When you think about it, every iPhone is a compromise phone. When the rumors are flying, we hear about all the cool new features Apple may or may not be working on. As things get closer to a real product, we hear that Apple couldn’t fit a few of the more amazing features in. On the day Apple officially reveals the new phones, some of us hold out hope that somehow those talented engineers will pull a rabbit out of a hat and give us some of the features that the wild early rumors promised. But Apple didn’t make those promises, and whatever the bases of those rumors the features didn’t make it into the final design.I was all set to go for the X before it was announced, but now I see it as the "compromise" phone.
Apple couldn't get the fingerprint reader to work, so stuck some face recognition tech in there and added a notch to the screen to accommodate the extra cameras required.
Sometimes a new feature doesn’t live up to our expectations. iPhone 6 does NFC, but you can’t do everything with it that other phones with NFC can, because Apple tied it up for use with Apple Pay. iPhone 7 has dual rear facing cameras, but only on the bigger model and the only things they are used for are a fixed 2x zoom and something called portrait mode. Where are all the other computational photography effects?
This isn’t new. It’s not a Tim Cook thing. The first iPhone didn’t have 3G. Or apps. Or navigation. Or cut and paste. What the heck was Steve Jobs thinking?!!!
Every iPhone is a compromise. Every product from every company is a compromise. If you’re waiting for one that isn’t, be prepared to live a disappointed life.
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Proud internet weirdo here. Thank you.And that’s fine! I’m not an internet weirdo that prejudges people based on what phone they want!