If all he/she needs is 10-20 apps and 16 GB is enough then it's what they buy. WTF is your problem.
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Well 16 GB is the best seller, so yes, probably she does represent.
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If all he/she needs is 10-20 apps and 16 GB is enough then it's what they buy. WTF is your problem.
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Well 16 GB is the best seller, so yes, probably she does represent.
I've always always said specs don't matter. That one CPU is an octa-core and the other is only a dual-core doesn't matter when the actual multi-core speed isn't that much different. On the contrary with eight cores on one chip area there isn't very much space for every single one core and so the single-core speed even suffers under the spec race for more cores. A hexadeci-core chip will fail even worse than a quad-core chip and so on. In the same way more memory, more storage, more megapixel doesn't always yiel better results. The race for more and the race for better isn't the same race. Only scientists will know when more equals better and when not. Therefore all specs should be hidden from the consumer. He should only be the judge of the usage experience of the complete product. Ask yourself how good is battery life, not how big is battery capacity and you won't be fooled by meaningless spec wars. Look at all those PC companies, who did nothing but always serve you the most specs at the lowest price.
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She bought a 16gb iPhone didn't she?
And by All accounts, she is happy with it.
Does that bother you?
You really make absolutely no sense. People buy what they want. Who are you to tell them otherwise?
So you agree there is a market for 16gb iPhones regardless of the reason consumers are purchasing it.
I've been thinking more about where the breadcrumbs lead with Apple supposedly having wireless charging, removing the headphone jack, using curved glass, and putting a home button on the screen... Excuse the crappy render; it's directional only, but it illustrates that if you do all these things (and also use pin prick holes for speakers and microphones) then you get a very futuristic phone that has no surface blemishes and is tapered on every edge. Not just left and right, but also potentially top and bottom. Maybe not the next iPhone, but this seems like an interesting path. They'd obviously make it look nicer than my quick Photoshop thingy.
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I never said "none of your "facts" are correct, based on my experience".
What experience?
You don't own a 16gb iPhone or have any intention to purchase one.
His wife did.
There is no planned obsolecence, computers become obsolet by Moore's Law faster than anyone could have planned. That's why it would've been wise to skip the first seven generations of iPhones and start with the iPhone 6 as your first smartphone. I haven't been that patient myself, but at least I haven't bought a new phone every two years either. The people expressing their frustration mostly suffer from their own bad decisions and judgement. As for product differentiation, the iPhone line of computers must have the smallest differentiation of all computers ever. Before there was screen size and optical image stabilization, iPhones literally differed only in color and storage space. And the color wouldn't even have an effect on price or storage size, so you could pick whatever combination you want.
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A couple of people have said that the curved edge is useful for eg scrolling, or could be used for different in-app
experiences. How does it work for left-handers though? Can you completely invert the Samsung phone
(that would be problematic with Apple's Home button)? Why not just have two curved edges (which would also be
more aesthetic)?
in other news: Apple may also make a rounded rectangle formed iPhone, ... with color e-ink display, on one side or other.
Both edges are curved, you can change from left to right hand, this is Samsung and Android, not restricted Apple and IOS. I can't wait to see my Samsung phone with an Apple logo on it in around 2 or 3 years time, of course naturally I'll have a 3D screen by then because I don't follow Apple blindly.
Especially since they are calling my iPad Air old tech.
you apparently forgot the headphone jack though !!!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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I have a 6 as well and will simply ignore all the news until September. If there's nothing spectacular going on with the design I will hold on to my 6. I have given Apple so much money for incremental minor upgrades, but this will not happen anymore.
I was willing to purchase a 12,9" iPad Pro and I certainly buy a Skylake MacBook.
The days of hyped phone upgrades are definitely over. At least for me.
That is probably also why Apple sells iMacs with 5400rpm drives?
At least they do not have 640MB RAM the entry level option, imagine who much that would suck ;-)
I was not part of the conversation, but no. There is no market for it. It simply enables Apple to advertise a lower cost of entry. That's not a market, it's an option that's not available because of demand.
This is also why the 32GB version is missing. It would be an even less valid consumer choice, if the 32GB would exist. Therefore it's 16, 64. Because everyone knows it makes no sense.
If people are buying it there is a market for it.
The 16gb iPhone is serving ITS demographic.
That does not include me.
But it makes sense to the consumers buying 16 gb iPhone.
You do agree that there are consumers buying the 16 gb iPhone?
Just so you know....that was the whole point of my jesting post. I laugh whenever I see tech writers talk about "Android's Dominance"....what is the point of having more devices out there if you're struggling to make money off them? Who in the world wants to devote resources to on a generation old device for updates/maintenance when you're constantly in a race to pump out a new one to keep profits floating...barely.
I really don't understand the Android business model other than another data collection vector for advertisers.
It's fun to create what you would like to use yourself! Keep it up!
Tip: Try to set the artwork layer (spiral image) opacity from "normal" to "screen". It's a dropdown menu on top of your layers tab.
iMac is a whole other topic, but that one does suck. Apple sucks balls regarding iMac.
There will always be a market for an entry-level iPhone, whether it be 16GB today, or 32GB or 64GB tomorrow. And with iPhone's perpetual technological enhancements and app capabilities continually converging, people will still complain about the base model not being sufficient.
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