The thing is, however, that apple showed off the splitviewcontrollers on iPhone at the WWDC. The presenter said something along the lines of "It's available on iPad so we thought: why not allow it on iPhone as well"
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The thing is, however, that apple showed off the splitviewcontrollers on iPhone at the WWDC. The presenter said something along the lines of "It's available on iPad so we thought: why not allow it on iPhone as well"
Does anybody proof-read this stuff?? There are too many recents in that sentence!
Tablet-like landscape mode on the 5.5 sounds really cool though- this is one of the few things I've been really wishing the Note 3 had. People call the Note a "Phablet" but it's more of a big phone than a phone-tablet crossover. If this tablet landscape mode on the iPhone phablet does come to pass, and Google doesn't match it by next year when my contract is up, I may be taking a good long look at the 6s...
For the first time I am actually excited about this update, as i finally got the screen size I always wanted. In fact there were times I was considering get a android phone just for the screen size. Now with only 2 days to go, I anxiously await to see if the rumours hold up about the 5.5" model being delayed.
Are you crazy? Unless all Apple exec smoked something, it wouldn't be anymore more iPad flat form since sale is dipping. I can see the future of iPad mini is doomed and replaced by this 5.5" monstrous iPhone.
SplitViewController is available on all devices in iOS 8.
But even an high resolution iPhone 5.5'' is very tiny compared to an iPad mini.
I'm not a fan of landscape mode on iPhones, and most people use it on portrait mode almost all the time, while is exactly the opposite for iPad.
Two different kind of devices, two different user interfaces. iPad is cool because apps are optimised for that screen real estate and is not just about the resolution. Of course you can have the same res on the iPhone if you increase PPI, but you have to be comfortable with the UI and you can't but the same stuff on the iPad mini and the iPhone 5.5'', even if you build a universal app.
Either the UI is "small" for the iPhone or big on the iPad.
So is ok to have a landscape app similar to the iPad version, but is still better to design the UI in a different way
And Apple would care less about that because iPhone profit margin is 2.5x more than iPad mini. They can eventually kill off the Mini.
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Does anybody proof-read this stuff?? There are too many recents in that sentence!
Tablet-like landscape mode on the 5.5 sounds really cool though- this is one of the few things I've been really wishing the Note 3 had. People call the Note a "Phablet" but it's more of a big phone than a phone-tablet crossover. If this tablet landscape mode on the iPhone phablet does come to pass, and Google doesn't match it by next year when my contract is up, I may be taking a good long look at the 6s...
If this's true, Apple did it right again: cross-over phone. Yup, no one has done that. I love this idea and feel excited already...iPad like landscape apps, excellent idea, Apple.
BTW, Android couldn't do this because they don't have dedicated apps for tablets, but the same phone apps stretched out to make it fit...Poor.
Nothing ridiculous about that, and nobody is forcing you to use it. I don't plan on using it ever, and it certainly is not a purchase factor for me.
Personally i really hope the 5.5" iPhone 6 is real, i don't even mind if it doesn't ship alongside the 4.7" it will give me time to decide if 5.5" iPhone 6 is what i want. At the moment i'm unsure for the following reasons:
Practicality, as someone who commutes to and from university regularly, is a 5.5" iPhone going to be practical for sitting on the bus with earphones in listening to music.
Will Apple market the 5.5" as a Phablet with extra features like the Galaxy Note series. Only Apple will be able to answer this.
I think both a 4.7" and a 5.5" will be welcomed to the iPhone, it will take some getting use to for some people but i do think the choice is a good thing.
Practicality, as someone who commutes to and from university regularly, is a 5.5" iPhone going to be practical for sitting on the bus with earphones in listening to music.
Will Apple market the 5.5" as a Phablet with extra features like the Galaxy Note series. Only Apple will be able to answer this.
I think both a 4.7" and a 5.5" will be welcomed to the iPhone, it will take some getting use to for some people but i do think the choice is a good thing.
Of course it will. But I'm pretty sure that Apple has rather the 5.5" iPhone eating into them instead of, say, a Galaxy Note 4.
I hear you.
I've been using an iPad mini with cellular as my main and only mobile device since the original mini came out, and it feels great to have a superior device, pay less for my mobile plan, and not care about the social stigma.
Really, wow that's one big phone
Apple always stated that they rather the canibalization come from their own products, not by their competitors.
In addition, people upgrade the iPhones more often than the iPads, so this would be a smart move for Apple.
