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A Day With the iPhone XR: Unboxing and First Impressions
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I'm sick of people saying something that doesn't exist doesn't sell.
When the OP said “Most of the market wants large screens” and “it’s clear people want larger screens” you asked for evidence—but you already provided it.
You can be sure that companies would be only too happy to make small phones and rake in the profits if there was sufficient demand. There’s not. Maybe users’ tastes will change in the future and the pendulum will swing back to smaller phones... you never know. Things often go in cycles.
Sorry to hear that. I love my se just because of the size. And my phones not cutting edge but it never lags and does fine. Eventually would like to upgrade. I agree. An iPhone X in the form factor of an se would be ideal to me. Imo I think it’s easier to think a bigger screen is always better but a small phone is convenient a lot of the time. And bonus I have a headphone jack lol.
Then why do more people buy the smaller of the two phones if the market wants big phones.
The reason why I bought the IPhone XR is because op the LCD screen.
The main reason is that the XS Max is giving me headache and dizziness because of the 240HZ PWM dimming.
Hopefully they have not used this technology in the LCD screen. Until now all LCD screens of the iPhones did not use PWM dimming.
Also using navigation daily on high brightness. LCD has less issues with burnin in this scenario
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Excuse me?
The Max is dramatically out selling the XS
https://iphone.appleinsider.com/art...tch-series-4-sales-exceeding-all-expectations
The main reason is that the XS Max is giving me headache and dizziness because of the 240HZ PWM dimming.
Hopefully they have not used this technology in the LCD screen. Until now all LCD screens of the iPhones did not use PWM dimming.
Also using navigation daily on high brightness. LCD has less issues with burnin in this scenario
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Excuse me?
The Max is dramatically out selling the XS
https://iphone.appleinsider.com/art...tch-series-4-sales-exceeding-all-expectations
With MOST of the smartphone market going with at least 5” screens on “small models” and some up to over 6.5” on bigger ones. I doubt any SE comebacks. But it’s Apple so you never know.
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1984 was a good year!!
I guess what you could do is try portrait with a person holding the cats??? Idk... just a thought. You can get similar bokeh look by focusing real close on the subject too. Maybe 3rd party apps??
In the first year of iPhone SE, it was estimated to be < 10% of iPhone sales. When combined with older 4” phones that year, you get as high as 16%.
https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-iphone-se-review-retrospective-2017-4
Feel the same but no bubble. I mean laptops are boring but people still buy them. Phones just have reached that point too.
Just because people prefer 5.8 over 6.5 doesn’t mean people want small phones. It means they prefer “really large” instead of “huge”.
I will get mine on Friday. Black 128 GB. Looking forward for it.
Meh looks somewhat more like a Kindle / eReader with those bezels ..
A bezel looks "interesting”? Seems you are merely finding a reason, a justification, to not go XS / XS Max. Carry On
Agree with that first paragraph 100%. I waited and updated from 7 plus to XS Max, bypassed the 8 and X models. Wanted the same size phone as my 7 plus with extra screen space so the XS Max was a no brainer.
But re the other paragraph I have highlighted from your post. I AM genuinely interested in the "added productivity" aspect. It's a phone, first and foremost. WHAT added productivity "pays for itself"?
I pre-ordered a black iPhone XR 64GB because of its larger LCD display instead of OLED, cheaper price, and a true black colour. I do not really care about 3D Touch and dual-cameras, so iPhone XR should be very enough for me.
Any possibility of Apple bringing back the form factor of the 5 w/ the edge to edge screen. This would be a winning combo for smaller hands and easy pockets.
Apple doesn’t provide breakdowns but there is third party data, make of it what you will.
Localytics provided the following data for installed base through the end of last year, across about 750 million iPhones:
In just a couple months, the X had caught up with about a year and 9 months of SE sales.
Flurry tracked activations, so new sales, for a week during peak holiday buying season last year; 94% bought larger (than SE) iPhones:
As I mentioned before, tastes change, and people may shift back to wanting smaller phones. But really they’re anything but phones; they’re really a computer you always have in your pocket. For that purpose, that reason, users want a larger screen. The vast majority do anyway. Yeah it sucks if you’re one of the customers who like smaller phones. But that’s the reality.
Can't speak for @OldSchoolMacGuy, but for me, the traditional calling features aren't even the most important communication feature I have on my smartphone. iMessage, email, and the various social media apps on my phone are used much more, and are more important to me, than traditional voice calls.
As for productivity, I've used Trello, Asana, and Google Docs, combined with Slack to run and manage projects. Before I left my last job, they were thinking of purchasing an HR system that would assist supervisors with managing their employees (employees would be able to request and receive authorization for sick days and things like that via the app), you can't beat being able to quickly review and annotate documents while traveling on the rail, and SaleForce is a CRM beast (unfortunately not used in my current job).
The user experience/work flow keeps getting better with the higher quality business apps, such that many times its quicker and easier to take care of the sometime large amount of routine stuff we all have to do via an app, leaving the heavy stuff for the tradition computing environment.
Long way of saying, if I had a computer, separate from my phone, I'd be slower at getting things done than I am with a computer that can make phone calls.
Edit: I just talked myself into buying the iPhone XS Max. I can't give up 3D Touch.
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Smartphones/iPads (not tablets in general) have gotten really so good and at the same time so expensive that is hard to justify the frequent upgrade. It has gone to the point where smartphones are so great that is hard for companies to make the new models appealing enough to make people upgrade. And it is not that I find the new models boring. It is because I find the one from last year I am using so good that I don't feel I need to upgrade for the first time.