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iPhone 7 or iPhone 8?
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But nothing really changed. You financed the phone before too, whether you realized it or not.
Isn't your monthly bill far less for far more?
I'll buy the new iPhone if it's significantly better.
For reference, I think the 6S with double the RAM was a SIGNIFICANT upgrade, in fact prior to the 6S I preferred Android just for performance. The 6S tilted the scales back to iOS.
If it adds wireless charging, waterproof and some other key features I will likely upgrade but if it's only features are better camera and just waterproof then I likely skip till the 8.
Knowing me though who knows but if it looks exactly like the 6s? Not sure even I would tempted.
But I say this a lot and still upgrade..I'm tech mad and have a problem I think.
Knowing me though who knows but if it looks exactly like the 6s? Not sure even I would tempted.
But I say this a lot and still upgrade..I'm tech mad and have a problem I think.
Your not the only one, I'm just as bad. I still regret not upgrading to the 6S. I will definitely upgrade to the 7 tho.
Wireless charging,there's a feature I almost forgot about.
Maybe this is an excuse to upgrade from iPhone 6.
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I'm happy with my SE. The size is perfect.
In terms of the 7/8 - Apple are letting themselves down with the rumoured 7 changes, or lack of.
The "non-S" years are meant to be true innovation, not a slight cosmetic change. I can see Apple suffering a huge backlash when it is announced and underwhelming.
The 7 should be a completely new body, a greatly improved camera and screen, 32GB base, 4GB ram minimum, home button removed, curved edge glass like the Edge, an OS design overhaul etc
Instead we are likely to get a disappointing phone that will look largely like the 6, with a slightly better dual lens camera and no headphone jack and slightly improved performance.
I'm hardly throwing money at Apple. I hope they suffer in sales for not pushing innovation.
In terms of the 7/8 - Apple are letting themselves down with the rumoured 7 changes, or lack of.
The "non-S" years are meant to be true innovation, not a slight cosmetic change. I can see Apple suffering a huge backlash when it is announced and underwhelming.
The 7 should be a completely new body, a greatly improved camera and screen, 32GB base, 4GB ram minimum, home button removed, curved edge glass like the Edge, an OS design overhaul etc
Instead we are likely to get a disappointing phone that will look largely like the 6, with a slightly better dual lens camera and no headphone jack and slightly improved performance.
I'm hardly throwing money at Apple. I hope they suffer in sales for not pushing innovation.
Have never bought phone on rumor or speculation. In this case both phones are not out, know little about 7 which are all rumors and even less about 8.
Quite frankly my 6s Plus is so fast, screen is so good my eyes couldn't tell further improvement. Downloads are super fast with MIMO connection with AirPort Extreme which exceeds my service provider's speed fourfold. Touch sensitivity is wildly fast. Pictures are so great, for my use I don't need improvement. LTE is fast, and am on wifi calling most times anyways, which is so fast connecting I answer before person calling even hears first ring. Battery lasts for days and using iPad charger I can load battery at one percent per minute. This iPhone does everything so well, I don't see a need to upgrade. At some point in future perhaps, but the actual product has caught up to the dream machine I have always wanted.
At $1,000 a copy, nothing in the rumors I have read prompts me to desire the next iPhone. Saturation of the market is clearly evident. And barring something entirely new that has not been envisioned we are now in evolutionary changes rather than revolutionary on all phones.
Going from my Razor flip phone to the iPhone 3GS was a huge step. Changed way I used phone. In reality it wasn't a phone any more, rather a hand held computer. Which is what all smart phones are now, hand held computers. Phone portion is an app, camera portion is an app.
First hand held computers with phone and camera features were too slow, communicated with limitations, and were crude by today's standards. The current hand held top end devices have solved all the drawbacks and have truelly become appliances. We may each favor a brand, but the differences have merged into gimmicks rather than true innovative differences.
As appliances, users tend to view the current high end phones more as tools and will replace them at less and less frequent rates as their current tool works just fine. I don't buy the latest hammer, breathlessly waiting on the new handle design, or the subtle changes to the strike head. The flashy new coating and engraved handle don't make me rush out to buy it and replace my perfectly good current hammer. This is where we have arrived with our hand held computing devices, once called phones. When it breaks, is lost, or wears out I will shop for it's replacement.