But you get that the article says nothing about running multiple apps side by side, right?
It just says apps could be running like on the iPad if hold in landscape.
I don't understand this reasoning. If you want the advantages of a bigger screen, buy the bigger screen. Don't see why it is a bummer.
I don't feel good about this at all. I don't know if I'm being anti-progressive and resisting time and change but, Apple has literally reinvented the phone and literally changed everyone's lives with the iPhone. After all the smartphone revolution began with the iPhone. Original iPhone with the 3.5" screen had the golden ratio, it was perfect. The App Store came and apps changed everything, now you could make your phone do anything you wanted. Just like Steve Jobs said in the first introduction of iPhone, buttons weren't there when you didn't need them so if you had a great idea 6 months from now you could implement it. That is exactly what happened. It was revolutionary.
Then Samsung came, they marketed the hell out of things and made a few good phones. They saw people's unnecessary (for me anyway) appetite for big screens and used AMOLED displays that look brighter to an uneducated eye, added a bunch of gimmicks, didn't really care much about hardware software harmony but satisfied the egos of hardware geeks, pumping whatever GHz, gigabytes, megapixels and cores they could find into their phones. Also, they put out new phones very fast, improving quality with every one of them. With the marketing campaign's success and sales rolling in, Samsung started to be seen successful and "better than Apple" by some people.
I don't like big phones. I've been using my 4S for 3 years now and before that I used my 3G for a little over 3 years. I don't watch movies or TV Shows from my phone. I don't game that often and I really don't need a screen bigger than 4", not even 4.7". I still think the iPhone 4 design was the best phone ever made and don't feel comfortable with the idea of a 4.7" iPhone let alone 5.5" People are going to go about saying "Oh you see Apple started imitating Samsung, bigger screen, lock button on the side yada yada yada..." Add to that the fact that Apple can make the 5.5" iPhone more premium over the 4.7" and we got ourselves a legend possibly ruined, losing the original form/roots. I still am trying to make myself comfortable on buying a 4.7" iPhone, especially with those "alleged" antenna breaks. I am trying to make myself believe that Apple isn't imitating Samsung or Android world and maybe I am kidding myself.
Call me old fashioned, past obsessed, anti progressive etc. whatever. Maybe I am all those adjectives I don't know but something definitely feels wrong.
That's just how I feel.
Then Samsung came, they marketed the hell out of things and made a few good phones. They saw people's unnecessary (for me anyway) appetite for big screens and used AMOLED displays that look brighter to an uneducated eye, added a bunch of gimmicks, didn't really care much about hardware software harmony but satisfied the egos of hardware geeks, pumping whatever GHz, gigabytes, megapixels and cores they could find into their phones. Also, they put out new phones very fast, improving quality with every one of them. With the marketing campaign's success and sales rolling in, Samsung started to be seen successful and "better than Apple" by some people.
I don't like big phones. I've been using my 4S for 3 years now and before that I used my 3G for a little over 3 years. I don't watch movies or TV Shows from my phone. I don't game that often and I really don't need a screen bigger than 4", not even 4.7". I still think the iPhone 4 design was the best phone ever made and don't feel comfortable with the idea of a 4.7" iPhone let alone 5.5" People are going to go about saying "Oh you see Apple started imitating Samsung, bigger screen, lock button on the side yada yada yada..." Add to that the fact that Apple can make the 5.5" iPhone more premium over the 4.7" and we got ourselves a legend possibly ruined, losing the original form/roots. I still am trying to make myself comfortable on buying a 4.7" iPhone, especially with those "alleged" antenna breaks. I am trying to make myself believe that Apple isn't imitating Samsung or Android world and maybe I am kidding myself.
Call me old fashioned, past obsessed, anti progressive etc. whatever. Maybe I am all those adjectives I don't know but something definitely feels wrong.
That's just how I feel.
Part of me actually thinks we'll see no new iPhones tomorrow and they may actually be using the iPad name! Wasn't the iPad name coined to be a distinction from the smaller iPhone line anyway? If you think of the original functional distinctions between iPhone and iPad do they even exist anymore?
It all makes sense now!
The fashion designers, the watch people, the invites for those in the fashion arena...
They're looking to get the shirts with an additional 2" diameter on the sleeves, and pockets that will fit the new iphablets!
Too much complain but the answer is easy. Since ur fashioned, past obsessed, anti progressive etc. whatever. Then, You can keep ur iPhone 4s for more years.
