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Apple's 2017 Curved OLED iPhone to Be a New Premium Model

Why do people still want a phone that is years behind and always following the competition? Samsung does what is only rumored as possible by Apple...Honestly the new S7 and Note 7 phones are absolutely stunning in every way and put them beside an iPhone 6S (and 7's design) and they make the iPhone look antiquated and and pedestrian.

What is Apple doing this year for phones....absolutely nothing but a mild refresh. Boring.

S7 looks like the future, iPhone 7 is the past, it just amazing how many people will still line up to buy a $900 phone full of yesterday's features and design choices and then get all excited about rumors of Apple following new exciting innovations from their competition, maybe, a year or two from now.

My only gripe is that Samsung is "copying" Apple's retarded phone pricing structure. No way I am spending $1000+ on ANY flagship from ANY company, even if that flagship is the model on which competition like Apple bases all their future designs on.
 
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Defthand said:
The literal meaning of premium is:
  1. of exceptional quality or greater value than others of its kind; superior.
In its youth, the iPhone was superior to the come alongs. Nowadays, other brands are offering comparable or superior features. Instead, Apple's premium reputation evokes the other definition:
  1. of higher price or cost.
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Most phones are still not as fast as Apples in real life use. Also go pick up all the other competitors phones. Some are amazing. But most feel like junk. So Apple is a premium phone - but they are not the only premium phone.
 
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Gosh I hope not.

I got to see the Galaxy Note 7 over the weekend because my brother picked one up. While the screen was indeed impressive (AMOLED), it was not readily clear to me what function or value the curved sides of the screen offered. It was a curiosity, but the word 'gimmick' best describes it.

It was also weird to hold (not to mention huge), and I was constantly 'pinching' the sides because of the slope. I hope Apple goes back to the flat sides of the iPhone 4 and 5. With phones so thin these days, we need blunt edges again. Enough with rounded and curved sides.
 
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Sakurambo-kun said:
Wow, Jobs would really have had something to say about this. Innovation it seems, is dead.
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Really? That's amazing that you can speak for Jobs and if the word 'Innovation' is not truly over used, as if you could better Apple by your comment. Your just being facetious.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Tim was not Steve's "best talent," perhaps the least compartmentalized and best of inside staff to take over. But I'd disagree that he is the smartest person at Apple. But even if he was, smart and being able to manage the brilliance of others are not linked. A lot of smart people can't manage. Not every brain surgeon has the ability to be Chief of Staff.

If this rumor becomes reality it will cement that Tim really does not understand Steve's credo of limited models to limit consumer confusion. Apple was accessible to non-techie types because they didn't burden consumers with millions of model choices. There was similar Pro and Consumer and laptop and desktop. Perhaps Steve bent his rule a bit with the Mac mini, but its a very different machine than the iMac.

Now Apple is proliferating models with different feature sets while advertising OSes with features that some of the latest hardware can't do. That's insane. Making two iPhones, same size, one with an LCD, one with OLED, again, wow! Idiotic. Make one 4.7 model and make it mind-blowing. Do the same with a 5.5. Easy buy.

To your point. It's still too crowded. A "pro" phone? C'mon. There is no "pro" use for a phone, like say, a computer, or a drill, or mixer. A "pro" line just confuses people and sounds ridiculous. Keep it simple with just one iPhone: Big, bigger, biggest. The "pro" moniker is getting out of hand. Pretty soon McDonalds will rename it's large size "pro."

Cheap model - nix it. High production cost, low profit. That's not Apple's business model, or at least wasn't. If Apple wants to start to chase marketshare at the expense of margin then all is lost with Apple innovation.
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Excellent.
 
I don't think there's any way it's going to be like the Samsung Galaxy Edge phones. I don't know what Apple's going to do; but I'm pretty certain whatever they do, Samsung will revise their Edge phones within six months to a year of the release of the 2017 iPhone to mimic what Apple does.
 
marine0816 said:
If I'm a iPhone 6 user, why would I wait 3 years for a curved display when I can just buy an Samsung Note 7 right now with all the latest features? According to Apple's timeline we would have to wait to 2020 for a waterproof iPhone and 2025 for wireless charging..
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I dunno, perhaps because the iPhone is currently the only phone on the market that runs iOS?!! You know, the same reason people buy a $2000 Mac instead of a $800-$1200 Windows box.
 
