No, it's pretty clear that he has connections in Asian supply chain, not Apple. He doesn't predict Apple's moves, but rather has some level of accuracy about what is being produced. Once Apple has the factories begin work on setting up production, it is pretty difficult to control leaks.
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No, it's pretty clear that he has connections in Asian supply chain, not Apple. He doesn't predict Apple's moves, but rather has some level of accuracy about what is being produced. Once Apple has the factories begin work on setting up production, it is pretty difficult to control leaks.
Yes, one-handed usability is important but you start to sound like Blackberry insisting that a hardware keyboard is crucial. If the vast majority of users prefers a larger screen over easy one-handed usability, then focusing on the later puts you into a niche.
Sure, people think big screen is better but as a phone, it really isn't. At that point most people would be better off with a normal size phone in the pocket and a tablet for a actually usefully larger screen. But really, no disagreement here... the market wants what the market wants: "Thinner and wider".
I am personally truly disappointed in the direction Apple has taken in the last years...
Yes, "results have been world record profits, ...(and the rest you said)" but I think it's still inertia from Jobs-Era, and sooner or latter it will fall as wenn Sculley took the CEO position an Jobs was fired.
The decline in the Products, is for me obvious. I don't care if its the "most valuable company in the world"... I care about the Products, and it could also be a litte company with only 500 People working at it... I don't buy Apple as Status Symbol. I don't care what others think about my purchase decisions or purchasing power.
The smaller ones would of course be more expensive, so that people who prefer the larger phone aren't subsidizing the extra efforts to fit the same tech into smaller packages.
This is mostly your own opinion. The world needs phones in a variety of sizes. It's inevitable. Some, like you, likes a smaller phone with a tablet to complement. But some prefer a do-it-all device, i.e. a phablet. Not everybody can or likes to carry two devices around. I, for one, do not like to carry a phone and a tablet around.
Fully agreed. But Ming-Chi Kuo is a lady btw.
Edit: Oops. Upon further googling, found out that it's a dude. I've no idea how I thought MCK a lady. My bad.
I have an iPod Classic with a 512 GB SSD. I find myself using it more than my iPod touch lol
Ummmmmmmm.... a Pixel isn't 4".
Are you planning on getting a phone that you think is too big, but not an iPhone, just to try and "spite" Apple??! lol.
He was right on the money in case of the iPhone 7 9 months before launch so you are wrong.Same with the iPhone 6s.I can pull out links from a year ago to prove my point
And there are more than 100 pages of uneven iPhone displays on MR in the iphone sections and unlike burn in there are also pages and pages of LCD uneven lighting on Google
OLEDs are more power efficient
OLEDs have near infinite contrast
OLEDs have more colour accuracy
OLEDs destroy LCD when it comes to having even lighting with no backlight bleed
Everything in the Tim Cook era is just inertia from the Jobs era.Just look at the absolute pathetic state of the Mac .Steve would never have let Mac fall into such a state.It wasnt updated for months on end and now that they finally did what do we get? A "pro" laptop without any USB.A "pro" laptop with TouchBar for emojis but no Magsafe.A pro laptop without DVI-D.If I own an iPhone in addition to a MacBook I need to carry a separate bag for dongles and worry about not losing it wherever I use it because there's just so many dongles to track it becomes hard
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OLED efficiency depends on what is displayed. Mostly white (iOS) background means most of the OLED pixels are powered...
OLED does have infinite contrast because (as you likely know), OLED pixels create their own light. Thus if they are off, they are off.
OLED color accuracy will change more over time because different color pixels bleach out (part of why OLED gets burn-in)
OLED doesn't destroy LED on even illumination but yeah, point taken.
OLED is not better for everything. It is ideal for TV (sitting in a mostly dark room with constant image motion). Whether OLED is more suitable for small mobile devices is not a given. Think about the static nature of parts of the OS. The menu at the top is always the same. It will burn-in. OLED does not work as well in daylight. iOS is very white, so any energy savings will likely be offset. OLED needs pentile pixel arrangement to help offset color shift (blues die fast). I'm not saying OLED is garbage at all, but there are genuinely good reasons to use LED for phones. Likewise, using OLED is not revolutionary. I'd hope Apple steps up to a better display technology instead.
