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2018 iPhones Could Start at $699, May Include Apple Pencil Support, 512GB Storage Option for OLED Models
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meh. For the first time ever, I can't wait for what the new apple watch brings instead of the new iphone.
Love my series 3. it is almost perfect.
iPhone x? Outside of the processor, and to a lesser extent the camera, is a meh. not the best phone i've ever owened.
Love my series 3. it is almost perfect.
iPhone x? Outside of the processor, and to a lesser extent the camera, is a meh. not the best phone i've ever owened.
The lack of bezel makes it impractical for many.
Yes my opinion, but what you are saying is your opinion.
I've ranted about this in other threads, may have even started a thread on this topic. I think a lot of it has to do with 3 things:
1) the loss of intuitive UIx cues that first guided the user almost subconsciously to what he/she wanted to perform. Now everything is so less obvious, from their quest to look "less cluttered and distracting."
2) specifically, actuations (button shapes) were obvious and then large enough to see it change color/form when pressed. Everything felt almost instantaneous when you "see" that press enacted. Now with ultra tiny text "buttons" that aren't obvious or need to be searched for on the screen or beneath hamburger icons, and which are covered by your fingertip when pressed so as to not "feel" that "I pressed it" feedback, everything seems to take longer to enact starting with iOS7. That, IMHO, is why the iPhone/iPad no longer feels magical and "just works."
3) The odd use of light grey font, light blue font, low-contrast everything. EVERYTHING on most every current iOS app is harder to read easily due to white text on light green or light blue/grey text on a stark white background.
Each delay from those 3 adds up to feeling much less instantaneous, less magical.
Sure it could be argued that things changed in that the iPhone/iPad has been continually tasked with doing MORE now than then, so some ways of doing things needed to change. But certain intentional and arbitrary decisions regarding those changes were made to the interface (both software and hardware) that are just less quick, less easy to use, just for sake of looking a little different than before. More sleek, less "distracting." Jony Ive pitched all the world-class intuitive UIx when he pitched all the green felt and stitched leather he so detested. He threw the baby out with the bathwater just to gear iOS towards his minimalist fashion sense. So much was lost by designing primarily for "fresh new fashion" over time-tested world-class UIx principles.
It takes an awful lot of talent and hard work to make the complex seem simple.
And all that magic simplicity can be removed in one fell swoop by losing focus away from the customer/function first and towards fashion or change for the sake of new change.
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That was smart thinking for the first iPhones and iPads. The right tool for the job. Don't want to carry and track a stylus with your ultra-portable iPhone for performing relatively simple tasks. Just like you shouldn't have to carry and track dongles for your portable macbooks but that's another rant for another time. Just like you do need a mouse or trackpad for certain ultra-detailed work on a desk/laptop. Now that the iPad and even iPhone are being tasked to do so much more detail work than when Jobs was around (case in point, Apple's ridiculous "what's a computer" commercials last winter), a stylus/pencil makes perfect sense for the right application. The "right tool for the right job" isn't across the board though, evidenced by "the industry" handicapping desk/laptop users to websites designed for mobile-first...definitely not the right tool for the job.
Ridiculous
Why do posters here always drag out “to many options” complaint.
Too many options for what, consumers?
Is there any data showing too many iphone options is detrimental to the consumer or Apple.
Or is this just posters own projections.
Not clear why you would get mixed messages on icloud vs onboard storage, so let’s throw out some examples:
1: user doesn’t want to pay for 2TB or storage.
2: user doesn’t live in area with good service.
3: user prefers to have some stuff stored locally.
4: user often finds themselves in locations with no cell/wifi service at all but wants to watch movies.
Examples: Airplanes / Office building basements / Camping etc..
EDIT: Oops I forgot one
5: user shoots a lot of long 4K video, or just a lot of 4K video in general.
There is no constradictory or mixed messages from Apple.
Just a refusal to step outside ones own bubble.
Let Apple do Apple and you do you.
They apparently are very successful without your input.
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Do because YOU don't see a need for it, therefore the millions of other iPhone owners don't have a need? Is that how reality works? I use Apple CarPlay and take photos and videos, in HD. Guess what? Music + HD Photos + HD Videos takes up a lot of space, to say nothing of Apps and other data.
Let me guess, 25 years ago you said that no one is ever going to use a 30 mb HD, right?
I don't buy that one either. Apple just became the first trillion dollar company in American history, they just had their best third quarter ever, beat every analyst's expectation, ARPU is at an all time high, and the iPhone X remains the best selling iPhone. The most expensive iPhone is also the best selling iPhone, which never used to be the case until the X was released. What, among all of those things, could possibly lead someone to think "Well gee, we better lower the price because the market clearly thinks this thing is too expensive"?
Excellent and superb points for the higher storage need. Thank you!!
It's status as the "budget" phone is precisely what it is for. Size wise it is between the 8 and the 8 Plus. Rather than having multiple versions of the basic phone Apple appears to be making the choice simpler. For example, right now you've got the X, the 8, the 8 Plus, the 7, the 7 Plus, the 6S, the 6S Plus, and the SE. In overseas markets you also have the 6 and 6 Plus still available. That is quite a mix of lower end models.
After a couple of years you will wind up with what essentially is the X Plus ($999), the X ($849), the current LCD ($699), last year's LCD ($599 or $549) and hopefully a revised SE ($449). That would seem to be a decent mix of models with the greater efficiency of only producing 5 devices instead of 10.
If one could jailbreak the phones I would imagine the fasting moving tweak on Cydia would be one to black out the entire notch row. But then, the other day someone gave me a hot dog with catchup and it was OK. I could get used to the notch.....
Hope not, as according to the interwebs the Note Line in the past was not a top seller for Samsung.
If Apple enters the stylus market for phones, it might be game over for the Note and one less ingenious commercial for Samsung.
Maybe because the party won't last forever and good leaders could recognize the need to jump proactively ahead of being forced to dodge.
Recent rises and slumps:
SUV craze in the 1990s
Tech stock craze in the late 1990s
Cheap mortgages craze in the mid 2000s
The "party" of high-cost, ultra-low-durability, and continued "stretch" for the sake of change (reduction in intuitive UIx, headphone jacks, buttons, ports, magsafe, touch ID, etc) can't last IMHO.
Their device actually holds the S-Pen, and that's something I don't see Apple even considering.
When was the last time that removed ports returned to devices by some miracle?
3.5 mm jack is dead on mobile devices. It is over.
Hmmm. Apple hits Trillion-Dollar valuation. Competition doesn't.
Who would've seen that coming??? Oh, yeah... everyone inside Apple headquarters.
I'll be interested in the 6.1 and 6.5 options. We'll see what Apple shows in September and at what price point.
The 6.1" LCD model is the new iPhone SE, it's just that most people haven't realized it yet. You answered your own question in the first sentence of your post.
Hope Apple does not do 512GB memory... else all SamFans will start complaining "apple" copies...
My point is more about the jack that's still on the SE. Once several key things I listed (maybe even just one) are removed from any "SE 2," then the SE becomes just another iPhone IMHO. Currently the SE represents a value to many like me, beyond just price as far as "value." That was my point...
Oh, Apple has backtracked though when they realized they made a mistake. ioS11 is a LOT less Jony-Ive-wet-dream-minimalist than it was when iOS7 was birthed. Even iOS 7 got tamed, if not by iOS 8, to less-pastel, less-washed-out. And more and more intuitive UIx cues are returning in iOS that were unnecessarily thrown out with the bathwater of green felt and leather stitching in 2013.