Apple Event

[MikeL76]

I was really disappointed today. When Tim Cook said "One more thing" I was really hoping we were going to see the apple iVape apv announced along with the announcement that all apple stores would now be selling NT juice. DAMNIT!!!!

like it would have been that hard to fit a coil and a tank in that watch. Come on apple. Get with the times!!!

 

[cuse4ever]

i just snorted- too funny

 

[taki1203]

Ask and you shall receive

 

[DasBluCig]

Ask and you shall receive

But...incorporating the same idea on a WATCH device would be even MORE awkward!!!
You;d look like .... Tracy using his "2-Way Wrist Radio" every time you vaped!!
Happy (vaping) Trails!
EDIT: GEEZ....OK......RICHARD TRACY, then!!

 

[distortoblotto]

There is just something so wrong about vaping from your iPhone. Band camp anyone?

 

[zero7starz]

I think that apple did release one thing that may help the Vape community!
Apple Pay!
They gave us a way to pay for our stuff with our credit cards without the huge risk of the numbers getting compromised from processing companies!
I am super excited about that, and I do hope apple makes it easy enough for small vendors to take advantage of that service.

 

[dwroblewski]

In the long run, I think that Apple Pay will end up being a bigger deal than either the new phone or the watch... many have tried and failed to make the checkout process more automated, but none of them have had the hardware and negotiating muscle that Apple does. It could end up doing to credit cards what iTunes did to CD sales.

 

[Kent Brooks]

In the long run, I think that Apple Pay will end up being a bigger deal than either the new phone or the watch... many have tried and failed to make the checkout process more automated, but none of them have had the hardware and negotiating muscle that Apple does. It could end up doing to credit cards what iTunes did to CD sales.

I guarantee it will be more profitable for Apple - processing fees are big bucks.

 

[MikeL76]

As a former business owner... The only thing that can be said about processing fees:

 

[caveat]

I think that apple did release one thing that may help the Vape community!
Apple Pay!
They gave us a way to pay for our stuff with our credit cards without the huge risk of the numbers getting compromised from processing companies!
I am super excited about that, and I do hope apple makes it easy enough for small vendors to take advantage of that service.

Not trying to start anything here but did you miss all the news about Apple's compromised security recently? Ask some of the Hollywood starlets whose naked pictures have been splashed all over how secure these services are.

NFC based payment systems have been around for years without widespread adoption. I'd like to see bigger adoption of them myself but mostly because I'm lazy and I'd love to not have to carry my wallet around.

If Apple makes that more likely, I think that's great but putting an Apple logo on it doesn't make it more secure.

 

[Kent Brooks]

Not trying to start anything here but did you miss all the news about Apple's compromised security recently? Ask some of the Hollywood starlets whose naked pictures have been splashed all over how secure these services are.

NFC based payment systems have been around for years without widespread adoption. I'd like to see bigger adoption of them myself but mostly because I'm lazy and I'd love to not have to carry my wallet around.

If Apple makes that more likely, I think that's great but putting an Apple logo on it doesn't make it more secure.

I am waiting to get my chip installed in my hand, personally. *NOT* Might as well be installed in our hands, how far is the phone away, ever?

I am a strange one... I didn't really get a cell phone until 2001, I was a holdout... and then I went the better part of 10 years after a 2 year contract without one, also. I'm not particularly fond of wireless phones - I rather liked being able to disappear.

 

[caveat]

I am waiting to get my chip installed in my hand, personally. *NOT* Might as well be installed in our hands, how far is the phone away, ever?

I am a strange one... I didn't really get a cell phone until 2001, I was a holdout... and then I went the better part of 10 years after a 2 year contract without one, also. I'm not particularly fond of wireless phones - I rather liked being able to disappear.

I've got a very love/hate relationship with my phone. I love all the things I can do with it, but I hate how easy people can find me. We're conditioned that a ringing phone needs to be answered. Bleh. It doesn't, but we feel that way.As much as I'd like to chuck it sometimes, I feel naked without it.

 

[MikeL76]

I've got a very love/hate relationship with my phone. I love all the things I can do with it, but I hate how easy people can find me. We're conditioned that a ringing phone needs to be answered. Bleh. It doesn't, but we feel that way.As much as I'd like to chuck it sometimes, I feel naked without it.

It's not a phone... It's a "mobile internet communicator"....LOL

The phone part is optional... I could do without that, and in fact I often do... I have no problem whatsoever giving someone the side button when they call...

 

[dwroblewski]

I remember several years ago, having a debate with a friend of mine about online financial security. We were at lunch, and she insisted she would never type her credit card number into a website out of fear that it would be stolen.

As we're talking, the bill came. Without hesitation, she handed her credit card to some 17-year-old kid waiter, who then walked away with it for five minutes.

It made my point that our perception of security is based on societal norms. It's "normal" to hand our credit card to a waiter, who could easily grab your card info and use it. Only a few years ago, it was scary to buy things online. Now, it's normal.

