I immediately thought "Secure Edition" when I read the title...
...And I was hoping it would be. No big security updates here, it seems.
iPhone SE
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Re: iPhone SE
#162I'm becoming rather impatient with the stagnating Macbook/MBA/MBP product category. Would very much like a lightweight retina Macbook 13" or larger.
Cook's design heuristic seems to be some combination of faster/smaller/bigger/thinner - which leads to exactly the kind of line fragmentation that Jobs hated.
The overlap between the MacBook Air, the MacBook, and the iPad Pro is making less and less sense from a customer POV. If you just want a content consumption, browsing, and email device that maybe supports some basic text/photo editing - which is the use case for most users - which should you buy?
Re: iPhone SE
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's Apple being petty (price segmentation), basically. How much does 16Gb cost today, $10?
I see it as a rather significant error on their part. And to be honest, I am not quite sure why there has not been a massive revolt by app developers, content creators, and companies in general. With the OS taking up a huge chunk of that 16GB and basic functionality like messaging taking up another 700MB-1.5GB, and not even counting photos and videos than can almost take up infinite amounts of storage; little is left…
> With the OS taking up a huge chunk of that 16GB […]
Funnily, I just noticed on the 6SE tech-specs site that Apple's "premium" Apps (Garage Band, iPhoto, etc.) come pre installed on the 64GB version. It's like them admitting that 16GB is just to damn small.
OTOH I bought a 64GB iPhone 4S when it came out (that thing just quit on me 2 weeks ago) and I'll never ever in my life want to sync that much music again. So for me, it'll probably be the larger option, but I'll fill it up with photos and videos of my cats.
Re: iPhone SE
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
3D touch was a gimmick anyways, I am happy to see it go. It was weird and uncanny and there were only a few applications where it made sense.
See it go? I'd wait for the iPhone 7 event to see if 3D Touch is left to the history books.
Phone companies copy the best features from each other.
You didn't see apple implementing Samsung's "show your face to unlock your phone" feature because it was kinda slow and dumb. Likewise, I don't see any Android phones with 3D touch.
Yet when front-facing cameras came out, EVERYONE jumped on that feature, now your phone is dead in the water without it.
It was left to the history books the moment other manufacturers said 'meh, we don't need this right now'.
Re: iPhone SE
#1656-7inch screens are getting too big but 4-inch is a little too small imo...
Well then you should love the iPhone 6s with its 4.7" display.
Re: iPhone SE
#166No 3D touch is a very odd fragmentation. You'd think they'd want to shore up their devices to be completely compatible with this across the spectrum to motivate developers to use it as a key part of their UX. Now when only X So your apps have to optionally use 3D Touch, Pencil, adaptive layout, fingerprint, and several other interactions that only cover fractions of their hardware line.
It's because Apple has realised 3D touch is bad and it's also a very expensive feature to add to a phone. The real question is if they will admit it was a misstep by removing it from their flagship model or just keep pretending and keep it in. Companies really hate admitting they were wrong so my bet is that they are stuck with it for the forseeable future.
Not sure if this is what you meant, but the SE probably isn't meant to be the flagship phone for Apple this year.
Re: iPhone SE
#167Curious that the Sensors list does not include a barometer. It used to be the case that the A9 with coprocessor carried a barometer inside it. Has this changed for this phone? That would be incredibly sad if they removed sensors. Did the M9 iteration of the coprocessor remove the barometer? http://www.apple.com/iphone-se/specs/ Edit: Interestingly, the new iPad Pro does have a barometer in the Sensor list: http://www…
I would be surprised and I'm curious too. I always assumed a barometer was how the iPhone measures flights of stairs climbed without expensive GPS calculations.
I think you can pretty easily distinguish stairs climbed using just the accelerometer, but I could be way off. I'd be impressed if a barometer had enough resolution to indicate smaller (~10ft) altitude changes.
Re: iPhone SE
#168Curious that the Sensors list does not include a barometer. It used to be the case that the A9 with coprocessor carried a barometer inside it. Has this changed for this phone? That would be incredibly sad if they removed sensors. Did the M9 iteration of the coprocessor remove the barometer? http://www.apple.com/iphone-se/specs/ Edit: Interestingly, the new iPad Pro does have a barometer in the Sensor list: http://www…
Out of curiosity what use did people find in a barometer?
How does a physicist use a barometer to compute altitude?
A: drop it from the top of the building and count the number of seconds it takes to hit the ground.
Re: iPhone SE
#169No 3D touch is a very odd fragmentation. You'd think they'd want to shore up their devices to be completely compatible with this across the spectrum to motivate developers to use it as a key part of their UX. Now when only X So your apps have to optionally use 3D Touch, Pencil, adaptive layout, fingerprint, and several other interactions that only cover fractions of their hardware line.
There have been ongoing rumors of supply chain issues for 3D Touch parts going all the way back to the 6S announcement.
Re: iPhone SE
#170What does SE mean?
According to their presentation, it apparently somehow meant "China Edition".