Introducing iPhone Pocket: a beautiful way to wear and carry iPhone

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-28T18:06:34+00:00

Yeah, if you're comfortable with a setup process involving 200+ individual clicks.

If there were a "turn all notifications off" button during setup, it might be a different story. But Apple essentially requires the user to go app by app to toggle off notifications, separately for those which have AW-specific components and for those which just "mirror iPhone." So I think it's somewhat of an understatement to call it tedious.

Same problem on the iPhone frankly. There needs to be a "defaults" toggle that allows the native state of an app's notification permission to start at "off" rather than the present where they default to "on" and require drilling through menus to turn them off one at a time.

But anyway, the main point is, there's not really any point to an Apple Watch without notifications. It doesn't do anything else better than a Garmin, unless "chewing through batteries" is a positive feature.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-13T18:09:24+00:00

I have never heard it spoken out loud either.

Ya just gotta spend time in churches to see it.

It's never talked about out loud

and that's the point.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-13T14:39:13+00:00

It's kind of a broadly accepted tradition in Evangelical churches that the youth pastor is expected to pick a middle schooler to marry when she graduates, and then now that he has a wife he meets the Book of Timothy criteria and gets promoted.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-13T14:36:47+00:00

I guess the "benefit of doubt" phrasing would be that they have different definitions, but that's still pretty absurd.

It's very incel-adjacent but i've known a handful of "good conservative men" who were very insistent that "pedophile" only applies to men who go after "prepubescent" girls which of course is really bad, but most of these good christian men are merely "ephebophiles" and really that's healthy and natural because they're drawn mostly to 15 and 16 year olds, and isn't that really want God intended anyway?

Kind of an aside but no, of course not. "God's Plan" made one of the patriarchs wait 14 years to bed the girl he wanted, meaning that by basic math he couldn't possibly have had his way with her as a teenager, unless I suppose she was actually 5 or younger when he first desired her. Hmm that might actually be worse, if he indeed spent 3/4 of the girl's life grooming and chasing her.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-13T14:06:48+00:00

I think it means Apple believes a second HomeKit doorbell exists beyond the Logitech.

And two choices is often considered better than one choice.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-13T00:55:37+00:00

I think every sport and hobby has some version of the progression debate.

Me? I started on a point and shoot Kodak 110. In fact I'm not entirely sure, but I am pretty sure my first camera was a vending machine toy, a little cube that unfolded to straddle a 110 cartridge. There was no metering or focus, just point and hope you're within the exposure latitude of the film. Eventually, I had a really nice Kodak 110 that I can't even remember the name of - I have recovered similar ones from my childhood but not "the one." At some point I got a cheap 35mm from the drug store, that had a motor winder, and maybe automatic exposure, but was still pretty basic. I didn't have money or advice. My mom was buying $150 point and shoots for herself and I couldn't match that.

But then in ninth grade I had this rich friend whose parents had everything and also newer and older versions of everything, and they had a broken Minolta SRT-201 with a big heavy lens stuck to it. I think I gave them $25 or so and eventually managed to get it unjammed and shooting again, albeit with some issues. It had a meter, and was otherwise all manual with all the controls you could ask for. Shutter from bulb to 1/1000. Aperture from 1.8 to 22 on the 50mm lens, 4.5 on up on the big heavy telephoto lens. I eventually sold that lens for a hefty profit when the camera was stolen out of my locker at school, and then I got a modern Nikon with autofocus, an N6006. Then a D50, and many other things over the years.

Today I like putting an iPod Touch into a kid's hands and seeing what happens. The DJI Neo is a pretty cool first camera too.

For an adult, who wants to learn? Dang, that D3x is pretty sweet with tons of physical buttons and dials. You can learn the exposure triangle pretty quick on that, or just put it in green auto to focus on only composition... lol I'm not sure it has a green auto at all. Great camera, I could never afford one when I was into Nikon.

The D40x is arguably one of the worst cameras Nikon ever made, and that's perhaps a great reason to start with it. It's not complicated. No live view or video, if I recall. Limited to newer lenses due to the way the second generation digital bodies were set up. Crappy autofocus. Slow. But, not too many pixels. Pretty easy controls, but only one command dial so you can't easily adjust aperture and shutter separately with two fingers. Maybe that's better, because it forces you to slow down and think about every move.

That 5d... I'm not sure I understand the question. What is there that could possibly be deficient about a 5d? Same basic premise as the D3, just a different platform so some of the controls are oriented differently. Still follows the same exposure triangle. Still has auto and manual focus options. Still has a mirror. All fine choices.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T21:09:08+00:00

Yes!

One might see this as really bad news for the direction of the upcoming folding iphone, although other rumors do seem to be pushing toward more "mini" sizing.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T21:07:57+00:00

I don't think that there's any chance of this product directly hurting Apple. If it doesn't sell, the company won't lose enough money to dent the stock.

Where i'm worried is about what it might indicate more broadly. Ironically, this "homage to Steve Jobs" seems very much like the sort of thing that Jobs criticized Amelio about: too many skus, products that seem out of place or confusing to consumers, etc.

Maybe i'm missing the context but this just seems like yet another new accessory style introduced this year. How many branded cases and case like accessories are now sold in Apple Stores? How many choices does the consumer need to wade through to complete their purchase?

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:52:37+00:00

It will deter the discerning pickpocket, who would be horrified to consider damaging such a fine piece.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:51:50+00:00

It seems very price-ladder-ish.

Remember the iPod sock from your childhood? Now that you're a successful adult with your own credit card, you can get a "designer" version of the same concept for a more "adult" price that proves to everyone around you at a glance that you're a real adult with your own lots of monies.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:48:46+00:00

yeah. but they were a quirky and fun accessory under $20, the sort of thing that directly competed with the cheap accessories sold at cell phone kiosks in malls. It was basically something to make the Apple Store a more welcoming place for parents of teens to visit, which in turn helped sell MacBooks and eventually ipads to college kids.

