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Survey Explores Why iPhone Owners Haven't Upgraded to iPhone X
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Couldn't you also say that reporting on this survey is a joke as well? Not sure how you would propose to survey a higher count of people willing to give their opinion on why they haven't upgraded. Most surveys, polls etc are a low base count like this.
I always upgrade.
But...This time I did not (and we had 2 choices!)
Just too expensive for the X (and cant justify leaving my iPhone 7 for the 8)
Not a fan of the Face ID.
I dont care about the notch.
I would miss the familiarity of the home button.
But, if cheaper...say $500 cash and trade my 7 in, then I would still do it, because I like the "new" stuff.
Too bad Apple, I think you just missed it with the X.
What a drag.
But...This time I did not (and we had 2 choices!)
Just too expensive for the X (and cant justify leaving my iPhone 7 for the 8)
Not a fan of the Face ID.
I dont care about the notch.
I would miss the familiarity of the home button.
But, if cheaper...say $500 cash and trade my 7 in, then I would still do it, because I like the "new" stuff.
Too bad Apple, I think you just missed it with the X.
What a drag.
While true, it is also true that statistics are misused routinely in an effort to mislead the public. In order to know if this was enough you would need to know a lot more about how the survey was constructed than published in MR.
Repeating studies like this without checking their accuracy is exactly how bad statistics (not judging this article, because I have not researched it) make their round, nobody pays attention to the base study, they just mechanically reproduce what was in the press release.
Anyone interested, and everyone should be, should read the 142 page book, small format, titled, "How to Lie with Statistics", by Darrell Huff, published 1954. It is freely available on the web, and is also on Amazon.
Also check out the article "Trouble at the lab", published by The Economist.
Anyone that does a little research will find a number of professors at well respected universities that believe between 50 and 80% of medical studies conducted by Ph.D.'s utilize flawed statistics to prove what the study's financiers favored.
More than likely if you are taking a modern medical drugs its efficacy is based on flawed statistics. Now I am not saying medical drugs are bad, I'm just saying, and there is research out their that confirms, that we are, in a significant number of cases, being fed a bunch of lies about cause, effect, efficacy and side effects.
This day and age, it would not be unreasonable to ignore any statistics published by the general media.
Yes, it really is - only slow things are Twitter and Facebook apps at loading up (battery was replaced before IOS 11 so I missed any slowdowns). Considering how much use it gets the phone has been superb - I most likely will replace it during the next update cycle in Sep/Oct.
Like I have said many times, Apple hasn't added a new core feature (which to me is a new use case) since Apple Pay.
How is the X both "an amazing product" and "not that much better" at the same time? If it really were an amazing product, people would be upgrading regardless of cost.
Get rid of the hideous notch and then people might upgrade their devices. The notched iPhone X is a horrid concept and an embarrassment that it's an Apple product.
By that logic why change the look and feel of anything? Lets keep cars the same, lets leave the phone body the same, make all houses look alike. I agree it needs changes and has really looked the same since the original iPhone fixed grid of icons.
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Funny how people who own iPhone x feel the need to defend it so vigorously. If you like it great! Doesn't mean we all have to like that notch and malfunctioning face id. I don't see how anyone's opinion would cause you any heartache but apparently it does. So just for you "The iPhone X is amazing!"
Defend it? More like believe people who've never owned it should not be throwing online tantrums about it.
What problems have you had with faceID to call it malfunctioning? It works for me at about the same rate that touchID did.. It is a little slower and you do need to swipe up to unlock which I think is goofy but overall, faceID has been pretty solid for me.
My wife had been really determined to hold off until then, too, but the phone was too slow and she needed to have a phone that was going to be responsive and not generate additional stress. :-(
This poll just confirms what to me seems like common sense. Smartphones, like PCs before them, have reached the point where even an older model can still handle what the average person uses it for. No one needs to buy a new flagship phone every year, or even every 2 years. Most iPhone users I know in real life are still using a 6 or 6s. Not because they can't afford a newer model, but just because there's nothing that they need that their current phone doesn't do. For most people, FaceID, an OLED screen, or Animojis are not going to have any real impact on how they use their phone.
Yeah lots of people bought the iPhone X, and lots did not. It was the same the year before except it was the 7, and the same the year before that. It will be the same this year. Life goes on.
Edit: Macrumors will be filled with doomsdayers, as there has been since its inception, and there will be until its demise. Life goes on.
Edit: Macrumors will be filled with doomsdayers, as there has been since its inception, and there will be until its demise. Life goes on.
Weird that haven't upgraded because I prefer a smaller screen wasn't an option, as that is why I ended up leaving iOS.
And touch ID fingerprint dimple is easy for orienting my phone (SE) “experience”
Material Design, the basis for Android design, came out in 2014. I don’t suppose you’re getting tired of that, right?
But you can change that with a simple download from the Play Store.
iOS, not at all unless you jailbreak.
You’re talking about a launcher, I’m talking about a design language that has been adopted deep not Android (like the settings) and in almost every app that has been updated in the past year.
What is missed in here, and I was reminded by a few, that some consider their iPhone to be a fashion accessory.
That is correct -- no kidding! And, I was told why they must update every cycle -- "too keep their fashion accessory 'au courant' among their peers."
I cannot make this thing up, even if I tried.
That is correct -- no kidding! And, I was told why they must update every cycle -- "too keep their fashion accessory 'au courant' among their peers."
I cannot make this thing up, even if I tried.
Then you shift over to a non-Apple phone with touch id; of course, a lot of folks did that with the loss of the phone jack. I'll run my 6S+ until it dies, and meanwhile invest in newer Android phones with the features I want. Apple has basically decided to shun folks who don't want wireless headphones or dongle adapters for wired, and are in the process of making all iThing users go to infrared authentication. I'm guessing that the iPad Pro I bought four months ago will be my last iPad, as the next generation is going infrared. You can dismiss me as an Apple hater, but that isn't exactly true. I just took delivery of a new iMac today, as it has the features I want, and though rather expensive, is still a durable worthwhile desktop with useful ports and a headphone jack. Can't say the same for the Apple laptops of the last few years, so I no longer buy MacBook whatevers. Apple apparently decided that diehard Apple enthusiasts will make up for the loss of customers like me. Perhaps they will. The company has mostly migrated from being a high end general computer company to a producer of high dollar, thin, non-upgradeable, rather portless mobile devices, and that's appealing to most their current customer base.