Too many fanboys though, look at the MBP sales, even after the butterfly keyboard situation. They literally value-engineered the hell out of that machine and it’s still selling well.
Apple has learned they can cut costs all they want, hurt the reliability and usefulness of their product, and still increase their numbers. That perspective is now coming to the iPhone.
Of course, if you can ship a turd in a box and people will buy it, why not keep shipping turds that you can sell at insane profit margins?
What possible reason to innovate would be there? ESPECIALLY when you are run by a bean counter like Cook rather than an inventor/science guy; there is a reason Apple doubled its market cap in mere months. Apple is already 66% of the industry profits, there isnt much higher to go when there are other major players in the market shipping more devices total.
They're too big to fail at this point with a cult following. It would take millions leaving to even make a dent.
For a company of the size like Apple, to reach a point where customers can even have any hope of influencing “how much is too much”, it‘d be millions of people stop buying iPhone. Just a mere thousand customers stop buying iPhone won’t affect the price whatsoever.
Disclaimer: all Numbers are for scale only.
Bingo, it would take millions to influence it and there are far far too many fanbois out there who will buy any box with a fruit logo on it (status symbol etc- whatever the reason)
Man I wish Apple would come up with another iPhone with a huge battery life to accompany the rest of the products. Such as iPhone Power lol. Thicc phone with 4500mAh battery.
iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Plus, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, one more thing. iPhone 12 Power for active users. Like Samsung did with their galaxy active Series.
The Pro Max is H 158 mm, W 77.8 mm, D 8.1 mm.
The S20+ is: H 161.9 mm, W 73.7 mm, D 7.8 mm.
And the 12 Pro Max will have a .2" bigger display, so I imagine a hint bigger body.
But its 4mm taller, 4mm narrower, and .3mm thinner, roughly the same volume as a 11 Pro Max, but Samsung can somehow magically get a 4500mah battery in there.
It's 10000000% possible. Unless we're willing to say Samsung simply "wants it more" or has better engineering. And this is coming from someone who has called them samEsung in the past for copying Apple. But they frankly are killing it lately with their phones packing tech in (and even tablets and watches get high praise). Yes the Note 20 Ultra is way too expensive (but in reality not really with 128gb storage its about the same as a $1250 256gb Pro Max since it has expandable storage), but the s20/+ is a good phone as is many of their midrangers for the price.
Cutting battery size this year by nearly 10% makes NO sense at all. Apple is obsessed with keeping the same runtime versus offering more. The 11 series was the first real jump in battery life and now seems to be going backward/stagnant again.
I have NEVER heard anyone with a modern iphone say man I wish this was thinner!! (rather the opposite and get rid of the camera bump)
And with 5G, no matter what % more efficient the A14 is, I cant see a capacity cut being the right move. Sometimes you cannot overcome a spec and the spec sheet wins out
