Agreed. At the end of the day, consumers will be forking over wads of cash to purchase the premium device regardless of higher cost, build materials, and advanced tech, ubiquitous or not.Although named iPhone it is not a phone. It is a computer, albeit quite small.
The trend of getting more and more for the same price cannot continue endlessly.
I don't know their margins and frankly I don't care. If they are indeed huge (and who is the judge of what is huge),
good for them.
What I go by is the value a product presents for me. Any product.
The 2016 MBP is not what I would want , so I won't buy one. If they adjust pricing and put 1TB and 32GB in it ,maybe
I'll get one in 2020.
As a long time Apple user you know that the revise many products after about 3 to 5 months. Usually quietly.
Since it's all a rumor and we don't know what is coming I prefer to wait and see.
One thing I don't do is consider any company greedy, just because they make a lot of money.
I wish I had a money machine like they have. Besides running it for for max profit, I would also do a lot of good with it
as in charity, developing nations etc. But then that's me. A corporation owned by share holders can't think like that.
A superior product experience deserves extra. For me the iPhone does give me that.
The few quirks has in a non perfect world I can live with.
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Yes. The constantly same price over many years for more tech will finally or possibly increase
Can we stop with the fragmentation argument already? The iPhone lineup is actually pretty simple and straight-forward compared to Android. And iOS remains a consistent experience across all Apple mobile devices.
Common sense yes, completely agree, but Apple dictates the rules and knows how to drive sales of the more expensive device. Like it or not. I'm guessing that if a $1,000 iPhone comes out pushing build materials and tech that the 7S doesn't possess, there will be a lot of angry posts on this site. And at the end of the day, this more premium device will still sell a million units+ in the first year, or as supplies last.
On the 4.7? Forget about it. It will be at 750P. The 5.5 will be 1080P and doubtless the 5.8 OLED iPhone will be 1600P to counter the Pentile Matrix. Apple wont give much attention to these rehashed phones as the ones they are most focused on is the OLED iPhone because of higher profit margins and higher ASP. The 7S and 7S Plus will get the iPad Mini 4 treatment at the keynote
I want OLED, wireless charging and iOS. I also cant just dump my Apple Watch 1st gen. The only way to do that is to get the phone with the bigger screen which would cost 1.3k. In fact I would have reconsidered my 7 Plus purchase if the 7 also came with a 1080P resolution screen,a bigger battery and dual lens camera. Hence Apple made my decision for me by not giving the smaller phone some love. This is one of the shortcomings of iOS and one of the biggest advantages on Android
It was joke bro
Not if you came from an iPhone 6.
Glad you gave it figured out. Now if you could tell me the stock price on announcement day. And no the difference between the 6 and 7 is more than osi and waterproof including worlds most accurate display. Shall I list them?
Am I reading a reply from a poster, or a section off the Apple website, I just can't tell with you mate.Exclusive doesn't mean it has to be limited to a handful of people the world over. For me, it means almost nobody in my local area is carrying the model of phone I have. I don't care if thousands of people elsewhere in the world who I will never meet might own one.
For Apple to truly release an iPhone that only a handful of people will buy, it would mean they would have charge far more than a few grand. It would probably have to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not millions, and at that price point I would definitely not be buying one.
I'm also not particularly bothered if I do continue to carry a model of iPhone that almost everyone else has. I'm just making the arguments why an ultra premium edition of the iPhone could be popular, and why some people (myself included) might buy one.
But for me, the underlying technology, the fact my iPhone runs on the world's most advanced mobile operating system (iOS), that is maintained by a company obsessed with protecting my privacy, that it has the best app ecosystem, and that it works seamlessly with all my other best-in-class devices from Apple - these are things I value most, and these are the reasons I will always choose iPhone.
Wasn't much of a shortcoming given the last quarter, but Apple is headed in that direction for sure.
Sure go for the underdog attempting "real innovation". You have to do what is best for you(stating the obvious), You don't like the direction apple is taking and you have "factual" proof of the next set of iphones and are lining up your options.
Camera, SOC, ram, memory, display, 3dt, battery, stereo speakers was enough for me. 128 gig is cool to have.
But it does show not all paying customers agree with some of the assessments here.I looked at the price and the features. Why should I pay 1.3k for 32 GB storage,Samsung's curved edge OLED, wireless charging confirmed to be using the inductive mat which the Nexus 5 had in 2013 and not the long range one and a glass back?Iris scanner has been on Lumias and galaxies for years.
You have yet to realise till now that the "Doom and gloom" on this site are talking about the long term. We already had Timmy's pay cut, 2 NORMAL quarters of sales declines and the tanking iPad with almost half of what it was in 2013 and the lowest op margin in 7 years.
Its literally the same camera with OSI.I can post pics from both and you have to have your eyes close to the screen to even spot minor differences.Low light performance is slightly better. But this is not even close to the camera jump between the S6 and the S7 or the 5S and the 6
As far as if you "care less" about record highs, that conversation only matters in the context of the "apple is doomed" propoganda and Timmy's pay cut. Other than that it doesn't matter.
You don't have to pay anything and shouldnt if don't want to. Period.
If it's insulting to you isn't great choices exist? Apple may not be for everyone.
Also with quarter after quarter of record profits since Timmy took over. And don't worry about timmys pay, next years comp package will be off the charts. And Timmy has to clean up jobs iPad mess. And what about the long term 20 years?
Okay, but I still bought one.
Well I did, and again I bought one.
So get an htc, in the meantime I'm enjoying my new phone.
It's cool not to fumble with micro-sd cards.
Seems like plenty of innovation to me and some others judging by the sales figures. (And if Apple is t innovating neither is any android manufacturer) So get a surface phone, frankly you should use what you want, Apple will not miss your business I assure you.
I understand your argument and common sense tells me you are 100% correct. However, this is Apple we're talking about here under Tim Cook's guidance. The same Apple that released a $20,000 watch and hobnobbed it with the fashion elite on the runways of Milan to promote it at launch. Apple fans are litterally starved for a major overhaul to the iPhone design. When it releases, regardless of how long OLED screens and wireless charging technology have been around, consumers will be lined up with wallets open and well before day 1 to buy—even at a $1,000+ price point.
