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The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?

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Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

stcredzero wrote: post #32
mtgx wrote: post #17

There's also the iPhone 10, the tallest iPhone yet! http://9.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iPhone-10.jpe... And iPhone 20: http://5.mshcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/iphone-20.jpg Thumb actions might be a little hard there.

Both of those have potential as interfaces for music. http://www.stick.com/instruments/ After looking a bit at the above site, I'm also thinking that they have potential as interfaces for teledildonics. (This is both serious and a joke at the same time. This goes for the whole field.)

re: teledildonics, the vibration function on the iPhone would become more popular, and I'm not even joking.

Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

Zikes wrote: post #23
swalsh wrote: post #22

If Steve Jobs was still around, i'd predict that Apple would wait a few years after Google Goggles. They'd work to get it right, and the future smart phone wouldn't have a screen at all. In post-jobs world though, its going to be a me-too game.

I think you mean Google Glass. Goggles is their app for scanning photos and identifying things.

Google Goggles used to be site previews, IIRC.

Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?

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Post by headShrinker »

I started reading this with my usual skepticism. (It isn't hard to believe that some of this could come from the likes of zdnet, or cnet.) I started to crack a smile at the exponential growth graph, then with the picture of iPhone 7, I absolutely lost it! too funny

Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?

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Post by dakotasmith »

nuclear_eclipse wrote: post #25
twmb wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know why everybody claims that the iPhone has the "perfect" screen size[1]. I have never had a problem with any android phone size... they are larger, but nobody ever considers they aren't just larger for larger's sake. I appreciate the larger screen, not only for the extra space on the keyboard but because I like the extra display. My pockets aren't miniature. They can fit a slightly larger phone. Sitting do…

As a counter-point, I bought a Nexus S (4.3") when they were first available, I loved it and appreciated the screen size bump from my older Nexus One. But when my employer gave me a Galaxy Nexus (4.7"), I thought the screen was too large. I can still use the phone, but a lot of one-handed uses feel awkward or strained because my thumb can't reach the top of the phone without having to first reposition the phone in my…

I needed to get another phone weeks before yesterday's iPhone announcement, so I went with the Galaxy Nexus, since it is contract-free and affordable.

Attempting to select multiple emails, one-handed across the screen with my thumb, has lead me to drop the phone several times.

Fortunately it is built like a cheap plastic tank. Dropping it is part of how I introduce it to people. "Remember when you used to drop your phone and the back and battery would go flying off, but the phone would be fine?" CLUNK

Re: The iPhone “Icon Ceiling” has been broken: is this the beginning of the end?

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Post by gavinlynch »

dpeck wrote: post #46

As usual xkcd provides just as much insight, http://xkcd.com/605/ And for something a bit cruder, but even more phone related http://www.buzzfeed.com/jwherrman/the-day-smartphones-stop-g...

Sums up this article perfectly. Hilarious, thanks for sharing! :)
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