I was actually very enthusiastic about the 5c at first. It's certainly faster and better than my ancient iphone 4. And I am fine with the white model. Not so much the yellow, pink and the kind of peacock blue.
Then I realized the 5c was a dead end.
The last time we had a 32 bit/64 bit fork in Apple land the 32 bit side eventually died. The 64 bit moved forward.
Ditto for the G5/Intel code.
I really do not expect IOS7 to maintain both 32 and 64 bit functionality any longer than it needs to. While I am sure there are project managers and the like in Cupertino calling for the soonest possible cut off, more than likely Apple will give us grace period.
Now what do you think a reasonable grace period would be?
Why not the 2 year mandatory minimum contract period most of us agree to when we get our phone from VZW or AT&T?
Sure, I will probably be ready to upgrade by then.
But I am also a cheap bastard who keeps his phone until it just won't start anymore. (see the above battered iPhone 4)
So I really do expect there to come a day when apple says,
"here is our newest version of IOS7, only for iPhone5s or later."
it is only a matter of when
I was actually very enthusiastic about the 5c at first. It's certainly faster and better than my ancient iphone 4. And I am fine with the white model. Not so much the yellow, pink and the kind of peacock blue.
Then I realized the 5c was a dead end.
The last time we had a 32 bit/64 bit fork in Apple land the 32 bit side eventually died. The 64 bit moved forward.
Ditto for the G5/Intel code.
I really do not expect IOS7 to maintain both 32 and 64 bit functionality any longer than it needs to. While I am sure there are project managers and the like in Cupertino calling for the soonest possible cut off, more than likely Apple will give us grace period.
Now what do you think a reasonable grace period would be?
Why not the 2 year mandatory minimum contract period most of us agree to when we get our phone from VZW or AT&T?
Sure, I will probably be ready to upgrade by then.
But I am also a cheap bastard who keeps his phone until it just won't start anymore. (see the above battered iPhone 4)
So I really do expect there to come a day when apple says,
"here is our newest version of IOS7, only for iPhone5s or later."
it is only a matter of when
I think the 5C's main problem is it's price delta with the 5S.
I'm sure some can justify it but most people cannot overlook the significant downgrade from the 5S to save a measly $100; the list of things you lose from the 5S is just too long IMO.
Just my 2c but I think Apple had too much 4S inventory to move which forced them to price the 5C higher. Once the 4S inventory is gone, I bet there will be a $200 price delta between the 5S and C, which would make much more sense.
I was actually very enthusiastic about the 5c at first. It's certainly faster and better than my ancient iphone 4. And I am fine with the white model. Not so much the yellow, pink and the kind of peacock blue.
Then I realized the 5c was a dead end.
The last time we had a 32 bit/64 bit fork in Apple land the 32 bit side eventually died. The 64 bit moved forward.
Ditto for the G5/Intel code.
I really do not expect IOS7 to maintain both 32 and 64 bit functionality any longer than it needs to. While I am sure there are project managers and the like in Cupertino calling for the soonest possible cut off, more than likely Apple will give us grace period.
Now what do you think a reasonable grace period would be?
Why not the 2 year mandatory minimum contract period most of us agree to when we get our phone from VZW or AT&T?
Sure, I will probably be ready to upgrade by then.
But I am also a cheap bastard who keeps his phone until it just won't start anymore. (see the above battered iPhone 4)
So I really do expect there to come a day when apple says,
"here is our newest version of IOS7, only for iPhone5s or later."
it is only a matter of when
I think the 5C's main problem is it's price delta with the 5S.
I'm sure some can justify it but most people cannot overlook the significant downgrade from the 5S to save a measly $100; the list of things you lose from the 5S is just too long IMO.
Just my 2c but I think Apple had too much 4S inventory to move which forced them to price the 5C higher. Once the 4S inventory is gone, I bet there will be a $200 price delta between the 5S and C, which would make much more sense.
they haven't had such an architectural change in the iphones history. I'm guessing that they will cut off old phones before we run out of revision #"s in 7 or maybe early in IOS 8.
It's just an ugly situation to have to cover development for 32 and 64 bit devices with the same operating system, and have the applications (well apps) work no matter what kind of device you have. Remember fat binaries?
Shoot remember when people were happy to get their Macs running 32 bit clean with no 16 bit extensions?
two things,
Like I was trying (badly) to point out, most cell users are locked in to a 2 year upgrade cycle. Apple can count on this. Unlike with desktops which dont have any mandatory upgrade cycle except in the corporate world where we dump our desktops every 3 or 4 years.
And yeah, there are still some old iphones out there. But honestly did you try using an iPhone 3 with IOS6 when it came out? Almost impossible slow. The iphone 4 is pretty awful with IOS7.
I'm not trying to imply that Apple does that deliberately. Thats simple progress, hardware giveth more CPU power and software taketh away. Older hardware always suffers on newer OSes.
I just think that at some point in the future we may see a clean break.
they haven't had such an architectural change in the iphones history. I'm guessing that they will cut off old phones before we run out of revision #"s in 7 or maybe early in IOS 8.
It's just an ugly situation to have to cover development for 32 and 64 bit devices with the same operating system, and have the applications (well apps) work no matter what kind of device you have. Remember fat binaries?
Shoot remember when people were happy to get their Macs running 32 bit clean with no 16 bit extensions?
So I really do expect there to come a day when apple says,
"here is our newest version of IOS7, only for iPhone5s or later."
it is only a matter of when
But honestly did you try using an iPhone 3 with IOS6 when it came out? Almost impossible slow.
I think the 5C's main problem is it's price delta with the 5S.
I'm sure some can justify it but most people cannot overlook the significant downgrade from the 5S to save a measly $100; the list of things you lose from the 5S is just too long IMO.
Just my 2c but I think Apple had too much 4S inventory to move which forced them to price the 5C higher. Once the 4S inventory is gone, I bet there will be a $200 price delta between the 5S and C, which would make much more sense.