Fear that the 2017 iPhone will be unchanged due to the Note 7 fiasco.

[WiseAJ]

Not always. Jobs changed the design on the iPhone 4 to an all glass back less than a month before release.

Anyway why worry about stuff you have no control off OP?

Um what? Then how was it left in a bar like two months prior?

 

[phpmaven]

I bring this question up because with the recent Note 7 discontinuation/recalls I'm afraid that Apple will just give us the same play it safe boring design for 2017 and scrap any idea of a complete redesign. OEM's may start holding back features to prevent a repeat of the Note 7 disaster.

Should we be worried that 2017 will lack smartphone innovation?

I doubt that what happened to Samsung will have any impact at all on what other phone manufacturers do. Doesn't make any logical sense.

 

[Bazooka-joe]

The S8 will be out early next year before the next iphone and Apples engineers will have already have designed most if not all of the next iphone so i doubt that they will stop and switch their attention to a gentle rehash of the 7. Extensive product testing and manufacturing takes up 6 months of the year. I am pretty sure that the next gen phone is already in build and design phase

 

[12vElectronics]

Apple is confident in what they're doing. Samsung's battery debacle will have no impact on the iPhone.