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Larger iPhone 6, 'iPad Pro' and iWatch Could Tap New Display Sizes in Development
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The bottom line is simple..Apple and Developers knew this day was comming for years now..The pressure on apple to develop a larger device or to diversify is not recent. There is plenty of market for such products and categories..With a market size comes an opportunity to profit..Increase those app sales and enroll new customers onto the apple eco system..This will drive developers to come around..Give a market and see the developers lap it up..The last thing IOS developers want is stagnation...
What a backward attitude you have. iWatch will be much more than a watch,,a watch in the loosest sense of the word. It's wearable technology - the next big thing, you know...like they wear in sci-if films!
AX338
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I caved in after owning every variant of iPhone and did buy the Note 3! just really wanted a larger screen as watch quite a few movies while commuting or at the gym and have been pleasantly surprised how good the device is.
Will still consider a move back to the iPhone if there is a 5"+ screen.
1984
macrumors 6502a
Good grief. They didn't pick 1136x640 just to be "different" or to go against standards. They took the original iPhone resolution of 480x320 and doubled it to 960x640 to make it easier on developers and to retain compatibility of older apps for users due to the simple doubling of pixels. They did it again by keeping the width of 640 and only increasing the height to 1136, again making it easier to update apps for the larger screen and to ensure compatibility with older ones. Going forward they may have no choice but to cause a transition headache for developers and users by going 720p and 1080p for their phones as I doubt 2272x1280 is feasible or even necessary.
It all depends what capability the watch brings to the user. Apple is not making it in a bubble..they are aware of the fact that people really do not wear watches any more (We'll a large percentage of the population does not) and he even mentioned it in his interview last year..Given this apple's main push would be to get people to start wearking them again !
You are not alone in this 🙂 People have been greatly OFF on market size predictions even post apple device launches..So it remains to be seen..It all depends whether apple has what it takes to deliver as they have done with new categories in the past..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U#t=73
The iPhone4 size screen will be phased out completely this year. There will probably still only be 2 resolutions... iPhone 5 and iPhone6.
iPad pro will probably happen because there are businesses, hospitals, schools, etc. could all benefit from that kind of hardware.
What I want to know is... will they make lighting USB3 compatible 😛
Don't let the vocal minority or android fans distort things, the iPhone line does amazingly still, despite its alleged "puny size". Plenty of us love the size.
I'd understand if a bigger size was released though; apparently there's a market for those that actually believe bigger is better for a phone....
Mattsasa
macrumors 68020
these sizes and resolutions are ridiculous.
Apple is not going to make a smart phone with 2560x1600 resolution with a ppi of over 500.
also apple is not going to release 3 new iphone sizes. I doubt there will be even 2 new sizes. I am not totally convinced there will be a larger screen period.
Apple is not going to make a smart phone with 2560x1600 resolution with a ppi of over 500.
also apple is not going to release 3 new iphone sizes. I doubt there will be even 2 new sizes. I am not totally convinced there will be a larger screen period.
I have to agree with you here, although none of us knows for sure. While I'm pretty sure there will be a larger screen (too many grumblings about it recently for it not to be true), I just couldn't see them going up to 5.5". That's phablet territory and there are some significant hits to usability once you get that big.
While I agree that it´s certainly not desireable to have too many resolutions, Apple really needs to think about the future and the current resolution situation isn´t really the best base to continue.
1080p is an industry standard and it´s going to be here for years to come. With that resolution you also wouldn´t need to use scaling if you feed the display with native 1080p content. And even for other 16:9 content like 720p, there would only be minimal scaling involved, which leads to a better picture. Oh, and I didn´t even talk about downscaling. If we soon get 4K content, you would only need to reduce it to one fourth of the resolution to get 1080p. There are only positives to this and only very few negatives.
Apple should finally wipe the slate clean and go with the resolutions people actually use in their everyday life. The earlier, the better.
If they offer an iPhone 6 and they can make good improvements upon the great 5s, Apple will get my money again. But this time, I want a bit bigger screen (around 4,7" would be optimal, because that´s about the size I would consider practical for a smartphone) and hopefully 1080p.
Another important reason is that the iPad currently comes with 16:10, while the iMac already is 16:9 (if I remember right) and their Macbook Pros are 16:10. I highly doubt that Apple wants to skip 4K for future Macbook Pros or their Cinema displays so they would also adapt to an industry standard.
So in the future, 16:9 and hopefully 16:10 should be here to stay.
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As a paying consumer, I'll take a new phone and not give two poops if developers need to support more than 2 resolutions... It's their job, it's what they get paid to do.
Perhaps for a user that is not interested in using a phablet. But what about a customer that wants a phablet? And one that wants the benefit of added features which could be made possible with a larger screen and more internal room? (larger battery, higher rez screen etc)..You buy a phablet (hopefully) knowing well that it is large, yet you buy it because you needed the added real estate and / or capability...
I think the apple industrial design team can potential surprise us by producing a phablet that is constructed with an eye at usability..They've done it in the past (designed remarkable hardware) and there is no reason to believe that their Phablet initiation would deliver a similar user expereince as other OEM's before them.
A dedicated line of iPhone and iPhablet will keep all customers happy, and open up new market categories around the world..I would not be surprised if the 5+ inch smartphone category (traditionally called the phablet 🙂 ) is the fastest growing smartphone segment in the comming 3-4 years..
goobot
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The 4S will still be around next year. Last year there were three things dev needed to surport anyway, 4inch and then a retina 3.5 and non retina 3.5 which just got phased out.
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At first I thought resolution fragmentation would be a huge issue.
But come to think of it.....Apples product rollout is very different from other companies.
Apple doesnt just throw out 10 different gadgets with 10 different screen sizes every year.
By the time the iPhone 6 comes out, the 3.5" screen will be pretty much obsolete. Therefor you still only have to develop for two different phone sizes.
But come to think of it.....Apples product rollout is very different from other companies.
Apple doesnt just throw out 10 different gadgets with 10 different screen sizes every year.
By the time the iPhone 6 comes out, the 3.5" screen will be pretty much obsolete. Therefor you still only have to develop for two different phone sizes.
Yes, not only is it a silly resolution target for all media, but there is also the fact that at some point Apple's marketshare in smartphones will be so small that the display manufacturers will have to think hard about dedicating a supply line for those quirky display modules that no one else would want.
At the very least this would mean a significant mark-up on the prices for these modules which in turn would give the bean counters in Cupertino something to think about.
Apple releasing three new phone sizes is looking like a real possibility.
(And there are four iPod models so giving the customer different choices is something that Apple already does.)
Here is what Apple may do for the iPhone 6 release.
- iPhone 6 Classic 4 inches
- iPhone 6 4.7 inches
- iPhone 6 Plus 5.5-5.7 inches
I don't see Apple doing this as ridiculous because Apple has to compete with Samsung. And the Samsung Galaxy 4S was the biggest selling phone model last year. And the larger Samsung phablets are selling well.
Apple has to compete.
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Had you made your argument without acting childish I would have agreed with you, but I guess you have to stick by your username.
There will never be a retina MB Air. Not more will there be any larger iPad (Pro). The MB Pro line will be the devices designed for actual work, and running OS X.
The MB Air line will be replaced with a new category of products, starting with a single 11.9" retina foldable device at 2732x1536 (264 ppi, 2:1 1366x768), including only a touchscreen and a keyboard, no trackpad nor cursor on screen, running only iOS on a 16:9 elongated version of the 4:3 9.7" iPad screen, as thin as two iPad mini.
ohbrilliance
macrumors 65816
Which implies that the size won't increase with an iPhone 6 but will for an iPhone 6S. That's not going to happen.