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Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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Instead of using the iPhone 5 as the free option, they are discontinuing it and using the 4S as the free one.

I wonder what they'll do next year. Reactivate a discontinued iPhone 5? Or maybe they keep the smaller form factor around but then they'd have to maintain three iPhone lines.

edit: Thinking about it, an iPhone 5C 8GB seems like the most likely candidate.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

#42

I wonder how the people claiming plastic in those Android-phones feels "cheap" is going to react to this.

Totally depends on how it feels. Certain Android phones do feel cheap because of the plastic they used, just as certain laptops felt cheap. Apple has a history of making polycarbonate products that do genuinely feel significantly nicer than the average product.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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post #20

This is what I don't like about apple the 5s $199 version has 16GB and the 5c $199 version has 32GB. They should have at-lease giving us 24GB for 5s $199. Apple being apple trying to keep margins high. The new colors kind of suck but great for high school girls.

It took quite some time for me to fill up the 16GB. I'm more of a power user now, so I'll be upgrading to the 32GB but, for most 16GB is plenty.

I was starting to fill mine up, but I started using iTunes Match and automatic photo uploads to Dropbox and that freed up a good amount of space.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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I wonder how the people claiming plastic in those Android-phones feels "cheap" is going to react to this.

The plastic they're using (hard-coated polycarbonate) is, I believe, the same plastic used on many of the Nokia Lumia phones which a lot of people say feel much higher quality than other, regular plastic phones. That said, the 5C is the cheaper option and it isn't going to feel as good as the aluminium of the 5S. I don't however think it will be anywhere near as cheap-feeling as other phones (e.g. the Samsung Galaxy…

and that's why Nokia posted this: https://twitter.com/nokia_uk/status/377483408043036672/photo...

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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When I see Apple putting forward as a key feature the number of bits in their processor in a general public announcement... I'm really feeling the "new" product is not really new. In the past Apple was always laughing at the PC ads boasting processor speed and memory capacity.

Smartphone hardware is in the 9th inning. These devices have mostly hit the natural limits of what's achievable for now. Bad for Apple since this effectively levels the playing field.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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post #7

Instead of using the iPhone 5 as the free option, they are discontinuing it and using the 4S as the free one.

I would surmise that is likely due to the iPhone 5C and iPhone 5 having very similar specs. A free iPhone 5 would cannibalize the 5C sales. Why pay 100 dollars for a color case? Then again, a number of people paid the "black tax" for their macbook a number of years back.

I wonder what this will do to the resale value of iPhone 5 64G Verizon. I'd upgrade from 5 -> 5S if it net cost were <$300, but it appears Priceonomics says it is $320-$450, and a new iPhone 5S 64G is $849.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

#47
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When I see Apple putting forward as a key feature the number of bits in their processor in a general public announcement... I'm really feeling the "new" product is not really new. In the past Apple was always laughing at the PC ads boasting processor speed and memory capacity.

Apple are hoping that journalists are lazy or rushing to meet a deadline, so they get headlines line "New iPhone is 40x faster than old iPhone!".

They could have put "2x faster than iPhone 5" in their slides, but they deliberately chose to put 40x (referring to the original iPhone) and leave it slightly ambiguous.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

#48
post #7

Instead of using the iPhone 5 as the free option, they are discontinuing it and using the 4S as the free one.

Usually the previous phone version is dropped to $100, not free. So what we would expect without the 5c is: 5s - $200, 5 - $100, 4s - $0.

They've just replaced the 5 with 5c.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

#49
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even after the device is out it would be very hard(if not impossible) to verify it doesn't send fingerprint or hash of fingerprint online. There's plenty of places they can hide this.

Don't you think this would be a huge scandal, if it was revealed? Considering they specifically say it is not uploaded? Just saying. Why would they take such a risk?

At the very least, It would open them up to a massive class action lawsuit. The repercussions would likely run much deeper that though.

Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S

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post #20

This is what I don't like about apple the 5s $199 version has 16GB and the 5c $199 version has 32GB. They should have at-lease giving us 24GB for 5s $199. Apple being apple trying to keep margins high. The new colors kind of suck but great for high school girls.

You are getting downvoted a lot (for various reasons I'm sure), but you really do make a good point. The jump from 16GB to 32GB is $100 w/ the iPhone. I think a lot more people would jump for $50. But probably not enough to sacrifice the (generous) margins given by a $100 increase.
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