on the old phone and will be using that with a European pay-as-you-go sim card]</p>
<p>Obviously, AT&T could change their policy in the future, but I’ve been with them forever and it’s always been pretty much the same. With the 2 year contract, I bought a phone with a retail price of $650 for $150 ($99 plus tax). (Again, not an i-phone. I like having more choices. )</p>
<p>I just checked my storage usage.
Music is taking up 9gB, but I don’t see how, I don’t even have last years bootlegs on it.</p>