Consumers should demand cheaper smartphones with adequate performance -- just like cars, you have toyota corollas and honda civics for the average joe and then you have lexus and cadillacs. Similarly, a cheap, reliable phone for masses and the rich folks can go for their iPhones and Samsung Galaxies. It seems when it comes to smartphones, consumers are also to blame for unnecessarily spending more then their actual a…
I would partially agree with you except they made the SE and people didn't vote with their dollars. It was only 10% of iPhone sales. I agree that it would be nice to have more lower and mid range options but most people seem to want the new shiny.
A two model year old phone is only discounted at 15%. I think that about sums up my problem with buying any of them. Even 25% for last years phone is too low a discount.
Who wants a 32gb iphone too, 16gb is barely usable nowadays. The typical app is 500+mb plus the extras it downloads afterwards. Which is a whole other story.
What common apps are over half a gig? Other than heavier mobile games, I don't know of any apps that touch the 0.5gb mark. Even the bloated social network apps are normally in the 100-300mb range...
Apple's problem is that their rate of innovation has slowed down. iPhone generates over a 100 Billion dollars in revenue. Per year. If any company has the resources to innovate it is Apple. Apple, here are some free ideas. Some of these ideas go beyond the phone and into cell networks. If Google can do that ( https://fi.google.com ) why can't Apple? - Improve cellular reception. We are now heavily reliant on our cell…
How about some more sensors. No phone can tell me the temperature, without checking weather online. What if I want to know the room temperature. Could put humidity, atmospheric pressure sensors in there too, IR cameras, all kinds of cool stuff. Think of the software applications, right know my "smart" phone has no way of knowing if I'm outside or inside. Then, voice mail. Why doesn't this still not work locally? Ther…
The Galaxy S4 had a temperature sensor. Believe me: It was very unreliable since the phone has a different temperature than the room.
> Fix design. Fire Jony Ive's a$$ and hire some real designers. Apple used to be insanely great at design. Now they are a nobody. Take a look at HomePod. It is an amorphous blob. Every single Bose speaker looks better than HomePod. I'm not a designer, but wasn't Jony Ive largely responsible for leading many of the great designs at Apple, including the iPhone? Or do you think he's stagnated, or perhaps is unfit in his…
> wasn't Jony Ive largely responsible for leading many of the great designs at Apple, including the iPhone Steve Jobs was the tastemaker. Without Steve's input Jony is apparently not able to produce insanely great designs.
>Fix design. Fire Jony Ive's a$$ and hire some real designers. I think that's almost certainly unfair on Ive. I do strongly suspect that Apple has a culture problem because of the secretive nature of their design lab. A very small team working in absolute secrecy enabled them to create disruptive new categories of product, but it carries a substantial risk of stagnation in the long term. It's difficult to sustain a c…
Ive is a great product designer. His weak points seems to be: - UX and Software design - Better integration with hardware/physical needs (see overly bendy hardware, cables that fall apart, etc) - (Maybe) Delegating and accepting new ideas
Ive is a great visual / 'tactile' designer, but only a good functional one. This leads to things like beautiful cables (cables!) that exhibit the problem you highlight, the removal of headphone jacks, and an amazing mouse that you can't use whilst it's charging because the port is on the bottom. I'm not sure which software he's been responsible for, but I wouldn't be surprised if the same sorts of issues could be spotted — macOS certainly looks really, really nice and works easily and properly in many situations, but there are certain very basic flaws which just seem inexplicable.
I would have switched to android this year due to high iPhone XS price had it not been the “need” to stay in iMessages. When most of your friends are having a blue chat bubble, you don’t want to be “that guy”. iMessages is apples secret weapon and I’m surprised android hasn’t done their own iMessages api where all android can interoperable. Or at the very least why hasnt Samsung done their own? Finally, other secret…
whatsapp has already replaced iMessage in most of the english speaking world. in fact i'd say anyone using iMessage outside the US is the anachronism. i had to explain the concept of how iMessage uses the internet to send messages to someone else with an iPhone instead of SMS to someone in the middle east for example whatsapp has fast caught up in features too - you can send and receive files/music clips/gifs etc. an…
WhatsApp suffers from the same issue that android has: its owned by an ad revenue company, and one that already has built a dubious reputation (warranted or not) for privacy and security.
The thing is - the cultural inertia of the USA is huge. American culture has a thing about not giving a flying f what the rest of the world is doing. In that sense, if nobody can defeat iMessage on American cultural ground, it makes it hard for the other messaging guys to look cool or legit. IMHO all message networks and social networks is built solely on inertia and I don’t think the inertia of any one region of the world can overcome that of the USA. Maybe if WhatsApp can take over the entire rest of the world - but China is lost already and so the war is already over.
> How about some more sensors. No phone can tell me the temperature Electronics get hot when operating, and even more so when they are sitting in the pocket. Typical temp sensors are attached to 30cm long cables. Nevertheless, I'm sure phones can do that already if you install a weather station in your house.
Someone figured out how to measure ambient temperature based on _battery temperature_ a long time ago, with high reliability!
Your question reminds me of a humorous quote - "I use Gentoo because I'm a speed freak - I can't stand the thought that some of my packages might not be running as fast as they could be.". PS: The above quote is just one of the gems from https://funroll-loops.teurasporsaat.org/ - a humorous portal to a lost world from the 90s - 2000s (ie the gentoo subculture).
Fun page, I remember those times. Some of the quotes aren't so ridiculous, like: >"I notice that my disk does a whole lot of thrashing when I boot up. I have a lot of stuff that gets loaded into memory every time I boot, like X11, ion2, Firefox, Eterm, Thunderbird, etc. It seems to me that putting all of the files necessary to those apps in a contiguous section on the disk and loading that into memory in one shot wou…
(And in case anybody's interested, the utility e4rat (ext4 read ahead... tool?) does exactly this)
> wasn't Jony Ive largely responsible for leading many of the great designs at Apple, including the iPhone Steve Jobs was the tastemaker. Without Steve's input Jony is apparently not able to produce insanely great designs.
AirPods prove this wrong.
I have two pairs of AirPods. Technically they are a marvel, but their design is quite ugly (large white bars).