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Steve Jobs 'Worked Closely' on Design of Next-Generation iPhone with Larger Display
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I agree. It's a good size -- the 4+ inch ones I keep seeing out there from other companies look almost comical in their hugeness, especially with so many of them having fairly low pixel density for such large screens. PPI aside, though, many of them seem to barely warrant the term 'portable'.
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It probably would be, if one were to carry it around in a pocket, or try to use it on a crowded subway car.
And yet it took Apple to do it for it to become the norm.
Apple wasn't the first to make an MP3 player nor Smartphone and we've seen who's been copied.
Apple innovates better and at the right time.
I don't know where you are, but here in the UK it was 3-4 months after the launch before you could walk into an Apple store and buy one without reserving...
Comically huge is apparently in the eye of the beholder.
I MEAN MY GOD! IT'S LIKE A QUARTER OF AN INCH WIDER! DO THEY THINK ME A GIANT WITH MASSIVELY LARGE HANDS WITH WHICH TO GRASP THINGS? I AM NOT A FREAK, SIRS!
If its a a success ....."it was him"
If it's buggy and and it has problems ....."he had nothing to do with it and these type of problems wouldn't happen if he was still around"
Oh you people .....
Yes because we all know this phone has a chance of not being a success...
as per the usual this iPhone will outsell all the previous ones, there's nothing surprising here.
Can't wait for a 4 inch iPhone!
This is hilarious. I'm betting we will continue to hear this tagline with every Apple product released for infinite years to come. Steve this, Steve that. Seriously, I really don't care. Steve was the guy who said, nobody wants a 4 inch phone. Apple is clearly stroking their most devote followers who just can't think logically when Steve's name is mentioned with the release of another iProduct. You know what Apple? Just make something that's worth the money your charging, nobody cares enough where it will be a deal breaker if Steve had a hand in it or not. Nobody will stop buying your product because Steve is dead. But I see how you set yourself up with this 5 year span of products that Steve had planned out. Like Steve knew what new developments and breakthroughs would come in semiconductors and manufacturing processes, and so forth. Yeah, by the way, I think Pac and Biggie are releasing albums at the same time of your next iPhone release.
I for one can't wait until a larger iPhone is released.... I've been an android user all my life (but have a lot of apple products). I have always like the iPhone, but for me, Android was much better suited towards my needs. I still love android, but if the iPhone 5 has at least a 4" screen and LTE, there is a very good chance I will finally make the switch!
I just want to say to the people that say 3.5" for a screen is optimal, it's all a matter of preference.... For me, that is way too small, for viewing texts, surfing the web, playing games, etc. I have a GSII, and I think that it's screen is a bit too BIG for me. I personally think 4.3" perfect (for me).
As for Steve Jobs, I'm sure he had so many amazing innovations/ideas during his time here, and we will continue to see these products for the next 10-20 years! Much love!
I just want to say to the people that say 3.5" for a screen is optimal, it's all a matter of preference.... For me, that is way too small, for viewing texts, surfing the web, playing games, etc. I have a GSII, and I think that it's screen is a bit too BIG for me. I personally think 4.3" perfect (for me).
As for Steve Jobs, I'm sure he had so many amazing innovations/ideas during his time here, and we will continue to see these products for the next 10-20 years! Much love!
Exactly. He also said something along the lines of "who the hell wants to watch video on something the size of an iPod? That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life, and you should be ashamed of ever mentioning something like that to me, Steve Jobs. Esquire. You're fired".
Then a bunch of hardcore Apple fans heard such and decided to parrot his response. "OLOL Steve said no one would want to watch videos on a screen that small. He's right! It's stupid! You couldn't even tell what's going on an otherwise perfectly sized 3.5 inch screen! Steve said, Steve Said, Steve Said. That's not what Apple would do. It's not elegant, nor is it innovative. It's not Apple
".Then the iPod Touch came out. You could watch videos on it.
That isn't true....it all depends on the battery and the battery management. The droid maxx is super thin, and has a huge screen, and get's almost double battery life. (I'm only quoting android since those phones are the ones with the ridic huge screens).
Yup. A larger screen could, in theory, lead to longer battery life, since you could, in theory, put a larger battery behind it. As been oft stated many times before, the screen itself, no matter how larger or small, draws very little power. A 960×640 3.5" screen would have the exact same power draw as a "960×640" 4.5" screen. The only potential power drainer would be the larger lights behind the screen, but I doubt a few extra LEDs would make THAT huge of a difference.
I agree that his influence on the products will likely live on.
But how do you even start to back up such a claim? What's stopping Apple from releasing whatever product they want (heck, even an iCar?) and claiming that it was Steve's brainchild, both to appeal to fans and shut detractors up?
When a company like Apple turn around its direction from Loss to Profit to the highest profit earning in mobile computing industry buy giving us a product over 5 / 6 generations which they could have in 1, why let go of that money?
Really? I don't think so, otherwise Apple would not have sold billions of devices when retina display was introduced.
@ MacRumorers, how difficult is it for us to wait & see what they give to us on June 11th / sept. event?
