It doesn't have to be the only option. But right now it is. Apple is only offering their top tier phones in larger screen sizes. They are not currently providing smaller high end options.
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It doesn't have to be the only option. But right now it is. Apple is only offering their top tier phones in larger screen sizes. They are not currently providing smaller high end options.
Well, it's true: Money can't buy manners! Do you realise how conceited your post reads as? Insulting and rude! I have money and would never dream of writing something like this...you must be new money one presumes.
I think it is WAY TOO EARLY to be believing rumors about the 7.
Agreed, the 6 has only been out for 3 months.
I'm honestly curious to see if Apple does anything special for iPhones 10th Anniversary. It'd be nice, but then the question comes, will it be out in late 2016 or late 2017 since the iPhone debut in early 2007 but didn't come out until June 2007.
I can see it filling the cheap/$0 on contract option.
iPhone 6S/6S+ would be $199/$299 like always
iPhone 6/6+ would be $99/$199 like always
iPhone 4" model would be free/$49
I dare say the pricing should be inverted. From what I read so far on this forum, people who prefer a 4" iPhone are the more affluent crowd who want a more discrete phone where as the younger kids wants 5.5" or even bigger screen.
Kidding aside, do you realize that a couple hundred bucks is little compared to the cost of the plan for the life of an iPhone? The so call "budget" prices are for people who are bad at math. $200/2 years = $8 per month, the amount you save for buying a budget phone compared to $2000 you pay over the life of a phone in service.
The way I see it, service is service and it deoends on what you use it for. Why spend an extra $200 "just because" if you don't need to? Plenty of people pay far less for service than $2000 over two years. Our lines come out to be about $900 over two years (per line). For a large family with the maximum amount of lines on our same plan it could go down to $549 (again per line) over a two year period. People in TMobile are potentially even lower than that. $200 might just be $8 per month over two years, but if it's $8 I don't need to be spending then what's the point of spending it? I see it as far more foolish to buy more than you need because you can.
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By the same token, why buy the new model phone? Get last year model and save $100.
But as you say if you need to have the new model, that would imply you want current technology. For a 4" phone it would be whatever a 4.7" phone has, but a 4" screen, not last year chipsets in a new 4" body.
That's my entire point. You can get last year's tech for $100 less. Except that it might not have what I want in. A phone (screen size being one of those things).
My entire response was based in the fact that some people want to save money (and they can). Other people want (or need or don't need) certain features.
These are all examples of people choosing ohones not because they are "bad at math" but because that was the decice that made the most sense to them at the time. There are many more factors that go into play than a person's ability to do math before they make a purchase.
I don't doubt that if Apple reintroduces the 4" device, it most likely won't be a "free low end" model. But that's not at all what I was responding to there.
hahahahaa not a chance
I've found those that 'long' for the ol' 4" or even 3.5" factor are more contrarian than would put their $$$ where their mouths are... even while they hold their newly upgraded 6's and 6+'s... :roll eyes:
One would argue by simply pointing to the sales and demand factor we've seen so far with this generation: its unprecedented. Nobody puts down close to at least $300+ in the millions if the screen was either too small or too big, it was enough to convert.
Who cares about the smaller screen or whatever! ! It's just noise!
Android conquest buyers (which continue to make up a lot of the current demand volume) are the sweetest plum because its so easy to say "I told you..."
I've found those that 'long' for the ol' 4" or even 3.5" factor are more contrarian than would put their $$$ where their mouths are... even while they hold their newly upgraded 6's and 6+'s... :roll eyes:
One would argue by simply pointing to the sales and demand factor we've seen so far with this generation: its unprecedented. Nobody puts down close to at least $300+ in the millions if the screen was either too small or too big, it was enough to convert.
Who cares about the smaller screen or whatever! !
It's just noise!Android conquest buyers (which continue to make up a lot of the current demand volume) are the sweetest plum because its so easy to say "I told you..."
I think a new iPhone with the full functionality of the iPhone 6 but with the screen size of the iPhone 5/5S would be a lot more popular than people think, especially in Europe and parts of Asia that are not enamored with the idea of a larger-screen phone.
Hmm, honestly doesn't sound like a bad idea.
4"
4.7"
5.5"
Choices...I like, I like. But, honestly, the 4.7" isn't even all that big. Once they shrink the bezels, it'd feel like a 4" phone in your hands. I wouldn't even bother with a 4" phone if I were Apple.
4"
4.7"
5.5"
Choices...I like, I like. But, honestly, the 4.7" isn't even all that big. Once they shrink the bezels, it'd feel like a 4" phone in your hands. I wouldn't even bother with a 4" phone if I were Apple.
That's why this forum is called MacRumors
Exactly. And yet the question was whether or not this rumour was a rumour.
If there are some technological advances with the next series of iPhones, and there is an uncompromised 4" version (that is to say, the same spec as the larger models) then I'm sold. However, with the trend to offer increasingly large devices, it's probably unlikely and those of us who are quite happy with the 5/5S form factor will eventually have to upsize at some point. I'm not bitter about that, but I also do feel that there's definitely a market out there for a premium smaller form factor device (even the 'compact' Android handsets are 4.7"+ these days).