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Apple May Launch 5.8-Inch OLED iPhone With Curved Glass Casing and Screen in 2017
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Gosh, it's really disturbing that Toyota has a monopoly on Camry's, who do they think they are dictating pricing and availability like that?
Seriously?
I'm not convinced a curve screen is a good thing or not. It may look cool, but is it useful or will it just cause cases to be worthless and unintended touches to be read due to the just holding the phone? Plus, what's the use case? what real advantage does it bring other than looking cool? I'd be more impressed with longer battery life, a better speaker phone, and rock solid continuity features to manage content and back-ups on all my iOS and OSX devices.
One of Apple's original (nonfunctional) prototypes for the iPhone was a curved glass on both sides device. You can bet in the last nine years they have come up with some very specific use cases for that design.
Gosh, it's really disturbing that Toyota has a monopoly on Camry's, who do they think they are dictating pricing and availability like that?
Seriously?
Now you got it. The problem with your example is that there are OTHER even more attractive alternatives, BUT if you want iOS you need to buy Apple's idea of a product line.
That's a textbook monopoly.
Why do you think that almost all people agree thar the Samsung Galaxy displays are worth having in 2017 while they are in fact sold today? Why do you think people would like water resistant iPhones?
They could have all of this today, but not with iOS and not from Apple.
If you don't see that, you are simply ignoring why Apple as of today can do whatever it wants.
Toyota can, too. But you can always buy a nice BMW and have no regrets.
It's not an Android business model--Android is not a company. It's OEM manufactuers; Samsung, HTC, Moto, Sony, etc., who rely on Google's OS to power their fleets of devices. In similar fashion, if Apple offered a proprietary yet opensource OS to these same companies, no doubt there'd be tons of competing devices out there running all versions of iOS.
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Thanks. And this is exactly why Apple is able to sell the iPhone with the lineup today.
That's all I'm saying for the last 30 minutes.
You can always buy a ****ing Android device, a Windows device, hell a BlackBerry if you want. You're delusional if you state that Apple has a monopoly. The argument that iOS is monopolized by Apple is exactly my statement on Camry's. Your argument is that a company has a monopoly on their own product. IF you want a Camry, you HAVE to get a toyota.
You can't narrow down the car/cell phone industries to one exact model and then whine about it. You're just being obtuse.
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Android itself is part of a business model, that's all I was getting at. If it wasn't a vector to filter advertising data to Google, why in the world would Google be investing in developing the platform? Android isn't developed from the goodness of Google's heart so the Samsung/LG/Xiami's of the world can make money.
That's the reason it's practically garbage to me and many others...
You won't see any samsung phone with an Apple logo in the next 2-3 years: Apple is just way better in making smartphones
If it had come with 16gb I wouldn't even have looked at it let alone buy it in 2016.
It's not a monopoly when there's other mobile devices and platforms available to the consumer. As you stated, Toyota versus BMW. Apple offering a desirable OS that is limited to its own devices does not make it a monopoly. (More likely a metaphorical monopoly, perhaps?) At the end of the day it's called captialism.
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There is very good reason not to offer more than three different storage size options, even more so since the chips are soldered in and can't be replaced without exchanging the whole phone. And when you buy an older or budget phone to save money, it makes no sense to pay more for the biggest storage option. That's why there is no 128GB option for some devices.
16GB = less than what most people want
64GB = not too much and not too little for most people
128GB = more than what most people want
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Apple has a monopoly on iOS. If you want iOS you need to buy Apple.
Toyota has a monopoly on whatever model they make.
That's all fine. I'm not arguing about that.
Is that why Apple buys most of their parts from Samsung so it can make a decent phone. If you guys hate Samsung so much why do you buy Apple, it's basically a Samsung phone, I know, they're trying to break away, but they keep going back.
If you hate Samsung buy LG or Sony.
The thing is the iPhone 7 is a design change, unless Apple wants to keep it that way like the iPads. Then obviously next year is the 7S which has identical design from previous model. The good news is your iPhone 6S still a very capable phone 3 years down the road. You might wanna hold it off until until 8S and that is a completely different hardware. New hardware but much better OS, because by that time developers has supported the curve screen. I can only imagine few of the stock apps supports the curve screen for at least 1 year, the rest of the developers are just experimenting.
Samsung is a top tier component maker, no one is denying that. But an electronic device is far more than just the components (hell, Samsung doesn't even make most of the components in the device).
reality check: Apple doesn't dictate anything.
Stop pretending to speak for "the people": you are speaking for yourself.
And even a geek forum isn't "people" ....
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I 100% get your point. However, if you wanted to get technical in a business sense, Apple holds a strictly patented OS as their closed and proprietary software. It doesn't mean that it's a monopoly in the truest sense of the term.
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Most of thier parts? You need to stop making things up.
The only Samsung component in my iPhone 6s Plus Is the dram chip. That's it.
Smh
I have now 128GB on iPhone 6S, but 16GB was also quite plenty for my needs, to be honest. If you don't install large games, you can install almost 50 normal apps in same space.
I don't know what the breakdown is any more, but they certainly made most of the important parts not that long ago.
I know a phone is more than just the parts, so why does Apple build them in cheap Chinese sweatshops, you'd think they would lovingly craft them in Germany or even America, they're always saying they're not in it for the money, but somehow that doesn't add up does it.