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iPhone 17 Pro Max Rumors Allegedly Refer to 'iPhone 17 Ultra' Model
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At some point, the line up will be
iPhone 17e
iPhone 17
iPhone 17 Air
iPhone 17 Pro
iPhone 17 Ultra
Apple should just simplify them to
iPhone 17a(ir)
iPhone 17e
iPhone 17i
iPhone 17o
iPhone 17u(ltra)
iPhone 17e
iPhone 17
iPhone 17 Air
iPhone 17 Pro
iPhone 17 Ultra
Apple should just simplify them to
iPhone 17a(ir)
iPhone 17e
iPhone 17i
iPhone 17o
iPhone 17u(ltra)
Isn’t there some I AM SO SMRT MBA metric like average sale price that gets middle managers and accountants positively moist with pleasure? Dragging that average sale price up by selling idiot phones to idiots with money sounds like a grand old time at the Apple Mothership.
Bring me AI Steve Jobs as A-CEO. Steve-o didn’t mind a high price, but he also wanting things to be cool and new and not just agglomerative spec listings.
iPhone 17sometimes y
The whole 17 series look like a pile..well, yuck..Without getting on my high-horse, I don't plan to unnecessarily upgrade any of my tech during the current administration, but would skip this line regardless.
The names make sense if you compare to the Mac lineup. Air, then Pro, then Ultra.SKU-fest extraordinaire and all basically just rejiggered versions of "huge phablet"
Can we get Tim Cook out of here please?
This whole shtick is totally played out
I got no problem with turning the larger phones into the ultra line....it makes sense. In fact the whole iphone/ipad line should get a name refresh.
Your basic model should simply be called the Iphone/Ipad (this would change with the next "Budget") iphone.
You should then incoporate the Ipad Mini into a foldable phone and make that the top tier phone...
Then you have your midrange models....the Iphone/Ipad Air models
Then you have your Pro models which are the current top of the line versions
then you have your next top of the line..the premium stuff...the Ultras.....
Makes sense to me.
Right now the whole line is a mess...you got basically 3 flavors of Iphones and Ipads with multiple sizes with conflicting names.
How can you have an Ipad "Air" thats thicker then a pro model? makes no sense
Your basic model should simply be called the Iphone/Ipad (this would change with the next "Budget") iphone.
You should then incoporate the Ipad Mini into a foldable phone and make that the top tier phone...
Then you have your midrange models....the Iphone/Ipad Air models
Then you have your Pro models which are the current top of the line versions
then you have your next top of the line..the premium stuff...the Ultras.....
Makes sense to me.
Right now the whole line is a mess...you got basically 3 flavors of Iphones and Ipads with multiple sizes with conflicting names.
How can you have an Ipad "Air" thats thicker then a pro model? makes no sense
That's not a smart move in terms of how branding and brand recognition works.
The entire reason the "Air" name is still around is because Apple already did the FAFO routine and learned the hard way how simply changing names can nuke sales.
I’m struggling to come up with a meaningful way for Apple to differentiate a Pro from an Ultra unless they go with an M5 processor and 4TB of storage. Even still, what would you do with all of that capability. I doubt a vapor cooling chamber would be enough of an enticement for most.
That actually makes some sense.
Though the Air won’t be the lightest, that was the iPhone 5 at 112 grams. The Air likely won’t be below 150 grams.
If it truly is taking the moniker of Ultra like the watch, it should be rugged. It should def have a larger battery, but more importantly it should be able to be used without a case and be able to take falls without damage.
The screens on the Max/Ultra are plenty large enough. Fields Notes-sized. It could work. And if it did, and I were Aaron Drapplin, I'd consider a kickass note-taking, sketching Field Notes-branded app for such a scenario.
Not that it's the same, but my iPad mini 6 + Pencil 2 combo has been an absolute workflow game-changer, for me.
Using the Pro and Ultra names for their products and their chips is going to get very confusing if they’re not careful.
If they release a Pro Ultra iPhone, it needs to have a screen size of at least 8 inches
Any smaller and it’s not pro. They should also include a 1000 Hz screen refresh and release an Apple Pencil Ultra for it (that’s not compatible with any other device to prevent eating into other sales).
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Any smaller and it’s not pro. They should also include a 1000 Hz screen refresh and release an Apple Pencil Ultra for it (that’s not compatible with any other device to prevent eating into other sales).
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If you spell it out, it forms iPhone rape u. Maybe they are naming the phone after what they do when charging for memory upgrades?