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'iPhone 8' Could Reportedly Be Called 'iPhone Edition,' Ship Well After 4.7-Inch and 5.5-Inch Versions
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Ya could be, I just was thinking "X" because of the 10 year anniversary. I think that'd be cool.
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That's what annoys me the most. "iPhone Edition" just sounds like it's missing a word, e.g., iPhone Sports Edition, iPhone Executive Edition, iPhone Personal Edition, etc. What edition of iPhone is it?!
There must just be one guy who comes up with these stupid names who just thinks "edition" is a cool-sounding word and doesn't realize it's being misused.
I don't know about you guys... but I'm not in the US... float between Canada and Australia...and I'm feeling like iPhone prices today are already getting to ridiculous territory. I don't know if I can swallow spending a few hundred dollars more than today's prices for a phone that I'll use for 2 years maybe 3 if I'm lucky..
Anniversary Edition.
The New iPhone and iPhone Plus
iPhone X
iPhone Air and iPhone Air Plus
We could speculate a lot about Ive (especially what he spent his time on in the last 4 years...), but not about his work !
Hard to avoid any detail from launch day 1, even in the planet's most remote corners.
So what was there to celebrate in the last 4 years ?
We still live in Bezel-land, where climaxes were the (retro-)inspiration of the SE and the loss of a homebutt and headphone jack, in favor of a haptic engine, that we already had...
In the same timeframe, especially in the mid-range, we saw spectacular innovative designs from Huawei, LG, HTC, Xiaomi etc etc.
OLED and spec improvements across all ranges, full water/dust proof designs, superfast focus camera's, leaving premium-brand Apple in the dust.
There is no excuse for lamentating in high-tech, and even less from the wealthiest company denying even the slightest refresh.
Because, contrary to what you pretend, its cost is abysmal.
Factory retooling may be expensive in the car industry, where costs must be written off over 10's thousands of products (instead of 100's of millions) while designs are far more complex with moving parts/engines and multiple versions per country. And still Audi, Toyota, BMW, Volkswagen bring out countless new models, accomplishing far more than what you pretend. And what Apple did, despite its financial momentum of all those together and its far larger economy of scale.
The immense volumes per model imply that overhead of retooling production will come down to a bare minimum - sometimes close to zero (when it comes to changing parameters in CRC machines, as the car industry does 10 times daily).
Increasing iPhone thickness a few millimeters, as many customers have suggested, can even come at negative cost, because of less constraints in more expensive micro-electronics.
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What I'm saying is why make a special iPhone and the the other two LCD, come on Apple
Apple's success has been a result of 2 things:
1. Simplicity
2. High quality products.
Unfortunately, Tim Cook has been changing this during his reign, and it's destroying the company. Products are no longer very high quality; Apple makes disposable products now. And the products themselves have become less simplistic, both in hardware and in the UI. Apple is becoming the exact thing it used to strive not to be. Complexity is a bad thing, not a good thing.
Gotta keep the trend going... they've opened Pandora's box with the iPhone SE. They could just leave it, but why would they wanna if it makes money?
Apple may call the 2017 iPhone 8, rumored to be announced alongside the iPhone 7s and 7s Plus at a September event, the "iPhone Edition," according to a new report from Japanese website Mac Otakara. The name would reportedly signal that the phone is a higher end model, similar to how Apple names the Apple Watch Edition. The "Edition" moniker lines up with reports that the model could cost upwards of $1,000.
The report goes on to note that Apple is currently testing multiple prototypes alongside the iPhone 8. The prototypes experiment with screen technology and materials, with some prototypes using an LCD display while others use AMOLED. The prototypes are also in testing with and without home buttons. Further, Apple is using them to test glass, aluminum and white ceramic chassis.
Apple is trying to gauge which materials and technologies they can procure at mass scale for production, according to Mac Otakara. KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Nikkei and the Wall Street Journal have reported the iPhone 8 will feature an OLED screen, while the 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch lower-end models will sport LCD displays.
Mac Okatara says the only features Apple is reportedly certain of are a 5-inch display, wireless charging and dual cameras. The 5-inch display Mac Otakara is referring to is the usable space on the display. The iPhone 8 is expected to utilize an edge-to-edge display that puts a 5.8-inch display in a handset roughly the size of a 4.7-inch iPhone. 5.15 inches of the 5.8-inch display will be usable. The difference will be used for a wide row of virtual buttons.
