As a person who has purchased the iphone 6 plus 128gb I have a right to speak about this as a customer.
Apple has had 2 years to perfect the design, the cpu, ram, screen they are all old technology.
This is completely untrue. The CPU is a ground breaking design that uses half as much power as is the norm. It would be like making a car that gets 200 MPG and complaining that gasoline engines are old technology and this 200 MPG engine is nothing special. Making this statement shows you have no idea what you're talking about.
The screen is also ground breaking, there was no such thing as a large phone display with the brightness sharpness and color accuracy of the iPhone 6 screen. It is literally the best display in the world in it's class as tests show. And again it's ground breaking.
The ram is old news, but on the other two points you made you are way off.
Of course iOS is unique to them. However you paint it, all other phones are not bending (including the iphone 6) where as the plus is.
The bending issue has been debunked countless times, and seems to be completely pointless to your argument.
In terms of design people including me are still complaining about the antenna bands because no other apple product has them, they are thick and look amateurish.
Right because dollar store leather phones (Note), or oversized dollar store golf ball phones (S5) are so much higher end than precision fitted precision machined anodized aluminum.
People have been wanting more than 1gb of ram, and the very COMMON tab reloading issue has been identified as a memory limitation. This is annoying when competitor phones have 3gb of ram now.
Except it's not a one to one comparison. iOS is around 2 times more efficient than Android when it comes to ram usage, if not more than 2 times as efficient in some cases. So while numbers like 2GB and 3GB sound more advanced, they're either the same or worse, than Apple's 1GB offerings.
My understanding is all manufacturers subject their devices through numerous and thorough stress tests. Samsung do this without doubt and there are even videos showing this. The question that arises is why wasnt this bending issue noted by the quality control team?
Because the bending issue was invented sensationalist media and doesn't actually exist in the real world normally. The chances of having your iPhone 6 plus bend are 200 times less likely than the chances of being struck by lightning. What you should be asking yourself is, why doesn't the iPhone 6 plus protect you from lightning strikes better?
I dont even want to talk about the ios8 issues. I simply do not understand why there are so many issues, the hardware is pretty much the same as before, 64 bit dual core, just smaller and clocked slightly higher. iOS 8 is pretty much similar to iOS7. Again why wasnt this tested?
Have you ever actually written any sort of a computer program? I don't think so.
Computer programs are made up of code. For example iOS 8 has around 15 million lines of code. If even just one particularly important character in one of those 15 million lines is wrong you would have a bug. Even if that character or command is 100% right, but it interacts with some other command in an unforeseen way (and there are billions of interactions) you may have an error.
As someone who has written computer programs I find it incredibly astonishing that iOS 8 worked so well out of the box. You don't seem to understand that this level of quality, requires that 99.999999999999999% of the code be free from error.
I think that it is very acceptable that Apple's code only exhibits errors in only one in one trillion parts.
iPhone brings 70% of Apple's income. There have been bad iphone situations like the antenna problem and 5s shortage etc but in its somewhat short history I dont remember a situation this appalling.
One has to ask, are Apple...Slipping?
So let me get this straight, you're unhappy because you think ground breaking technology is nothing special, that the best design in the world is nothing special, one of the rarest problems in the world - something that only affects people one out of a million times - is a serious problem, and that some of the most error free code in the world is too buggy.
I have two 128gb iPhone 6 Plus (one for work and one for business). My phones aren't bent, I appreciate the design, I have not experienced any software bugs, and I think that the ground breaking efficiency of the CPU and therefore battery life, and the ground breaking screen are both amazing advancements, and solve real problems that I was annoyed with every day. Not to mention the ground breaking camera too.
I had a Note 3 and I had horrible battery life, because the processor was very inefficient, and I'd get around 25% charge at the end of the day, the 6 leaves me with 40%, and sometimes it lasts two days. And let me tell you about the amazing wonders of having 3GB of ram, the magical huge amount that was so seemingly magical. I used 80-90% of that 3GB all the time, and was constantly experiencing low ram problems. While with the paltry 1GB in the 6 Plus, I only use 60% of that ram. Now I'm no mathematician but I'm pretty sure that having 3GB and running like total junk, is worse than having 1GB and only rarely having problems. Would 2GB be nice on the 6+? Yes, but it's not really about the size of your equipment, it's how you use it that counts. And let me tell you about the old technology of the iPhone 6+ screen, the note 3 has a pen tile 1080p display, which basically means that it really has a 720p display with a few extra pixels that can sort of trick you into sort of looking like 1080p in the same way as an upscaling DVD player totally looks as good as a real blu ray. Which is why the Note 3 displays pictures with slightly more cleanness than embroidery on a table cloth.
Anyways. I don't think that there is a problem with the way Apple is designing devices. I think that the problem is you. Hope that clears things up.
