The Xs Max is far more tech than the plus versions. The screensize of the X and Xs closely mirrors the screen size of the plus. If you want the bigger screen, you are paying more for more tech. That's the way value pricing works. The upgrade path from the plus models is the X or Xs. The top of the line, which is not comparable to any other phone is the Xs Max.
The X has a smaller screen than the Plus. It has been proven mathematically. The apps lack a landscape mode on the X. The apples to apples comparison is 8 Plus----> XS Max. Please explain how the XS Max merits $400 more for an OLED display and FaceID
The Xr may not be for you, but according to Tim Cook, the Xr appeals to a demographic as it is a popular selling phone.
You don't have the numbers. According to reports there has been a production cut for all iPhones
That's correct there is far more tech in the best flagship of today, than the best flagship of yesteryear. The tech is reflected in the price.
I was getting Apple's latest flagship for 3 years for the same $799
That's some spin, "aren't as compromised"? Subjective at every level.
No its mathematical. The S9 does not have a low resolution LCD display nor does it cutdown on the dual camera. The XR cut out the fundamental aspects of the phone
Since you brought up the to me the display is the least important part of the phone, to others as well; they've said it on MR. I'd rather have an apple lcd than a Samsung oled. (Oh wait, I do).
And Samsung's OLED is on Apple's best. The XS Max is by Apple's own admission better than the XR. Apple have stated the XR is a value phone. So will you get Apple's budget phone and not the very best? Compromise on dual cameras?
Red-herring. It doesn't matter how often you replace your car. If you don't get the top of the line car, your car is compromised according to your logic.
I always get the top of the line car for my budget. Any price increases for a particular variant with the same features don't bother me as I don't replace it every year. If I replaced my car every year and refused to pay a higher price I would get a lower end car. That's true
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"Comfortable" is an opinion, and you've shown yourself to be anything but objective here. Also, I thought PPI was really important to you? That's why you trashed the XR. Hmmm...
Its a pentile matrix OLED display. The PPI needs to be higher on the XS and the XS Max to match the 401 PPI of the 8 Plus. Effective clarity of a higher PPI OLED display and a slightly lower PPI LCD display is the same
Unless you're talking about the split screen iPad-esque behavior on the Plus. Yeah, once again, your "it's why" is pure conjecture.
I was thinking something else about the keyboard and typed it by mistake. I meant the homescreen and the apps.
Uh, no, once again, the X/XS is the more like the Plus in a smaller, thinner form, and the XS Max is the super duper super-sized phone. Let's again use facts...
https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/23/16519388/iphone-8-plus-vs-iphone-x-comparison
"Yes, the iPhone X has a 5.8-inch screen compared to the iPhone 8 Plus’ 5.5-inch display. It’s also true that the X’s is higher resolution. But the 8 Plus’ screen is actually bigger. The X uses a narrower aspect ratio, so while it’s longer on the diagonal, you still get more surface area on the Plus overall — and that’s before you account for the notch and the rounded corners. I know, comparing screen sizes
isn't what it used to be. "
"But the bottom line is that the Plus will display more useful content at once, even with its lower resolution. It’s wider as you hold it in portrait, which is why Apple introduced a new size class for app layouts when the iPhone 6 Plus first came out. Apps, websites, and so on have 414 horizontal “points” — the unit of measurement that the screen is divided into for design purposes — to fill on the Plus, while the X has 375, the same as the regular iPhone 8. The X has more vertical points, of course, because of the taller screen, but a lot of that will be occupied by the notch and home button bar. "
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iPhone X is definitely no iPhone Plus. This is gonna be a hard transition for anybody who actually cares about Plus features"
"Video is also a concern with the X. When watching regular 16:9 content, the notch and aspect ratio mean that you’re either going to have a lot of wasted space, or things are going to look weird. (Granted, the X will possibly be better for viewing wider cinematic content, in case you do feel like watching
Lawrence of Arabia on the bus.)"
"Hence" means because. Let's do math (I know this isn't your favorite). Repeating my previous, but with the multiplication for number of pixels this time:
Screen Size (Diagonal):
X and XS: 5.8”
8 Plus: 5.5”
Resolution:
X and XS (458 ppi): 1125 x 2436 = 2,740,500 pixels
8 Plus (401 ppi): 1080 x 1920 = 2,073,600 pixels
And I'll mention again: you previously complained about the PPI on the XR, so you can't suddenly say you don't care about PPI. So...which is it? Does it matter, or not?
That 458PPI ends up being the same as 401PPI because of the PenTile OLED Apple uses in their phone.
Forget the Max which is in a completely different league, contrary to the fallacy you're trying to perpetuate. Looking at the X/XS in portrait mode, the area difference between the 8 Plus and the X/XS is....2.98% less. That's it. A tiny loss for a vastly better screen. Oh and proof positive that the 8 Plus and the XS are the comparable models—not the XS Max as you keep claiming and I keep debunking.
Read above the verge article.
Opinion. Facts directly contradicting this opinion provided above and previously.
There have been a many threads on this very forum, myself being one of them, that the X display is too small for us Plus users.
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...en-area-smaller-than-the-iphone-plus.2067040/
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/screen-size-of-x-vs-plus-misleading.2066694/
The widespread agreement is its the successor to the 4.7 iPhone
https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...bigger-than-the-iphone-8-plus-screen.2068501/
