The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus Review: Iterating on a Flagship

Post by eridius » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 11:24 PM UTC

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When the $200 phone bursts into flames, are you able to sue the Chinese manufacturer for damages? When your $200 phone breaks, do you have to simply buy a new one rather than get it replaced? When there are security holes in your $200 phone, will the cheap skin over Android get patched? I buy Apple phones for one reason, and that's the fact that my business lives and dies through communication. With my $800 phone, I…

In Norway in Apple-certified stores you will have to wait a week or more for reparation. And they do not provide a replacement in the meantime...

Post by eridius » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 11:33 PM UTC

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I returned my 7+ as it's barely any different to the 6S+, and at £719 here in the UK for the 32GB model it was hard to stomach. £819 for 128GB model is now almost Macbook territory in my mind. I had barely any free space on the 32GB model, and using an adaptor for my headphones was annoying. The camera was good though. A 64GB 6S+ is a much better proposition to me and will be my daily driver until I find something be…

Post by haikuginger » Tue, Oct 11, 2016, 12:30 AM UTC

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Totally agree. I decided to get adventurous a while back on my last laptop upgrade and went with a Dell XPS 13. It had so much potential, specs were great and it felt sold but at the end of the day it won't run macOS and win10 was just not a great dev experience. Switched back to a Macbook pro after less than a month when the screen died on the XPS and it took Dell about a month to fix it.

You don't get an XPS. Or any consumer/creative/performance/whatthefever oriented laptops Dell and HP may suddenly decide to offer because of some idiotic marketing decision. Their business workstations is where it's at. Always been solid on all fronts (except design, I guess, but that's subjective).

Post by r00fus » Tue, Oct 11, 2016, 12:52 AM UTC

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To be fair, the Pixel is a horrible value, as it doesn't seem to be as significantly better than what it's replacing relative to the significant increase in price.

Is the price difference that significant? To me, the difference between a $1000 phone and a $400 is less than $1 per day (I keep my phones for 24 months). A buck a day is something I can afford and am willing to pay it for even a modestly better phone. I would guess a lot of HN readers are in a similar position. I wish Google would have come out with something much better even if it would have been more expensive tha…

Post by matwood » Tue, Oct 11, 2016, 1:44 AM UTC

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> Is anyone making different decisions based on the headphone jack? Not me. I already use wireless headphones at the gym and while running. The only loss is I cannot charge and listen at the same time which is something I rarely did anyway. Given how Google abruptly leaves projects behind, the Pixel needs a few releases before I would trust it staying around. Flagship priced Android phones are also a tough market bec…

> the Pixel needs a few releases before I would trust it staying around Genuinely honest: Android's been out there for a long while. Even if the Pixel was the last Pixel ever, why would that be a problem from me as a user? When it's time to replace, I'm going to look at the other Android phones too anyway.