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iPhone 7 and 7 Plus Pre-Orders Could Start September 9

x-evil-x said:
If you had the chance to make a million dollars or 100 million dollars what would you do? Give people what they wanted and have a huge jump in sales or not adapt to the market based on being stubborn? I think if jobs was still here he would realize this. He did have a say in the iPhone 5 with the .5" increase already realizing the benefit.
If he stuck with a 3.5" phone in 2016 apple would not be what it is today (sales wise).
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And for Steve Jobs it was not a dollar game it was to give the generation what they really want :)

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.


I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and… it wasn’t that important – because I never did it for the money.” – Steve Jobs :apple:
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recoil80 said:
We can't know for sure what Steve knew about the iPhone 6, but the decision to make bigger phones must have been made when he was still alive.
Of course the final design (including the bands and protruding camera) wasn't approved by Steve 3 years before the product went on sale, but I bet he knew about two screen sizes, touch ID and even Apple pay.
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Indeed. I also bet they have a lot of designs lined up for the next years. Just see how many prototypes they made for the first iPhone, and one of them actually made it to iPhone 4.

Most people here think they make the designs from iPhone to iPhone adhoc as needed :p
Of course they refine when it gets closer to being needed, but such development is most likely iterative over a long period of time.
 
maxsix said:
Just because it's a forum of public opinion where some are expressing their views and experiences, doesn’t mean they're haters.

Yet it's true that many of the cult like Apple devotees have moved on. Their absence makes those who are free thinkers and not Apple shills, even more visible.

Don't look now, but Android v6.x.x, especially on Nexus phones is delivering an even faster, smoother, crash free experience than iOS 9.3.3 on the iPhone 6S / iPhone 6S Plus models. I know, my primary smartphone is a Nexus 6P, my secondary a iPhone 6S Plus.

Their each quite nice in their own ways, but speed, multitasking and other essential functionality is much better on my Nexus 6P.

Thanks Google!
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To be fair I never said all were haters or doomsayers. What we're seeing is a polarised membership with thread descending rapidly to a punch out between the Apple haters/doomsayers in one corner and the traditional Apple zealots in the other. Makes for an amusing read, but it's the centred and measured posts that I get the most out of.

As for Android... I'm not a blind Apple fanboy who's never seen the other side.

A nexus phone (and tablet before that) running android was my daily driver from 2012, so I'm very well acquainted with the platform. There's a lot to like about Android - Linux, the open filesystem, Java and ill grudgingly admit the play services are very good, albeit very intrusive and they've become just as closed as apple's APIs.

I find Apple's ecosystem and integration much more appealing and much less intrusive. My iPhone, iPad and Mac is a hell of lot better for me than the Nexus 5, nexus 7 and Linux laptop I've left behind.
 
Sunnysunnysingh said:
And for Steve Jobs it was not a dollar game it was to give the generation what they really want :)

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.


I was worth about over a million dollars when I was 23 and over ten million dollars when I was 24, and over a hundred million dollars when I was 25 and… it wasn’t that important – because I never did it for the money.” – Steve Jobs :apple:
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so if he lived another 20 years you think he would of stuck with the 3.5 rrrrrr his 4" phone? Since he did have a say in increasing size to 4" but 3.5 was "perfect" in his eyes...
I believe the man would of had other options (then one model and thats it) to stay popular in the market.
 
Relentless Power said:
Sounds like a conversation you and I had recently. Even though I want to believe Blass, you are correct, how does he know this and where is his source for this information? Is this an educated guess based off similar dates from the 2015 Keynote?

Another forum Member 'ROGIFAN' mentioned in the past it seems these leakers/analysts will predict anything and some how these news sites will believe it, posting the information as a main article.

Maybe I should have taken a career in meteorology, their real good at 'Predictions.'
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I have nothing against predictions or the reporting of leaks. The issue I have is confusing the two. If Blass has a good track record for guessing release dates, then say so. If he's got a good track record of picking up inside information, then say so. Armed with that knowledge we as readers will know where he's coming from, and have some basis to judge the credibility of what he says. As I pointed the last time, it comes down to this: either Blass is predicting or he is reporting. He can't be doing both. MR should sort that out before publishing the report.
 
Crzyrio said:
The A-10 processor will be enough reason for me to upgrade from a 6s.
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Doubtful it will be much of a spec bump over the A9 but we shall see.

I am expecting it to be similar to the A9X


The A9 was a pretty large spec jump over the A8 (one of the largest generation to generation upgrades yet), yet the A8 is still perfectly capable today and looks to run iOS 10 beautifully if the latest betas are any indication.

I don't see why anyone would dish out hundreds and hundreds of dollars to upgrade an already super fast phone to one that's likely to be only marginally (~20%) faster, but thats just me.
 
PBRsg said:
A lot of people think that the big changes will come next year and will skip the iPhone 7 this year, so the 3GB could be there to entice them.
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3GB is nothing, only Apple devotees care. Android phones have had 3 or 4GB for quite some time. iPhone is behind the times, if not for Apple's brilliant spin machine and emotional users devoted to the company it'd be a different ballgame.
 
No thanks. I'm sticking to my iPhone 5 with iOS 6. I'm not upgrading to any new phone with ugly flatty UI
 
DamoTheBrave said:
You don't think that it's a bit of a waste of global resources to ditch an almost new phone for a new one??
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You don't think it is a bit of a waste of global resources that we are discussing the possibility of wasting global resources on a device that we likely don't need?
 
maxsix said:
3GB is nothing, only Apple devotees care. Android phones have had 3 or 4GB for quite some time. iPhone is behind the times, if not for Apple's brilliant spin machine and emotional users devoted to the company it'd be a different ballgame.
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Thats because the iphone doesn't need that much. Android needs more due to more power.
 
maxsix said:
3GB is nothing, only Apple devotees care. Android phones have had 3 or 4GB for quite some time. iPhone is behind the times, if not for Apple's brilliant spin machine and emotional users devoted to the company it'd be a different ballgame.
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You shouldn't compare a memory hungry operating system with apple's. iOS and OS X is very good at memory management, therefor, 3GB is not needed yet.

Same thing goes with CPU/GPU, apple's processors have much higher IPS than android hardware, therefor we dont need loads of cores and ghz. (and iOS is more optimized in that matter as well)
 
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