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It may support Apple Pay if you pair it with an Watch.
Interesting, I assumed it still required iPhone 6 because in the keynote they mentioned some addition to the secure enclave for this. But the website explicitly says Apple Pay is compatible with Apple Watch, and I quote: > Paired with iPhone 5, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, or iPhone 6 Plus. In-store purchases only.
Only one gig of RAM and base storage still at 16 gigs really annoys me. I may end up with a Moto X and wait for the 6s.
While I will buy a 6 for development purposes, I too was disappointed to find out that RAM is staying at 1GB. It's nearly 2015. More RAM does affect battery life, but still...they could have struck a balance here with 2GB.
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While I will buy a 6 for development purposes, I too was disappointed to find out that RAM is staying at 1GB. It's nearly 2015. More RAM does affect battery life, but still...they could have struck a balance here with 2GB.
Exactly how much does it affect battery life? I wouldn't be at all surprised if the answer is "a lot ". I'm sure engineers at Apple would love to be able to provide 2GB of RAM (after all, they're using this device too!), but the fact that they're not either means it is cost-prohibitive (unlikely) or has an unacceptable impact on battery.
They also pointed out that iOS already artificially limits the amount of RAM a single process can use, so adding RAM wouldn't even really do anything besides make it take longer for background apps to be evicted.
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.
Especially surprising given how much they're pushing it to replace camcorders as well as DSLRs. I mean, how much raw HD video fits in just 16GB? Or even what's left over after half of that 16GB is filled with various apps and music? I miss when phones used to have easily accessible microSD slots.
Phones still do. Just not iPhone.
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.
Especially surprising given how much they're pushing it to replace camcorders as well as DSLRs. I mean, how much raw HD video fits in just 16GB? Or even what's left over after half of that 16GB is filled with various apps and music? I miss when phones used to have easily accessible microSD slots.
Storage space is far from the biggest problem with the iPhone replacing DSLRs ("camcorders" are perhaps a different story, if only because "camcorders" is a broader category that includes the equivalent of "point and shoot" devices as well as higher-end, replaceable-lens, analogs of what DSLRs are for still photography.)
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About the specs: I don't think the average iPhone buyer is concerned about them as much as the average HN user. In the end what it counts is user experience, and if the average user see sharp, quick, responsive UI and fast applications he/she couldn't care less about how much RAM the phone has. Storage is a different issue, but Apple got away until now offering more storage as a premium, so why change ?
I don't really disagree with you, but specs can be an indicator of capability. With modern Android phones hitting 3GB and soon 4GB of RAM, multi-tasking is really nice on that kind of phone. This all sounds like feature talk, but here's my use-case at least: being able to listen to music, get directions in the background and switch between a game, the web, and a book in the foreground without worrying about any of th…
Could it be, given that iPhone 6 apps are native code and Android apps are bytecode, that iPhone 6 apps have less memory overhead than Android apps?
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>> "I would imagine many people are the same way." Most people are out of space. The number of people I heard complaining when iOS 7 was released and they didn't have enough space to install it shocked me. I also know a tonne of people (especially younger people) who can't backup to iCloud because they have filled their device with photos and they would have to pay for more backup space. When most new games are over…
Let's be honest here, nobody knows one way or the other. I have friends who are out of space and friends who have plenty. Which one is the truth?
Both.
Nexus 5 is all the phone one needs, at half the price.
Only one gig of RAM and base storage still at 16 gigs really annoys me. I may end up with a Moto X and wait for the 6s.
>> Only one gig of RAM Why does this matter? Apps run great as is. If the phone was slow I could understand but it isn't. >> base storage still at 16 gigs really annoys me. They pay a little extra for the larger models... It would have been nice to have a 32gb base model and it's a little strange they didn't do it but it's not like they don't offer larger storage versions.
Exactly. It smacks of someone at Apple saying "Hey, if we keep the base at 16 gigs it will make more people upgrade to the 64, which will be more money".