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iOS 10 & iPhone 7 Have to Be Game-Changers, for the Sake of Apple's Future
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Ah gotcha. Thanks!!!! There needs to be something that is disruptive like the original iPhone was. I don't see it in the next set of rumoured devices.
Now.....if they come up with a clamshell type hinged touchscreen device that interfaces in 3D.....that'd be interesting.....
What new and great features do you think the 7 will have to make it "the biggest selling phone".
My wild guess is that the Home Button will disappear, and be replaced by a display that has integrated TouchID. Existing 3D Touch and Taptic Engine can be used to simulate a Home press.
The big advantages would be same or larger displays in a smaller phone. Also, having the display able to read a fingerprint would allow apps to be opened only by specific fingerprint.
Improved water resistance and damage resistance are other things I'd like to see. iPhone as a product is fairly mature but there is still much room for improvement. Let's not forget battery life…
I'd love to see this in the next iPhone. Getting rid of the home button would be the most radical design change Apple has made in the history of the iPhone and would pave the way for smaller bezels and fingerprint scanners in the display. Maybe getting rid of the home button would allow them to add front facing speakers! That would be awesome!
Get rid of bezels and replace them with front facing speakers? No thanks!
Why don't you like front facing speakers? They add a lot to the user experience, especially when watching videos and movies.
The speakers in my Mac are 4" x 1" and they sound like trash. IMO headphones are the only way to get decent audio from the phone. The front facing speakers would be as big of a waste of space as the bezels.
I do a lot of headphone listening as well, but when I'm home, I sometimes like to play music through the speakers or watch videos without headphones, and the front speakers provide a great media experience for those times. I don't know if I could give those up!
Also, front speakers don't really waste space as bezels. Take a look at the 2015 Moto X Pure Edition or the Nexus 6. Both of those phones have small bezels and a great pair of front facing speakers.
I'm tired of this game changer nonsense. Why do people care so much? Just buy it if u want it. I personally don't care what it has, I'm gonna buy the new iteration of the iPhone regardless. It's not that complicated people. Life is short, buy what you want... Sheesh.
Perhaps the fact that I've been using Macs and virtually almost every other Apple product for decades has me jaded due to the noticeable decline in quality over the last few years. Sadly my confidence has been rattled and I no longer trust them to deliver the experience they used to be so good at providing. Not only am I sceptical about iPhone 7, but the next major version of iOS as well.
I know Apple is capable... But WILL they perform?
You are never going to convince me that any phone has a "great pair of speakers". Once again my MBP has 4" x1" speakers that sound terrible and smaller will be worse. Wasted space is wasted space. Maybe you need some BT speakers.
I really hope that Apple does perform well in 2016. 2015 was Apple's "Beta" Year, in which they released (IMO) a lot of unfinished and unpolished products (minus the iPhone). My trust was shaken in Apple to make killer products and great software. I still do like Apple, but 2015 was disappointing. I have very high hopes and expectations for 2016, and if Apple misses those, I may completely lose trust in them. This upcoming March event will really set the tone for the rest of the year, so let's hope that Apple hits it out of the park and continues with the momentum through 2016 and beyond.
Excellent Post, Well Said!
I also _really_ like Apple...
In fact that's one reason I'm so outspoken about their weak areas. They've been consistently excellent leading up to circa 2011 which was the very first year I received such a bad CTO MacBook Pro Retina after waiting three months for it to be built. It's not the wait, it's that out of the box it had several huge 45mm to 60mm long, deep scratches in the aluminum on the top near the Apple Logo and three scratches on the bottom.
Luckily I took delivery through the store, unpacked it there out of caution, only to be shocked at how it came out of the box. With an Apple Store Manager standing with me his eyes got wide as he too was taken aback.
So I had to charge another order on my card to get the replacement ordered. The only other option was to return the damaged one, wait for the credit and then place an order. I needed it ASAP so I paid twice...At $3,180 plus tax (per laptop) I ended up charging over $6,500 on my credit card!
Two months after that I finally had a working MBPR. And that's just one of several issues with new iPhones and such. What a rotten experience.
There has to be some game changers if AAPL expects people to upgrade iPhones
Question is does Appl know what to do
Time will tell
It will be ''the best iPhone yet''. Tim Cook will tell us that in September
Yes he will and the Apple fans will get excited, we will buy and after a few weeks we will,wonder what all the hype was about.
We have all been there before.
Not going to happen, Apple is all about small measured steps. Plus given the current state of the mobile market, there are only a few things apple can do to the iPhone.
1. Improve the camera, which everyone manufacturer does.
2. Wireless charging - Apple is playing catchup, so even if they do that, they're the last major maker to do this
3. iOS improvements giving users more options or functions (apple doesn't usually give users more options so I don't see too much coming).
It's a bunch of interesting spin on a company that has one fifty billion in the bank.
I do think Apple is in a roll though and will mop up with the iPhone 7. The 5s was an expected killer and left others playing catch-up; the 6 was not a killer release, the 6s was. I'm thinking the 7 will up the ante significantly, as Apple seems to have surprises with each release.
Whats left to go on phones that could be a game changer and more importantly useful? When smartphones first came along it was easy to launch a new one with loads of new features we didnt realise we needed on a phone until they gave them to us but now short of someone finally cracking a better battery\power option for days\weeks with charging is there anything you stop and think "i wish my phone did this!!".
I noticed this on BBC News today so its not just Apple thats expecting slower Smartphone sales :-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-35416527
One part of the issue is as well that the latest smartphones can comfortably be used for more than a year and folk are doing so less upgrades buying of new phones. I've just moved to a 6S after over 3yrs on a launch day iPhone 5 that comfortably ran every each iOS update Apple threw at it and i suspect could have lasted me longer had it not been for me dropping it a while ago which has led to the screen starting to come away from the body. That said should something happen to my new 6S i could comfortably go back to it in the short term to tide me over.
They could really pull an Apple if they jumped straight to resonant wireless charging and dumped the charging pad necessity. Game changer indeed.
Apple will continue to sell a ton of new iPhones every single year for the foreseeable future. This is a bunch of nonsense really.