Rumor Roundup: Fast news day
Given that this is the week the iPhone launched, it's not surprising there was very little to be gleaned from the rumor mill amongst all the actual, real news happening in the tech world. Matter of fact, neither of the stories cited below are actual rumors and are, instead, two emblems of journalistic failure - both from the same sadly unsurprising source.
Oh no! Your worst iPhone 6 Plus fear has been confirmed
Normally I include the name of the website after the link, but I'm betting you can guess where this came from based completely on the hyperbolic, drama-queen clickbait headline.
Yes, it's our old "friends" BGR up to their old shenanigans. And let me save you yet another click: the iPhone 6 Plus has "only" 1 GB of RAM. BGR wastes its readers' time for several paragraphs before finally arriving at the point, then just as rapidly veers from that point.
The headline is doubly mystifying when you consider that both versions of the iPhone 6 come with "only" a gigabyte of RAM, not just the iPhone 6 Plus. At any rate, the fact that the iPhone 6 Plus has a single, solitary gig of RAM wasn't my biggest fear about this device. My biggest fear was that after close to three years of pointing and laughing at Samsung aficionados with their gigantic phones, if I got a 6 Plus I'd be a plus-sized hypocrite.
Actually, that's not true either. My biggest iPhone 6 Plus fear was that the monstrous thing wouldn't fit in my motorcycle jacket.
This is what a more fashionable Apple Watch might look like
Just when I was wondering what bored, underemployed graphic designers would do with themselves now that the iPhone 6 and Apple Watch have been unveiled, this BGR reblogging comes out to answer my question.
"What if famous fashion designers were given the opportunity to design their own versions of the Apple Watch? How might its look have changed? We'll probably never know," but BGR and some designer are on it to show us all "how much different a fashion-forward Apple Watch would have been."
And these supposedly "fashion-forward" designs? Yeah, they all suck. I would take absolutely any of the designs Apple announced over these mockups. That includes the hot pink Sport Band with a butterfly watch face.
Pro tip: if you're going to try to out-design Jonathan Ive... just don't.
