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KGI: Apple to Discontinue iPhone X Rather Than Sell at Lower Price When Second-Generation Model Launches
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Ahhhh, elitism AND completely unsupported assertions! What a refreshing combination!
I agree on the hardware. iOS 11, on the other hand, in my opinion, has a fair way to go before the iPhone X user experience is as smooth as the TouchID phones. But I may just be a dinosaur...
you mean the millions and millions who have bought it and like it?
The design is great. Better than that 5 year old design on the 8 and 8 plus
No problem with a full screen device with no bezels, I’ll just take one without a notch and the Touch-ID embedded in the screen rather than face-id.
So, when will we know that Apple is no longer engineering for "planned obsolescence"? When they no longer introduce new products?
Glass is less slippery than your iPhone 6+ aluminium, I held an X just the other day, thought it felt very comfortable in my hands, not slippery at all, and it was flying.
Just so you know. Anyone that has suffered “pain and traumatic suffering” from this whole ordeal can contact Apple. They will compensate you accordingly.
And buy an X and give it a fair trial. You may hate it, but that doesn't make it beta.
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That may be right, but if you leave an 8 or an X on vibrate and put it on a smooth surface, it will wander around as it vibrates. I nearly had a couple of lemming rushes with the one I had for five weeks.
And buy an X and give it a fair trial. You may hate it, but that doesn't make it beta.
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That may be right, but if you leave an 8 or an X on vibrate and put it on a smooth surface, it will wander around as it vibrates. I nearly had a couple of lemming rushes with the one I had for five weeks.
As many other phones do, don't think it's that much difference though.
Had a good laugh though.
I'll be needing a new phone by next winter. The iPhone 8 Plus @ $669 will be my next phone if this is accurate.
I feel apple has accomplished what they have wanted all along - a phone in their lineup that is priced so high that it helps to differentiate the line below it.
Apple wants a phone that many take pause and pass over while others fork over their money willingly - just because it's the highest price option. That's why there is the mac pro and the $14K all in one (or whatever the heck apple calls it).
Apple wants a phone that many take pause and pass over while others fork over their money willingly - just because it's the highest price option. That's why there is the mac pro and the $14K all in one (or whatever the heck apple calls it).
Even though I don't own one, I'm willing to bet some iPhoneX owners and most of the rest in general (me included) think it's a scam in that it doesn't offer any features compelling/useful/magical enough to justify the humongous price difference/increase, that's all.
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Personally, I came to the opposite conclusion. Not only was it not magical, it made me feel like I had to work for the phone, rather than the phone working for me. That was a purely personal conclusion, and it was also totally driven by how iOS 11 works with the X. In other words, I think the hardware is amazing, but there's a lot more to a good UX than bare hardware. But maybe I'm a TouchID dino.
The only reason for Apple to discontinue the X is if they don't believe they have the OLED manufacturing capacity for three OLED iPhones at the same time. The rumor is that the 2018 OLED iPhone will come in two sizes rather than just one. That makes a lot more sense than suddenly claiming that selling last year's model at a lower price will harm the new model sales. Apple has been successfully doing that for years now.
Interesting. I couldn’t love the swipes and new gestures of the iPhone X more. Invoking multi-tasking is so elegant and natural. Frustrates me to have to go back to the slower, less intuitive home button interface of my iPad Pro.
What exactly about iOS do you feel doesn’t work smoothly on iPhone X?
Exactly. A car company makes lots of small changes on new models to fix problems they found and reduce costs. Why would they make a model that costs more money and makes less profits?
The X was bleeding edge. Everything about the iPhone X was new designs. They would clearly have made a lot of changes to reduce defects and increase production quality. Why sell the old model? There will be a new “X +1” that looks just like X but better. Sounds like they’ll add a “Plus X” model and LED screen models with FaceID at lower costs.. so the 6-8 gens will be the “low cost” solution till they become not useful.
If you are talking about iPhone X then:
A buttonless - is not buttonless.
full-screen interface - is not full screen or all screen, there are other phones that I would call full screen, but no the notch.
with FaceID is the future of all mobile tech - actually is becoming the past for some companies, the idea of facial recognition was implement years before iPhoneX (Kinect, Windows Hello, even mid-range Android phones had this idea implemented), iPhone X implementation called FaceID is very good, probably the best among mobile phones, however the idea is "old" for companies that are moving on to something else, something more convinient will appear soon, Apple will implement it later and some people will say:
"Those who cling to the home button and TouchID AND FACEID will be the next generation of floppy disk lovers and DVD drive die-hards."