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Analyst Predicts No Siri on iPhone 5C, Fingerprint Scanner Solely for Device Unlocking on iPhone 5S
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If this is $300, it just made sense to me. I would upgrade to this from 4S, then upgrade to the bigger screen iPhone6 next year, if it does get bigger screen. Yearly upgrade instead of two years doesn't sound like a bad idea.
That may be true, but the vast majority of users don't need enterprise.
Something tells me the 5S could wind up the iPad3. (They needed to fill in the gap). Still a nice device, but nowhere what it was intended to be. (Hence iPad4 so soon)
It may not be an upgrade that will knock off anyone's socks but if it helps carve out more market share among deep-pocketed, loyal enterprise users then it may be well worth it to Apple to only have the fingerprint sensor unlock the phone...for now.
We stayed exclusively with Blackberry for farrrrrr too long because it was such a pain to switch over. Anything Apple can do to sway them will be worth it for the long haul.
This whole idea of a low cost iPhone is too late. Apple won't compete at a low enough price with the Android phones. Maybe Apple could have gotten away with this back a couple years ago when they were all anybody wanted, but today they aren't the hip brand.
Some of the other markets lag trends in the west, but that's not usually the case in technology. I suppose this will check off a box that investors think Apple needed to do, but I don't see much other happening.
Apple is still pushing the same tired phone they were a few years back. Yeah, it's quicker and has a nicer screen that's a little tiny bit larger, but it's still basically the same thing since 2009. There was a period of time where it seemed like smartphones were changing everything we did, but then it just stopped. Apple doesn't let you print, music and apps locked to specific accounts on specific computers, you can't just plug it into a car radio and play music, you can't just mount it as a drive and transfer files, you can't easily change the phone's theme to personalize it, no wireless charging, no nfc, no IR blaster to control my tv, no digitizer to scribble a note.
The iPhone is their cash cow and they've basically stopped trying to innovate. It's all about locking people in to their platform to try to stop people from leaving. Meanwhile in Android world we're seeing real competition as companies try to out-do and out-offer the other guy. Waterproof phones? Yep. Phones that are big enough to be a tablet? Yep. 43 megapixel cameras? Yep. Phones with massive batteries to go days on a charge? Yep. Phones that mirror content? Yep.
Apple is just now standard and boring. They've basically morphed into a Microsoft of 2000. Turn out the same predictable thing that works but fails to excite or innovate.
Some of the other markets lag trends in the west, but that's not usually the case in technology. I suppose this will check off a box that investors think Apple needed to do, but I don't see much other happening.
Apple is still pushing the same tired phone they were a few years back. Yeah, it's quicker and has a nicer screen that's a little tiny bit larger, but it's still basically the same thing since 2009. There was a period of time where it seemed like smartphones were changing everything we did, but then it just stopped. Apple doesn't let you print, music and apps locked to specific accounts on specific computers, you can't just plug it into a car radio and play music, you can't just mount it as a drive and transfer files, you can't easily change the phone's theme to personalize it, no wireless charging, no nfc, no IR blaster to control my tv, no digitizer to scribble a note.
The iPhone is their cash cow and they've basically stopped trying to innovate. It's all about locking people in to their platform to try to stop people from leaving. Meanwhile in Android world we're seeing real competition as companies try to out-do and out-offer the other guy. Waterproof phones? Yep. Phones that are big enough to be a tablet? Yep. 43 megapixel cameras? Yep. Phones with massive batteries to go days on a charge? Yep. Phones that mirror content? Yep.
Apple is just now standard and boring. They've basically morphed into a Microsoft of 2000. Turn out the same predictable thing that works but fails to excite or innovate.
It would introduce a whole new resolution, a 4inch non retina display.
A whole new level of clusterf*** would have been introduced to the ecosystem for NO reason, there are no concerns with battery life or performance issues with retina on the iPhone side, like there are with the iPad so the comparison is pointless.
another reason not to buy the iphone 5c.
and talking about the fingerprint scanner, i thought that i'd be able to control all my accounts (on the internet, of course) through the scanner, the pattern lock was enough for unlocking the screen.
and talking about the fingerprint scanner, i thought that i'd be able to control all my accounts (on the internet, of course) through the scanner, the pattern lock was enough for unlocking the screen.
Apple's use of Nuance made it unaffordable
Paradoxically, I think Apple's enormous cash horde makes buying Nuance impossible for Apple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuance_Communications
Look at the valuations of the acquisitions that ScanSoft made before and after its merger with Nuance. Seems affordable? Nuance's market cap I think was around $7 billion USD around April 2013, but if Apple were to try and buy it there would be a substantial premium pushing the price north of $10 billion USD, assuming the deal would pass antitrust.
Paradoxically, I think Apple's enormous cash horde makes buying Nuance impossible for Apple.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuance_Communications
Look at the valuations of the acquisitions that ScanSoft made before and after its merger with Nuance. Seems affordable? Nuance's market cap I think was around $7 billion USD around April 2013, but if Apple were to try and buy it there would be a substantial premium pushing the price north of $10 billion USD, assuming the deal would pass antitrust.
I would be shocked if the 5C didn't come with Siri. Could you imagine the bad PR from that? If the 5 and 4S have Siri it would looked really bad on Apple's part to not include it. This technology should be the norm by now sense most Android phones are now coming with Goggle Now or voice or whatever its called. The 5C should also come with Turn by turn navigation too (btw, isn't all iOS7 support Turn by turn navigation for iPhones 4S and newer?)
iPhone 5C seems convenient for Apple
I think a lot of the features of the iPhone 5C with plastic are convenient for Apple. As many others mentioned, the 30-pin connector could be retired. It would be easier for Apple's suppliers to have this phone assembled in places other than China, say Brazil. That might help Apple sell more phones in places where there would otherwise be extremely high tariffs. I think it would also be easier for Apple to swap out a chipset if that would help get the phone on say China Mobile. (I still contend the last thing China wants is a de facto Qualcomm monopoly on LTE baseband chipsets.)
I think a lot of the features of the iPhone 5C with plastic are convenient for Apple. As many others mentioned, the 30-pin connector could be retired. It would be easier for Apple's suppliers to have this phone assembled in places other than China, say Brazil. That might help Apple sell more phones in places where there would otherwise be extremely high tariffs. I think it would also be easier for Apple to swap out a chipset if that would help get the phone on say China Mobile. (I still contend the last thing China wants is a de facto Qualcomm monopoly on LTE baseband chipsets.)
I predict we'll get Siri on the new iPad's.
I've never had any case crack issues with my 3Gs.
I've never had any case crack issues with my 3Gs.
Except that someone must've mistreated the crap out of this iPhone to look anything like that.
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If the iPhone 5C has no LTE (which doesn't work in my country), no Siri (which sucks - you need to access internet to set a reminder - and which major functionalities don't work in my country), no Maps app (which sucks) and no fingerprint sensor (LOL), but has a retina display, a good camera and a decent speed... It would be a huge hit here.