There is no way to be completely secure... if Apple Pay, or something similar becomes the norm, we'll become comfortable with it like we have with other tech advances.

None of this will matter... Skynet will soon become sentient and destroy us all anyway. Buy online and vape while you can!

 

[Ms.Cruzer]

I've got a very love/hate relationship with my phone. I love all the things I can do with it, but I hate how easy people can find me. We're conditioned that a ringing phone needs to be answered. Bleh. It doesn't, but we feel that way.As much as I'd like to chuck it sometimes, I feel naked without it.

There's a button on the top of that Iphone that helps me decide I don't want to answer it. Now my home phone, it NEVER gets answered unless my TV displays that it's one of my family. I wonder why we still have one. I feel like we're one of the last people on earth but it's only $10 a month so we hang on to it for old times sake or something.

 

[embee214]

I am waiting to get my chip installed in my hand, personally. *NOT* Might as well be installed in our hands, how far is the phone away, ever?

I am a strange one... I didn't really get a cell phone until 2001, I was a holdout... and then I went the better part of 10 years after a 2 year contract without one, also. I'm not particularly fond of wireless phones - I rather liked being able to disappear.

I am exactly the same. I think I held out until '03. Just got my first smartphone last month and I still don't know where it is half the time.

 

[Thundernoggin]

I am waiting to get my chip installed in my hand, personally. *NOT* Might as well be installed in our hands, how far is the phone away, ever?

I am a strange one... I didn't really get a cell phone until 2001, I was a holdout... and then I went the better part of 10 years after a 2 year contract without one, also. I'm not particularly fond of wireless phones - I rather liked being able to disappear.

This^. There was a time I could get in the car and completely drop off the radar. Man do I miss those days. My cellphone was a nasty byproduct of starting a business. One of these days I'm going to take a hammer to it and drive someplace I've never been before in a non-smart car.

 

[DasBluCig]

There's a button on the top of that Iphone that helps me decide I don't want to answer it. Now my home phone, it NEVER gets answered unless my TV displays that it's one of my family. I wonder why we still have one. I feel like we're one of the last people on earth but it's only $10 a month so we hang on to it for old times sake or something.

Our "land-line" is set for local service (no tolls).....and, of course, 9-1-1.....
As much as I venerate technology.....I've YET to see our "copper" connection fail when I've needed it most - in a power blackout....
Cellular service (at least in MY area....) and VoIP......Nada!!
Friend Wife has asked many times why we keep the "old clunker".....I just go over, pick up the handset....and let her hear the dial tone.....
"Because.....it just WORKS!!!!"
Happy (vaping) Trails!

 

[Pictor]

I am waiting to get my chip installed in my hand, personally. *NOT* Might as well be installed in our hands, how far is the phone away, ever?

I am a strange one... I didn't really get a cell phone until 2001, I was a holdout... and then I went the better part of 10 years after a 2 year contract without one, also. I'm not particularly fond of wireless phones - I rather liked being able to disappear.

I have a cell phone, but it's a PAYG one (Nokia 625). I only switch it on if I need to use it or am away from home any length of time.
I've always vowed never to become a slave to a cell phone, and I haven't.

When my husband retired, his company said to keep the phone and transfer the contract to his own name ....he put it in a phone recycling bag and popped it in a post box!

When I see our sons and their wives arrive here, put their I-phones on the table or worktop etc., I sigh. Are they going to have a meaningful conversation with us, or are they going to have one eye on their phone?
What is this compulsion to be in touch and contactable 24 hours every day. Whatever it is, I don't want that

 

[zero7starz]

Not trying to start anything here but did you miss all the news about Apple's compromised security recently? Ask some of the Hollywood starlets whose naked pictures have been splashed all over how secure these services are.

NFC based payment systems have been around for years without widespread adoption. I'd like to see bigger adoption of them myself but mostly because I'm lazy and I'd love to not have to carry my wallet around.

If Apple makes that more likely, I think that's great but putting an Apple logo on it doesn't make it more secure.

Yea the starlet accounts that got hacked were targeted, brute force attacks to gain access to their specific accounts. It was not a flaw of apple's systems. Any account can be brute force attacked. That's why secure passwords are over 12 characters long, contain no dictionary words, and several punctuation characters. Things to crack passwords exist, some are called rainbow tables. Just because an account was hacked doesn't mean that it was solely the companies fault. Hell, gmail had some 6million passwords uploaded to a Russian BitCoin forum - if I can get ahold of your email account I can reset all your passwords to every account you have set up with that email address. Just because I can hack your specific account due to poor password management, doesn't mean that'd be apple's fault.
Especially since the majority of people can't remember their OWN password to save their damn life. They act like it's this huge inconvenience to them, then get all flabbergasted when someone guessed, hacked, or figured out your Fido1 password -_-
If you don't believe me, you're welcome to contact apple's community affairs department yourself.