Guys, avid tech fan here and I mean I have owned all the Notes, most iPhones, and run Windows, OSX, and Linux. I love them all, with that said I truly think the iPhone 6+ has great potential, but we Apple lovers need to give it more time.
This is Apple's first venture into a truly large phone. Sure it's going to be a little rough around the edges, and iOS as it currently stands isn't really optimized for this type of device. Apple has shown they have no problem adding better hardware to the 6+ vs the 6 to "better" the experience and performance. The software is what needs work.
I have yet to play with a 6+ but with that said, I'm truly disappointed in all the OMG the sky is falling comments about the 6+.
So you're asking what is the point of all this? Why not just post in one of the million 6+ threads? Well I am a tried and true Note lover. I adopted the Note before it was even available in the US running off an AT&T sim. (I am a Verizon user and we never got the Note 1). It was nice, but for the most part it was stock touchwiz (crap) with a wacom stylus/digitizer. It was new, it was fresh, but it had a long ways to go. Fast fwd to the Note 2. More stylus catered apps than ever, a large dev following, and for the first time in Android history, it was probably the most anticipated phone of the year, more so than an iPhone at that time. Samsung refined a lot, touchwiz still sucked but the phone was getting better and with that came split screen use to make much more efficient use of the whole screen. No longer I felt the need for an iPad/tablet as the "phablet" could suffice.
Fast fwd to the Note 3 and I honestly don't know where Samsung can go with the Note 4.
Now that leaves us with the iPhone 6+. I think Apple will learn, hopefully, that they're going to need more than just stock iOS to truly justify the end user wanting or needed to go to a 5.5" screen for a daily driver phone. I'm not saying they have to go the stylus route, and quite frankly, I have hardly ever used the wacom stylus on the Notes, but they need stuff integrated into iOS that isn't available on other iPhone's for the time being. They need quick launch menus, true split screen, and maybe open the platform up to developers a bit more.
I hate to say apple is a day late and a dollar short on the 6+, but they missed the phablet craze by about a year IMHO so now they need to set them apart from their Android counterparts by offering something in the extremely large phone market that Android doesn't offer. So please don't write off the 6+ just yet. If we do, Apple will most likely never venture into this corner of the market ever again. Again these are all my thoughts and opinions and they are worth exactly what you paid for them.
This is Apple's first venture into a truly large phone. Sure it's going to be a little rough around the edges, and iOS as it currently stands isn't really optimized for this type of device. Apple has shown they have no problem adding better hardware to the 6+ vs the 6 to "better" the experience and performance. The software is what needs work.
I have yet to play with a 6+ but with that said, I'm truly disappointed in all the OMG the sky is falling comments about the 6+.
So you're asking what is the point of all this? Why not just post in one of the million 6+ threads? Well I am a tried and true Note lover. I adopted the Note before it was even available in the US running off an AT&T sim. (I am a Verizon user and we never got the Note 1). It was nice, but for the most part it was stock touchwiz (crap) with a wacom stylus/digitizer. It was new, it was fresh, but it had a long ways to go. Fast fwd to the Note 2. More stylus catered apps than ever, a large dev following, and for the first time in Android history, it was probably the most anticipated phone of the year, more so than an iPhone at that time. Samsung refined a lot, touchwiz still sucked but the phone was getting better and with that came split screen use to make much more efficient use of the whole screen. No longer I felt the need for an iPad/tablet as the "phablet" could suffice.
Fast fwd to the Note 3 and I honestly don't know where Samsung can go with the Note 4.
Now that leaves us with the iPhone 6+. I think Apple will learn, hopefully, that they're going to need more than just stock iOS to truly justify the end user wanting or needed to go to a 5.5" screen for a daily driver phone. I'm not saying they have to go the stylus route, and quite frankly, I have hardly ever used the wacom stylus on the Notes, but they need stuff integrated into iOS that isn't available on other iPhone's for the time being. They need quick launch menus, true split screen, and maybe open the platform up to developers a bit more.
I hate to say apple is a day late and a dollar short on the 6+, but they missed the phablet craze by about a year IMHO so now they need to set them apart from their Android counterparts by offering something in the extremely large phone market that Android doesn't offer. So please don't write off the 6+ just yet. If we do, Apple will most likely never venture into this corner of the market ever again. Again these are all my thoughts and opinions and they are worth exactly what you paid for them.