Hmm, hope this isn't true, my 6 Plus is getting achingly slow, was hoping to hold out for the next redesign. I'd honestly consider a Pixel XL if I didn't like the Apple Watch so much.
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'iPhone 7s' and 'iPhone 7s Plus' Said to Come in All-New Red Color, Lack New Design and Wireless Charging
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Functionality, price, reliability, are important to me. I cannot ever remember commenting on anyone's phone because of how it looks. With the way phones are going, my direct interaction with the phone decreasing each year. Apple Watch, Siri, messages, and handoff examples. Phone becoming a hub for no better term. Manages the network and passes the tasks off to other devices. In the near future the phone could easily have no screen at all.
And the AirPods? The Watch? Not going to be selling those in iPhone numbers are they? There were supply issues with the iPad Mini initially as well.
Everybody understand the scale factor but two months on and you can't walk into an Apple Store in the UK and buy an iPhone 7 Plus.
That's why people come here - to read rumours and then discuss/moan/argue/react/speculate about them.
What you're suggesting is we should just wait until Apple announce the new iPhone. Where's the fun in that?
If the next iPhone doesn't represent a major redesign, my next phone will be from the Android camp where all the innovation appears to be happening. I need a new desktop Mac, but I won't be buying an aged iMac that hasn't been updated in almost a year. Apple is making it easy for me to move to Windows. I won't like it, but I will have no choice. Apple is killing off every one of its product lines and is not listening to its customers.
Siri is a complete joke. Her voice is still retarded after so many years - does Apple think that's a good thing? She can't understand anything I say. She's a totally useless assistant compared to Alexa and Hey Google. And I like someone to sound like a real person when they are talking to me. Not like a robot from 1984.
If Cook just rehashes the old design next year, I hope a bunch of people stand up and boo him off the stage. He's a complete loser and needs to leave. He is driving that company into the ground. All he keeps saying is we have so many great products in the pipeline. Bull Sh*t.
Siri is a complete joke. Her voice is still retarded after so many years - does Apple think that's a good thing? She can't understand anything I say. She's a totally useless assistant compared to Alexa and Hey Google. And I like someone to sound like a real person when they are talking to me. Not like a robot from 1984.
If Cook just rehashes the old design next year, I hope a bunch of people stand up and boo him off the stage. He's a complete loser and needs to leave. He is driving that company into the ground. All he keeps saying is we have so many great products in the pipeline. Bull Sh*t.
"Oh, Apple would never remove the 3.5 audio jack. This consistent rumor is bull. Just USB-C for MacBook? Pfft! As if...!" Oh, wait.
Either way, I'm buying the premium model which sounds really exciting.. But I shouldn't have to. The same features should be on only 2 models and I can pick what size without having to pay a hundred more for a better camera and then another hundred for OLED and a new design.
Again these are not junk made up of off the shelf parts. Remember Apple is a hardware and software company. If the custom coprocessors were off the shelf and all of the rest, then yeah, a little whinnying would be acceptable, but Apple the products you mentioned are not just any product. The Watch itself however limited was aiming for the fence and I doubt Apple will recoup its R&D it invested in it for quite some time. They develop some of these products thinking long term. That's what differentiates the Apple Watch from Pebble and all the other Android junk. While I may not own an Apple Watch I do keep my eye on it and plan to get one when it's a little more mature. These are new cutting edge technologies I cut anyone slack that puts their neck on the line like that.
Takes balls for Apple to tackle the stuff it does and the way it does.
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Cool! Have fun!
No, as opposed to adding them in S years. Obviously adding any other option is for sales but now apparently they aren't putting a limit on new colors.
Haha, here we go: initially next year an iPhone 8 anniversary model with all the goodies. One month later, it wil be 7s with new colours and new wallpapers....... Within 2 month: next year's iPhone will have the same form factor......
Don't marginalize like that. I'm sure it will also add cutting edge new emojis . and of course continue to have the fastest processors paving the way for more advanced apps.
As long as it doesn't ever look as bad as the 6 series, the outside case can stay the same as the 7. I'm perfectly cool with that.
I understand designs attract buyers. But if the car already has a sleek design that I like, I don't care for the external look beyond that. I don't buy a car for its shape. I buy for performance and feel. Most people do.
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Why do you care so much about the lack of external design change when the internals are what make the phone perform? The only thing external designs are for are showing off the phone you have.
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There isn't much benefit from a redesign besides consumer differentiation. The only practical benefit is OLED for battery performance. Glass casing is worse than the current aluminum, from a performance standpoint as well as damage-wise, but so long as it's "different" people want it...
Except there are multiple rumours that they do, from fairly reliable sources. It's fine if you don't want to take those into account but when Macrumors has a whole page devoted to the rumours so far (far more than usual) you can't just dismiss them entirely.
With this logic in 2019 we will have iPhone in 10 different colors and in 2020 Apple will close due bankrupt.
Apple could purchase the displays for 2017. They are consumed with Japan Display (SHARP) being a main supplier of OLED. Most likely Micro OLED. That's not coming until late 2018 at best.
Personally I could care less about OLED. I'm extremely satisfied with the display in my 7+. Same old 7s next year with an A11 (which is still an excellent phone.) Offering a single special model and raping the lemmings with it's price is pornographic greed.
None of that explains why they can't get a product out of the door. You're you're talking like Apple products are made out of fairy dust and Angels hair, the AirPods are plastic!?
I dont particularly, I'm not sure that has given you that impression. That also isn't an answer to my question, you can't answer a question with a question, I'll ask you again, why are you deliberately trying to misrepresent what people have posted?
You're also talking drivel. The external form factor absolutely dictates the functionality of the device.
You know that Cook is no longer COO, right? He is no longer in charge of operations.
So true. Every few months I'll try to use Siri and it never works. The only thing it's good for is to ask "How much wood can a wood chuck chuck?" That gets old after a few dozen tries.
For the voice, I want that of the computer from the original Star Trek series, complete with the "working..." comments whenever Siri is slow (which is pretty much all the time for me out here in rural MI).
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Sure, but does he strike you as the sort of CEO who would make the COO's life miserable?
Also, I suspect the supply shortages are a feature, not a bug. They create a false sense of rarity, like "omg better buy a 7+ today or they'll sell out!"