Its the PpL who make such silly things their "life." Its only a phone after all, its a part of life.
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No I don't think he changed the world.
SJ writes the apps that are used on iDevices so they can be used in the medical field?
Nothing new about what these devices are doing they just make it more convenient. I had computerized telemetry while stationed in Iraq, would of been cool to have it on an iPad but I still had it. I LoL'd at your "he's dead" statement. Why can't I disagree with you simply because the man is dead?
Never said they didn't make a difference.... making a difference and changing the world are 2 completely different things. As far as kids with autism using the iPad... that's cool but my autistic son can use his iPad, my MIL's nook and my friends non apple tablet just fine.perhaps it's not penicillin or polio or whatever, but here's proof Apple's devices are making a difference
http://www.google.ca/search?q=kids+...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
It's not saying he's a 'God' per say, but to snuff off claims that the i-devices haven't made a huge difference for some people is baseless, to say the least.
And nobody did, except for short Youtube clips. Seriously, I have never watched anything but Youtube clips on my iPhone 3G and 4. Once I got my iPad, then I started to watch movies on a 'small' screen.
This Man was on the cutting edge of Apple, so much, he worked it until his death, and 67 of you think this so much BS, that you down rate it.
Learn this, he lived Apple until his last breath, THAT'S, what made him great.
Vision, guts, hard ass, and visionary, Tim has some big shoes to fill, you cynics,Not so much!
I invested in Apple because of him, at today's price, I made $510,00, let er roll, cus it's going to 1000, be in it for the long haul, patience grasshopper!
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A little to early? Who Knows! Apple will serve the same screen size for another 4 years as thats how many product lines Apple claimed Steve has aligned for Apple's future?
Ever Heard about JailBreaking? No sweetie (have been dying to use this reference & call someone sweetie).... not the real Jail.... the iPhone, Jailbreak your iPhone if you want those things.
Am not nitpicking at you in person, lets say I picked you as your name has the word "trap" in it, iTrappd the trap, Yay! but all the MacRumorers who think Apple really cares what They think.
When did this become about you? We all know that Apple has given us something that did not exist (if they did, they were not marketed well and / or "not done right" the 1st time, anyone remember a Nokia 7710?) hence they were the game changers & Steve Jobs marketed it like a frikkin' genius, We all were under his spell for the unveiling of 1st the Mac Book Pro which was running into the direction of Mac App Store, iTunes for buying tunes, renting movies & also buying them.
Apple will sell everything & create markets to sell its products more, it wont sell what you want, however it will make you want them so bad, that you'll be proud if one of your predictions come right... more proud than the person who actually designed it!
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Guess Steve wasn't involved with such a boneheaded move.
Also, can you speak for the entire iPod Touch/iPhone demographic?
I saw an Android phone whose screen was so large that the owner told me "now I don't have to buy a tablet"
I like how you think as I think so too... I however strongly believe that the 4s was actually inbetween the then decided iPhone 5th gen to be & the iPhone 6th gen.
As PpL bought iPhone 3gS inspite of the s being for speed & not much of an upgrade, Apple thought... we made a good amount of profit that way, lets do it again & thts how iPhone 4s transpired.
Apple has always given us what we want or a better way of putting it is... they have made something very lucrative & made us want it so bad... but took their own sweet time to do so, making billions of dollars doing so.
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I know what you want to say
About that, i'll put it across as... he had a knack of making things work & seeing out of the box, there is no right / wrong (God please don't make iOS 6 make me eat these words) Its actually the vision of making best use of something that is useless otherwise & creating a product around that.
Tht waiting I like.... nice siggy btw.
That hang on joke is over now,*it was awesome the 1st time, became good when an oldr phone was involved but by another person / let me try my hand at it...
hang on nmt 900 hang on... oh wait... I don't want to be called a person who has been living under a rock for that long.
Back to the topic, you don't remember the iPod touch 3rd gen rumors where they had cameras or was I in another realm when they were released with cam in this realm?
I think so much like you do
You Sir... are NOT Krazy *tips hat*
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I'm sorry, when did laptops without ODDs and built-in Ethernet became the "norm" ? Even Apple still ships their flagship with those.
All of you who are whining about not wanting a larger screen will be buying it and loving it as soon as Apple releases it and will be praising Apple in every kiss ass way you can.
And it ain't cute.
It's annoying as hell.
And it ain't cute.
It's annoying as hell.
Actually the ones who want a file explorer on iPhone are not as many as the PpL who want it to remain simple, PpL who want it have got it through jailbreaking the moment the found out about it.
There are not many nerds out there as many as simpletons, i'd say 10% are nerds like you and me who love to navigate to a specific folder & do our activity.
EDIT : After talking about watching video on an iPhone / iPod touch
iSuppose you said Touché for this comment.
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Everyone, including Steve Jobs, can see that 3.5" is too small nowadays. Well everyone but a few die-hards here that insist nothing but 3.5" is perfect. But soon, they're be converted and 4" will be the new perfect. And then, they're be the biggest defender of 4" when Apple goes bigger in the future.