Meanwhile the Huawei P10 keeps the big top and bottom bezels. Just waiting to see how many tech sites nail them for it. The Verge hands on didn't. We all know if the next iPhone still has the same home button and bezels every tech site on the planet will nail Apple for it.
Really not impressed with the P10. always liked the direction Huawei was going with their P# phones, till this one.
IMHO: This looks way WAY too close to the iPhone 7. Almost like they kept the large bezels JUST to look like the iPhone, instead of trying to do something different. I know Hawei is doing suprisingly well right now, but I can't look at the P10 and think it's worth buying at flagship prices if the iPhone is already there
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No Snapdragon 835 = dead before arrival.
At this point, competing SoCs can't even catch up with the A9 in terms of single-core performance nor does the competition approach the storage speeds of the 6s and 7.
How can the 835 be dead before arival when it's not shipping with any technology right now? the Current 2017 phones are shipping with the 821 because Samsung and Qualcomm have an agreement where Samsung provides the FAB services for Qualcom 835, but they get first dibs. So you're not going to see any 835's till the S8 has been relesased with it.
as for storage speed; Samsung's UFS is on par with Apple's NVME. NVME does slightly better in sequential read/writes, but is overall slower in random read/writes to UFS. this is one of those areas that regardless if you use either technology, you're not going to know the difference.
As for Silicon, Apple's A series CPU's are absolutely fantastic and probably the fastest single core performing chips in Mobile. However, they frequently lose out in multi-core performance due to the limited core counts. this isn't going to be a huge difference, depending on use case scenarios.
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Apple has very little to worry about 2017 competition.
even if you don't personally think that there's competition that you'd use, Saying there's no competition is absolutely ignorant.
Considering what we are seeing in a lot of markets where Apple's marketshare has decreased, while other manufacturers support has grown (Heck, Xioami is now ahead of Apple in China). Passing off the competition because they don't have the fruity logo is absolutely ignorant to reality.
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Except consumers didn't want a third option and didn't buy a windows phone
I"m not sure that's terribly fair to windows phone. Windows phone, and Blackberry too both had suffered from similar issues with their OS and that was the inability to convince developers to give a crap.
If Both BB10 and WinPho both had the same wealth of Apps as Android and iOS, I'd believe we'd see a lot more options in the market. I can't speak directly to Winphon (haven't owned one), But as a user who did have BB10 devices, I can speak to BB10.
From an OS perspective. BB10 was extremely similar to iOS, except if anything, performed smoother and better. Was more secure. Overall easier to use with a lot more advanced functionality. There were just ZERO apps.
I would honestly like to see more platforms, but it's hard enough getting developers to care about 2, nevermind 3 or 4
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Not completely the same, especially if the G6 is priced the same as the S8.
His analogy still works
There are a LOT of cars out there that are more expensive than others that are faster:
for example: Whats going to be a sportier / faster drive? A BMW 7series? or a Corvette?
The BMW costs a lot more, but the Corvette is faster.
And what does it matter having either car? if one can go 300km/h and the other one 350km/h. but the speed limits are 100km/h and you can't tell the difference, because at 100km/h, both cars feel fast and snappy, making the thoeretical top speed less overall important than the 0-100
My iPhone 5 running iOS 10 was on its last legs.