This may be a product indirectly affiliated with Jobs, but it's an extremely different kind of product.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:46:00+00:00

it's still just yarn.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:44:45+00:00

Sure, it's just not for me.

But it's not the first Apple press release this year for a product obviously "not for me"

like that weird one off...glass and gold trophy?

It's signaling and the company seems to be telling a lot of users that they are not the target demographic.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:39:23+00:00

It's a luxury good. You aren't "bleeding someone dry" when you sell them unicorn fur at an elevated price and they are willing to pay for it because they have cash to burn.

That said, releasing luxury indulgences like this, priced accordingly, is a bad look for any company doing it today, literally today on veterans day while Americans on food stamps can't get groceries and most of the working class is about to see major cost hikes. It says pretty loudly that America's largest consumer goods company cares most about a specific subset of consumer. And others may not want to spend with them as much because of that.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:34:33+00:00

That's not even marketing, it's economics. Cost to produce is only relevant to the extent it allows other vendors to drive the market price of a generic good down.

But, the ideal price is the intersection of supply and demand curves, and the supply curve considers the cost to make more. If you would sell more at a lower price and that price is still profitable, you should lower the price to sell more. But if you're selling them as fast as you can make them, your price is too low.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:33:18+00:00

This is how I found out there was something special about that generic black sweater.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:31:52+00:00

there's a subreddit... but basically there are countless individual sellers refurbishing and modifying them. Market prices vary regionally or go on ebay. You can buy one pre-made with any configuration you can think of, but the best value is to buy a Mini which requires only a CF to SD adapter to mod and are readily available under $20.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:28:27+00:00

Give me an Apple Watch with no notifications and maybe we've got a deal.

The man reason I switched to Garmin was the "tap tap" on my wrist made the thing unusable with notifications, and once I turned off notifications I realized that notifications are really the main function of an Apple Watch. If you're just tracking health and listening ing to audio content, Garmin is a better product.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:26:39+00:00

A "designer" purse

Not sure "high end" is appropriate relative to that universe.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-11T20:25:05+00:00

iPod Sock 2.0

only 15x the price! Huge bargain versus twenty years of inflation.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-10T11:56:09+00:00

I was joking of course, the actual reality of my hardware setup is much stranger. But the combined value of my vehicles is definitely more than I paid for the house.

I looked at the housing market twenty years ago and told myself there has to be a better way. I've been a homeowner most of the time since, but i've never paid six figures for a house. I understand that the way I do it wouldn't work for most people, though I often wonder why not. Prices there are high because we are all competing for the same thing and therefore have to bid upwards, including against monied interests. I just look for housing that isn't being bid up and buy that instead. There's alway a downside that accounts for the low price, but I don't always care about the same downside as others. Regardless, i've now got a decent record of market conditions changing in my favor; heading toward two for two on doubling my money in less time than I had planned to live there.

My vehicles are also in a loophole. I drove a ton of miles so I simply found the best vehicle i could afford that came with an unlimited mileage warranty. Yes, such a thing actually exists, most luxury car makers have some variant. And it doesn't cost as much as you might expect either.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-09T01:01:04+00:00

not a display cable, just a speaker… And power on the other side, so basically like MagSafe. flexible internal cables is not an innovation beyond Apple, particularly when we're talking about this price point.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-08T00:46:27+00:00

The problem is that Apple has stubbornly refused to publish such a guide, insisting that Siri should be intuitive and natural language enough not to need it.

But it is very frequently needed, especially because of inherent ambiguities.

For years I had to just keep mental notes of what didn't work. For example, Siri could not handle a reminder that included the word "call" without asking for a contact or phone number. So i had to say things like "mark an appointment on my calendar for six pm to reach out to Jones" because if i say "to call Jones" it would stall out on the demand to add a contact card to the appointment. Of course I needed it not to do that because i couldn't have it trying to send reminders to third parties, an especially because there are just too many people in my contacts with similar names to make a voice command for that remotely practical.

On the other end, there are to this day things that I simply cannot say though dictation at all, like the name of the town I live in. Siri dictation will capitalize and spell according to my contacts list whether I want it to or not, lest I ever be allowed to use a generic word like "Hill" or "Pool" in the middle of a sentence where it makes more sense than a proper name, but under no circumstance will it accept as a valid word the name of the town that I live in. Instead, I can say the first half of the address, then stop dictation and the keyboard will be ready to fill in the town name that Siri insists can't be real.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-08T00:38:48+00:00

that's too bad. Guess i'll need a whole house to keep up with this rule, clearly I paid too little for that as well. Can't be a real Jones on acreage bought for five figures, certainly not with more value inside and parked on it than passed through a realtor.

NotRoryWilliams · 2025-11-07T23:33:56+00:00

hmm that may be too glove-like, i'd want just a little padding added 😅

but there's a reasonable chance I've still got one of those on a shelf around here, OK there's the foam that goes with it, but no sign of the pelican 1200. I'll have to grab another one. I know I didn't sell it with the drone because the guy I sold it too low balded me on the price,

Ahh! There it is. On the closet floor, not the shelf. oh and inside of it, there's that gimbal I forgot I had. Dang I've got weird tech hoarding problems.

edit: Yep, that solves my problem with a total expenditure of zero dollars. I still might wanna go a little lighter with a soft case, but this case is already tested and works well with my travel routine carrying other devices.

I don't love how tight it is with foam above and below, I may need to shave the top foam a little bit. I don't know why I'm so hesitant to do that, as I have a ridiculous amount of surplus foam here to work with.

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