Even when I used android phones, I chose ones that were similar sized as the iPhone.
My current 5s is as big as I would like to go.
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Apple Preparing Between 70 and 80 Million 4.7 and 5.5-Inch iPhone 6 Units to Meet High Consumer Demand
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Even when I used android phones, I chose ones that were similar sized as the iPhone.
My current 5s is as big as I would like to go.
Uh oh, people with small hands and tight jeans will be very upset
Yes, clearly the iPhone 6 was made for Americans.
Apple, nobody is switching from Android. Wake up. You are the reason people switched to Android.
This makes no sense to me from a purely technical aspect:
"Apple is reportedly asking component makers to prepare enough parts for up to 120 million iPhone 6 models in order to compensate for high failure rates". (due to screen failures, according to the original NYT article)
You don't order extra devices like this, you expect suppliers to provide a certain yield (quantity made less failures, sometimes a high failure rate) to meet your purchase orders. Apple doesn't care if they have to make 200M to get 100M good ones, they only care about yield. Apple or any supplier would never put a product in the field with a 30% plus failure rate.
I think its a journalist that's a bit out of his element.
"Apple is reportedly asking component makers to prepare enough parts for up to 120 million iPhone 6 models in order to compensate for high failure rates". (due to screen failures, according to the original NYT article)
You don't order extra devices like this, you expect suppliers to provide a certain yield (quantity made less failures, sometimes a high failure rate) to meet your purchase orders. Apple doesn't care if they have to make 200M to get 100M good ones, they only care about yield. Apple or any supplier would never put a product in the field with a 30% plus failure rate.
I think its a journalist that's a bit out of his element.
Sells for $850, costs $250 to manufacture.
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Yet Apple is the most profitable company in the industry, making so many billions they don't know what to do with it other than giving dividends.
Women and the Chinese have small hands. Those are Apple's target groups, not circus freaks.
Can't wait to hear how Ive will explain that you'll need two hands to operate such a big phone.
It's not simply bigger.
We have unapologetically taken the elements that made the iPhone 5 so amazing and re-imagined them into an even more enhanced experience.
But I thought "the next big thing is already here"??? That sure is a lot of units for a device that's just supposed to be playing catchup with Samsung. It's almost as if Samsung is.... not the next big thing.
The recent adverts prove without any doubt that Samsung is ******** themselves. Apple isn't going to stop selling 4" phones. These 70 to 80 million iPhones will mostly be lost sales for Samsung. Their sales and profits have been dropping already, probably in anticipation of Apple's new phones. Who would want a phone that associates you with the company making the nastiest adverts, when you can buy an iPhone?
If these rumors are true then we should have seen some 5.5" iPhone 6 parts leaks by now. I'm not believing there will be a 5.5" phone until I see some parts leaks like the ones for the 4.7" iPhone 6.
You find it depressing that many people want an optional larger screen on their smartphone?
Have you watch the world news recently?
1. Unless you have not a clue how real life works, you'd know that it's quite normal to have manufacturing costs around one third of retail price. Look in the mirror. Your shoes, your trousers, your shirt, your watch, your glasses, your socks, they all have about the same ratio of manufacturing cost to retail price. BTW, same for the mirror that you are looking at.
2. Giving dividends _is the purpose_ of a publicly traded company. They are supposed to make profit and either reinvest that profit or pay dividends.
Apple always finds a way to BS its way out of things..... I'm cringing at the thought of his dumb promo video where he back pedals just like the rest of the Apple fanboys.
BS would imply there is zero reason to own a bigger phone? There are many reasons people would want to own a bigger phone.
However, could you imagine a 4.7" iPhone 4 in 2010 - it would've been a brick. Way too think for that size and the amount of glass involved would've made it so heavy too.
Even Android manufacturers have slowly increased screen sizes year by year. They didn't just jump to 5" - as phones have gotten thinner they have slowly gotten bigger too. But that is one of the strengths of Android from the start - because of the way apps scaled it allowed for yearly size increases without devs needing to do any/much work to support new screen sizes. Apple has taken another route. Keeping a stricter set of resolutions and in the long run it has allowed the App Store to flourish. Apps are still mostly launched on iOS first and are generally regarded to be better quality.
Personally I don't want a bigger phone, but looks like if I want to stay with iOS in the future I'm going to have to get a 4.7" minimum. For me it sucks, I like the way I can easily use my 5s with one hand. But there are definitely a chunk of smartphone users (iOS and Android) that have been waiting for a larger iPhone.
Both of you need to stop listening to Apple and Android fanboys and realise in the wider world away from internet forums there are people who want a whole variety of hardware and software. And no one company will meet everyone's needs.
Apple doesn't have to BS anyone, people will buy what they release because it will fit their needs, regardless of what Jonny Ive says. Not to mention they'll probably be selling last years 4.0" models alongside the new batch.
I'm going to take a wild guess and suggest that Dades was intimating that there are far more important things happening in the world currently to get "depressed" over, instead of the fact that people want larger screened smartphones...
Uh oh, people with small hands and tight jeans will be very upset
That would be women and girls. So ?