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Found the one I was thinking of in particular: http://thetechblock.com/samsungs-galaxy-note-changed-my-life... and linked to by Gruber http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/02/15/techblock-galaxy...
Well he could easily retort that the if you're going to make a phone this big, do it right, make it as light as possible. I assume the iPhone 6 is lighter than the equivalently sized Galaxy phones.
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Wow, this comment is really full of FUD. Planned obsolescence? iPhone backdoors? You need to reevaluate where you get your Apple-related news from. > They were caught out slowing the older versions of their phones right before the release of the new ones by analyzing google search data Where did you even get this from? That's 100% made-up. But it's also oddly specific in a way I've never heard before. What site is pu…
The New York Times published the article from a Harvard Professor. Link in the original comment, as is the paper revealing the backdoors. Here is the PRISM slide showing the timing of Apples participation, exactly one year after SJ passed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-... It's not FUD I'm stating a set of facts here. It is what it is.
ALL iPhone generations released so far have a CSS pixel width of 320 pixels. But the iPhone 6 is the first to change this. It looks like Apple is finally bumping this up! This means a bit more text can fit on each line when holding the phone vertically for websites using : - iPhone 6 is 1334x750: CSS pixel width is likely 375px (pixel ratio = 2) - iPhone 6 Plus is 1920x1080: CSS pixel width is likely either 432px (pi…
It's a bummer they are keeping the base model at 16GB. It's pretty obvious that it's an intentional move to force people up to the 64/128GB models.
I'm sure they do the research on storage usage... From my personal experience, I have never even heard a complaint about storage space. That doesn't mean I wouldn't appreciate a buffer but definitely not a deciding factor for most. And heh, they give you options
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Wow, this comment is really full of FUD. Planned obsolescence? iPhone backdoors? You need to reevaluate where you get your Apple-related news from. > They were caught out slowing the older versions of their phones right before the release of the new ones by analyzing google search data Where did you even get this from? That's 100% made-up. But it's also oddly specific in a way I've never heard before. What site is pu…
The New York Times published the article from a Harvard Professor. Link in the original comment, as is the paper revealing the backdoors. Here is the PRISM slide showing the timing of Apples participation, exactly one year after SJ passed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-... It's not FUD I'm stating a set of facts here. It is what it is.
And provides some possible reasons related to consumer psychology.
Too bad there is no longer a high end 4" model. The iPhone 5S won't support Apple Pay since it doesn't have NFC, and it is no longer available in 64 GB. I would have thought that Apple understood they have customers that actually prefer the 4" size, or else they wouldn't have had any sales the last years. Let's hope for a iPhone 6S mini next year.
The 4.7 in version bump is negligible for most ppl's palms. Even the majority of people with small hands still engulf the 4 in. size. I think it would be a moot point in a majority of cases unless you are really jones'ing for the pocket space and portability...
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Apple-iPh...
I wouldn't describe the change as "negligible." It actually looks quite a bit larger than the 5S and MUCH larger than the 4.
PS - I actually like large phones. But I also have big hands. I just disagree with your characterisation of it.
I'm sure this will be downvoted into oblivion but I have Karma to burn preaching some truth. Between big phones (even the small iphone 6 is bigger!), the watch and NFC, Apple is clearly repositioning themselves as fast followers and letting Samsung et. al. foot the bill on R&D and market building. They're probably hoping they can provide higher quality (and more profitable) offerings in markets that somebody else has…
Honestly that's kind of always been Apple's strategy. They're usually not the first mover, but they try to be the best mover. I think they've been a little bit slow to follow shifts in the smartphone market though. They should've had a larger iPhone quite some time ago, and they were unfashionably late on notifications and 4G. Still, this latest release will sell briskly per usual. Jury's out on the Apple Watch. Espe…
There's other weird uneven things going on though in the internals. 64-bit CPUs and 1GB of RAM? 16GB base models near the end of 2014?
I'm sure there's strategy behind it, but as a consumer it's just weird.
The important thing is that it doesn't really matter. When people like my mom go into the phone store, they'll see nice big, and in their minds competitive, iPhones for sale and will now give them a second look.
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Wow, this comment is really full of FUD. Planned obsolescence? iPhone backdoors? You need to reevaluate where you get your Apple-related news from. > They were caught out slowing the older versions of their phones right before the release of the new ones by analyzing google search data Where did you even get this from? That's 100% made-up. But it's also oddly specific in a way I've never heard before. What site is pu…
The New York Times published the article from a Harvard Professor. Link in the original comment, as is the paper revealing the backdoors. Here is the PRISM slide showing the timing of Apples participation, exactly one year after SJ passed. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-... It's not FUD I'm stating a set of facts here. It is what it is.
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The 4.7 in version bump is negligible for most ppl's palms. Even the majority of people with small hands still engulf the 4 in. size. I think it would be a moot point in a majority of cases unless you are really jones'ing for the pocket space and portability...
Keep in mind that the iPhone 6 is a very large phone for a 4.7" device. Because of its huge bezels, it's actually taller than the 5" Nexus 5.