Hard to justify the upgrade

[ericgtr12]

If a better camera and a few minor enhancements are that important then it may be a good deal for some. However, I would rather see Apple take a couple of years to really come up with some significant changes rather than small incremental enhancements annually, it feels like they're just doing it because they set a precedent for a yearly cycle.

 

[urkel]

Apple saved all their good stuff for next year. This is a placeholder year. Next year I expect them to really blow up the industry with the iPhone X.

 

[iBreatheApple]

Here we go again. This happens every year.

Anyway, see you in line...

 

[0007776]

Small incremental improvements are just fine, I'd be really tempted by the 7 except the headphone jack is a deal breaker for me. I'll never use lightning for headphones, if other manufacturers follow they will likely standardize on USB C, and lighting headphones will still be useless on anything except the iPhone. You can't even use the same set of headphones on your mac as you can on your iPhone.

 

[kupkakez]

I'm on the line as well but I know myself I'll be preordering on Friday like I always do.

 

[Cnasty]

Huge upgrades imo

Amazing new colors
waterproof finally
insane camera technology
new home button

What else do people want?!!

Day 1

 

[ericgtr12]

Here we go again. This happens every year.

Anyway, see you in line...

This is usually the case with me, we'll have to wait and see.

 

[revfife]

If you are locked into the Apple World, it is a great upgrade.

If you try to be platform agnostic, it is an ok upgrade.

Apple is not going to change the music industry standard earphone plug to a lightning connector.

 

[dannyar]

If a better camera and a few minor enhancements are that important then it may be a good deal for some. However, I would rather see Apple take a couple of years to really come up with some significant changes rather than small incremental enhancements annually, it feels like they're just doing it because they set a precedent for a yearly cycle.

Some people really have no common sense. I bet you are one the people who think the note 7 was a major jump from the note 5? Lets take a look...

iphone 7-

Better battery
Better camera
Better screen
Better home button
waterproof
better processor
better GPU
Retooled design

Note 7

better camera
better battery
waterproof
blah blah blah

Whats the difference???

 

[Channan]

I'm not getting the new iPhone and most of the stuff announced was already leaked beforehand, but I was surprisingly...surprised by this event. The iPhone 7 is more exciting than I thought it would be, but maybe it's just that new jet black model that impressed me so much.

 

[0007776]

What else do people want?!!

The ability to use the same headphones across devices without adapters.

 

[ericgtr12]

Some people really have no common sense. I bet you are one the people who think the note 7 was a major jump from the note 5? Lets take a look...

iphone 7-

Better battery
Better camera
Better screen
Better home button
waterproof
better processor
better GPU
Retooled design

Note 7

better camera
better battery
waterproof
blah blah blah

Whats the difference???

Nope, never owned a Note but please don't let that stop you from making wild blind assumptions with absolutely no basis.

 

[westcoastcyc]

Weak upgrade. See you next September !

 

[Sunny1990]

Nothing par from iPhone 6s plus the only thing that impressed me is new jet black color and i am going to buy it

 

[travis333]

The telephoto lens is f2.8? Not that impressive. And I'll have to wait a few months for their bokeh generator to work? That should have been ready for today's event.
PASS

 

[ericgtr12]

Small incremental improvements are just fine, I'd be really tempted by the 7 except the headphone jack is a deal breaker for me. I'll never use lightning for headphones, if other manufacturers follow they will likely standardize on USB C, and lighting headphones will still be useless on anything except the iPhone. You can't even use the same set of headphones on your mac as you can on your iPhone.

How much thinner does the phone need to be? It's definitely a risk Apple is choosing to take, just seems hard to justify forcing people to use an adapter for their own proprietary jack, USB C I can see though.

 

[mildocjr]

If you are locked into the Apple World, it is a great upgrade.

If you try to be platform agnostic, it is an ok upgrade.

Apple is not going to change the music industry standard earphone plug to a lightning connector.

I strongly disagree, it's a mediocre upgrade for iPhone 6S users.
For platform agnostic, it's an ok upgrade.

Apple isn't trying to change the music industry standard. Music industry standard headphone jacks are 1/4" not 3.5mm.

Apple is just removing things that don't matter and in the world of Bluetooth and similar wireless technologies, wired headphones are obsolete, it's the same thought process everyone had with the removal of the floppy disk. No one thought they'd be without a floppy disk, now floppy disks can barely hold a lengthy document or a large spreadsheet with macros. Forget presentations.

Same idea here, why use the headphone jack if it's not critical? Bluetooth headphones have only been around since 2002, that's 14 years as of this post. It's not like we didn't have an inkling that it was going to happen eventually.
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How much thinner does the phone need to be? It's definitely a risk Apple is choosing to take, just seems hard to justify forcing people to use an adapter or their own proprietary jack, USB C I can see though.

How much thinner? Well it's not quite credit card thin just yet, but I'd be cool with them making it thicker so the camera doesn't resemble the cyst on an Android.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Apple saved all their good stuff for next year. This is a placeholder year. Next year I expect them to really blow up the industry with the iPhone X.

That's no good to people this year though is it? Our phones will be three years old by then. It's frustrating seeing the impressive hardware and features on Android knowing Apple should be at that level too. I have no interest leaving iOS, I just wish they would release the long overdue phone.

 

[Shanghaichica]

The telephoto lens is f2.8? Not that impressive. And I'll have to wait a few months for their bokeh generator to work? That should have been ready for today's event.
PASS

I can already to selective focus (bones) on my S7 edge. In fact the first phone I used it on was the S5. I'll probably get the 7 plus but I'll have to have a think about it before Friday. Watch the keynote again.

 

[stlredbird]

I wasn't excited at all for today's announcement, I was getting one anyway b/c my 5s is getting a little long in the tooth, but they announced some pretty significant performance upgrades. And if the 3 GB rumor of the plus holds true I'm all in.

 

[d5aqoëp]

I quite liked the internal upgrades to CPU and GPU. Rest of the stuff is just meh!

 

[mtcowdog]

I have to admit an upgrade from the 6 is hard to stomach. I so wanted to love the iPhone 7. I envisioned setting an alarm and preordering through the Apple Store App. But after watching the entire event, I feel like the 7 is great tech that doesn't do anything I can't already do. Its like a car that goes 290mph when I can only drive 80mph if lucky. I had hoped for something new to excite me. But they gave us the same but better, with a little less. I can save a lot of money and do everything, however much slower, with my old iPhone 6. This is the first iPhone release event where I lost interest.

And those AirPods look awful to me. I have no interest in having hard plastic in my ear and anything but discrete white stems sticking out. Again, great tech with meh interest.

Hopefully I am an outlier in my viewpoints. I remain an Apple fan. But my initial reactions aren't exciting.

 

[mattopotamus]

calling this a poor upgrade makes no sense. Virtually every aspect of the phone changed.

-better screen
-better camera
-improved design
-better GPU/CPU


The problem is not with the upgrade. The problem is phones have hit a peak, and it is really hard to justify upgrading every single year with the price of cell phones.

 

[macduke]

It's a solid upgrade. Not amazing, but things like that dual-camera bokeh capability is truly amazing and will forever change phone photography—and possibly general photography—mark my words!

I'm also a photographer and hate iPhone Plus sized devices, but damn this is tempting to have near dSLR quality on me at all times.

 

[baypharm]

The telephoto lens is f2.8? Not that impressive. And I'll have to wait a few months for their bokeh generator to work? That should have been ready for today's event.
PASS

If you look at Vimeo you will see many many videos and still photos taken by talented people using iphone 4. Most follow a theme and will leave you awestruck. So the new model certainly won't be worse in terms of specs.