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These lines have probably prevented many people from upgrading.
Just knowing they are there even with an otter box case is unnerving.
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Force Touch display means AMOLED, that means the more black (UI, wallpaper, etc.) the more energy efficient - it begs pretty much for a dark theme.
Also since iOS 9 won't have many new features, a dark theme would be like a real new feature while it's still simple to implement.
Force Touch display means AMOLED, that means the more black (UI, wallpaper, etc.) the more energy efficient - it begs pretty much for a dark theme.
Also since iOS 9 won't have many new features, a dark theme would be like a real new feature while it's still simple to implement.
Any facts to back that up? Seems like just an opinion.
Do you carry a TV around in your pocket?
Considering it just came out on the watch, yes.
It has been at 8 for a while, you don't think they're ever going to go any higher?
What exactly does that tell you? How many of those millions that purchased a 4" phone did so simply because it was cheaper and would've actually preferred the larger size (just like those that purchased a 6 and not the 6+ may have done so because of cost and would've actually preferred the larger size)? Sales figures do not equal market research.
Nope. Try again.
iPhone 4: A4
iPhone 4S: A5
iPhone 5: A6
iPhone 5S: A7
iPhone 6: A8
There have only ever been 3 X models:
A5X: iPad 3
A6X: iPad 4
A8X: iPad Air 2
Clearly, not someone who's purchased a car over the past 100 years, or a PC over the past 35.
There were plenty who said the Model T Ford was as good as anyone needed. It's not a matter of delivering revolutionary change on an annual basis; it's not about having reached the summit of Everest. It's about generating enough annual, incremental change that people will find the product sufficiently improved and appealing at the time they're ready to replace the old one.
If tomorrow, Tesla brought out a self-driving, $20,000 car that was, in terms of size, performance, and comfort equal to any of today's $20,000 cars, and could go 600 miles between charges, how many people would trade-in one-, two-, or three-year-old cars in order to have one? The vast majority would still wait until the previous car was paid off, or their lease term expired. A substantial percentage would wait until their favored carmaker brought out its version of the Tesla.
No idea, but then again neither do you, but I'm willing to bet it's far less than the number of people who want the latest model and thus jumped to 4.7" because they had no other option.
I can pretty much guarantee if Apple sold a 4" iPhone 6S it'd sell as many, if not more than the 5.5" version.
I never claimed to know. Apple is a business and only they know what to them is a viable market. Sure, there are people that are pushed into buying the larger model that would prefer smaller but it's hardly reasonable to expect Apple to cater to every possible market, all the while trying to maximize profit margins.
Haha
The difference is with Android, it needs huge amounts of RAM for garbage collection, whereas iOS devices have most of it free for ACTUAL TASKS. The provocative, argumentative fandroids generally don't know their butt from their elbows when it comes to platform design, they just grab hold of ANYTHING to argue about.
Whilst they're bickering and upstaging the world with regards to CPU and RAM specs, the rest of the world is just, well... getting on with enjoying the EXPERIENCE, not comparing metrics. Is your taxi journey less enjoyable because the car you were driven in has X engine as opposed to Y? Nope, because you just wanted to get to your destination smoothly and in comfort - I think I can safely say that's a reasonably good analogy to the iOS device experience.
Fandroids will only argue about specs because that is THE ONLY THING which is exciting for them about that platform.
4" is a proven market though, that's the thing. Every single one of the 700,000,000 iPhones Apple had sold until six months ago had a 4" or smaller screen.
Note the constant in that graphic: the screen size is increasing with each evolutionary step, regardless of the handset size.
Your opinion isn't fact. Many people buy based on phone price. My mom, who's a tiny person, loves the size of a 4" phone, not screen, but is in love with larger screens. When price isn't a factor, people will opt for a larger screen. It's why we have such large TV's today, it's more immersive and you don't have to squint.
Anyone who wants 3.5" screens and 512mg of RAM don't belong in 2015.
Now that right there is an opinion seemingly pulled out of thin air. Your own "market research" would seem to contradict that statement since the 5.5" has outsold the 4" form factor since it came out with the most recent sales data (1Q15F) showing it has picked up the pace with the 6+ outselling the 4S/5C/5S by a hefty margin.
What would they mean ? They don't exist for real. There is really no point on having 12mp (or even 8mp) on a sensor this small. All the extra pixels are registering is noise and optical aberrations.
My DSLR has 4.89 micron pixels - and I have to be extremely careful (very good quality lens, very high speed or stand, aperture small enough to have the best quality but not too much that I have diffraction) to actually benefit from each pixel.
The iPhone 6+ with its very reasonable 8mp sensor has only 1.5 micron pixels. There is no way you're using them right now. Adding more pixels will only result in more noise, since the resolution is already limited optically anyway.
It is a rapidly decreasing market. Many people that bought iPhone 5s did so because it was the newest iPhone and not because it had the perfect screen size. The amount of people converting to Android because of the larger screen size supports this, as does the increased conversion of Android to iPhone now Iphone is available in larger sizes.
Sure the 4" market is still there, but you are overestimating its size and profitability. As larger screen devices become more commonplace and the small screen market shrinks, it will become more expensive and hence less profitable to produce and sell smaller screened devices.
Just because Apple sold 700M iphones of a small screen size does not mean they will sell more now. The Motorola Razr was one of the most popular phones in history but it would not get sold at all if reintroduced now. Markets change.
Ok...but that doesn't say anything about evolving markets. Just because they've sold X amount of whatever in the past doesn't mean they will be able to continue at that pace for the indefinite future.