Obvious statement of the day: Some people obsess over Apple products.

"Though Apple’s technical specs claim both the iPhone 5 and 5s weigh exactly the same, the 5s feels lighter. It’s very, very subtle, but I can tell in a multiple blind tests (I don’t have a scale)."

Apple says they weight the same, yet the 5s feels lighter.

This is why Blackberry is going out of business. Nobody compares the size of the home button to the size of the icons to the size of the holes in the included case.

Yeah, there is that, then that.

fanboys are weird and all. But blackberry launched a product that posted to facebook or whatever every video file you watched on the device, without telling you.

So, I guess there were more serious reasons BB is dying.

> This is why Blackberry is going out of business. Nobody compares the size of the home button to the size of the icons to the size of the holes in the included case.

They are going out of business because _they_ didn't compare the size .... etc.

Blackberry is going out of business because they had incompotent management that reacted too slowly. It really should have never come to this.

http://www.businessinsider.com/rim-ceo-quotes-2011-9?op=1

Someone should claw back the money. Those guys were well paid.

Yes, on a financial scale, there have been many missteps. But nobody cares about the new Blackberry Q10 the way Gruber cares about the 5s.

Even if you love Blackberry, you're not measuring the size of the icons and comparing them to the physical characteristics of the phone.

"The exclamation point regulatory icon on the back of the phone appears to be about 2-5% larger on the 5s. I assume this change is to make the circle a mathematically perfect fraction of the other circles used throughout Apple’s new design language."

No. Stop.

Love the hilariously precise attention to detail. Reminds me of the in-depth review of the secret Disney restroom, http://www.secretrestroom.com/ ( writeup at http://boingboing.net/2012/05/04/tribute-to-disneylands-sec.... ), which I choose to believe is totally serious.

If you enjoy this kind of stuff, I have one obscure recommendation: check out this review of the Singapore Airlines economy travel experience from an authentic trufan, http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/trip_reports/read.m... .

reading that, I got to point 5 before I was struck by how unimportant all of this is.

given the problems we face in privacy from our own governments and the almost infinite need for real innovation, why are we fixated as a community on sizes of circles.

it really made me sad. is it a form of escapism?

I think it's more that people have a passion for well-made stuff, hand-in-hand with an ability to balance personal interest with societal concerns.

<rant> I'm hoping the Nexus 5 (slated to be released in mid-October) is good, because I've completely had it with Apple's crappy iPhones.

* The App store ecosystem is toxic compared to Play.

* I'm absolutely sick of waiting for Apple to put in features that should have been included 3 years ago.

* The iPhone 5s/5c improvements are pretty minor and unimaginative. Dcurtis's list of minor changes further confirms that the new iPhone is _boring_.

* Each iPhone refresh since the 4 has been less and less impressive. </rant>

I'm certainly looking forward to moving on- Cheers!

I'm curious, what about the iOS App ecosystem is seemingly toxic in your opinion?

The lack of automatic app updates is unforgivable, and if they're included with iOS7, it's still too little too late in my opinion. Clicking 30 times to update 30 apps is a bad user experience. Often some of the updates don't start or finish, and the app becomes unusable unless you go to some lengths to fix it.

Then there are also the lengthy approval times for new app version submissions. Having to wait a week or more (and when Apple doesn't misplace your submission in their queue) is outlandish compared to the [more open] Google Play App Store where updates can go live in just a couple of minutes. Apple's walled garden is not fun to develop for. Every step along the way is painful compared to Android.

At SendHub, we have both Android and iOS apps. They are both updated very frequently (usually weekly), and the process for Android is a joy by comparison. If something went wrong with the latest release, it's not too big of a drama to roll it back. With Apple, we've ended up in nightmarish scenarios where something slipped past our QA and went live, and we had to call in special one-time favors to get the bad version rolled back.

The bottom line is that Android, while far from perfect, has a more developer friendly ecosystem which allows devs to do what they're good at: writing code, creating apps, and pushing out updates without a lot of fuss.

"Clicking 30 times to update 30 apps is a bad user experience."

I am OK with the rest, but I can see a button named "update all" in iOS 6 and have been using it for a long time.

and to answer your doubt yes automatic update is in iOS 7.

iOS5 had "update all" - for like 2 years now.

While reading this, was anyone else reminded of this scene?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY

"Look at that soft white coloring...the tasteful thickness of it... Oh my god! It even has a watermark!"

The Touch ID is really neat, and he misses on of the key interactions. At the unlock screen, you can just touch the home button (without pressing) and it will automatically unlock. No more slide to unlock.

This is great.

I suspect I'll start removing my phone from my pocket with my thumb on the home button. As I grasp the phone, I'll hit the home button but immediately release it. Touch ID will read my thumbprint and unlock the phone just as it's coming up in front of my face.

That's a half-second and a gesture I'll save, every time I reach for my phone.

Can you not use thumb print to unlock? The reason I gave my ipad to my brother, was his 1.5 year old could press the button and slide to unlock.

You can turn Touch ID off, no problem.

this 'article' border a fetish.

and i though some coworkers were bad case of fanboys...

But the screen is larger than three point five inches. :(

This post reads a little too much:

'Hi, I'm Dustin Curtis, I have an iPhone 5s, and I spent the whole day playing with it, and you probably didn't.'

Cool story, Dustin.

Oh, we're down to 2-character titles now?

I thought this was going to be about the digit 5 in typography. Yet another article about someone anxious to talk about his new purchase.

[autism intensifies]