Because it lacks the all-important fruit logo.
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OLED iPhone 8 Rumored to Ship Sometime After Standard iPhone 7s Models
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Because it lacks the all-important fruit logo.
It just appears to you to be a rushed product, because of all the clickbait rumor mill articles you have been reading.
This is not a failure. iPhone "shortages" are strategy.
If you're going to wait a month or two or more, you may as well just wait for the 8S model. And maybe by then the price will be back to normal and the Touch ID reintegrated.
And in the meantime, having paid off my 6S+ over two years, I can get a much cheaper SIM only plan for 12 months. It's not like the 6S is a crap phone. We are now at the point that PCs have been at for years: small changes every year don't make upgrading a necessity. Microsoft learnt that from Office. For most people the changes meant the biggest competitor to the new Office was the old Office. Hence it became an ongoing subscription for most people.
Apple may well have shot themselves in the foot by not being able to deliver on time. iPads were in the same boat until recently. Too little incentive to upgrade. Then finally they got it together and delivered the new range.
12 months is too short a cycle for phones. Even Samsung got caught out in the relentless upgrade cycle. Not enough time to test. Consumers are to blame and the media/web. We are trained into buying new new new. At some stage, "peak phone" has to arrive. The signs are there. This phone will do well but it will be interesting to see what the trends are in 6 months. In a week where North Korea keep testing missiles, there are more important things than upgrading a phone that already works well...
Who cares. At this point I've just lost interest.
Instead of generating hype it's a turn off. Apple is apparently Samsung's b**** now, so it's just too pathetic to deal with presently.
Apple buying up machines hoping someone will use them, is just sad.
Then again, I do want one actually
Instead of generating hype it's a turn off. Apple is apparently Samsung's b**** now, so it's just too pathetic to deal with presently.
Apple buying up machines hoping someone will use them, is just sad.
Then again, I do want one actually
Not enough to justify the price increase.
So because Apple scrambled with poor planning to find OLED suppliers the consumer has to pay the price for their shortsightedness by forking over a lot more money? Please.
If Apple couldn't secure enough OLED screens without bending over users on price then they should have waited another year.
Did Tim Cook get all of his supply chain skills from Nintendo? Was he secretly a Nintendo Exec?
I know lots of people like the latest of the greatest but honestly waiting few months can get you a great deal on an iPhone. Last year during Xmas AT&T were offering buy one get one free for the 7S. Since I use their services anyway, that was a great deal. My son is happy with his new iPhone.
I definitely not paying over $1k if these rumors are true for the iPhone 8. But I can see myself getting two phone for that price.
I definitely not paying over $1k if these rumors are true for the iPhone 8. But I can see myself getting two phone for that price.
The rumors on this phone have by far been the worst collective rumors I think I've ever read.
I believe the ship date or guesstimate has changed 15 times.
Do you know how upset someone would be if they said, your baby should be born on the 1st of Oct. No the 3rd of Nov. Wait, wait, the 2nd of Oct. Wait this just came in, it is definitely the 17. ****!, it may be January next year.
I believe the ship date or guesstimate has changed 15 times.
Do you know how upset someone would be if they said, your baby should be born on the 1st of Oct. No the 3rd of Nov. Wait, wait, the 2nd of Oct. Wait this just came in, it is definitely the 17. ****!, it may be January next year.
Kind of agree, I was excited at the beginning of the year, but now I don't care. I'll stick with my 6s for another year or two. It's paid off and I already bought a DSLR, which is the only reason I was going to upgrade, that and the Oled screen. But really until cellular networks radically improve I think I'm getting off this gravy train. What's the point of a $1K phone when it rarely works when I really need it to?
I agree and it'll only get 'worse' in the coming years. There's little more to add to phones that'll make it sensibly justifiable to upgrade - we're reaching a point of diminishing returns with little added value. Tech companies are having to rely more and more on marketing and hype to persuade users into buying something they don't really need whilst they try hard to innovate.
Lol "6 was over priced" that's funny
In fairness, rumour sites have been doing the over-promising. Apple has promised nothing in regards to new phones or their other products. The thing about rumours is they require no actual engineering, supply chains, or any basis in reality. Some of the things people are asking for are completely unrealistic (OLED for all iPhones, for instance, given the current monopoly of OLED by Samsung and lack of infrastructure).
I, too, am curious what the real selling point of the "Edition" phone will be, there certainly are a lot of rumours, some good, some definitely not, but there are no promises from Apple.
The "8" includes a number of things that they cannot get/ship in quantities of 400K+ a day. It's intended to be the flagship model testing out new things. Nothing faux about it. Would you rather they make only the "8" and suddenly just start selling one-tenth as many phones?
I want a 7s. It'll be better than a 7 in most ways, an enormous improvement over my 6, and way less money than the "8" (which will absolutely not be called the "iPhone 8").
No, I'd rather they don't have this odd "premium" phone alongside the "standard" models at all and wait until they can deliver on their vision in sufficient quantities.
Just releasing a 7S with internal updates would have been mighty disappointing, certainly, but the S8 really is a striking design (fingerprint placement notwithstanding) so they needed any sort of answer. I don't think Apple really has anyone to blame but themselves on this one.
So ignore the "8" entirely and wait until next year, or the year after. Problem solved.
I'll let Apple try and sell me on the Edition. I love Apple and their products, so I'll at least hear them out. But if this iPhone is missing features (Touch ID) without a suitable replacement and costs $1,000. Then I will absolutely consider the competition for this first time since the iPhone 4. (I have the S7 and the S6 before that through work, so I am current on Android devices, it isn't just a "grass is greener" thing)
I'm on the Apple Upgrade Program. If it gets delayed by much I may be better off just selling the phone and paying off the loan than trading it in. While that might have been true the last 2 years the difference, after eBay/Swappa/PayPal fees, etc. wasn't that much.