Sure a few people will continue to buy the latest gimmick. But we have reached the point where this piece of technology has matured. The phenomenal growth phase of this product is over.
Quite frankly my 6s Plus is so fast, screen is so good my eyes couldn't tell further improvement. Downloads are super fast with MIMO connection with AirPort Extreme which exceeds my service provider's speed fourfold. Touch sensitivity is wildly fast. Pictures are so great, for my use I don't need improvement. LTE is fast, and am on wifi calling most times anyways, which is so fast connecting I answer before person calling even hears first ring. Battery lasts for days and using iPad charger I can load battery at one percent per minute. This iPhone does everything so well, I don't see a need to upgrade. At some point in future perhaps, but the actual product has caught up to the dream machine I have always wanted.
At $1,000 a copy, nothing in the rumors I have read prompts me to desire the next iPhone. Saturation of the market is clearly evident. And barring something entirely new that has not been envisioned we are now in evolutionary changes rather than revolutionary on all phones.
Going from my Razor flip phone to the iPhone 3GS was a huge step. Changed way I used phone. In reality it wasn't a phone any more, rather a hand held computer. Which is what all smart phones are now, hand held computers. Phone portion is an app, camera portion is an app.
First hand held computers with phone and camera features were too slow, communicated with limitations, and were crude by today's standards. The current hand held top end devices have solved all the drawbacks and have truelly become appliances. We may each favor a brand, but the differences have merged into gimmicks rather than true innovative differences.
As appliances, users tend to view the current high end phones more as tools and will replace them at less and less frequent rates as their current tool works just fine. I don't buy the latest hammer, breathlessly waiting on the new handle design, or the subtle changes to the strike head. The flashy new coating and engraved handle don't make me rush out to buy it and replace my perfectly good current hammer. This is where we have arrived with our hand held computing devices, once called phones. When it breaks, is lost, or wears out I will shop for it's replacement.
Sure a few people will continue to buy the latest gimmick. But we have reached the point where this piece of technology has matured. The phenomenal growth phase of this product is over.
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While you make a good point about buying phones based on rumours, this site is all about rumours, of course it's all speculation and everything that has been rumoured could be fake or maybe Apple has leaked some lies in order to mislead from the real 7? we just don't know at this point. However i do think the Dual Camera will be real after all the leaks we have seen.
Why would the carriers care if anyone upgraded their phone or not. They are happy as long as you pay for the plan - that's where they make their money. If anything the subsidies were a headache for the carriers - they had to front the cost of millions of phones to Apple and carry the liability of extracting payments. going after defaulters/ paying for collections etc on the back end.
Apple should be the one worrying about changing customer behavior once the carriers unbundled the phone from the plan. They aren't helping themselves by treating phone financing like a regular loan and hitting up people's credit ratings every year.
I'll probably get the 6 SE Plus for the dual cameras. New iphones are free each year for me anyways thanks to verizon. I use bose qc35 for headphones so the headphone jack isn't a big deal.
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Verizon didn't stop subsidizing. You just need to cling to an older plan though. I usually just add a new line, cancel an expiring ipad line, sell old iphone and come out ahead. 6 lines. Two iphone. Two ipad. Two smartwatch lines. Device fees are 15 per iphone, 10 per ipad, 5 per smartwatch. 30gb plan 110. Around 170 a month. The iphone lines need to stay off contract. I do have to play musical chairs once a year though. Of course, this ends when Verizon stops subsidizing altogether.
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Verizon didn't stop subsidizing. You just need to cling to an older plan though. I usually just add a new line, cancel an expiring ipad line, sell old iphone and come out ahead. 6 lines. Two iphone. Two ipad. Two smartwatch lines. Device fees are 15 per iphone, 10 per ipad, 5 per smartwatch. 30gb plan 110. Around 170 a month. The iphone lines need to stay off contract. I do have to play musical chairs once a year though. Of course, this ends when Verizon stops subsidizing altogether.
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Yes but if you remember, under the two year plan, you would always upgrade (at least I did) because it didn't pay not to and indeed cost you as you would still be paying the subsidized price regardless if you upgraded or not. So the carrier was afforded another opportunity to lock you in.