The negative comments about the design and the looks are weird.
This is is simply an add-on for when needed. If someone wants to walk around with it strapped to their phone 24/7 then that's their aesthetic choice, isn't it? And if they don't, what's the issue? Given the added features, it seems like a really nice accessory.
If it's not for you, move along. Or at least tell us how you would have designed it.
Armchair engineers. Apple always gets dinged for being about form over function yet people are bitching about something they've never used purely over aesthetics.
The negative comments about the design and the looks are weird.
This is is simply an add-on for when needed. If someone wants to walk around with it strapped to their phone 24/7 then that's their aesthetic choice, isn't it? And if they don't, what's the issue? Given the added features, it seems like a really nice accessory.
If it's not for you, move along. Or at least tell us how you would have designed it.
Armchair engineers. Apple always gets dinged for being about form over function yet people are bitching about something they've never used purely over aesthetics.
Well, it is 2015 and all, and most people who inhabit the Internet seem to only have negative things to say about everything. Clearly, like many things, you need to see it in person, feel it, and see how it would be like to carry before you can make any kind of (semi) informed opinion.
With Apple selling more to business, they may like a solution with more smarts than current offerings.
Armchair engineers. Apple always gets dinged for being about form over function yet people are bitching about something they've never used purely over aesthetics.
I don't know I'm just guessing. I obviously don't have either to test it out. There obviously is a reason Apple designed it the way they did and I doubt it was aesthetics.
It's pretty obvious why there's a need for the "bump" - to keep the the edges as thin as possible so that it can continue to be used with current docks. Furthermore, I bet you don't even notice the bump when you're holding it in your hand during normal use. If it had a flat back, the entire thing would be thicker, including the edges and would be much more noticeable.
Exactly. This will be a great stocking stuffer gift.
Seems like a smart move for Apple to extend their own line of accessories for what is the most popular product in the planet. Why allow other companies to take all that business. First Beats audio accessories, now this. And I bet they sell these by the thousands along with iPhone sales to airlines, retail, and other businesses adopting mobile technology, where having confidence in all day battery life while using the iPhone to interface with customers (like flight attendants using iPhones to serve passengers) is critical.
The iPhone is not the most popular product on the planet.
The phone looks like it has a tumor. By far the ugliest Apple accessory EVER! If they only designed the phone to be 3mm thicker, it could have housed a thicker battery. Problem solved.
I like this. Not that I need one. It is just nice to see Apple announce something that we were not reading rumors about,for months, before its release. Apple events have become anti-climatic. Also good news for those people that can never put there phone down.
Armchair engineers. Apple always gets dinged for being about form over function yet people are bitching about something they've never used purely over aesthetics.
I don't know I'm just guessing. I obviously don't have either to test it out. There obviously is a reason Apple designed it the way they did and I doubt it was aesthetics.
Of course it does. It needs a thicker section for the battery but thinner edges are more comfortable to hold. If you pushed the bottom of the phone whilst on a desk, the phone would cantilever towards you. When it reached its full travel you can press the home button. The phone would be facing towards you a lot more than one just laying on a desk.
It's the best design of the battery packs out there, the best integrated into the phone's OS and probably the most comfortable to hold. However, it's the ugliest battery pack case I have seen.
On the other hand, it's nice to see Apple release something with function over form. (see mute/orientation button missing from iPad, unnecessarily thin iPhones, new design iMac etc).
Yikes! That is one ugly case. On the flip side, I think its better than all the third party alternatives. All the third party cases are way too bulky. Apple was obviously going for the thin design so it doesn't feel much different holding the phone with the case on. I guess the reality is, keeping a thin form factor, Apple really had no other option than having a hump where the battery is.
Why not taking a clue from the pencil recharge concept?:
Have the lightning dock as a portable battery as well. Just plug the phone in the lightning dock and have the phone fully charged in 15 minutes or so. At your hotel you could recharge both your phone and lightning dock while the lightning dock is plugged in.
Apple basically admitting that 6S battery life sucks. My 6S w/ Samsung processor has worse battery life than my old 6.
OR that for some maniacal users an accessory power supply might be found to be useful while not burdening the rest of us with some ginormous, heavy brick of a phone just to give a couple of people extra on machine time? A bit like how waterproof diving camera cases isn't Nikon "admitting" anything other than some people need a pressure resistant camera down to a couple of hundred meters while all the rest of us simply don't.
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With Apple selling more to business, they may like a solution with more smarts than current offerings.
It's the best design of the battery packs out there, the best integrated into the phone's OS and probably the most comfortable to hold. However, it's the ugliest battery pack case I have seen.
On the other hand, it's nice to see Apple release something with function over form.
(see mute/orientation button missing from iPad, unnecessarily thin iPhones, new design iMac etc).
As a thought.