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Relentless Power said:
Really? That's amazing that you can speak for Jobs and if the word 'Innovation' is not truly over used, as if you could better Apple by your comment. Your just being facetious.
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Innovation is over at Apple, look at some of the half-ass stuff they're putting out and not putting out. Jobs would have remodeled the iphone 7 and remodel it again for the 10 anniversary ... What has Apple really done that has stood out on its own post Jobs? The 2-3yrs of products that came out after Jobs was still his ideas, that were on the roadmap.

Over saturating the iPad line with new multiple iPads that aren't selling to begin with? Adding Pro to the name of products, The battery case with the hump, making a phone that can bend in your pocket, not updating the MacBook Pro line but introducing a new MacBook line because...?
 
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WRONG

The 2017 Iphone 7 will not wrap around like a Galaxy.

Think:
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So same frame as current phones but more real estate
 
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A premium model basically is a model with all the specs that you're supposed to get for the premium price you're already paying for the lowest model....
 
LordVic said:
LOL, that is quite literally Samsung's first attempt at "edge" that was on the Note 5. for the S6 Edge +, S7 Edge, and Note 7, the curve is on both sides of the display.
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That is not the Note 5, it was the Note Edge launched at the same time as the Note 4 in November 2014.

gregoryalee said:
Culture is not race. The whole calling somebody racist schtick has lost it's power and has been played out thanks to calling out the big scary boogieman like you are here.
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Scary boogie man?? It was a racist comment, you slandered an entire country and race of people, I bet you've never visited the country, you have made your mind up abut an entire race of people based on an Apple rumours website. Get out more and open your eyes.
It's like we can state America is a country with white supermicy rampant, a certified mad man who is running for president, and a Police force armed like the military that likes shooting back people for fun.....!!! Because the Internet told me that.
 
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acctman said:
Innovation is over at Apple, look at some of the half-ass stuff they're putting out and not putting out. Jobs would have remodeled the iphone 7 and remodel it again for the 10 anniversary ... What has Apple really done that has stood out on its own post Jobs? The 2-3yrs of products that came out after Jobs was still his ideas, that were on the roadmap.

Over saturating the iPad line with new multiple iPads that aren't selling to begin with? Adding Pro to the name of products, The battery case with the hump, making a phone that can bend in your pocket, not updating the MacBook Pro line but introducing a new MacBook line because...?
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Honestly, I do agree with you about some of the products. It's the fact the word 'Innovation' and 'Steve Jobs is truly' dead comments that are ridiculous on here. Their over played and most who post these comments, seem to have very little knowledge on Apple or their products, but only to spew hate on Apple 'Because they can.' Some of these Steve Jobs and innovation comments have nothing to relate to the article in itself. In my opinion.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
If this rumor becomes reality it will cement that Tim really does not understand Steve's credo of limited models to limit consumer confusion. Apple was accessible to non-techie types because they didn't burden consumers with millions of model choices. There was similar Pro and Consumer and laptop and desktop. Perhaps Steve bent his rule a bit with the Mac mini, but its a very different machine than the iMac.

Now Apple is proliferating models with different feature sets while advertising OSes with features that some of the latest hardware can't do. That's insane. Making two iPhones, same size, one with an LCD, one with OLED, again, wow! Idiotic. Make one 4.7 model and make it mind-blowing. Do the same with a 5.5. Easy buy.
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This is so true and I'm glad someone else echoed this sentiment.

The kind of segmented models and features within one product line, like iPhone, that we're seeing now is the type of thing that would have stuck in Steve's craw. Even if a curved screen is implemented in 2017, I can't imagine functionality not being deeply integrated into iOS (otherwise it's just a gimmick). If that's the case, then you're going to have one high end model that uses an advanced version of iOS while lower end models use vanilla iOS.

That's messy.
 
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I really hope Apple don't decide to copy the Samsung edge, i don't think they will, i think Apple will do their own thing.
 
I'm more concerned about a 5.8 inch screen. The iphone 6+ is too large for having a 5.5 inch screen and now the want to add .3 to it. They need to find away to take away some of those bezels first.
Feature wise I don't think an edge adds much but it sure is beautiful. The note 7 is just a stunning phone but we will wait and see what apple will bring with the 7 and 8.
 
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