{"id":625,"date":"2014-09-12T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=625"},"modified":"2014-09-11T22:13:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T02:13:36","slug":"rant-iphone-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Rant &#8211; iPhone Hysteria!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/iphone-6.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>As most of you know Apple announced not one, not two, but three new iterations of their flagship product the iPhone Tuesday September 9th. These with be the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 ($199 &#8211; $399), and\u00a0iPhone 6 Plus($299 &#8211; $499).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_626\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-626\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/iphone-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-626 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/iphone-6-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"iphone-6\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/iphone-6-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/iphone-6-1024x577.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/iphone-6-407x230.jpg 407w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/iphone-6.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-626\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iPhone Comparrison<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No do not get me wrong I love my nerdy devices just like the rest of you, but I just do not understand why everyone goes nuts every year over what appears to me to be the same product in a different shell. I know, I know there are differences and I am sure some of you iPhyles will know just what they are. But lets be honest are they important to to warrant your blind faith to wait in lines for hours for a piece of equipment? I mean the first 6 months they are working out all the bugs, leaving you for the next 6 months chomping at the bit for their next\u00a0big release announcement. I just do not get it&#8230; I am afraid I never will&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What I thought was the highlight of\u00a0Apples announcements was the Apple Watch ($349)! I mean look at how sweet looking they actually are! I just not sure it will be able to revive the need to wear a watch. I guess time will tell!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_627\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-627\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/apple-watch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-627 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/apple-watch-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"apple-watch\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/apple-watch-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/apple-watch-1024x682.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/apple-watch-345x230.jpg 345w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/apple-watch.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apple Watch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I will an eye on the developments of this\u00a0cool device. I mean lets be honest the Dick Tracy cosplayers will finally be able to complete there costumes with a watch that can actually do the job and even more!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_628\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-628\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dick-tracy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-628\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dick-tracy-300x260.jpg\" alt=\"Dick Tracy Watch\" width=\"300\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dick-tracy-300x260.jpg 300w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dick-tracy-265x230.jpg 265w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/dick-tracy.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dick Tracy Watch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-629\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3770133450_8e8c7d630b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-629\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3770133450_8e8c7d630b-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dick Tracy Cosplay\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3770133450_8e8c7d630b-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3770133450_8e8c7d630b-153x230.jpg 153w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/3770133450_8e8c7d630b.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dick Tracy Cosplay<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Later Nerds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As most of you know Apple announced not one, not two, but three new iterations of their flagship product the iPhone Tuesday September 9th. These with be the iPhone 5S, iPhone 6 ($199 &#8211; $399), and\u00a0iPhone 6 Plus($299 &#8211; $499). &nbsp; No do not get me wrong I love my nerdy devices just like the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rant","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":632,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}