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iPhone 7 Plus, 128GB, and Black Models Prove Most Popular With Pre-Order Customers
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You're getting too hung up on the 720p number.
You should be more focused on the 326ppi and 401ppi numbers.
Anything over 300ppi on a handheld display is pretty darn sharp!
The RAM doesn't make that much difference except for the camera. Historically the smaller model has outsold the larger one, and this year we finally get OIS in the smaller model. I wonder if the Note 7 fiasco is helping Apple. Of course, by the time the 7 Plus is back in stock the Note 7 should also be back on store shelves but the reputational damage may be done.
Are you calling yourself a hypocrite? Lol
Did you see me complaining about the display? No. so no.
Thats entirely different but your statement was going to retina from non retina with no models implied and Jobs, as per the article, was really low on his number for retina.
Sorry, not a mindreader.
I don't think for a minute what apple calls "retina" is as good as it gets though. If you look at the article the macs "retina" is actually higher than their proclaimed number of what retina would be so that alone shows its a bogus number.
People's eyes also vary so there's no way they could have any magic number. It boils down to each individual to see whether more pixels are noticible or not more than "Apel r gods wuth a magik numbur".
I have a moto x pure with 1440 x 2560 pixels (~520 ppi pixel density) and its noticibly better than the 6s plus. I use the plus as it fits in better with my ipad and mac but my own eyes show me the magic retina number is bogus.
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Ok, so you do get the fact that tradeoffs are made, you just think you're smarter than Apple at making them. I can't prove you're wrong but you don't have much room to be right-- Apple has the top two highest selling phone models and somewhere between 90-95% of the total profit in the industry. You think that your "just make it thicker, heavier and hide the camera bump" idea will get them the other 5%?
Remember, they aren't designing for you. They wouldn't even if they knew you. They're designing for a global optimum that will sell across income levels, across cultures, across personality types and use cases.
I'm not fooled by marketing. Look at the discussion so far-- I'm making the logical argument that once you have a well optimized design you aren't likely to gain in one area without giving something else up and you're making the emotional argument "people are sheep and Apple are wolves".
No, I just know that engineering is hard and Apple is world class at it. Yes, technology will improve. Every year new advancements are made that allow improvements in product design and every year Apple needs to decide how they are going to allocate their technology dividend across their various tradeoffs. One year they may decide that the spec they are going to improve with their technology budget is display density-- but don't think they aren't making that call at the expense of something else. They are.
Lol, relax. People take everything to heart these days. Apple should be the one embarrassed for marketing these as premium features, when others have had them for years. Then again people are buying into the marketing bs and Apple is profiting, so no reason to try really. In the end it's the consumer who is getting shortchanged and since they do not know any better or allow it to happen, it's they own fault either through ignorance, flock mentality or a combination of. Sad really.
Yes of course, that's typically how extremely successful companies such as Apple operate their sophisticated supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, and sales operations. Through guesses. Without drawing upon any other information they possess. Because that's how successful businesses stay in business selling many tens of millions of high-value devices each quarter.
The early adopters will likely be significantly skewing these figures towards the Plus, the higher storage sizes & the new colours. As more of the general population start getting the iPhone 7, the figures will probably settle more towards the smaller phone at the base sizes. Colour choice amongst your general user will also be dictated more by personal preference than by ensuring that their peers know they have the newest model.
Apple have put a premium on the Jet Black models by making the 128GB option the cheapest available, ensuring their ASP on that model is higher. That presumably reflects the higher cost/lower yield of this colour option. I had the 64GB 6s & would have been happy staying at that size. My storage is a little more than 32GB so did consider getting the lower tier & managing storage but it's really quite tedious from past experience & not worth the £100 (or £5/month) saving.
There's a decent cross section of users in my office. More than half probably use the iPhone, of whom I'm not aware of any who have any of the Plus size. I'm probably the only one (of several dozen iPhone users) who is inclined to buy every year and am also probably seen as the office geek (on reflection, little "probably" about it, I AM the office geek). It's always easy to assume that those who must always have the latest & greatest are the norm, whereas in fact the majority of sales come from less ....vocal.... buyers.
On colour choice, I have always gone for the grey/black option and the majority of those I know with iPhones have been the same. Not sure I know anyone with either of the gold options. I initially considered Jet Black this time around but wasn't that set on it. When pre-orders started with little or no Jet Black supplies, having promised my 6S to a friend & wanting to use the Upgrade Program, I went for the Black.
Apple have put a premium on the Jet Black models by making the 128GB option the cheapest available, ensuring their ASP on that model is higher. That presumably reflects the higher cost/lower yield of this colour option. I had the 64GB 6s & would have been happy staying at that size. My storage is a little more than 32GB so did consider getting the lower tier & managing storage but it's really quite tedious from past experience & not worth the £100 (or £5/month) saving.
