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Apple Acknowledges Consumers Want Larger and Cheaper Phones
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The real question is why did the entire device-industry sit on it's hands during 2002-2007 and allow Apple to invent the iPhone? Take Nokia, they were the #1 handset maker in this period selling hundreds of millions of units but never making billions in profits like Apple. They were satisfied and couldn't envision what Jobs did - a small, elegant touch-only device that played music and accessed the internet. It's this singular lack of vision from the entire non-Apple industry which just staggers me.
Seconded. I was kinda getting lost in reading that myself...
When a point isn't immediately clear, it's usually because... well, there ain't one
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Here's a thought... you don't see something until you see it - Apple saw it, executed it perfectly, and then it came to be. Having a collective of employees with lots of money making products doesn't buy you insight or foresight, it just means you're a collective of employees with lots of money making products.
You can't BUY vision
Yeah, which is hampered by apple's stingy 1Gig of ram(iOS takes up around half of the RAM). Innovation means nothing when it can barely be utilized.
Is it possible that you could toss arbitrary questions into space, and cause a profound and meaningful discussion? Yes, but unlikely
In related news: My sock is on my foot, the moon is in the sky still and cheese is made from milk.
Is it the exact same as with my previous iPhones and current 5S? Obviously not because they're smaller. But its very doable.
The surface tablets were so much of an innovation they took a 900 million loss. Now they are going back to what they do best software.
I've not really seen Google mention how they make any money off of Android. Not much. They make more money off of Apple & iOS at this point. They are not quite catching up IMO.
I haven't tried to reach the corners. There's nothing in the corners that I need. I will give it a try next time I have it in hand though.
I'm not saying the Surface tablets are perfect, but they do represent a huge step forward for Microsoft when you realize what horrific things they were coming out with in the 10 years prior.
Apple has done more with less memory at better performance then the competition for a very long time. All that hardware on competing phones but still a laggy interface.
agreed! Have large hands and even on the 5S I have to arrange some icon folders on the home screen because it's awkward to reach the upper right hand corner with my left thumb. I really hope they keep a smaller screen as an option or I'm going to have this phone for a long time.
It'd be ironic if a a few years down the road I would have to to get a non-Apple phone just to have one that wasn't trying to be a phablet! I don't need a two hand phone for business.
You beat me to it... I had that same post in mind when reading the headline lmao.
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Apple needs to balance what customers want and what they want customers to have. Keeping a 3.5"-4" phone isn't a very forward looking perspective.
It's easy to do it your way when you're the only player in town. This isn't the same market as it was 5-7 years ago, and Apple is realizing that now... Several years later than they should have tbh.
Correct, it scales. Fragmentation is due to varying hardware.
Analogy: Imagine if Windows came with zero device drivers, each manufacturer has to add theor own as therte are MANY CPU/GPU. soundcard, network etc options. Thats fragmentation, how it affects Android.
Apple has a very limited set of hardware, and its all in house + not a problem. I don not know if iOS scales resolutions as Android does, abut even if not, its a low number of res/screen sizes and all in house
If Apple releases a bigger screened phone with internal upgrades, bye bye Nexus 4, hello iPhone 6!
Only issue I can see is resolution. What would the resolution be at 4.7"? Would it still be Retina?
Not only is discounting more than half the population, I'd like to see just what kind of precarious grip you're adapting to and how many times a minuet you furiously shifting your hands around on your phablet just to delude yourself into thinking this makes any sense at all.
good way increase the probability of dropping it.If the next iPhone fails to be 'new or innovative', is it all on Tim Cook? Or did Steve have hands in this model, too?
Perfect 4" size? 3.5 used to be the perfect size.
Fact is there is no perfect size, unless you survey most of the market to get the score, then you will see many want smaller, many want bigger, they are all correct. I know what I want and I dont like a company telling me they know what I want.
He is obviously joking. Do you think Apple can actually create a shrink ray?
Come on mate, NZ'ers are meant to be good with sarcasm
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Steve.
Exactly. When I hear that the OS X release is late because people had to be moved from the team to help out the iOS release, I start wondering why is there such a small group of engineers? Don't they have sufficient amount in the budget to build up the engineering, so there is no delays due to availability? This typically a problem of smaller companies with limited R&D budgets.