That's the weird thing - I thought the SE had done better than expected, so they should have realised that. I love mine. (Although I might be tempted to upgrade next year.)
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Next Year's iPhones to Include 4.7" LCD Model With Single Camera, 5.5" LCD and OLED Models With Dual Cameras
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That's the weird thing - I thought the SE had done better than expected, so they should have realised that. I love mine. (Although I might be tempted to upgrade next year.)
"And get those dang kids off my lawn!"
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One little difference, if Steve were to return now, instead of an Apple on the brink of ruin, he would find that Apple products are selling so well that Apple has grown to be the most valuable company in the world; not with no money, but with world record revenue and hundred of billions in the bank; not with unsold products, but with products selling as fast as Apple can make them.
Indeed, with Apple having the vast majority of the entire cell phone industry profits for the past several years, and now just having reached 104% of it, he'd find his handpicked successor and team had done unbelievably well with the iPhone.
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Apple has become the poster-child for wring and stretch, with the rumoured 3-models being offered in 2017.
And screen resolution. But other than that, yeah i'm sorry the ones who want one handed use have to suffer losses in hardware like the camera.
You think they should put two cables in each box?
In the pool of iPhone owners, there's a portion who also use a Retina MacBook or new MacBook Pro. Inside those users, there's a smaller segment who still sync to iTunes and plug their phone in.
AirDrop, Wireless sync to iTunes, iCloud... & if you're one of the niche, you can buy a cable.
Haha this is what you call "moving things forward?"
Samsung and other lower quality companies have been using OLED for years. Finally when apple decides to use it, they go halfway with it by limiting the option for the big and clunky model only?
Removing a headphone jack and restricting the nicer features to the bigger model only is not innovation or moving things forward. All it is, is stupid. Apple and their decisions this past year have been very schizophrenic and out of touch with their consumers.
Pushing us into a future with wireless headphones by:
1) Releasing wireless Beats headphones and advertising them, competitors don't want to look inferior and will release wireless headphones too / market their own wireless products.
2) Releasing an iPhone without a headphone jack. Users apathy towards wireless headphones is gone - suddenly everyone's talking about it and aware of the issue. Maybe that'll push them into trying wireless headphones.
3) Developing a chip for AirPods + Beats headphones which solves the problems often associated with wireless headphones.
That is using their resources to push things forwards.
By reacting "wahh wahh I need a headphone jack" you're not only being short-sighted but also not learning from history. Flash's absence from iPad. MacBook Air with no optical drive/removable battery. Both were considered user-hostile and generally a bad idea at the time.
Ah ... but it does protect their profit margins ... the whole essence behind product fragmentation, after all, Apple is first and foremost a tech stock play.
Apple's design and engineering group have explicit marching orders to do whatever they have to do to continue to make the product saleable all the while protecting the profit margins.
Maybe not complicated, but definitely fragmented.
It's not helpful to the user to have one iPhone model with LCD and two with OLED. That introduces confusion, and unnecessary clutter, to the purchasing experience.
Maybe not - for regular customers - they walk in and choose from 3 different sizes: 4.7, 5.5 and 5.8
The folks in this forum will probably go with 5.8 and if you are in yearly upgrade program, it doesn't matter, you simply upgrade the model you have.
I am not an engineer, but then again neither are you. Perhaps the dual camera could be hard but I was referring to the features mentioned on this article. There is no reason why all iPhones couldn't have OLED and glass-casing. I will say it once again, Sales Tactic.
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I might actually be considering a move to android, this trend in apple to not offer the same features across all models of the phone is getting worse. Now they want to offer the OLED model with all the features only for a premium price. I really feel Apple is pricing themselves out of the market, Android 7.1 is fairly solid and there are quite a few good android phones out there for much less
I hope they go back to the old camera module manufacturer. The one built in the iPhone 7 is terrible. Look at dpreview.com watercolor painting everywhere 
the Google Pixel has a much better camera. Much much better
the Google Pixel has a much better camera. Much much betterI'm just capping off 2 months in Europe - 2600 photos with my iPhone 7 - couldn't be happier with the results - OIS and the improved aperture put this iPhone / smartphone camera at the top of the heap.
Maybe they don't like the quality of the smaller OLED screens.... Maybe
People keep saying it would be confusing.... I can't understand what would be confusing about looking at an item..... looking at what it offers and buying or not buying it based on those options.
They aren't just different, but one is visually and in many other ways superior to the other. As the article says, it would mean another iPhone model, splitting the current lineup.
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They could fit the dual camera if they didn't have improved battery life as an aim for the 7, but they chose a bigger battery so they couldn't fit it, which is understandable.
But you can't say that it 'doesn't have the room' for an OLED display. It will likely be done because of the limited supply.
A) your whole argument is off because the previous posts weren't referring simply to the type of screen technology but to other features like dual cameras as well. Pay attention if you're going to get all self/righteous.
B) No, I don't like insulting people, and I didn't insult anyone. I asked a question, and then stated my opinion about a certain line of thinking I believe to be unhelpful. Not the same.
C) Please cite, with sources, proof of your speculation that Apple intentionally withholds features that it could easily and affordably include (e.g. optical image stabilization and AMOLED) not because of design limitations or the lack of availability within the supply chain of required technology in volumes large enough to satisfy their massive demand, but simply in order to make more profit.
I'm guessing you cannot and will not respond to "C", but I'd be pleasantly surprised if you did.