assemble a record-breaking 85 to 90 million units of its next-generation iPhone models
Double the battery life? You're going to be waiting a while. A long, long while.Bring on 2x the battery life, water proofing, better material... maybe I'll consider.
RAM: the biggest gripe among those wanting more ram (and myself) was the cleared cache for every page/tab you're on in safari.
That should keep the "limited production units to drive up interest" crowd quieted down.
Is it initially gonna be online only like Apple Watch?
True. And the very visible demand for the iP6/+ last fall provided more than enough reason for Apple to make this move. It also doesn't hurt that the bulk the parts, tooling, and supply chain is pretty much unchanged with this version. (Certain improved internal components nonwithstanding.)
I tried force touch on a phone once... It was called a Blackberry Storm.![]()
Spec wise 5S was a huge change from 5 but real world performance was negligible. Also TouchID didn't work consistently for me until an update like ~4 months after launch.Really? The 5S was a big change with the 64 bit processor. Android manufactures said it was one of the big reasons for the losses they have seen over the past few years. They were forced to develop a 64 bit platform to respond to Apple. Overall it made a more unified processor to match the desktop which makes more room for a single OS in the future.
funny, but no it's not a long press. it's pretty awesome on the watch and, naturally, I keep wanting to use it on the phone. Kind of like how I would try to use touch id on my iPad 2...Force Touch: the long press we can charge you more for.
I don't have an Apple watch, that's why I asked. And I seem to remember that right clicking was something stupid you had to do in Windows.
just give me 2gb of RAM this time around would be great!!!
It is not a long press. Firstly, there have been iPhone apps which implement the very innovative android™ longpress™ since iOS 2. (We don't care about Android). Secondly, Force Touch is a completely different input method from tapping. It's not slow, it can be done as quickly as a regular tap. You'd know this if you actually had any knowledge about it/experience with it, and perhaps you'd see the potential in it...Force touch is very slow for interacting. And BTW, its a copy from Android's long press. Too sad. But I guess is The New Apple™