Personally, I've reached a point where I actually try to reduce my smartphone use because it just takes away so much of my time. Therefore I don't need a bigger battery and I won't be upgrading to any new iPhone soon, especially not at 1000 bucks.
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iPhone 8 With Longer Battery Life Said to Entice Those With Older iPhones to Upgrade
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I'll be upgrading. I'm on the yearly plan anyway, and it's best if I find issues before family members do. And, I'll be helping drive costs down for the rest of you waiting a cycle or two 
I'd love to upgrade. But I refuse to do so until they update their desktops.
Its ok you can now pay $41.58/mo and hit that $200 in 4.81 months, then only have 16.19 months to pay off the $869 Iphone7+ black (option to upgrade and continue the payments as a restart payments on a new iphone..for life)
Battery life is also effected with every new iOS release. I'm sure some software tweaks could improve battery life on older handsets.
But then that won't help the sale of new iPhones.
But then that won't help the sale of new iPhones.
"Amazing camera improvement" ..according to every keynote (and ads) it is, as for better services you know the answer to that one
I hear the competition is finally catching up to the A9 (and to the A8 for most of them). Outdated is relative.Gosh if only Apple announced their phones in January then they wouldn't be outdated.
Wouldn't be surprised if the battery is actually a rebadged Samsung with Apple logo on it. Half of the inner parts are Samsung anyway, lol.
Actually not really sure how this is going to be huge. The reason the plus models have bigger batteries is because they drive bigger displays. Yes the Plus has longer battery life, but not revolutionary.
When you are putting a larger screen than the Plus on a chassis the size of the 4.7" phone, you NEED to find a way to put in a bigger battery just to maintain current battery life levels.
I wouldn't expect too much from this actually. Same goes for the RAM. Of course there will be 3G, the pixels that need to be driven are the same or greater than the current Plus model which was deemed to require that amount by Apple.
When you are putting a larger screen than the Plus on a chassis the size of the 4.7" phone, you NEED to find a way to put in a bigger battery just to maintain current battery life levels.
I wouldn't expect too much from this actually. Same goes for the RAM. Of course there will be 3G, the pixels that need to be driven are the same or greater than the current Plus model which was deemed to require that amount by Apple.
Yup , on the hardware side most popular Iphone parts are from Samsung
On software side most popular software in AppStore is from Microsoft
On services side when possible, most popular is Google followed by Microsoft
On store side, Apple has stores
On Browser side ,most popular is Chrome
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Not necessarily. iOS updates also slow down older devices, which ultimately result in those upgrading to a newer device, even if they battery was slightly improved. It can be frustrating for devices that underperform with updates that are meant to be improve the software efficiency.
It seems like you have not been living in this plantet on the recent years. Price does not seem to stop from buying these who want to buy an Apple product.
You should use future tense because it never happened...
You never could buy an iPhone for $200, it's subsidised, you pay (the whole retail price) for it in your plan.
