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4 inch screen left behind?
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They're wrong all the time. Steve Jobs said the 3.5" iPhone was the prefect size. He also said the 9.7" iPad was the perfect size.
The market wants phones with larger screens, Apple is going to make phones with larger screens.
http://www.businessinsider.com/internal-apple-presentation-on-iphone-business-2014-4
Now all they need is a retina MacBook Air, better batteries in the iPhones, and remove led from iPhones
Derp I hope Appel mak 50 itch fone. My phon smalr then 50 inche tv and people laf at me. Futcher is now loll!!!
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Their global market share went below 1% this year. It has steadily been dropping since 2010. It's a petty clear trend.
http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/...f-Global-Smartphone-Shipments-in-Q2-2014.aspx
Remember before that when everyone wanted a Razr? do you think that's coming back and all these smartphones are just a fad?
Different context here.
If Apple kept offering 3 variants, it'd be hard for the developers to maintain different versions of apps for each iPhone. Every time they come up with a version update (not point release) that incorporates some UI changes, they've to spend quite a bit of time designing for each screen size.
Between the 3.5" and 4", it's not that hard since the width is the same.
But between the 4" and 4.7"/5.5" it's harder and requires quite a bit of redesigning to optimize the extra screen estate. Try installing 4" apps on the newer iPhones and you'll see how horrible they look.
It takes the strain off developers by not having to maintain variants of apps for legacy iPhones with radically different screen sizes and pixel count.
A 4.7 inch screen is almost like an iPad?What a ridiculous statement.
I had to laugh at this too
Lets look what happened - mobile use is growing so dramatically beyond even the most bullish expectations even in 2012.
What we do on our handled devices continues to change at an increasing rate. Now, so many use cases are taken away from first PCs then, now tablets. The popularity of large screens is a very new phenomenon as mobile is taking over the world.
4" was the right size in 2012, and I still thing there will be a demand for a smaller device in the future for those who use their devices more as phones than pocket computers.
What we do on our handled devices continues to change at an increasing rate. Now, so many use cases are taken away from first PCs then, now tablets. The popularity of large screens is a very new phenomenon as mobile is taking over the world.
4" was the right size in 2012, and I still thing there will be a demand for a smaller device in the future for those who use their devices more as phones than pocket computers.
So bloody what?
Only you and a small minority are concerned. If you and your insignificant group hate it so much, then suck it up and jump ship. Nobody is forcing you to get it.
You have an option to choose. Since you chose the iPhone 6 over the 5s when you could've gone with the smaller one, why are you complaining then?
You realise you sound like a whiny 5-year old with that 'But it's too big' statement, don't you?
People like you are the clowns of the forum who give us a good laugh after a long day.
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+1. You beat me to it before I could edit my comment and add this
If you're concerned in anyway about someone preference on screen size don't just jump ship, please jump OFF a ship and lose your macrumors user name and password
Highly subjective indeed. Personally, the 5.5in display is perfect IMO. But it's all opinions. Nothing wrong with that.
# I just realized.
Apple has set up the playing field so that those who want a smaller more discreet display can go for the Apple Watch.
Until then all screens will be bigger than they should.
It was a set up. #
Apple has set up the playing field so that those who want a smaller more discreet display can go for the Apple Watch.
Until then all screens will be bigger than they should.
It was a set up. #
I am a developer, and I do agree that life would be a little simpler if I only have to support one screen size. But there are a few hundred of millions of iPhone 4/ iPhone 5 users out there already, so for the next few years, it's a huge market that most developer can't afford to ignore.
In reality, adding support for 4" screen is not a big deal if you are an average developer.
But whether Apple want to keep things simpler by offering only 2 screen sizes is beyond their control I think. Money speaks, and if there are enough people wants a 4" phone, it would make no business sense to not give those people what they want.
If you love your 4.7" (I do) or your 5.5" screen, don't worry: they will be around. But I suspect there will be a new 4" phone next year. In fact you should want the availability of a 4" screen because that would make you feel better about your choice because your 4.7" and 5.5" phones has a larger screen.
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For now. Who knows what plans are two, five, ten years from now? Personally the Apple watch is too much of an accessory for me to shell out the money for it (though I am not big on watches so this segment of the market will take a LOT of selling for me to be interested). At over 1/3 of the price of an iPhone 6 I am simply not interested, though I am sure many will be.
They might say bigger screens are the future but the future is really ultra small. They have the smallest screen ever coming out the Apple Watch.
Technically a true choice would be an iPhone 6 with a 4.0, 4.7 and 5.5 inch screens. Lat years model of anything is not all that much of a choice. Like people that wanted an optical drive in their retina Macbooks, not non retina model from the year before.
And just like the non-retina MBPs, the 4" iPhone might very well be wiped out, with just a single outdated model remaining.
So there's still half a choice remaining, if not a full choice.