I'm going to bet they will include Apple Pencil compatibility in the next iPhone Pro model this September. It makes so much more sense to do so since the Pencil is so frickin' awesome - this will really destroy the Note series from Samsung - at least be on the same level.
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Hence, I am an engineer and not a bean counter...
They just can't seem to understand the math by considering how much of a time jack it is for us to deal with a piece of equipment that is insufficient to do the job. Labor cost is far greater than device cost.
Apple has certainly never said that a 16GB phone comes without compromises. If you can find an official statement to that effect, I'd be really interested in seeing it. Apple's product line is set up so that the only compromise with price is storage. You might think that if you take a lot of video, that means you are compromising record time, instead of compromising video quality-- except that's not the case. You can easily reduce your record quality and and extend your record time in software.
Toyota sells the Prius and the Tacoma-- they don't claim that either of those are meant to do the job of the other. If a construction company buys Prii to haul concrete, that's not Toyota's fault.
The argument around 16GB has always been that Apple's deceptive marketing was tricking someones naive grandmother into buying a phone that doesn't work just so they could steal her retirement funds and fatten their bank account. Now we're talking about selling to another profit driven company that is making profit driven decisions, and somehow Apple is still in the wrong?
Perhaps you would prefer that Apple differentiate on a different feature, or lower their prices in general, but the market is telling Apple they are making the right choices and therefore they are going to continue to do so. Your preferences are simply not going to be met in this data driven world.
If you could document the productivity hit that the smaller device memory is causing, you might be able to convince the counters that they're losing beans. Accountants are data driven people, they just need the data presented in a form they can digest.
The downside might be that they decide to stop offering iPhone as an option, unless you can also show that Apple device provides productivity advantages beyond Android to justify the $100-- and that's going to be harder to demonstrate than a photos per GB argument. The upside is that if enough companies stop buying 16GB iPhones, Apple might see a reason to change.
75% of it I've read so far is bickering between a 16GB as standard and why not. Lol.
I hope they're doing more than releasing a "curved" screen gimmick.
This is beautiful AND something like what Apple should do with the "7".
A totaly black iPhone with a seamless OLED screen? Please, take my money! Cant wait to see a moving wallpaper on a device like that!
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I couldn't resist to make a quick mock-up about my idea of a totaly black OLED iPhone. Would love to see it blacker than black.
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They could build a smaller version of the Pencil that slots into the iPhone Plus like the Galaxy Note.
Iris scanning doesn't work when the lights are off (if we're talking about using the front facing camera), and I would hardly consider blinding someone with the "front facing flash" a convenient approach to unlocking your phone
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I think these rumors are all talking about what would be considered the iPhone 8.
Nexus 6 is bsacially a large version of 2014 Moto X... A very large one... Lollipop was full of bug before 5.1 so that is that.
Nexus 5X is pretty much a redesigend Nexus 5 and price is pretty good. Nexus 6P is not so expensive, it is just 499, which is lower than iPhone. Consider for spec of Nexus 6P, the price is not too bad (although it cost 700 dollars here in Canada, pretty expensive here)
But before you jump to say Nexus 6 was expensive, take look at Nexus one, Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus. Those phone were pretty much expensive. It was only Nexus 4 started at lower price point.
Don't speak logically.... it makes you sound funny
I can't wait for a larger screen iPhone even if it is in a bigger form factor.
I would agree with you if I was an Apple shareholder or from what the market is telling Apple -- purely based on the fact that 16Gb phones are a reason to upsell consumers to larger capacity phones with high profit margins. As a fan of the Apple brand and based on personal anecdotal experience, including B4U, however, 16 Gb is no longer "enough" storage for a premium phone, but it's close enough to "enough" that some people will continue to buy 16Gb phones and they'll hate them. Resent them. Regret their decision. I say take a risk, and open the floodgates to 32, 64, 128, and 256 Gb phones. Kill the 16Gb phone. Replace it with 32 Gb. Make loyal Apple customers happy and don't give us reason to switch; tell B4U's company it can buy any new top-of-the line Apple phone in existence and it will meet his minimum requirements, a 64Gb phone would suit B4U even even better but a new premium Apple iphone will get the job done.
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Well that would be me then. Do me a favour do a Google search, if you know what that is, for S7 Edge vs 6S Plus and go to images and look at them side by side.
Also look at S7 Edge reviews.
Again.... if you need more memory pay more and get more memory.... some don't need it and are perfectly happy with a smaller memory phone... why should they pay more because you complain you have to? Now I don't disagree that a premium phone should come with more than 16g of storage but I'll pay for the phone I want and certainly not complain about it. You have a choice... if the iPhone isn't fitting your idea of what a phone should be then move on to another option.... free will and all you know.
Just do like I did, just slip it on, if you want more explanation I'll try give more details, how old are you.
Where do you get pennies? Estimates peg the difference between a 16GB and 64GB iPhone at $17 (this isn't just the standard storage you get in a USB flash drive).
https://www.macrumors.com/2015/09/30/iphone-6s-plus-component-costs/
Last year they sold 230 million iPhones. If half of the sales were 16GB the actual cost of upping the base to 64GB would be around 2 billion dollars.