Given that Kuo's "best case" scenario is below the low end of the range, I'm guessing it will have an impact. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I understand how financial analysis works. Kuo previously was optimistic that the iPhone 7 would boost sales and must have some inside source that the iPhone 7 is more like an "iPhone 6S-S", and so his hoped-for sales improvement will at best be delayed until 2017. The obvious risk is that Apple loses high-end customers to Samsung and Huawei and doesn't get them back in 2017.
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Except Google has a practice of calling everything "beta" even after it is clearly not. Glass was an industrial product that Google thought had a future as a consumer product. Maybe a future version will, but not the creepy product that they introduced to a lot of fanfare in 2014. The tech writers were all gaga for it, but pretty much everyone else knew it wouldn't work.
You can only be a ruler when the king is home. Tim is a proxy. The absence of the real king is starting to be felt.
Out of curiosity (no sarcasm) – whom would you rather see in his seat?
I'm not surprized at all.
with an ugly,boring and tired design like that..
just look how much Samsung improved its designs with S7 and S7 Edge..they look absolutely gorgeous..honestly iPhone 6s and 6s Plus and now this mockup of iPhone 7 look absolutely UGLY.
who cares if it's marginally thinner when it looks like a flat piece of soap?
the iPhone 6 and 6s sold alot not because of their design but because they were what people wanted : larger screen iPhones.Apple does not seem to understand that.
the design needs a lot more attention.it simply looks bad.and people don't like ugly products.
with an ugly,boring and tired design like that..
just look how much Samsung improved its designs with S7 and S7 Edge..they look absolutely gorgeous..honestly iPhone 6s and 6s Plus and now this mockup of iPhone 7 look absolutely UGLY.
who cares if it's marginally thinner when it looks like a flat piece of soap?
the iPhone 6 and 6s sold alot not because of their design but because they were what people wanted : larger screen iPhones.Apple does not seem to understand that.
the design needs a lot more attention.it simply looks bad.and people don't like ugly products.
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First: Apple needs to lower the prices 100$/100 Euros for every iPhone or iPad it makes.
Second: The RAM must start at 32GB at minimum.
Second: The RAM must start at 32GB at minimum.
Can I just say the Camera in the iPhone 6s is a giant step backwards? I can't seem to get a decent shot on it at all and I don't know if it's because the software or hardware, but it doesn't do as a good of a job of auto focusing as it used to and the Live Photo thing is stupid. I loved the camera in the 5s.
It's a phone at this point there's not much you can do with the design. I want better hardware and software. Really, what I want is the Samsung Galaxy with iOS. I always thought the iPhone was kind of crappy, but I really loathe Android. And over the years Apple has so screwed up my music library that half of my music won't even work on Android devices - even though all my stuff should have been DRM Free but iCloud Music and Music Match totally f'ed all that up.
Most people forget that 50% of iPhone user base does not have an A8 or A9 SOC. I have an iPhone 6 and can feel a huge difference from my A8 to my friend's A9 (6s). I will gladly wait for the A10 and better screen tech (see new iPad Pro).
Everyone with an iPhone 5 or 5s, any iPhone 7 will be a huge upgrade. For people that really use their phones, an iPhone 6 to iPhone 7 upgrade will still make sense. Is it a must have? No. But that's high tech 101: everything is about nice to have (format, speed, screen)
Other people can wait for OLED and waterproofing. I will wait for v2 of any new revamped screen tech after I upgrade to an iPhone 7.
You may want to correct 32 gb base size, not ram
Interesting idea and definitely not one I'd have thought of, even though Dyson Airblade is one of my least favourite things in the world
Apple go longer captures the quirky appeal that Jobs was able to muster. It is thus just another mainstream corporation. Strangely Apple has not integrated the iPhone into its mainstream computer manufacturing, something that the other manufacturers do not have as a resource. Nor has Apple offered pragmatic solutions to obvious needs ... imagine an iPhone that has not been diminished in width by another fraction of a mm, but one that is a fraction of a mm larger and sustains a charge for a week.
It's momentum, it's people replacing stuff they bought years ago and loved. Once Apple becomes known for cheap crap, the momentum works in reverse. It happened to blackberry and Apple is next.
If not for my 4s still doing pretty much everything I need, I would have already upgraded to a newer iPhone. It's not that the newer models are not compelling, it's that the older models hold up for so long.
It's a major redesign haul year, so I expect big changes from Apple. Sweeping changes: water resistance, wireless charging, new bluetooth audio design, USB Type C or some new charging method to get "quick charge" in the mix, boost in display resolutions (1080p for 4.7, QHD for 5.5), more RAM for the Plus, iOS 10 bringing swift improvements, and some sort of killer feature that's unexpected from Apple.
I have a 6+ and don't need a replacement anytime soon so the saturation is real to me but I am buying a Samsung to do Gear VR development because Cardboard on 6+ has a terrible user experience when switching between VR apps and there's no way to make a modded home screen. Apple should do something with AR/VR soon.
Eh, I agree with you, but people have criticized every iPhone prior to its release. It seems like there are plenty of people calling the future iPhone ugly, but once it comes out, everybody changes their minds. I guess it takes some getting used to. People complained that the iPhone 4 was too industrial and boxy. The iPhone 5 was too tall, and the two-toned back was ugly. The 6 has hideous antenna lines. And yet, we all bought them and loved them. Chances are most people will love the iPhone 7 shortly after it comes out, even if it is very similar to the iPhone 6.
This mockup they keep putting on every iPhone 7 post does look a little dumb, but I'm sure Apple will make it look a little nicer than that.
They can't have it both ways. Trading on the stock market is what pushes up the value of your stock and Apple as well as other companies like it when this happens. Are you saying we should ignore it when the opposite happens?
They/you/we have to accept the ups as well as the downs.