I was expecting a more drastic change from the current look. I like the 4/4S design, but it feels like it's time to try something newer.
Let Jony Ive go wild and design something radical.
Hideous. 4" screen or not, I will NOT be buying one if it looks like this (which I doubt it will).
Except that it was London.
The reference is to London Bridge in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, which was bought from the City of London in the 60s. It was sold because the bridge was no longer able to support the traffic required of it, and a replacement needed to be built. It was sold to the Arizona developers, shipped over, and then rebuilt. There is a persistent rumour (although there is no evidence of this) that they thought they were getting Tower bridge, not London bridge. Hence the use of the "and if you believe that, I've a bridge to sell you" phrase to imply that the person must be extremely gullible.
Fortunately for everyone, Apple & Jonny don't really care about drastic, wild and radical, but rather better, classic and timeless. Apple is a company that tends to do thousands of hours into perfecting a design and sticking with it, as evidenced by, well... just about every product they have ever made. If you're looking for wild and drastic, there are plenty of choices out there.
If the iPhone 5 turns out to be nothing but a stretched out iPhone 4, there's gonna be a major customer bleed to sexier looking Androids or Windows phones
The home screen doesn't. And many other apps don't either.
I just tried this on my iPad, and the home screen most definitely rotates
Fortunately for everyone, Apple & Jonny don't really care about drastic, wild and radical, but rather better, classic and timeless. Apple is a company that tends to do thousands of hours into perfecting a design and sticking with it, as evidenced by, well... just about every product they have ever made. If you're looking for wild and drastic, there are plenty of choices out there.
If Steve was around - no way he would release this thing. If they don't clean up the act pretty soon, in 4 years there will be no apple inc. Anyone else looking at samsung or htc as alterantive to this? I am invested heavy in apps store and all, but come on this is ridiculous. sammy's phones have bigger displays where you can watch movies, news, youtube videos. 4.3 at least and in a wider way.
If Steve was around - no way he would release this thing.
Just one more comformation that this is what we're getting this year.
Would be really sweet if Apple surprises us with something completely different. Doesn't seem likely tho...
I'm getting tired of people claiming they know what Steve would have wanted, what he would of released or what is or isn't something Apple would make. You have no earthly idea.
We know these rumors and leaks feed on one another, just look at last year's hype around the tear drop iPhone. Despite many substantial leaks (even case makers betting seeming hundreds of thousands on it) it all turned out to be wrong.
You really have to look at Apple's history. Apple does NOT leak iPhones like this, they let Walt Mossberg of the WSJ in on tidbits. Daring Fireball gets inside info and confirms or denies details near the launch. When we've seen real iPhones leak, we've seen immediate action on Apple's part.
While this policy may have changed, isn't it more likely we're just seeing better fakes? China by all accounts has a virtual industry just of fake iPhones. What we have so far is a case design that does look legit, but that's it. No working phone. It's all suspicious to me how similar this looks to the current model, and how closely it resembles the earlier renders published on rumor sites (and we know those were fan renders). Third, remember the glass panel? Apple has gone to fusing those to the lcd display across it's product line, so why would the glass be separate?
I'm getting tired of people claiming they know what Steve would have wanted, what he would of released or what is or isn't something Apple would make. You have no earthly idea.
The glass is still made separate. The glass could be made before the LCD in different areas and someone got hold of the glass before it was fused.
I still think they are fake, that's just an example