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Apple Gearing Up for iPhone 5 Production Ahead of Summer Launch? [Updated]
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Why do people think Apple cares when you bought your iPhone and when your due for an upgrade. If they could they would sell users a new updated iPhone every other month because they know some Apple users are sheep and are willing to pay full boat. I haved learned this and will upgrade via the usual 2 year contract.
It's hardly impossible to pick up off a flat surface, but because the back is flat, it isn't as easy as previous iPhones.
No big deal.. plus a teardrop design would sit better in the hand than a complete flat back.
What comes after 4?
What's with you guys arguing that the sixth generation will go by 6? Do you think the average consumer even realizes what "generation" iPhone they have?
No.
All they know is there was 3 and its variations, then 4 and 4S. Logically, 5 should be next. Quit being so obtuse.
They wouldn't, unless they decide for marketing purposes that it makes more sense than skipping a number.
I think the convention wisdom is, they don't want ANY customer asking, "what happened to the iPhone 5?" Whereas are far smaller number of people will be the ones asking, 'why is the 6th gen' called the "5"?'
And when you look at the presumable lineup come June, it looks better this way:
iPhone 3GS: Free
iPhone 4S $99
iPhone 5
So, every LG, Samsung, etc. phone comes out in 2 year cycles because they care about users? Get real.
Apple sells things, trying to make a profit. Consumers buy things depending on how much money they have, and if the product is worth it to them. Plain and simple.
If I was rich, I surely would get the latest-and-greatest as soon as it came out. I'm not, so I'm on a 2-3 year cycle, depending on how much better the new phones are than mine, and how much mine needs to be replaced. My cycle has nothing to do with Apple's release schedule. However, I'm sure there are plenty of people who will go into extreme debt they can't get out of their entire lives because they have to have the latest-and-greatest and aren't rich. This isn't Apple's problem, nor Google's, nor anyone's but their own.
Counting Windows releases is a bit difficult since Windows 1 through 3, 95 through ME and NT 1 through 4 where depending how you look at it two or three different product lines. Internally, Windows NT ended with version 4, Windows 2000 was 5.0, XP was 5.1, Vista was 6 and Windows 7 was 6.1 and Windows 8 is 6.2.
Wow did you even read the post? No kidding they don't care about when you bought your phone. That's why I think the summer release will happen.
You mean ninth?
1. windows 1
2. windows 2
3. windows 3
4. win 95
5. win 98
6. win me
7. win xp
8. win vista
9. win 7
However, windows 95, 98 and me are often considered falling under windows 9x since they are versions of the same kernel.
Thus,
1. windows 1
2. windows 2
3. windows 3
4. win 95/98/me
5. win xp
6. win vista
7. win 7
TADA! Windows 7 is the 7th version.
Windows 2000 was part of the NT succession of windows and ultimately merged with previous versions to become windows xp.
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The next iPhone will be called the iPhone rEtro. It will have voice chat (2g) as well as text messaging and the game iSnake. The phone will mass out at 6 pounds. the iPhone rEtro is expected to have 15 minutes of talk time and six hours of standby. It will run the Android OS.
I just use my Jedi mind powers.
I just use my Jedi mind powers.
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Not obtuse. iPhone 4 was named so because it was the fourth. Maybe the next will be named LTE, not 5 or 6.
Not obtuse. iPhone 4 was named so because it was the fourth. Maybe the next will be named LTE, not 5 or 6.
Apple could do as Android does (and I think WebOS and WP7) and change iOS to allow for a flexible layout within an app that adds whitespace (and/or makes elements larger) when an app is run on a phone with a larger physical size (but the same pixel pitch). Though, I keep asking here how exactly Android does this (ie, is it just whitespace or do elements get larger or do have developers the option to add elements if the screen is larger) without getting any answer.
The problem with this is that existing apps might not run perfectly on this new OS AND that apps would look less efficient and less perfectly styled unless the developer fine-tuned its app for all possible physical screen sizes (which won't happen overnight for all apps). With fine-tuning I mean adjusting the UI so everything looks balanced on all sizes and possibly adding additional UI elements if the additional physical space allows for it.
What about Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 98SE?
And XBox, then XBox 360! What about XBox 2, XBox 3, etc.?
Just kidding - we all know it's a marketing machine that controls what the name of the next iPhone will be.
Phil Schiller stated that Apple is not going to venture into what 4G is and what its not. They will certainly highlight LTE as new and fast mobile data, but they won't name their product with "LTE" as that would be a miserable name, and they won't simply call it 4G either.
My alternative view of this is:
1. Windows NT 1
2. Windows NT 2
3. Windows NT 3
4. Windows NT 4
5. Windows 2000
5.1 Windows XP
6.0 Windows Vista
6.1 Windows 7
6.2 Windows 8
Yet another way of counting is:
1. windows 1
2. windows 2
3. windows 3
4. win 95/98/me
5. win 2000
6. win xp
7. win vista
8. win 7
OR:
1. Windows NT 1
2. Windows NT 2
3. Windows NT 3
4. Windows NT 4
5. Windows 2000
6. Windows XP
7. Windows Vista
8. Windows 7
9. Windows 8
The interesting thing is that Vista is number six in both your second and my first version.
What about Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 98SE?
And XBox, then XBox 360! What about XBox 2, XBox 3, etc.?
Just kidding - we all know it's a marketing machine that controls what the name of the next iPhone will be.
It would be idiotic in my opinion to call it iphone 5. The 4th iphone was iphone 4, acknowledging all previous versions of the iphone, no matter what their upgrade types were. The 5th iphone is the iphone is the iphone 4S, and the one to succeed that, the 6th iphone, is going to be the iphone 5? They are implicitly discounting the phone they took 1.3 years to come out with, which has been selling like crazy, and was a huge hardware upgrade. I don't see any merit in calling it the iphone 5.
your logic is flawed because look at the iPhone 3G... 2nd iPhone has the long awaited 3G network capability and they name it that, not the iPhone 2
they'll most likely call the next iPhone : iPhone LTE .. I would say iPhone 4G but the average consumer calls the iPhone 4 the iPhone 4G
at this point it's really hard to say what they'll call it, but whatever they call it we'll be able to better guess future phones.
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I'm sorry I won't be reading thru all these comments just for this post. I DO NOT see apple releasing an iPhone 5 early. Why? Because the 4S is by far there best selling iPhone yet and they have no reason to bring out another one ahead of schedule. It would be dumb. If you compared say, one single android phone to the sales of the iPhone, it wouldn't even be close. Say what you want but apple is going to ride this train til it's out of gas. While I don't see them sitting on the 4S as long as they did the 4, they certainly arent going to cut it short.
I'm sorry I won't be reading thru all these comments just for this post. I DO NOT see apple releasing an iPhone 5 early. Why? Because the 4S is by far there best selling iPhone yet and they have no reason to bring out another one ahead of schedule. It would be dumb. If you compared say, one single android phone to the sales of the iPhone, it wouldn't even be close. Say what you want but apple is going to ride this train til it's out of gas. While I don't see them sitting on the 4S as long as they did the 4, they certainly arent going to cut it short.
Maybe it will look like this (hopefully!)
- Spring: iPad 3
- Summer: iPhone 5
- Fall: iTV
Boy would this be a good year for Apple shareholders if Apple could pull that off!
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