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Sapphire Displays for iPhone 6 Missed by 'Weeks' Due to Yield Issues
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NFC is cool, but until POS compatibilty is ubiquitous, you still have to carry the credit cards. Not a selling point to me yet - but I'd use it if the phone has it (and if I used credit cards).
Not fragile, brittle.
I don't doubt that some future iPhone will use a Sapphire cover, but this "missed it by two weeks" rumor is silly. Why would Apple scrap such a central feature instead of delaying the intro by two weeks? Or make the intro and say it ships in two weeks, not like that's never been done before!
It could explain the lackluster feature set though. If Sapphire display tech blew everyone away, Apple could keep their margins on the sly by going cheap on RAM and the 4.7" display resolution. Now people will notice that the 4.7" is a year or two behind Android phones on display, RAM, and SoC performance.
This is an unstable situation. If Apple expects industrial design to sell an iPhone perpetually 2 years behind Android phones, they are in for a nasty surprise. Especially if they don't find a Steve Jobs replacement to kick Ive in the arse now and then when he goes down a dead end design road.
Personal experience or professional expertise? Which products? If we beg, will you share it?
I have neither. Everything I know I learned from the interwebs-- and there ain't much at iPhone like form factors.
I'm ribbing you a bit, but shotgun accusations of ignorance without accompanying remedy from someone with caps lock control issues just made me giggle.
So by that logic the iPhone 6 screws over everyone who bought a 5S. Ditto for those who bought the iPad 3 and the iPad 4 was released several months before it would have been. Why are incremental improvements so wrong?
I doubt all that many people were looking forward to it. We Macrumors users are not representative of the populace as a whole. And even on here... many of the people "complainging" were never going to buy an iPhone regardless. They are here merely to bash Apple.
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LOL at all the people claiming that a better processor, better screen, M8 Motion, NFC, better camera, storage capacity bumps, and greatly improved battery life is "the same phone". Nice try.
I don't have a lot of faith in the report either, but the inflexible deadlines are believable. Once the train leaves the station on a design, you're either on it or you're not. They'll wait to release a technology until it meets their really high standards, but once they've green lit a product release nothing stops it.
The questions are: did Apple have a plan A/ plan B on the cover glass or was the plan really gorilla glass from the beginning. If they did follow two parallel tracks towards release, did they go with plan B because sapphire met spec two weeks late or is that what we're hearing because the proponents are downplaying Apple's lack of faith in the tech?
This coming from an analyst, with this comment:
Does call the objectivity of the report into question though.
It's only gonna get more popular over time for sure. Whether Apple Pay or some other processing tech becomes the standard is another story. My guess is Google will soon release a global android system similar to Apple Pay, Microsoft will do their thing, etc. Thats how these things always play out.
As you said though - this sounds cool but won't be replacing credit cards anytime soon.
next year's iPhone 6S...
sapphire screen
A9
M9
better camera
2GB RAM
32GB entry level (no more milking the 16GB)
BAM! This is what I will be getting!
I'll just get a 6 and a 6s... Yes, I have a problem
it would be a selling point if companies stop using CC...which is very unlikely...
I rather have sapphire windshields on my cars, than on the more disposable mobile phone. I still wish for a FLIR One-like option in the phone.
You can imagine the disappointment to these who just splashed over £539 on the device, to find out that a week after the device have a better materials added to it
You can imagine the disappointment to these who just splashed over £539 on the device, to find out that a week after the device have a better materials added to it
I was thinking several months later, not immediately.
iPhone 3Gs - S for Speed
iPhone 4s - S for Siri
iPhone 5s - S for Security (Touch ID)
iphone 6s - S for Sapphire
Well, Apple has managed to associate the S every time!
Wonder what the 7s will be...
Apple iPhone 7(S) The 7 sins
I would imagine way more people (including myself) drop a phone far more than they scratch it. If this is true than sapphire might be not so great. Unless it's a laminate.
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So what do you think the S will be for?
Sapphire displays are something can really push as a significant improvement when the manufacturing issues are perfected. The technology is ideal for a segment in the next iPhone keynote. Silently adding this as a mid-cycle refinement would be a huge wasted opportunity.
I know, but several months later won't make much sense for Apple. They would rather just leave it for the S version and brag about it on the presentation how beautiful it is, that's what Apple does.
No. Neither Apple nor any other vendor will actually do such an upgrade for the same device/edition. 6s it is.
There was a huge uproar over the iPad 4, remember? 6 doesn't screw over people who bought the iPhone 5s during the first few months of release. I screws people who bought after like 5 months, but that's their fault, not Apple's. When the iPad 4 came out, Apple literally had to go back and give everyone a 60-day return policy for the iPad 3 (vs their 30-day one) b/c of that ridiculousness.
SoC performance? The Apply A7 is faster then the Snapdragon 801/800 found in today's Android flagships, and the Apple A8 is alot faster, its safe to say the iPhone 6 will be the fastest smartphone on the planet come September 19th,
