I am not a fan of the camera design bar on the back. I was not a fan of the Pixel and I for sure don't think that Apple should adopt the design.
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iPhone Design to Change 'Significantly' This Year
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The iPhone doesn't need a big design change. Its the benchmark every other phone is judged by for a reason. Changing the position of the part of a phone you never see and/or is always stuffed in a case is like saying you changed up your wardrobe by buying new underwear.
There isn't much anyone can do with a glass rectangle at this point. Sure you can make them bend but a folding spoon is still a spoon. All they can really do it either go back to the iPhone 4 aesthetic with the antenna band or the iPhone 6 with the curved edges.
The one part of the phone that nobody ever seems to want to change, yet needs it more than ever is the bloody operating system.
There isn't much anyone can do with a glass rectangle at this point. Sure you can make them bend but a folding spoon is still a spoon. All they can really do it either go back to the iPhone 4 aesthetic with the antenna band or the iPhone 6 with the curved edges.
The one part of the phone that nobody ever seems to want to change, yet needs it more than ever is the bloody operating system.
I honestly hope they get rid of the camera button. Its the most useless button put on a phone that has ever been created in my opinion. It's just so unnecessary.
If that’s what it looks like, looks like I’m done with the pro line 🤣
That render was done just for YouTube clicks. Prosser making guesses just like Gurman.
The evergreen comment in life ... "there isn't much that can be done w/ XYZ"
It's really never true .. it's just hard to predict what changes will actually be
I was just thinking about this too. Perhaps they're planning to debut the foldable iPhone for the phone's twentieth anniversary. That way it would be a radical form factor change similar to the way the iPhone X was.
They are changing it to push new sales. If you give people some visual changes, perhaps they will finally upgrade.
its pretty much the only thing they can do anymore until they find a way to hide the island
No matter what they do, the design will always have something that is off because it is design by committee. I'm convinced that Apple cannot pull off a good design without Jony Ive.
Even if it's not gonna be as drastic a change as a foldable iphone... or super thin like the iphone air... it makes sense that Apple tweak the design a little on the rest of the iphones just to make them look different. Iphones have basically had the same design since the iphone 12. Same three or two camera layout on the back. So mix it up. Change the camera layout. Put them all in a line like the recent mockups. So then at least the iphone 17 will look different than the iphone 12-16.
Can we stop with the Gurman bashing please?
MacRumors is the one choosing to post his rumors as articles so we can discuss them
Folks are wrong all the time in the rumor space ... it's based upon rumors, speculation, spidey senses, supply chains, leaks, etc
That's the nature of the beast
MacRumors is the one choosing to post his rumors as articles so we can discuss them
Folks are wrong all the time in the rumor space ... it's based upon rumors, speculation, spidey senses, supply chains, leaks, etc
That's the nature of the beast
I may be alone here but I see no major issue here. Aside from the camera bump, I think the iPhone has a great design and they don't need to change it. I do think that they need to branch out into something other than making a super thin phone. Maybe a slider or a foldable. Once Apple does it, it will be mainstream.
But it'll be harder to hold in landscape mode. If the renders are on target, that's one ugly phone! If that's what they come up with, I'll either stick with my current 16ProMax or downgrade to an iPhone that won't have that ugly bar. I hear the iPhone SE (now 16e?) will have the latest processor and 8GB of RAM to support AI. So maybe my future iPhone will cost 1/3 what I've been paying
It is for a company who's latest phone looks no different from its phone from the last decade. Show the average Joe 2 different generation iPhones and have them tell the difference. Do the same with a Pixel.
Android phone design changes with each successive model--not always for the better😏--but it's constantly changing.