And I edited your other comments because I absolutely agreed with those.
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Yep, it is my opinion but it is based on some anecdotal evidence. I know a few people that bought iPhone+ hoping it would work well enough to displace an iPad. The iPhone+ didn't. I guess I am a bit grumpy about phone inflation being equated to "innovative".
Ming Kuo doesn't even need inside information, pretty much all his predictions could be educated guesses based on the competition, standard Apple behaviour and market trends and he'd be right 90% of the time...
I can tell you now why there will be no new 4" iPhone SE, ever - The current SE was a result of taking an old shell and putting in the newer parts. That's why you got the old screen without 3D touch - the newer screen didn't fit and Apple didn't want to spend money engineering one. It was a minimum cost "new" product between bigger launches to keep things ticking over. There is NO new 4" shell to do the same again and Apple won't invest in one - like it or not post-Jobs Apple is all about the margin, not the product - same as it became when Jobs left in the 90's. There's no "Product guy" pushing the team now.
Apple built up a great reputation and that's why they have loyal customers, that loyalty doesn't last forever though, the product isn't moving forwards any more - it's getting less user friendly, more fiddly to use without any noticeable benefits. Apple peaked a few years ago sadly and that's the truth. Anyone who thinks different only has to look at history, every "biggest company in the world" hits a peak then starts to decline, Apple became successful due to product that was pushed along by a passionate product guy, that product is now about the shareholder rather than the user and eventually Apple will be replaced by the next innovative company to come along, they won't disappear but they'll decline because they've forgotten what made them great.
I can tell you now why there will be no new 4" iPhone SE, ever - The current SE was a result of taking an old shell and putting in the newer parts. That's why you got the old screen without 3D touch - the newer screen didn't fit and Apple didn't want to spend money engineering one. It was a minimum cost "new" product between bigger launches to keep things ticking over. There is NO new 4" shell to do the same again and Apple won't invest in one - like it or not post-Jobs Apple is all about the margin, not the product - same as it became when Jobs left in the 90's. There's no "Product guy" pushing the team now.
Apple built up a great reputation and that's why they have loyal customers, that loyalty doesn't last forever though, the product isn't moving forwards any more - it's getting less user friendly, more fiddly to use without any noticeable benefits. Apple peaked a few years ago sadly and that's the truth. Anyone who thinks different only has to look at history, every "biggest company in the world" hits a peak then starts to decline, Apple became successful due to product that was pushed along by a passionate product guy, that product is now about the shareholder rather than the user and eventually Apple will be replaced by the next innovative company to come along, they won't disappear but they'll decline because they've forgotten what made them great.
Pull out the links, the only thing he got was the form factor, he missed out on everything that makes a 6s or 7 what it is. Yeah he might have gotttn the headphone jack along with the rest of the world.
And thousands and thousands of hits with google about burn in. Google can't be wrong? Right?
All jobs did was repackage according to your "inertia" logic. Can't have it both ways. If cook is ballmer this is what Apple needs. And still talking to jobs?
Exactly. They spent how many years and how much money developing the touch bar?
It has limited value on a laptop because of the ergonomic issues (looking down and reaching to the top of the keyboard every time you want to use one of it's functions) and for the same reason certainly would be much worse if you decide to set up and external monitor with your laptop.
Furthermore, if the touch bar is truely going to become a 'thing' that developers program for, how do you get that functionality on a desktop? If they build it into an external bluetooth keyboard, the ergonomics would be doubly annoying.
