The Phone That’s Failing Apple: iPhone XR

Post by coldtea » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 11:48 AM UTC

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I'm wary of these type of claims by Apple. They seem carefully craft such claims to be factual in some twisted sense but not reflective of actual state of things. For example, at every announcement they have claimed that their customer satisfaction is 96%. This is very hard to believe despite of battery gate, headphone jack removal etc. Almost every release they say they broke record which is technically true but the…

> I'm wary of these type of claims by Apple Really? Typically it's all the claims by the press pundits (X not selling, Apple losing Y country, etc) that are proven invariably BS after each quarter results conference.

Post by koyote » Wed, Jan 09, 2019, 9:56 PM UTC

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Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 It has a slide-out front camera. So when you are not using the selfie camera, there is no notch and no large bezel. (It does look like the bottom bezel is a bit larger than the top and side bezels, though)

Thanks! The screen looks gorgeous, I personally will never again own a phone with moving parts of any sort so that's a deal-breaker for me. I'm glad there's still experimentation happening in the space, too many Androids just jump off the same bridge as Apple.

Post by Tepix » Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 11:20 AM UTC

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Those are all incremental improvements. Nobody's saying Apple's phones are bad, just that they lack compelling differentiators to other phones, including older iPhones.

Their SoCs are a massive differentiator. Unfortunately I don’t think the iPhone is in a good position to leverage that.