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The most impressive thing to me is how similar the iPhone X is to the original iPhone (shown side by side in the second picture). Ten years ago, Apple totally nailed the design. Same buttons, same speaker design, same full panel display. Even design work by a company as talented as Apple, you might expect that a new model ten years into the future may look quite different, but it looks the same.
What?
The most impressive thing to me is how similar the iPhone X is to the original iPhone (shown side by side in the second picture). Ten years ago, Apple totally nailed the design. Same buttons, same speaker design, same full panel display. Even design work by a company as talented as Apple, you might expect that a new model ten years into the future may look quite different, but it looks the same.
> Same full panel display What?
http://www.techpavan.com/wp-content/uploads/mobile-phone-mar...
Devoting the majority of the vertical dimension of the profile of the phone to display was definitely not a priority of the market at the time.
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Strategically, I think Apple has made a right move by internalising all the hardware designs. That said, as many have suggested, the new iPhone is no more than just another faster, smaller, and costlier.
Doesn't Samsung do that as well though? They make screens, and CPUs and many of the other components in a modern phone, don't they? I'm wondering when Apple will start making their own camera sensors.
Is there another reason than space-saving for the two batteries instead of one bigger one but L-shaped?
The most impressive thing to me is how similar the iPhone X is to the original iPhone (shown side by side in the second picture). Ten years ago, Apple totally nailed the design. Same buttons, same speaker design, same full panel display. Even design work by a company as talented as Apple, you might expect that a new model ten years into the future may look quite different, but it looks the same.
> Same buttons There might be a button or two missing…
http://www.mobilephonehistory.co.uk/lists/by_year.html
Huge change. But after Apple nailed the modern smartphone design on the first try, ten years later it is remarkably unchanged.
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> Same full panel display What?
I mean, relative to the competition, the original iPhone was certainly rather "full panel"! http://www.techpavan.com/wp-content/uploads/mobile-phone-mar... Devoting the majority of the vertical dimension of the profile of the phone to display was definitely not a priority of the market at the time.
Truly impressive. Smaller, yet faster than the competition. Surprising how many of the chips are now internal Apple components: 1. CPU/GPU 2. Auxiliary Machine Learning/AI chip 3. NAND controller 4. IR Deapth sensor & signal processing chip 5. Power management IC (surprising that Apple is doing Analog IC design too!) Axiom in the tech world is that "Apple is a software company that builds hardware". Above is ample ev…
Strategically, I think Apple has made a right move by internalising all the hardware designs. That said, as many have suggested, the new iPhone is no more than just another faster, smaller, and costlier.
What does Apple have to do to impress people? Do all this then give the phones away for free?
