If you sell a million phones and 0.1% have issues that’s one thousand people complaining about their phones. It’s pretty easy to get a 100 page thread with a dozen people going back and forth
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Kuo: iPhone 12 Lineup Won't Support 120Hz, 5.4-Inch Model Will Have Slightly Narrower Notch
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This! Apple users write it off cuz its not available.. then when its finally available, its magical. It doesn't fail. The brainwashing machine is awesome.
So what your implying is the iPad 120hz model is a half assed product?
Advocates of *any* product downplay the importance of the features they don't have. It's been that way forever. It is not Apple-specific.
DOS advocates pooh-poohed the GUI. Mac advocates thought preemptive multitasking was unimportant. Amiga advocates were convinced protected memory was not worth it. And so on.
It is annoying but it is also incredibly predictable.
Have a go on a phone that has it and they will have their answer. It's like when people were trying to sell HD TV in SD TV adverts. It just didn't seem that big a deal. Then you saw HD TV and it all made sense. Same here.
I wasn't even really aware of 120hz screens and after 10 years of iPhone I recently gave up and got an S20+ (my iPhone X had a bulging screen which is apparently the portent of impending battery explosion and fiery death!)
I went for that phone as it had a tiny hole-punch front camera, barely any bezel and had great cameras. It was only when I got it and tried the optional (not even on by default!) 120hz that it all made sense. It's just sooo slick that you immediately can't do without it.
But yeah, it's hard to 'sell it' because it's purely an enhancement to the core experience.
Put it this way - if the move to retina screens was a 'feature' then this sure as hell is one too...
Does it matter? Apple will still make more money and sell more phones. There’s nothing wrong with the notch. All this hole punch nonsense trying to race to get to a full screen display is ridiculous.
Hd is cool but as long as I can watch my shows I don’t really care if it’s only 420P 🤷🏻
They don’t need to catch up with android phones. I switched from my galaxy S 10+ to an iPhone 11 promax and couldn’t be happier. I could care less about 120 Hz and yes I have seen it. I’d rather have the battery life. iPhones are for a different market than android phones. I really don’t care about cutting edge technology I just want a stable phone with the best camera that is fast and smooth and gets updates.
I’ve used my iPhone 11 promax next to a new 20 ultra. To me it doesn’t make much of a difference I’d rather have the battery life. And even if Apple started making 30 Hz displays I’d rather use that than android.
I won’t it’ll be one of the first features I turn off even if it only saves one hour of battery.
I have a couple of times actually side-by-side and I still feel the same as him. Overrated. Rather have battery life.
I am the same. I have 20/20 vision and the difference is there it just doesn’t matter to me it’s just perspective. I’d much rather have the extra battery life even if it’s only like an hour.
Oh please. Maybe your brain but not mine.
What matters to me as a consumer isn't the same as what matters to their bottomline. They might want to nickel and dime their way into bringing the Newton back too. And what's ridiculous is the massive fugly unibrow on top that we're stuck with for four years in a row and counting.
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Independent of the refresh rate discussion but...
Say you're a normal, middle-aged man/woman, with a family, normal job, house, etc.
And you base all your expensive purchases on what they will cost if you pay them on a monthly basis (which a lot of people do nowadays, especially in the US which is very credit based), you'll still be paying quite a bit per month.
It's easy to think you won't feel a small amount in your wallet.
But all the small amounts added up each month make a big amount.
Down-payments are a bit of an illusion and they are quite dangerous in times like these.
Tons of people are losing their jobs and all of a sudden you'll start noticing you can't justify 10 46$ payments a month any more. And what happens next?
Anyway, what I try to explain is it's not a good idea to think in terms of monthly payments.
You'll still spend the full amount, but it's hidden and it can byte you in the ass quite quickly when you hit some financial set-backs.
Yup, the entire conversation about "looks" is subjective. At least the notch differentiates an iphone and one can tell up from down. It feels as if on some of the android models one has to check how they are holding it. No differentiation in the looks either.
Get back to you about what? Being uneducated about something like 120Hz (or any high-refresh technology) has nothing to do with someone self-proclaiming the necessity of it to an entire world.
Give everyone 120Hz displays for a year and then switch back to 60Hz and see who complains.
A lot of people would complain about shorter battery life.
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Just your opinion.
There are many people that can take a snifter of wine and extol about the sorts of fruits used to make it, even going as far as describing even more subtle qualities of the drink etc.
Then there’s folks like me: “Hmmm, wine. Need more.”
1year ago that would be true but now everyone knows what it is...you are just a fanboy...As for the battery issue they could easily add a 60 hz manual mode...Also yeah most people don't know the differences between 4g and 4g+ but 5G wiil be soooo important from now on...
I admit I’m a fanboy. But 5g is overrated and so is 120hz.