Also went from large phone to SE... I can't stand the power button on the side. I can't stand the rounded edges. I can't stand the bending phones (5 now)... and yea, they're all just too big for my hands. iOS 11 has also been a complete nightmare. Dead batteries, hot/slow phone, crashing, text messages have been out of order for over a year. Cost was not a factor. I'm now on my 4th iphone in 6 months due to hardware and software failues, and manufacturing issues. The warranty experience has also gone down hill.. they keep telling me they have to ship my phone away and give me a loaner... only to call me back a day later saying 'uh we have to give you a new phone' ... in the past, they would just give you the new phone while you were there the first damn time and thats really something that has changed for the worse. I managed to get a new SE w/iOS 10.x.x out of them a couple weeks ago... so I'm hoping I'm good for a couple years as long as I don't accidentally update it. It's looking like the iPhone SE will be my last apple product... ever.
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#452Earlier quoted context omitted.
The market has spoken loud and clear since 2010, when Androids bigger than iPhone became popular. iPhone dragged it's feet till 2013/2014 because they didn't want to appear conceding that they were wrong, but eventually they had to buckle.
There haven't really been many attempts at making small flagship-quality devices in years. Didn't the SE immediately sell out when it was released? I struggle to believe no similar market exists today, but Apple obviously has a easier and more profitable path maintaining the device collection they announced today. I just wish they didn't. I was thinking about replacing my SE with whatever was announced today, but ins…
Yes, they were stock constrained for many months.. infact, I tried to buy one 3 months ago, and they didn't have any in the store. I think they just didn't want to make them...
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#453I'm amazed by the sizing. The SE appears to be gone. This means the smallest device you can buy is the 7/8. Many still find this to be too large. Considering Apple's history of selling older iPhone models at a lower price, it seems like two years from now the bottom of the line will be the Xs and Xr announced today. The smallest lower-end iPhone available at that time would be the Xs which is larger than the 6/6s/7/8…
Apple's adoption of Face ID is a big deal from a design POV. Apple was famous for adopting superior technology early and with Face ID they're adopting inferior technology late. https://www.apple.com/iphone-xs/face-id/
face id is more relible than touch id. you no longer have to remove gloves, you can open it with wet fingers and it is faster. also, all mu touch id phones started to give more fingerprint recognition fails after 1year+
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#454I'm amazed by the sizing. The SE appears to be gone. This means the smallest device you can buy is the 7/8. Many still find this to be too large. Considering Apple's history of selling older iPhone models at a lower price, it seems like two years from now the bottom of the line will be the Xs and Xr announced today. The smallest lower-end iPhone available at that time would be the Xs which is larger than the 6/6s/7/8…
I have some younger kids who have the SE models, I like them because they are cheap(er), they work in the apple ecosystem I have, they are small enough for kids to carry around w/o breaking them, and I can easily track everyone. I won't be buying them any of these new ones, either stick to older SEs or purchase cheaper androids for them now.
If the 128gig SE was $1000 I'de still buy it.
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#455I just bought a Macbook Pro yesterday
I would return it and get the macbook air before they discontinue it or put the new keyboard in it.
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#456Everyone must be able to admit: the automated HDR and improved bokeh look pretty hot..!
Yes, the new cameras and image processing are very impressive.
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#457I'm amazed by the sizing. The SE appears to be gone. This means the smallest device you can buy is the 7/8. Many still find this to be too large. Considering Apple's history of selling older iPhone models at a lower price, it seems like two years from now the bottom of the line will be the Xs and Xr announced today. The smallest lower-end iPhone available at that time would be the Xs which is larger than the 6/6s/7/8…
I went from a 5.2 inch phone to an SE myself, largely for size reasons. Those big phones are just too cumbersome, even if the screen is nice. I'm very disappointed they didn't use the edge-to-edge screen ability to reduce the physical size and keep the screen size the same. A 4.7 inch screen in an iPhone X design would be perfect for me. It would be barely bigger than the SE with a much bigger screen.
Yes, the 4.7-inch screen is optimal for me, too. Apple should've kept this screen size and made the bezels as small as possible.
This applies to the SE, too -- keep the screen size and makes the bezels smaller.
In a way, the iPhone XS is a step back from even the iPhone 6, because it's bigger.
Apple seems to be doing things arbitrarily nowadays, like Dell and other OEMs that Apple (fans) loved to mock years ago.
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#458Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the iPhone XS is only marginally larger than the 7/8 and has a much larger display.
The size of the display is actually the important measurement for one handed use. My thumb can reach the far corner of the screen on the 8 but not the X.
That's a good point, and an argument for why the iPhone X should've had the same screen size as the iPhone 8, just with smaller bezels.
Besides, the slightly bigger body of the X (ignoring screen size) makes it slightly less comfortable to hold in my hand.
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#459They killed the SE! Now we're stuck with screens too big to use with one hand. I really really dislike this.
Not disagreeing with you, but as a developer, I'm happy that we can now do UX design for 4.7-inch phones, and prevent installation of our app on smaller phones.
You do that in an indirect manner, by requiring NFC, thus eliminating 4-inch phones, which don't have NFC: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/De... (Cmd-F nfc). If Apple had updated the iPhone SE with NFC, this trick wouldn't work any more, and I'd be forced to do UX design for 4-inch phones.
Till I find product-market fit, I don't want to be distracted by overhead like this.
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#460They killed the SE! Now we're stuck with screens too big to use with one hand. I really really dislike this.
Not disagreeing with you, but as a developer, I'm happy that we can now do UX design for 4.7-inch phones, and prevent installation of our app on smaller phones. You do that in an indirect manner, by requiring NFC, thus eliminating 4-inch phones, which don't have NFC: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/De... (Cmd-F nfc). If Apple had updated the iPhone SE with NFC, this trick wouldn't work any m…
That sounds directly user-hostile. Imagine if HN's web server served 401s to everyone with a Mozilla user agent.