So tons of time and untold millions of dollars developing what clearly seems to be a gimmick.
https://www.macrumors.com/2015/11/03/kuo-4-inch-iphone-2016-iphone-7-ram/ (Predicted RAM in Nov 2015)
https://www.macrumors.com/2016/01/27/iphone-7-plus-dual-camera-linx-kgi/ (Dual lens camera)
https://9to5mac.com/2016/05/30/anal...storage-and-up-finally-dropping-16-gb-models/ (Correct storage prediction)
http://www.gsmarena.com/kgi_all_iph...ure_dualcamera_setup-news-18202.php(Correctly predicted water resistance)
And also as you so rightly pointed out the headphone jack doesnt need a mention
The other features of the iPhone 7 were also correcectly predicted by other analysts albeit not Kuo
http://bgr.com/2016/01/13/iphone-7-rumors-headphone-jack-battery-waterproof/
So now that we have settled that both LCD and OLED have outliers time to take a call.Flaws aside which one is better?Hint-Its the one Samsung is supplying to Apple for iPhone 8.
Who repackaged first?
Its funny but you still can't counter these straight facts and instead resort to word games
Steve Jobs inventions
Tim Cook's inventions
Good to know that you know what is best for people. Most people wouldn't know what to do without you telling them what is best for them. /s
And who first reported the two sizes, 4.7" and 5.5", of the iPhone 6? Ming Kuo takes insider information and combines it with common sense and a good understanding of Apple's behaviour.
Sure, that much was clear already before the SE was released, except that Apple still could update the internals once more. If the A7 of the 5s can be replaced with an A9, then they can also put an A10 in it. There are two separate questions here: 1) Will there be a new 4" shell (in 2017)? And the answer to this appears to pretty definitely no, and 2) Will they update the internals using the same 4" in 2017? It is this second question that Ming Kuo has now more or less confirmed to be no.
That they wouldn't do update the SE after one year was also predicted pretty much with the SE release, that Apple wanted to have an entry-level cheaper product that is (a) cheaper because the engineering costs can be spread over two years (not that they hadn't done this with almost all iPhones which were sold for two or three years each) and (b) keeps its distance feature-wise from the more expensive phones. In the first year of the SE, they have a relative attractive 4" product. In the second year, they have the same entry-level price point and a better sales incentive for the larger phones.
Funny then that the product line diversified most in the years (the 90s) when Jobs wasn't there. And in how many sizes was the iPhone offered during the Jobs reign?
Well, actually it isn't funny. It is the usual human reaction of needing a scapegoat (the 'new Apple', Tim Cook). The usual human reaction of seeing the past through rosy glasses. The usual reaction when a product category matures. What is sad is that much to often this turns into 'hate' (or severe dislike if you prefer).
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You forgot this:Steve Jobs inventions
Tim Cook's inventions
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Did he get the 4 core CPU? The dual lens and waterproof was easy.
And please stop posting those tired memes. They were edited out. "Tim cooks" picture left out 5s, 6, 6s, 7, Apple tv, Mac book with touch bar, biggest seller, most valuable company.
I 'upgraded' from a iPhone 6 to an iPhone SE a few months ago and it is the best iPhone I have ever had. It's small, fits in my pocket perfectly and has great performance. I think Apple should consider an upgrade in 2017. There is still an audience for it.
It's not about "spiting" Apple. It's the fact that Apple has been doing the opposite of listening to what people want. Clearly the SE was liked among many. At least there are things with the Google Pixel that I enjoy enough to sacrifice my want for a smaller phone.
Do you want to know the cache memory too?
Do you want to know the manufacturer supplying the nvme storage?
How many cores does the GPU have and whats its TDP?
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No they arent.The only thing missing there are Watch Bands and Apple Watch and thats all Tim could invent.World's most valuable company was because of a product Steve created and thats all old news.In the here and now Apple's operating margin is the LOWEST its been in 7 years.We got multiple consecutive quarters of sales declines.It seems the party is ending over at Cupertino
So let me get this straight by using your logic on other instances. DICE was the owner of the Battlefield franchise and they created it.Later on the franchise was handed over to EA .So that means ,EA created Battlefield?
AMD took over ATI Radeon.So I guess AMD invented Radeons
Thats some logic there