There's a decent cross section of users in my office. More than half probably use the iPhone, of whom I'm not aware of any who have any of the Plus size. I'm probably the only one (of several dozen iPhone users) who is inclined to buy every year and am also probably seen as the office geek (on reflection, little "probably" about it, I AM the office geek). It's always easy to assume that those who must always have the latest & greatest are the norm, whereas in fact the majority of sales come from less ....vocal.... buyers.
On colour choice, I have always gone for the grey/black option and the majority of those I know with iPhones have been the same. Not sure I know anyone with either of the gold options. I initially considered Jet Black this time around but wasn't that set on it. When pre-orders started with little or no Jet Black supplies, having promised my 6S to a friend & wanting to use the Upgrade Program, I went for the Black.
That's true, but neither gold nor rose gold will differentiate the 7 from the 6s. So that effect shouldn't be influencing the decision as among the white-faced options.
Lol, if for a second anyone thinks I am taking it to heart they might be red in the face. Apple designs for profit, period. If you think those videos are speaking to you, then you have been sucked into the marketing ploy.
Apple make trade-off, yes, yes they do for maximum profit. Don't forget that, at the end of the day Apple is not a charity. If you are telling me that while other companies can put together a similar if not better package and Apple has to limit these features for future releases due to engineering then you are fooling yourself. Apple seems to be doing a great job at it as it works on many. And no I do not think Apple can include the kitchen sink in the next iPhone (unless they try)
Apples marketing plan is simple, feed you a story of what they think you need and what fits into they maximum profit business plan and hopefully you buy it and praise Apple for showing you the way. Tell you what others are doing is rubbish, then years later introduce the same thing with a fancy marketing name a story to make it personal so you buy into it and the end state is the maximum profit business plan. Rinse and Repeat. Not hard to see past this, lol
My wife and I are the only people I know with iphones. Pretty much all android and a fre windows phones. Wouldn't that mean hardly anyone owns iphones?
Yeah, there always is a small percentage of people with a lack of taste.
I'd expected them to be less than 3%, but here you are...
I've had both phones. Yeah, no tangible difference but you've convinced yourself there is. 750p on a 4.7 inch display is more than enough. I have a plus now for battery life. Display resolution is irrelevant.
You wanna talk about VR, fine. But Apple ain't there yet, so yeah, in my mind, your opinion is pretty absurd. Buy what you want, but a blanket opinion passed off as fact? Nah, that doesn't fly.
From a standard 10-12 feet viewing distance on a sub-60 inch display, yeah, it's nearly imperceptible. But the marketing for these things has really done its number on you. Spec sheet battle going on in your brain, unfortunately, not in reality. Just too hung on smaller number equals inferiority with your mentality.
I have a small 32 inch 720 set in my bedroom. Bought that res intentionally. Overkill and overpriced for anything more from 15 feet away on such a small set. Smartphones? Forget about it.
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Do you really think everyone's eyes are exactly the same?
You talk for yourself, he talks for himself. The world revolves around no individual.
Jobs was a genius, he convinced his target customers that everyone's eyes are the same and retina is a perfect number for all.
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Ignorant assumption. We know a lot, we also do not live in the us. I think you are the one that lives in a tiny world. Only 7% here have any apple product at all. There is a whole world out there obviously hidden from some.
I've been to 16 countries, you?
A Lumia 640 cost me $40 and $99 for a 200GB SD Card and $17 a month equivalent for Tracphone (uses AT&T lines) service with 3000 Minutes/3000 Texts/3GB Data and it has an 8MP camera with 1080p video and Bluetooth, etc.. I can't IMAGINE paying over $700 for this thing...to do what? Play Angry Birds? I can do that. Facebook? I have no interest in doing that but could do that. What are you getting for those prices? More crappy apps? Given I don't live my life on my phone, I probably can't understand the social stresses of having to look snobby. Microsoft Edge feels snappier on it than Safari does on my iPod Touch Gen5, even with WiFi. I can see someone going to Android for more Apps. I can't see why anyone would want an iPhone at this stage. Yeah, I have to backup to One Drive and I had to move my phone book over manually since Microsoft dumped the OS X sync app, but even so, I can move media over to the SD Card at USB3 speeds on the Mac Mini. It's just not worth it for "OS X Integration". Maybe if you just have to live your life on a phone (I feel so sorry for you), but otherwise, save your money and get something like a new Macbook Pro instead.
What if it's a clear case?
But I agree. Just like last year with all the men trying to justify why they wanted pink when all it really was about was wanting something new.
Although with no space grey now, I think a lot of men will defer to the matte black.
I got several of those for 29.99 each around christmas time and gave them as christmas gifts. Everybody loves them.