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Apple Media Event All But Confirmed for September 12th, iPhone Launch Likely [Updated]

pgiguere1 said:
Someone looks insecure about his choice of phone. If your Android phone was that superior and you knew it, you wouldn't need to troll like this would you?
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Please be mature enough to understand that people hold different opinions on products than yours. :)
 
PeopleTheseDays said:
This doesn't even make sense. You are making an ad hominem attack when someone doesnt even have to own an android device to know that if the new phone has a bigger screen there's going to be a HUGE amount of apologists backtracking on how great bigger phones are and how 3.5 inches is the perfect size.
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He didn't talk about Apple fans backtracking, he said they would claim Apple are innovative for releasing a 4.0" phone.

I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be saying that if Android phones didn't start being much larger recently. He's sarcastically implying that Apple are not innovative since they didn't come up with large screens first. He's also mocking their fans by implying they blindly give credit to Apple no matter what they do.

I personally don't think people will call Apple innovative for releasing a larger screened phone. Most people that will do will be sarcastic haters like him. If people call the next iPhone innovative, it will be for something else than the screen size.

His comment isn't directly relevant with the article and I do think he's being insecure about his choice of phone and wants to prove himself he did the right choice by going Android, just like most people on the internet bashing products competing with the ones they own.
 
AR999 said:
Please be mature enough to understand that people hold different opinions on products than yours. :)
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I understand you have a different opinions on products. I don't mind that you prefer Android.

What I mind about is that your comment mocks Apple fans (and not products).

You have no maturity lesson to give me by mocking people on the internet.
 
AR999 said:
Please be mature enough to understand that people hold different opinions on products than yours. :)
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I agree!

My wife went from an iPhone to a low-key Android. She actually spends less time on her phone, which she uses for emails and IM and, gasp!, phone-calls.

I'm more tech inclined than her and tech toys are a hobby for me.

Some people just don't care about the latest and greatest or technology in general. They have other interests.

Choice is a great thing! Judging other peoples choices is not (except when I do the judging, of course... :D).
 
spacemanspifff said:
I think these photos are of genuine Apple prototype parts. They are not "spare parts" as they are not finished to manufacturing standard, no FCC or product name on the back.

The chassis in the photos and videos has been put together pretty well, but not perfectly. I think what we are looking at is an evaluation prototype (could be the final design but maybe not), its just been mocked-up to show Apple what it could look like.

My biggest problem is with the metal on the back. Wouldn't that just short out the antennas assuming they are keeping the on-edge design for these. The bands on the 4 and 4S are designed to keep the antennas apart but this back plate would join them together again across the back of the phone!

How would this work??
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That's why they put the glass strips at the top and bottom.
 
Most likely I am going to sit out this iteration. 4S is good enough at what it does and the new phone looks just the same (nothing wrong in that) so no need to upgrade for any look at all. Surely it will have upgraded camera, ram, processor, graphics etc etc but iP4s is good for me and fast enough as of now.
 
JDee said:
I would disagree. Last year there wasn't half as many leaks as there has been this entire month.

I think because the iPhone has gained so much demand and popularity in the marketplace over the past couple of years, news outlets and sites would pay so much money to Foxconn and iPhone supplier employees to gain even a fraction of information, or as we seen earlier today, a 'leaked' casing of the new iPhone.
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There are more leaks this time because it has a new design. Last year there weren't so many because many weren't sure if a leak was legit or if someone found a leak they wouldn't even know it is.
 
SpectatorHere said:
Great. Can't wait until the second in a row underwhelming iPhone roll-out is upon us.

They'd be better just releasing the same size phone with LTE and better processor. But no, they'll make it more difficult to hold and ugly it up with a widescreen format.

You can defend Cook if you want, but in my mind there is no way in the world Apple should be cutting corners and making small screened phones to save money. They have 100 billion in the bank and look to be about to sacrifice brand appreciation to make a couple extra bucks per phone on a 4 inch screen when they could have gone with a competitive one.

Yeah, I know, 1/2 of you on here would cream your pants over a 2" iPhone if they told you it was better, but for the rest of the world we'll just move on.
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How many products have you designed, engineered, produced and marketed? Likely Zero!!!
 
SpectatorHere said:
Great. Can't wait until the second in a row underwhelming iPhone roll-out is upon us.

They'd be better just releasing the same size phone with LTE and better processor. But no, they'll make it more difficult to hold and ugly it up with a widescreen format.

You can defend Cook if you want, but in my mind there is no way in the world Apple should be cutting corners and making small screened phones to save money. They have 100 billion in the bank and look to be about to sacrifice brand appreciation to make a couple extra bucks per phone on a 4 inch screen when they could have gone with a competitive one.

Yeah, I know, 1/2 of you on here would cream your pants over a 2" iPhone if they told you it was better, but for the rest of the world we'll just move on.
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It's a phone. Why does it have to have a huge screen? Apple designed this phone with the screen size in mind. If you are holding it your thumb can easily reach almost anywhere on the screen. I hate the huge screened phones that barely fit in your pocket and you need two hands to use.
 
Now that Apple has the most visible roadmap in a decade, the folks who have needs can buy now and for the next month or two, and those who will or must hold out can update later this year on phones.

It is clear there will be a "thermal bump" iPad3 (10), as well as an iPad7 and a touch and nano. Plan accordingly. Pretty sure we will see an iMac and Mac-Mini update sooner rather than later.

MacPro Haswell in June 2013.

If the display suppliers can ever catch up with all these global rollouts, perhaps Apple, Sharp, and the content channel and show owners can get on board for the next Apple TV around Christmas or so. That is debatable.

So either buy or don't buy, but don't complain about the other people that do either. They are free to act.

BTW the "thermal bump" made both the heat and battery capacity fall into acceptable levels for a 7" iPad for the first time. Any form factor iOS device will be "successful", but Apple is focused on game changers. The biggest game in need of change is education. In every major language worldwide.

Rocketman
 
Rocketman said:
Now that Apple has the most visible roadmap in a decade, the folks who have needs can buy now and for the next month or two, and those who will or must hold out can update later this year on phones.

It is clear there will be a "thermal bump" iPad3 (10), as well as an iPad7 and a touch and nano. Plan accordingly. Pretty sure we will see an iMac and Mac-Mini update sooner rather than later.

MacPro Haswell in June 2013.

If the display suppliers can ever catch up with all these global rollouts, perhaps Apple, Sharp, and the content channel and show owners can get on board for the next Apple TV around Christmas or so. That is debatable.

So either buy or don't buy, but don't complain about the other people that do either. They are free to act.

Rocketman
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Agreed. They did throw us off a little with the iPhone 4s :p
 
I've been off contract for a year and a half, waiting for this so I can move from my Android! No way was I going to pay for a rehashed iP4 last year. This looks to be a solid upgrade at least. And I'm sure the design is nicer in person than it looks on a computer screen.
 
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