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Post by heisenbit »

oh_hello wrote: post #193

I'm amazed by the sizing. The SE appears to be gone. This means the smallest device you can buy is the 7/8. Many still find this to be too large. Considering Apple's history of selling older iPhone models at a lower price, it seems like two years from now the bottom of the line will be the Xs and Xr announced today. The smallest lower-end iPhone available at that time would be the Xs which is larger than the 6/6s/7/8…

This give Apple 2 years time to replace the SE. Actually more one year to research, observe the various markets and to decide and then one year to implement. In any case the button seems to be dead 8-( so any small form factor phone won't be a straight successor of the SE.

The reason I don't totally discount the SE is the effective lowering of prices by Apple in the new line-up. They clearly want to grow on the lower end of the price band now.

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Post by bookofjoe »

tigershark wrote: post #195
plantain wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

7nm != 7nm - there's a lot of variety between processes. 7nm on a (relatively) small ARM is also a different world to 7nm on a chip the size of the latest Intel's.

6.9B transistors doesn't look small by any standard to me..

Concur. I almost passed out when that slide came up.

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Post by ppseafield »

GFischer wrote: post #284
untog wrote: post #266

It occurs to me today how sad it is that we only have two viable mobile ecosystems these days. I have an iPhone SE, which Apple has opted not to update. That's their decision to make, I suppose, but no-one else can make iOS devices and I really don't want to switch to Android (it isn't ignorance, I've used it since the Nexus One, I've just grown to dislike it for privacy and UI performance reasons over time, and it d…

UI performance in Androids is decent these days. Privacy, well... no. Even within the Android ecosystem, it's very sad that innovation is stymied. The only ones that even try are LG and they always fall flat. There's a long list of different Android phones I'd like to see: - Keyboard / Accessible phones. My mother in law has some disabilities that prevent her from using a touch-phone and she's using an Android phone…

I miss the camera button on my Nokia 928. All of the Windows phones were required to have it. Now my Nexus 5X occasionally opens the camera when I don't want it to (It thinks or is accidentally triggered for a double power button press.)

I looked into phones with physical keyboards a couple years ago for my mother, and I couldn't find anything except an old LG feature phone that hadn't been manufactured in years.

I had a Samsung S3 mini that was a bit slow but worked alright. Battery was a problem, but the phone was old when I got it. It worked well for most things except extensive reading.

I had an Alcatel Idol 3, and the display was pretty low resolution for its screen size, but I would get almost two days of battery out of it between charges. Unfortunately the physical power button broke.

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Post by phinnaeus »

ballenf wrote: post #309
zelos wrote: post #190

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That's ridiculous: I was hoping the SE2 rumours would turn to to be true. No idea what I'll upgrade to when my current SE stops running up-to-date iOS then.

It would make a lot of sense to hold off on announcing it for a lot of reasons: customer confusion not to mention encouraging spend on pricier devices. Could realistically be a holiday release or 1q 2019, especially since they won't have a Red phone to release then.

Here I go, getting my hopes up again. I think realistically March is the best bet, but if I'm being honest with myself, I don't seriously believe Apple will release another SE-sized device.

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Post by p1esk »

HoppedUpMenace wrote: post #218

I still cannot believe that in order to use the latest Apple watch, you still need an iPhone 6 or later with iOS 12 or later. I was dead set on grabbing a watch once I heard what it would feature but after reading the small print, why would I spend money on getting an iPhone, then an expensive monthly plan, followed by a watch, then a separate plan for that? Is there something I'm not seeing? This seems like a lot of…

You can buy a refurbished iPhone 6 for a $180, so that would be $680 upfront cost.

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Post by phinnaeus »

nickpp wrote: post #31
lanestp wrote: post #6

I can't believe they named a phone X[s]. How can they not see everyone calling it "iPhone excess?"

I can’t believe they didn’t call the Xs Max - XL instead. I mean they have an XS and an XL size...

They have an Xs, but it's hardly XS sized.

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Post by bunderbunder »

em500 wrote: post #337
bunderbunder wrote: post #301

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Translation: "Discontinued, but 3rd-party retailers will keep selling their stock until it runs out."

So what's wrong with topbanana buying the SE for his kids right now?

Nothing, but should probably move fast if the intent is to get a new one.

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Post by agumonkey »

jimbokun wrote: post #201
DaveSchmindel wrote: post #122

I can imagine Apple has quite a few linguists on its payroll; They are still beating the words “beautiful” and “best” to death in their keynotes. It’s tough to not be excited about new features that are debuted upon each release, but it’s also getting monotonous to hear, “Product X is the _best_ version of its kind. Product Y is the _most_ we’ve ever created and its pictures are simply _beautiful_.”

Sad attempt to continue imitating the speaking style of Jobs. I'm sure Steve would have moved on to new adjectives, or mixed things up a little more, if he was still with us.

Not much the choice of word but the context of use, when Jobs said something you knew, being Jobsian elitist, it meant something. The boys today on the other hand.. feels like a cult a little bit.

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Post by ngngngng »

mthoms wrote: post #226
samstave wrote: post #128

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Is it just me, or was there not a very specific arab overtone to the marketing in the videos on this announcement: In the sand, the desert, the oasis village, the gold... They must really want every Saudi to overspend on the 512gb S Max gold++++

I think it's just because it fits with their other current brand - MacOS Mojave.

And the colors in the desert matched the new gold iPhone color really well when they zoomed in on it. The appeal to arabs thing is a stretch.
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