Quick Charge? Wireless charging? Waterproof?
All of those can be accomplished without redesigning the body every 2 years. They will still have a new model every fall.
Quick Charge? Wireless charging? Waterproof?
At least in America, carriers are doing away with subsidize phones. T-Mobile and AT&T already dropped them, don't know if Verizon and Sprint have plans to
for the love of fuck just improve battery life and I'll be happy
hahaha
So why should I upgrade then if there's no real tradeoff for losing the headphone jack?
I honestly couldn't tell you a feature my iPhone needs to get except more battery life.
I'm telling you: Thicker w/ more battery. I don't know where this obsession with thin came from. Sure 15 years ago when phones were big as shit. But now? Fuck that, gimme 50% more thickness w/ more battery. I can handle the weight.
I honestly couldn't tell you a feature my iPhone needs to get except more battery life.
I don't understand why to this day they haven't included AM/FM radio in their phones.. it's a simple feature that would be a nice extra to have.
I don't understand why to this day they haven't included AM/FM radio in their phones.. it's a simple feature that would be a nice extra to have.
are you being serious right now?
Fun fact! All iPhones do have radios in them, since they're part of wireless cellular chips by default. They're just disabled on the logic board
Higher resolution screen
More durability
Waterproofing
Better camera
Better fingerprint scanner
Smaller bezels
More internal storage
Long-term: foldable/stretchable display. Physically morphing display, etc.
Yup, entirely.
I don't place MP3s on my iphone anymore, I stream all my music from spotify thanks to unlimited data.. but what if I'm in a place where there's no data, or if I god forbid want to listen to my favourite radio show while i'm out running or something similar?
It's archaic, sure, but why the fuck not?
Also this.
Those all sound nice, sure, but I can't honestly say that any of those things are that big a deal to me. Already, current gen iPhones are pretty damn good in those areas.
Quick Charge? Wireless charging? Waterproof?
Because then you're more likely to be happy with OTA and not buy a Apple Music sub to listen to Beats 1. Same reason nobody seems keen on adding TV tuners to these devices.
At least in America, carriers are doing away with subsidize phones. T-Mobile and AT&T already dropped them, don't know if Verizon and Sprint have plans to
Verizon and Sprint only have them for existing customers, new customers can't get on contract anymore.
is this why the stock is down today?
Those all sound nice, sure, but I can't honestly say that any of those things are that big a deal to me. Already, current gen iPhones are pretty damn good in those areas.
Because then you're more likely to be happy with OTA and not buy a Apple Music sub to listen to Beats 1. Same reason nobody seems keen on adding TV tuners to these devices.
You can still get a phone for $0 money down, so I don't see why people continually say "Subsidies are going away". All they did was make the subsidy more explicit and decouple it from your monthly service fees.
Don't know if I agree. We all have access to apps like Tune-In and can stream OTA music like that. I still would subscribe to a music service as I don't want ads and want on demand playback.
I do want AM/FM in my phone just for emergency situations such as a hurricane where cell towers may be down but I can at least listen for emergency updates.
You can still get a phone for $0 money down, so I don't see why people continually say "Subsidies are going away". All they did was make the subsidy more explicit and decouple it from your monthly service fees.
thematically its the same, in that it provides smaller up front costs for the phones, but there are actually financial differences between a phone subsidy and actually leasing the phone, there is an actual loan involved
Sounds perfect to me. I have my iPhone at the size I wanted, and it's as fast and as powerful as I need. I could honestly see it lasting 3-4 years barring some unforeseen accident or an upgrade I can't live without. More time between releases will give the engineers more time to cook up substantial improvements too. Have at it.
Too bad for people paying for the AT&T next or whatever it is though! What's the benefit without a new model to upgrade to for 2-3 years?