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iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by atirip »

ruchirablog wrote: post #101
na85 wrote: post #87

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It's so silly, though. Does this guy work/speak for Apple? Is he an electrical engineer who can say for certain that the retina display can actually be manufactured in this edgy way? No, he's just a guy with Adobe Illustrator. So... why should I care what he thinks?

Retina display huh? Retina is just another marketing word. Apple's retina display was surpassed by consumer technology more than a year ago. GS4 has a 441ppi screen while the Iphone 5 "Retina" display is just 326ppi.

Whats the point of surpassing Apple's retina anyway? At certain resolution you just can not see the pixels anymore and resolutions bigger than that is just pointless masturbating. Take offset printing for example. Industry standard maximum is 300dpi. Do you think this is techinal maximum? Or course no. Now think why nobody wants desperately to "surpass" this. Do you see ads like - "Vogue is now printed at 600dpi"?

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by shinratdr »

woah wrote: post #106
shinratdr wrote: post #95

Someone said on Twitter the other day, I wonder what UI designers could come up with if they weren't hamstrung by the fact that it needs to be built by a developer? I can't help but think of exactly that whenever I see one of these hardware mockups. This is what designers can do when they aren't hamstrung by the need to actually have it built by hardware engineers. An interesting intellectual exercise and a beautiful…

I am an interface designer, and the constraints imposed by those mean ol' developers are because they are forced to think through logical flows to implement them. The perfect ui would be a device that you wear in a small ring that reads your mind to find out exactly what you want, and using superhuman ai, strategizes the perfect way to get it for you. There. I did it.

For the record that's kind of my point. You need to have a balance and "it's just a portfolio demo" rings hollow to me.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by [deleted] »

waylonk wrote: post #91
jasonwatkinspdx wrote: post #65

I don't understand why so many designers attempt to push the limits of material science while clearly being almost entirely ignorant of it. For example, carbon fiber composites do bend. You can make springs out of them. Also, if you could figure out how to manufacture graphene at a scale large enough to use them on iphone screens you'd probably win the Nobel. You can't push the boundary of what's possible without alr…

I don't understand why so many Science Fiction authors attempt push the limits of material science while clearly being almost entirely ignorant of it. For example, carbon fiber composites do bend. You can make springs out of them. Also, if you could figure out how to manufacture anti-gravity thrusters at a scale large enough to use them on a space ship you'd probably win the Nobel.

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Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by VLM »

mynameisvlad wrote: post #67
Bud wrote: post #49

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It seems fishy to you to do a 50% storage improvement, when we just saw a 100% storage improvement to 128GB on the iPad? Not fishy at all. Quite plausible. If anything, it's reasonably likely that there will be MORE of an improvement than the concept predicts, in this case.

That's a particularly odd configuration of flash chips, though. That's why you don't see 96GB SSDs very often. Generally, they're found in powers of two.

Its a marketing/pricing game. Manufacture all of them with 128G of storage. Every single one of them. Then the consumer gets to pay a varying amount to be permitted to use what they paid for.

This is a VERY old idea in the computing world.

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by alexfringes »

cclogg wrote: post #26
joeblau wrote: post #8

The design looks amazing, even though most people will probably have the device covered up with a phone cover. Also retina 2 sounds like i would need 3 versions of every image in my app which is getting to be a bit much.

On a related note, I feel like this issue (non-retina, retina, iphone 5 version, ipad version, older iOS support, etc) and the over-saturated app store have really stifled the indie development world. It takes a lot more effort to make a nicely packaged app today than in 2008-2009, and then you launch on the store and you're just one in 800,000 or w/e. To me, it's kind of like how the first people on Youtube now have…

Marco Arment seems to think that this fall will be as close as we can get back to 08/09 for a while: http://www.marco.org/2013/06/11/fertile-ground

Re: iPhone 6: An edgy concept

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Post by bbrks »

jblock wrote: post #46
aroman wrote: post #25

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I disagree. Just build a strong magnet in there (as was suggested, maybe via the speaker). The advantage of the connector would not be the disconnect-on-trip feature, but rather convenience for plugging and unplugging. Namely, it's a lot easier to just have the cord snap it place magnetically than to futz around with the small metal tip[0]. You're assuming it'd either be too weak or too strong. They would calibrate i…

Regardless, I still don't want a big magnet in my pocket

Yep, right next to all your cards. Brilliant idea if ever I'd seen one.
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