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Apple's iPhone Casing Supplier Says 'Only One Model' Will Shift to Glass in 2017
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But srsly tho... Either would be quite the departure from Apple's historical trend.
Year 1: New design and internal upgrades
Year 2: Internal upgrades/no redesign
It's been this way since 2008. Any suggestion that this won't continue will, understandably, be received with surprise and reaction.
An Apple supplier is openly talking about future product plans? Yeah no I don't think so.
am i missing something? isn't this what we expected? Next iPhone to use a new design, possibly with glass? Obviously they are still gonna continue to sell the 2016 model (whatever they call it) next year when the introduce the 2017 model.
I sometimes have to press the power+home buttons until the Apple logo appears (reboot). How is that going to work without a physical home button? Does entering DFU mode require the use of the home button?
We have a lot of people with various opinions here. There are people who like things as they are and ohers who look for something different. People who agree with one thing might still disagree in another. I would say that tolerance is a virtue.
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These types of rumors are getting really stupid at this point. In a couple of weeks we'll hear another story about how this is actually not the case. And to be clear, I know this is MacRUMORS and that they're just reporting on the story. I'm just sick of the people generating the actual stories. Almost every iPhone 7 rumor I've heard to date sounds like complete hogwash to me.
The Plus will go Pro or it will get the "future design first"
Dual lens glass Plus, all others keep older semblance of design or something like that.
Dual lens glass Plus, all others keep older semblance of design or something like that.
6S was definitely the phone to buy. Not sure that Apple can upgrade the CPU or camera enough by this Fall to make the 7 a worthwhile upgrade for myself. I still might do it as my smartphone is one of my most used physical items every day (setting aside the stuff they give me at work). So in some respects any upgrade pays off over the course of the year.
But if I hold off for a year, I will be very ready in 2017!
But if I hold off for a year, I will be very ready in 2017!
I'm pretty sure I will upgrade to the iPhone Apple releases this fall. I'm intrigued by the dual camera, and I have a 6s. But I will wait to make the final decision until I see the official details from Apple.
As for the 2017 iPhone, I can say definitively that if I am wowed by Apple's official unveiling of the device, I will definitely consider upgrading sooner than the two-year cycle that I have been on since the iPhone 3G. On the other hand, if Apple reverts to only having one size (3.5 inch) phone and that phone is an 8GB max storage model with 512MB RAM and lacks Bluetooth, I will probably not upgrade early. I'm just putting that out there.
I'm enjoying the rumors about this year's iPhone and next year's iPhone, but any decisions I make based on rumors will be contingent on those rumors being true. If the rumors are wrong then my decisions are automatically void.
As for the 2017 iPhone, I can say definitively that if I am wowed by Apple's official unveiling of the device, I will definitely consider upgrading sooner than the two-year cycle that I have been on since the iPhone 3G. On the other hand, if Apple reverts to only having one size (3.5 inch) phone and that phone is an 8GB max storage model with 512MB RAM and lacks Bluetooth, I will probably not upgrade early. I'm just putting that out there.
I'm enjoying the rumors about this year's iPhone and next year's iPhone, but any decisions I make based on rumors will be contingent on those rumors being true. If the rumors are wrong then my decisions are automatically void.
Well, I'll upgrade regardless of materials used because I've had 4 years of nothing but good experiences with Apple products. I don't really care how the device looks as long as it performs as advertised, and I've never had any problems in that regard.
I'm 51 years old. I remember a time before Apple existed. A pattern that Apple has followed exactly four times does not impress me at all in the larger scheme of things, and breaking that trend will not rock my world.
It took a couple of cycles for people to get over their surprise that Apple would release the same phone for a second year with mostly only internal improvements (how could Apple call the fifth iPhone model the "4s"? --boggles the mind! What was SJ thinking?--). Now two more cycles, and it's a timeless tradition that Apple can't break? They can do what makes business sense to them, and we'll get used to it in a year or four.
Recall that Apple started this pattern in a time with most phones were bought on subsidy with a two-year contract. Two-year contracts had an even longer pedigree, but phone companies changed. Apple can, too.
Maybe they can incorporate the button somehow. This will surely be interesting to see. Anyway, the only reason for a standard iOS device to be treated to the two-button-reset is when the device is frozen and will not restart via the power button.
