Apple LTE Demo on 4 October??

[Kyotoma]

One reason why Apple is not going to put LTE into the next iPhone: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390355,00.asp

 

[soco]

a lot of people think that apple's secretive style means they are always planning something big. But how often are we actually shocked? Don't get me wrong, I love most of what apple puts out. But nothing about the iPhone 4 shocked me at all. It was all excising tech that had been around for YEARS. They just put it into a nice compact package. The retina display was the only thing that really caught me off guard, although it didn't really shock me that they were working on high quality displays.

The ORIGINAL iPod was, in my opinion, a breakthrough device. Same with the original iPhone and the iPad. But the evolution of these devices has not been shocking to me at all. Apple rarely takes risks on new technology. Instead they wait for it to come out, analyze it's viability in the market, asses it's shortcoming, and then find a way to re-brand it into something we all "have to have".

LTE is still pretty new. Every phone that has it right now is a battery hog. Apple will wait for either a new gen of chips that suck less power, or a new gen of batteries that last longer without being larger. That's my two cents. I don't expect it next week. That being said if they prove me wrong I won't be upset one bit!

Fantastic! Perfectly said and exactly how I feel about all of the conjecture. I enjoy the "oh man, what if the next iDevice had A, B or C!?!?!" talk, but I never ever expect anything wild on keynote day. History has proven that unless it's a new product entirely, we're not likely to be floored.

 

[parseckadet]

...2) It's got no market penetration, Apple's not going to add in something that works in only a few cities.

I don't usually do this, but I addressed this exact point in my own thread here:
Don't compare 3G in 2007 to 4G in 2011: Why coverage isn't an issue re: LTE iPhone
The gist is that if you compare Verizon's 4G map today to AT&T's 3G map from 2008, they look very similar. The 3G coverage was good enough for Apple back then, so you would think similar LTE coverage today would be good enough now.

 

[parseckadet]

One reason why Apple is not going to put LTE into the next iPhone: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390355,00.asp

If you think about it, this could explain why Apple would release both an iPhone 4S and an iPhone 5.

Since there are going to be too many LTE bands across the world to make a single device that can support them all, then Apple is going to have to make separate versions for North America, Europe, and Asia at the very least (maybe even more if I understand the article correctly).

If they're going to have to make separate versions anyway, then why wait for the rest of the world to catch up to the US before including LTE? Just make two versions, one for North America which includes LTE, and one for the rest of the world that doesn't. Just throwing it out there.

Edit: Sorry for the double post. This thread just got the juices flowing.

 

[boss.king]

I don't usually do this, but I addressed this exact point in my own thread here:
Don't compare 3G in 2007 to 4G in 2011: Why coverage isn't an issue re: LTE iPhone
The gist is that if you compare Verizon's 4G map today to AT&T's 3G map from 2008, they look very similar. The 3G coverage was good enough for Apple back then, so you would think similar LTE coverage today would be good enough now.

That's still irrelevant though, the US is not the only market to consider.

 

[parseckadet]

That's still irrelevant though, the US is not the only market to consider.

Thus my subsequent post.

 

[boss.king]

Thus my subsequent post.

Ahh, I think I must have clicked reply before you posted that

Anyway, I still don't think that will happen. Apple is the type of company to make people wait for them to do something right. Look at the demand for LTE in the mobile market so far: people want it but for most it's not a deciding factor. Apple could easily wait it out another year, until people really want it and are threatening to leave iOS, then release it and people will wet themselves over what a revolutionary feature it is. It's what they did with 3g, it's what they did with copy/paste, it's what they did with multitasking, why change their method when it's clearly working so well?