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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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More fragmented product lines. Great. Looking forward to seeing the price of the OLED models.....I'm guessing Apple will ensure it is affordable to the average Joe.
How did we go from me telling a joke to conversing about the degree of importance of software vs hardware fragmentation?
Sometimes you settle for the product you get even though it doesn't have all the features you want.
Tons of iPhone users want the features of the 5.5" in the 4.7". Someone wanting OLED or dual cameras in the 4.7" phone would probably argue Apple hasn't managed the hardware fragmentation very well at all. Perspective.
He's very good, but still gets stuff wrong--he spent a lot of time guessing there'd be an iPhone 7 Pro and didn't quite grasp what the 13" MacBook Pro without Touch Bar would be. There's hope yet!
its a little sad that the non plus ones will lag behind I don't want a phone that big but I want the latest tech.... and I know I get it 2 cameras wont fit the smaller phone but I know OLED would :-(
I bet there aren't enough OLEDs to go around, which is why Apple is releasing it as a 3rd premium model.
Frag your mentation. Yes your last point is well taken.How did we go from me telling a joke to conversing about the degree of importance of software vs hardware fragmentation?
Sometimes you settle for the product you get even though it doesn't have all the features you want.
Tons of iPhone users want the features of the 5.5" in the 4.7". Someone wanting OLED or dual cameras in the 4.7" phone would probably argue Apple hasn't managed the hardware fragmentation very well at all. Perspective.
And as far as telling a joke, here's one for the season -
What's the difference between snowmen and snowladies? Snowballs.
There's nothing silly about basing a global, "sky is falling" indictment of Apple on a supply chain rumor made 6 months before production on iPhone 8 even starts. Nope.
Are you seriously wondering why you can't jam all the features of a larger object into a smaller object? Listen to how that sounds.
Do you understand physics? Features require space. Do you think it would be a good policy to restrict the larger phone to only contain feature that could fit in the smaller phone? Of course not. That would be idiotic.
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See above.
Do you honestly think that the duel camera system wouldn't fit in the 4.7 phone? of course it would. They found space to put a bigger Taptic engine in there. A feature I'm sure hardly anybody would've cared about had it been omitted.
Its upsell nothing more, put most of the attractive new features in the bigger (read more expensive) iPhone in order to increase the average selling price of the phone.
Apple is becoming a Wall Streets bitch under Cook.
Yes. There is no longer a tyrant at the he top demanding coherence and unity. So all these Alpha execs end up in their little silos and we end up with brand new iPhones that don't have a cable to connect to brand new MbPs.
I bet you were one of the people who said they couldn't put optical image stabilization in the smaller phone due to space restraints weren't you?
Funny they've found space for it now, despite a Taptic motor being added since the iPhone 6. Hmmm..
Certainly if EVERYTHING from a larger phone needed to be the same size in a smaller phone then yes, you are obviously correct. But a smaller phone does not require the same size internals (i.e. battery) and other features such as display technology (i.e. OLED) can be sized accordingly. So again, I ask why not let customers decide on phone size and NOT have the hard upsell based on screen size?
Very little difference in size between the camera modules on the 7/7plus. Could've made space for it in the smaller phone by not needlessly making the Taptic engine bigger, but then there would be much less reason to buy the more expensive Plus model.
People would make seriously pissed if OLED is only found in a more expensive pro version. OLED technology is nothing new and it's been on, say, fricking Samsung Windows Phone from 2011.
Ya I am very disappointed that there is no mention of a new SE in the lineup. I love the SE and would love them to upgrade it. I will keep running my SE until then.
An OLED screen has nothing to do with space. How old are you? You like insulting people? What makes you so superior? "Do you understand physics? Features require space." Actually that's design and engineering. Supposedly Apple's long suit.
Yes, I expect great things. This is Apple, the purported leader in advanced design by their self aggrandizing dog and pony shows. Obviously the dual lens takes up more space. Look this is just a money grab by Apple. It's been their MO forever. Withhold features or offer options which force the consumer's hand to buy up. If you recall, the initial iPhone 6 didn't have optical image stabilization. It wasn't a space problem. It was a money grab.
The camera is an important feature on a phone. Apple makes a huge deal out of it. Maybe they should make it as great as their ads proclaim.