Not at all. A straw man is an argument brought up by someone else to make your point look silly. But you brought it up, quite squarely. Then edited your post when people called you on it, so it didn't look so silly.
This little "missed detail" is actually a very big thing. It explains a lot about where you're coming from. You clearly haven't seen an iPhone 6 in person nor held it in your hand. And that does reduce the credibility of your argument.
How are you to know what the "bulbous" edges feel like? And by the way, they aren't "bulbous." Bulbous implies that the edges are fatter and thicker than the rest of the body. They are not.
How are you to know that a bigger screen is impractical? Again, you haven't held it in your hand and haven't used it. I for one, was an opponent of huge screens. But I kept an open mind and actually tried one out before making my final judgement. Now that I've used an iPhone 6 Plus, I'm gladly willing to say my opinion was wrong. And by the way: it's those same "bulbous" edges you complain about (but have never felt) which make the larger screen quite manageable. It also makes a 5 and 4 series phone feel clunky and retro... and not in the good way.
Except no one "chased down" anything. You offered an opinion, quite loudly, and professed that your opinion is the reason why the iPhone shouldn't exist at all. You chastised the design - again, without actual knowledge and experience - and professed it as authoritative. Did you expect everyone to just nod their heads and agree with you? That would've made for a very boring and short-lived thread.
People disagree, and when you come in with a brash tone, people are going to respond in kind. If you can't take it, don't dish it out.
A straw man distorts an argument by by presenting it in the weakest possible light, to quote from wiki since so many in this thread seem to need it "attacking a straw man...creates the illusion of having completely refuted or defeated an opponent's proposition by covertly replacing it with a different proposition." In this case reducing my post to a mistake about a sim card slot does exactly this.
The change to my post is noted on the edit - there was nothing covert about it - and the change happened minutes after I posted it after I sat back down from getting a drink. It is fully available for users to see should they actually read it, but given how much the rest of your post gets wrong I guess it's unsurprising I should have to correct this.
I'm not sure why you would profess I haven't touched an iPhone 6. Your repetition on the point is ridiculous. I have. I made reference to it. Perhaps you like responding to my posts more than reading them.
The phone's edge does protrude is rounded, and fat and bulbous is completely appropriate in describing it. If you like this - good for you - but the "bigger is better" design is certainly more a samsung-ing of the design than in line with Apple the company whose mouse has been one button from the start (even the newer touch sensitive mouse is more a compromise than a conversion) and whose screen size remained the same for so long only to get bumped twice in recent memory.
I've already posted on my expectations with regard to disagreement vs insult. You can read them.
On using the word "spamming". You should know the difference between the metaphoric quality of something and the actual thing itself. Your attempt to correct this and straw man are equally petty.
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