The Cupertino company is also expected to announce a more standard 4.7-inch iPhone 7s and 5.5-inch iPhone 7s Plus alongside the "iPhone Edition." According to Mac Otakara, while those two models are expected to launch in September, the "iPhone Edition" may not launch until well after that.
Article Link: 'iPhone 8' Could Reportedly Be Called 'iPhone Edition,' Ship Well After 4.7-Inch and 5.5-Inch Versions
This whole 'Edition' naming feels like something is missing... what edition does it refer to? Normally, I have seen edition being prefixed by something relevant like anniversary edition, or limited edition. But iPhone Edition? Watch Edition? what does that even mean?
Maybe it is really me not understanding Apple English.
But thankfully, MTBCAM88 and Surrix have said the same thing... so, it is not just me
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Maybe that's just it. It's "Apple English" only they are meant to understand the meaning, and no one else. *shrugs*
I'm saying what the graph illustrates so clearly. In 2009 Android was behind iOS in market share and now they are over 80%. There is nothing positive about these figures. It makes painfully clear that Android has managed to gain strong foothold in every market including developing markets while Apple hasn't.
Whatever you think if Ive or Apple though people are buying their products. That's the best counter to this post.
Well that's because Apple are not interested in selling at bargain basement prices. Apple's prices are too high for most in the developing world. Android might have the market share but Apple trump them when it comes to making profit.
[doublepost=1489006142][/doublepost]As I've said elsewhere, Apple are having a laugh if they want to call this the iPhone 'edition' and market this as some kind of high end, exclusive product when it isn't rumoured to have anything that android hasn't had for years.
Think ahead. You think Google and Android are think about today and not whats going happen in five years. Based on what Steve Jobs said Apple is very interested about market share as they should be. Also, there is difference between bargain basement prices and being competitive.
Are you serious? Destroying the company? Keep it up, I continue to buy on the dips. You Tim haters are fixated folk...
re: iPhone Edition, Watch Edition...
+1.
It's like how Apple tried to tell us that there's no need to use plurals with iOS devices.
As for iPhone X, reminds me too much of the Moto X.
+1.
It's like how Apple tried to tell us that there's no need to use plurals with iOS devices.
As for iPhone X, reminds me too much of the Moto X.
If they name it the iPhone Edition, I'm more inclined to believe it's just going to be the iPhone 7s with a ceramic case and maybe even a sapphire laminated layer for scratch resistance. On the Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, and iPad Pro, you get something extra over the base model. On the Apple Watch Edition, you don't get anything extra aside from a change of aesthetics due to the materials used. But this wouldn't be the first time Apple used confusing naming.
I do have to wonder what the public reception would be to the iPhone 7s if there is a higher spec'd, better looking model placed above it. I imagine a large portion might just say screw it, what's the point of getting the new iPhone if it isn't even the good one because I can't afford it and my iPhone 6s is still freaking fast as hell.
I do have to wonder what the public reception would be to the iPhone 7s if there is a higher spec'd, better looking model placed above it. I imagine a large portion might just say screw it, what's the point of getting the new iPhone if it isn't even the good one because I can't afford it and my iPhone 6s is still freaking fast as hell.
I disagree completely. My iPhone 7 is just as high of quality as my two previous iPhones, if not better. Also I think iOS is finally getting a lot more useful features. One reason I was such an android fanboy for so long is because android had those features already. Im actually happy with the direction apple is heading except for continuing to increase prices.
In 2009, iOS was way behind Symbian and still clearly behind Blackberry as well. Between 2009 and 2016, the global iOS marketshare (on an annual basis) varied between 13.5 and 19.1%. Apple has consistently captured roughly the top 15 to 20% of the market. In the era of apps, more than two smartphone OS systems do not appear to be viable (not much different from desktop computing where applications have played an important role much longer than in phones).
And given that lower income countries have represented most of the smartphone sales growth, holding a steady global marketshare means that the premium class iPhones (by average selling price) have actually picked up marketshare in several rich economies. Take the UK for example:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266136/global-market-share-held-by-smartphone-operating-systems/